Building Ride The Wave: Actively helping 50+ home service and small businesses use organic Facebook and Facebook groups to drive brand awareness and leads.
Facebook groups hold immense potential to drive leads for small businesses across America.
Daily posting in Facebook groups gained AA Awnings the following results last month.
- 1,053 website visitors
- 31 leads
Oh and probably an estimated 50,000 people saw their posts as
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Home service businesses have achieved remarkable success with Facebook group advertising.
It is proving to be
@thedavescience
's highest ROI marketing spending.
Here is what we accomplished in the first 2 months of Facebook group advertising:
- Higher ROI than LSA and SEO
-
Facebook Groups are a game changer for lead gen in the home service industry.
Heres what we accomplished at Ride The Wave for our clients using Facebook Groups this past week.
Full transparency here:
Second Chance Home Renovations: 31 leads (4k profit from leads this week)
Posting in Facebook Groups has generated $25,000 in revenue for
@gvh41
roofing company last month.
Daily posting and engagements has lead to 10 leads resulting in two sales.
2 leads converted into sales of $17,000 and $8,000.
There is nothing stopping local businesses from
I discovered Facebook group's marketing power while starting my local landscaping company five years ago.
I posted in my local community Facebook group:
"My friends and I are starting a landscaping business and are willing to take on any job."
We got our first customer from
Small businesses have to get gritty with their marketing.
Try door hangers with a handwritten sticky note.
Customers WANT authenticity.
Heres what it will cost to test 1000 personalized door hangers:
$100 for 1000 doorhangers
$20 for sticky notes
$300 for to pay someone to
I own a landscaping business.
Run by a couple college students.
They do good work and we make good money.
Who wants to start something similar?
Ask me anything.
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No one gets your problems.
You vs. the World.
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It made my journey 1000x times
I left my landscaping business in the hands of the 3 college students.
I built the systems needed for the business to succeed without me.
Almost teared up seeing this review of their work in the local group.
They are absolutely tearing it up and will make 5 figure this summer
Facebook groups are so powerful across many different industries.
Drop your industry below and I will give you ideas on how to use facebook groups to grow your business.
From working out of the back of my Subaru Outback to building a thriving landscaping business.
And now, onto my next big venture.
Here is my entrepreneurial journey:
Fresh out of college, I can proudly state that I completed my fifth summer operating my landscaping business.
Who wants to start a roofing company with me?
I've generated 47 leads for my roofing clients through Facebook in the past 10 days.
Ive got the marketing down.
DM if interested.
I am looking for someone that knows the ins and outs of the business.
Need someone that can run
Facebook Groups is the most underrated marketing channel in the home service industry.
You are missing out on FREE leads if you are not using FB groups.
Here's what we accomplished at Ride The Wave for our clients using Facebook Groups last week.
Timeout-Sportswear - 33 leads
Posting in Facebook Groups provides local businesses a huge edge increasing brand awareness.
Facebook group town communities often have 5,000 to 15,000 people in them.
Want to get started?
Just start posting in 3 groups a day.
Imagine what an extra 15,000 eyeballs a day can
I was dead set on closing down my successful mulching/landscaping business.
Its an amazing business (super profitable) but I am building Ride The Wave.
The only way I could keep Mulch Masters alive was if I gave my previous employees complete control over the business.
1st day running Facebook group posts for a
@That1Painter
franchise.
2 leads right out of the gate.
This franchise will crush mom Facebook groups.
@Codie_Sanchez
open to discuss
how we can get this running across all That 1 Painter franchises?
Remote cleaning folks: Facebook groups has some serious untapped potential for lead generation
Last week, I teamed up with
@DanKats23
of Shorely Clean, and guess what?
We hit the lead gen jackpot with 42 organic leads in our first week alone! 🎉
Dan has already completed one
Life Hack: Move to Spain
6 euro lunch: burrito, fries, and a drink
1.90 euro dinner: a hamburger sub with cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo
both 10/10.
Can't remember my last takeout meal for under 10 dollars in America.
The Bark boys are absolutely crushing it...
A couple college students are casually going to make 20k this summer from landscaping.
We just had this almost $10,000 estimate accepted.
and also have a couple HUGE jobs this month.
I am planning on licensing out the Bark boys
Facebook Groups leads for our home services business clients were flowing today.
Phone was blowing up all day.
The Jotform notification makes me happy every single time I see it.
I have spent the past two week searching for a talented copywriter to make out groups content more
@alexforbes__
It was in the beginning of my landscaping journey and wanted the job.
Even at 1000 I thought I could make money.
Learned way in value than the money lost.
Facebook Groups are so powerful for organic marketing.
Heres exactly what Ride The Wave generated for our clients using FB Groups.
