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Content gets attention. Ads get clicks. But if nobody's following up in the first five minutes, you're paying for leads that book with somebody else. This episode closes out our 3-part w...

Jacob Neffendorf is back for week two of the marketing workshop series, and this time he's covering ads that actually work. Most land clearing companies are still paying to test creative , Jacob explains why the platforms have already done that testing for you, for free, if you're posting organic content.

What you'll learn:

• The anatomy of a high-converting ad: stop the scroll, tell the story, give a clear call to action
• Why lead f...

Five months ago, JT was working a $90K W2 job. Today, he just closed $172,500 in a single month running his land clearing business — and he's breaking down exactly how he did it.

In this episode, JT from High Desert Land Works walks through the real numbers behind his growth: from his first $8,000 job to his biggest month yet, why he hired an ad agency instead of doing it himself, and the schedule that let him quote four weeks...

Hayden Fake got his dedicated excavator in mid-June.

By July, Mountain Mulching had generated $85,675 in confirmed revenue.

In this episode, I sit down with Hayden to break down what happened between those two points and the systems he’s putting in place to turn that early momentum into a repeatable business.

We talk about how he launched the company, set up his website and Jobber, started running Facebook ads, built lead follow...

If you're pricing land clearing jobs by the day, you're doing it the hard way — and it's capping how much you make.

In this episode I break down why day rate pricing is the lazy way to bid, and I walk you through the exact 3-step system I use to build a per-project price I can present with confidence on every land clearing and forestry mulching job.

What you'll learn:

• Why day rate pricing removes your upside and turns you i...

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It doesn't matter if you're an agency, a home service business, or a land clearing business— the problems are the same. Andy Walker just spent 10 hours in a room with Alex Hormozi and came back thinking completely differently about his business.

In this episode, Andy Walker (founder of Stryker Digital) breaks down what he learned from acquisition.com's L3 — a ...

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Most land clearing guys post once a month and wonder why the phone doesn't ring. The top land clearing and forestry mulching operators post 4x a day — and it's free.

In this episode, Jacob Neffendorf (Rise Online Ads) and I break down the exact content system land clearing and forestry mulching business owners need to fill their pipeline — without hiring a mar...

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We built a 24/7 AI advisor trained on $20M in land clearing ad spend — and we're showing you the full demo.If you're tired of guessing on bids, scrambling for leads, and making big decisions alone at 10pm — this is what we built for you.

Jacob Neffendorf (Rise Land Clearing Growth) has managed nearly $20 million in ad spend and worked with close to 500 land clearing compa...

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Most land clearing owners skip the insurance conversation until it's too late — or they get talked into a policy that doesn't actually cover their equipment.

In this episode, I sit down with Colin Vaughn, insurance specialist at Christensen Group, to break down exactly what coverage a land clearing or forestry mulching business needs and what it actually costs.

What...

Most land clearing bids fall apart because guys price every acre the same way. In this episode, Austin Gray and Jacob Nettesheim break down production rate tracking — the second half of a bulletproof pricing system, paired with the crew day rates covered last week.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The 3 types of pricing people in this business — and which one is losing money without realizing it
• How to track your pro...

I spent years being the bottleneck in my own business, and I know a lot of you are still there right now — running every job, taking every call, afraid to hand anything off.

On this episode I sit down with Bodhi Gallo of Stryker Digital to talk about the biggest lesson he learned in 2025: going from player to coach. Bodhi took 120+ sales calls a month for two and a half years before he figured out how to delegate without losi...

Still guessing on pricing? Jacob Neffendorf and I break down exactly how to calculate your true crew day rate using Clear Path — the first AI advisor built and trained specifically for land clearing and forestry mulching operators.

What you'll learn:

• The 5 cost buckets that make up your true crew day rate
• Why your break-even number matters more than what other guys charge locally
• How to set up your pricing blueprint inside Cl...

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The operators who grow fastest aren't the ones working the hardest — they're the ones making the best decisions the quickest.

In this episode, I sit down with Jacob Neffendorf from Rise Online Ads and Land Clearing Growth to break down how AI is giving land-clearing operators access to answers they used to have to guess at — pricing, hiring, proposals, conten...

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In this episode of the OWNR OPS Podcast, I sit down with Patrick Murphy of Qualified Hires to talk about how land clearing, forestry mulching, and home service business owners can actually find, hire, and keep good people.

Patrick has helped me build out the hiring process at Bear Claw, and in this conversation we break down what most operators get wrong when hiring, why ...

Too many decisions. Not enough clarity. Sound familiar?

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In this episode, I sit down with Jacob Neffendorf of Rise Online Ads to talk about one of the biggest things that holds owners and operators back — chasing the wrong problems.

I share the story of the 6 weeks I spent building a custom app to replace Jobber and GoHighLevel, and why I shut the whole thing down be...

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In this episode, Jacob Neffendorf lays out the data-backed difference between operators stuck at low six figures and owners building multiple seven-figure land clearing companies. If you've been wondering whether to hire — and whether you can afford to — this episode answers that question with real numbers.

What you'll learn:

• The 3 walls every land clearing...

Colby McArthur bought Clifton Tree Service at 22 years old and ran it as a solo owner operator for the first year — climbing trees, answering calls with a headset at 100 feet, estimating on weekends. He finished that year at $400K. One year later: $850K. In this episode, Colby breaks down the three things that drove that growth and what he's focused on as he targets $1.3M in 2026.

What you'll learn:

• Why undercharging is the...

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If you're spending money on Facebook ads and getting tire kickers ‚or nothing at all ‚this episode is for you.I brought Jacob Neffendorf back on the show. He runs ads for over 300 land clearing companies across the US. We broke down exactly why most ads fail and what you can do right now to fix it.

Here's what we cover:

👉 Why filming your equipment is hurting your cost pe...

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You're not stuck because you're not working hard enough. You're stuck because you're working hard on the wrong thing. I know because I've done it — and I still catch myself doing it. This episode is the framework I use to stop.

What we cover:

• The 3 questions to ask before spending time on any decision in your business
• Leads, sales, hiring, pricing/cash — the...