How We Sent John $6 Million of Work
in Our First Year Together.
$3.2M already closed. $2.3M in active negotiations. 88x ROAS. 1,400 exclusive homeowner requests. 2 states, 2 service divisions, months hitting $450K from us alone.
Closed $100K in One Day from our leads - took just 3 SmartClips leads that day to make it happen.
From 6 failed agencies to $3.2M closed - in one year.
John didn't come to SmartClips with unlimited trust. He came burned, skeptical, and running out of patience. Here's exactly how the year unfolded.
6 agencies. Thousands burned. Zero results.
John had tried everything. Home Advisor, Angi, five or six different lead gen companies - all promising a set number of jobs per month, all collecting upfront fees and ad spend, all disappearing when he asked for his money back.
Most contractors in that position quit. John didn't. He knew digital marketing worked - he'd done it himself. He just needed the right fit on his terms.
What was the main reason John kept trying despite 6 failures?
John had done his own digital marketing. He knew it was possible - he just hadn't found a partner who would work on his terms. That's the difference between quitting and persisting. Most contractors who've been burned quit. John didn't.
McKenzie → Pat → $200K in 2 weeks.
The first project SmartClips sent was McKenzie - a small $5K job in Utah. John says they were expecting it to take a couple months to build momentum. It didn't.
Within the first two weeks: Pat and Elliot came in at $200K. The initial goal had been to reach $200K per month. They hit it before the first month was even over.
Catherine: $300K project. Neighbor walks over. Another $131K.
Catherine was a full construction transformation - the kind of project worth $300K that any contractor would be grateful for. But what happened next showed what quality work and exclusivity actually produce.
The neighbor saw how fast Oasis was moving, how professional the job looked. They didn't bother getting other bids. The project was almost sold before John even saw the property.
Within 5 months: $1.2M in work closed.
Mike: $345K. The problem of too much work.
Mike came in at $345K while Oasis was already deep into other major projects. John admits it was a challenge - not a bad problem, but a real one. He had to build systems, grow the team, and figure out how to maintain quality at this new scale.
How long did it take Oasis Hardscapes to hit $1.2M in closed work with SmartClips?
5 months. That's the first 1.2M milestone - with Catherine's $300K + referral, Pat and Elliot's $200K, and other projects stacking up. The full year landed at $3.2M closed. All from one lead source.
$462K from us in March. $450K in April. From one channel.
John's best year before SmartClips was about $450,000 - his entire annual revenue from every source combined. In March alone, SmartClips sent him $462K of work. April followed with $450K.
The worst month of the entire year: $200K. Most contractors never hit $200K in a year - let alone as their slowest month.
Exclusivity changes everything about how you show up to a job.
John had been on HomeAdvisor and Angi early in his career. He knew what it was like to show up knowing three or four other contractors had the same lead. Price was always the conversation. Quality didn't matter.
Every request goes to John and only John - never shared, never competed on price.
The SmartClips system - how leads flow exclusively to John
It's not just revenue. It's the people behind the company.
John is direct about this: most of his crew are family. They have wives, kids, mortgages. When work is consistent, those families eat. When work dries up, everyone feels it.
Average month from SmartClips: $300K in work sent, consistently, no matter what season it is. That's not just revenue - it's stability for the entire team.
What was John's slowest month over the entire year with SmartClips?
$200,000 was their slowest month - and that's when they intentionally paused Utah to handle California. Most hardscape contractors never see $200K in a full year. For Oasis, it was their floor.
The jobs that defined the year.
These are real projects SmartClips brought Oasis Hardscapes - tracked through Joist, closed and invoiced.
Oasis pipeline snapshot - $6M+ total tracked
A massive multi-element outdoor build that pushed Oasis to grow their crew and systems to match the scale. Came in while already working on other large jobs - the challenge that forced the upgrade.
Catherine's project was so well-executed that her neighbor walked over and hired Oasis on the spot - without requesting a second bid. That referral added another $131K. Two jobs from one SmartClips lead.
Came in within the first two weeks of the partnership. John had set $200K/month as a goal for after a few months of building. SmartClips hit it in the first 14 days.
John described closing $100K in a single day as his "ultimate goal as a salesman." That rush of proving what's possible - that's what the right type of homeowner unlocks. One day, three projects, six figures.
More closed projects from SmartClips leads
Invoice proof + project photos, organized by client
Closed from SmartClips lead. Full invoice tracked through Joist.
Closed from SmartClips lead. Invoice tracked through Joist.
Closed from SmartClips lead. Invoice tracked through Joist.
Both closed from SmartClips leads. Left 5-star Facebook reviews after the jobs.
Full revenue breakdown - road to $3.2M closed
How we sent John over $1.2M in jobs in our first 5 months.
John was stuck at $50k/month after 6 failed agencies. We took him to $290k/month, 15 exclusive cities and helped him close over $100,000 in a single day.
How John went from 6 failed agencies to $1.2M in 5 months.
If you've burned cash on campaigns that promised the world and delivered nothing - read this. John had been there 6 times before he found us.
6 agencies. Zero job requests. Burned out.
Before SmartClips, John had hired six different companies trying to grow Oasis Hardscapes. Not one of them brought him a single job request. He even built his own marketing setup - running campaigns himself, then starting his own marketing company on the side. None of it worked. He was wearing every hat in the business and getting nowhere.
$50k/month was the ceiling.
Oasis was doing around $50,000/month. A solid number for a one-man-many-hats operation, but John knew it was a ceiling - not a foundation. He was tired of throwing money at agencies that couldn't deliver, and he was ready to do this seriously or stop trying altogether.
We built a partnership - not a contract.
Every partner has a different situation, so we don't run cookie-cutter agreements. We sat down with John, looked at his crew, his capacity, his goals - and put together something that worked for both sides. Exclusive zones. One contractor per city. No sharing. No bidding wars. That was the deal.
$50k/mo → $200k/mo in Utah alone.
We started locking down Utah cities one at a time. Within a few months, John was running at $200,000/month from Utah alone - and one of those projects was Pat in Heber City: a single $200,000 hardscape job from one homeowner request. That's when John knew this wasn't a fluke.
$700k+ in California - and a $300k project from one request.
Once Utah was running, we expanded John into California. In our first 5 months together he closed over $700,000 in California jobs - including Catherine in Concord, a $300,000 project that turned into another $100k from a referral she sent him. By month five, John had crossed $1.2 million in total job value, and was hitting $290k/month across both states.
How we grew John to $210k/month in our first 2 weeks.
The earliest interview. Before Utah was locked in. Before California. Before Catherine and Pat. John talks about what changed in the first two weeks and how we went from first contact to serious momentum faster than he expected.
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