Owen — almost double, working 10 hours a week
The scoreboard — every number here is Owen's own statement on our July call, quoted as said
- $140K all of last year → $200K by early July, tracking $250K — "almost double"
- Working ~10 hours a week
- Average job size "almost triple"
- Booking $10–20K a week — "and we're not trying very hard"
- Reactivation kicking back "10, 15, 20 free leads a week"
- Exterior services — Stouffville, ON
Owen, on the call — on knocking zero doors and working ten hours a week.
See every clip we have →where he started
Owen was the classic owner-operator: decent revenue, but every dollar of it ran through him — including knocking doors for demand. $140K a year is a real business until you realize the owner IS the business, and the moment he stops pushing, everything stops with him.
what we installed (in order)
- An inbound engine that replaced door-knocking. Ads + reactivation doing the demand work the knocking used to do. His words: "we don't knock at all."
- Speed to lead + follow-up. Nothing goes uncalled, nothing gets forgotten — the system chases so he doesn't have to.
- Booking + ops flow that runs without him. Jobs get scheduled, confirmed, and worked whether Owen is watching or not. That's where the 10-hour week comes from.
what happened
In his words: $140K all of last year, $200K by early July, on pace for $250K — while his average job nearly tripled and his week shrank to ~10 hours. The reactivation list alone hands him 10–20 warm leads a week that cost nothing. He went from doing the business to owning it.
in his words
"The difference between going with an agency like Summit and doing it yourself is you're probably already soaking the cost somewhere anyway — leads going uncalled, customers going unanswered... why not invest in your own efficiency? Do I want to run a more efficient business, or am I okay with my own inefficiency?" — Owen, on camera, July call
steal this (free)
The inefficiency audit. This week, count three things: (1) calls you missed, (2) leads that waited an hour or more for a reply, (3) quotes you never followed up on. Multiply the total by your average job value. That number is the invoice your own inefficiency sends you every month — you're already paying for a system, you're just paying it in lost jobs.
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This install is exactly what the Operator Program does — we take home-service owners from $30–50K months to $100K+ a month.
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