Last week avg Leads generated: 5.7 Leads
B2B
Ride The Wave: 11 Leads (My business)
Time Out Sports Wear: 10 Leads ($700 dollar deal closed
Home service businesses have achieved remarkable success with Facebook group advertising.
It is proving to be one of
@amirlearner
top ROI marketing spending.
Here is what we accomplished in the first months of Facebook group advertising:
- Higher ROI than Facebook ads.
- more
Home Service Franchises are starting to utilize the power of Facebook groups to drive leads.
Bumble Roofing franchises have been exploiting Facebook groups to drive additional roofing leads.
Here's the results from last week:
(
@gvh41
) is potentially closing in on $22k roof
What’s the best way to screen for high performing employees?
Is there a test to give all applicants before scanning through resumes?
How to avoid hiring B and C players?
Drop your best hiring advice.
I thought good at delegating work and operations.
Today at Ride The Wave, I met with a fractional COO.
He opened my eyes to all the processes in my organization that need to be optimized.
You, as a business owner, need systems to scale.
Not having proper systems is why you
You can sell anything in Facebook groups.
@MichaelRStraus
approached me a couple weeks ago with the idea of promoting his South African content retreat in Facebook groups.
Today we got our first sale!
Try facebook groups out with your business.
I want to start growing a sales team and offloading a lot of the current sales work I am doing.
What is the best book to learn about building a sales department?
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Wellstone's new AI software can read thousands of case files in seconds and act at levels superior to junior analysts.
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If I were searching to buy a business...
I would look into local screen printing businesses.
Screen printing is a reoccurring business.
Landscapers, restaurants, sports teams all need new apparel every year.
I have generated 10k in revenue from 33 leads in 20 days for a
Which book has been the most transformative in advancing your entrepreneurial endeavors?
What did that book teach you?
I'll start:
Traction by Gino Wickman
Why?
Having a sound structure in your business is vital for the businesses success.
The EOS model introduced in the
Remote cleaning folks: Facebook groups are still going strong for
@DanKats23
of Shorely Clean.
Even on bad days, we are getting 2 organic leads a day.
In the past 3 weeks:
- 8 cleans have been booked. Multiple will be reoccurring. Many estimates still pending.
- 81 requests
Facebook groups have absolute crushes for home improvement leads.
We started using Facebook groups with Sunrise remodelers (
@AllDay_MK
) two weeks ago and generated 15 leads.
I work with another home improvement contractor in Massachusetts, where we have generated 200+ leads
Facebook is an extremely underrated marketing opportunity for small local businesses.
It’s where woman 35-65 hangout and scroll all day.
Because of the user base facebook is the best platform to build a presence on for local businesses.
To effectively use Facebook you must
Having the option to make a note when bookmarking a post on 𝕏 would be amazing.
Some posts spark inspiration and the ability to write a note would be helpful in organizing and reminding you of your ideas.
@elonmusk
can you make this happen.
Anyone else?
I have been searching for a business mentor program for some time.
I applied for an exclusive mentorship program and got a interview.
They told me today my ideas weren’t big enough for their program.
Kinda disappointed but time to prove them wrong.
The search for a mentor
Here is some Facebook group sauce to help you advertise your business for Free.
These are 2 example ads from my landscaping business that led to over 200 leads last summer.
get CREATIVE with your marketing...
Securing Top-Tier Global Talent
Finding exceptional talent is vital to the growth and success of your business.
Here's the method I developed to attract over 500 quality applicants worldwide for free:
This method is time-consuming but guaranteed to find you your next star
Ride The Wave has been growing so naturally it was time to file as a legal entity.
Pumped.
For those who do not Ride The Wave is a growth marketing partner that helps small business get leads on a commission basis.
Shoutout to the Twitter friends who have taken a chance on me!
If I have learned anything about recruiting high quality people.
Hire based on conscientiousness.
Every time I ignore this I get burned.
I am personally finding it to be the
#1
indicator of a good employee.
Conscientious people are usually responsible, reliable, organized,
Shoutout to
@DannyMagazu
for his Ride the Wave FB Group service. I just crunched the numbers for the first month of outreach performance and it worked great for our Safari Retreats offering.
Leads: 55
Revenue $16800
ROAS: 1680.00%
Conversion Rate: 5.45%
CAC $166.67
CPL $18.18
Today has been a good day.
Extremely grateful for all friends, family, and my team.
And most importantly genuinely happy to be pursuing my passion.
Living life pursuing your passion is the greatest life hack.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been deterred from doing what
Where is the best place to connect with self-funded searchers?
I am looking to find self-funded searchers under loi.
A client of mine helps to provide these searchers with funding.
Searchfunder and Facebook groups seem like good places to start.
Where else should I look?
Organic Facebook is proving to be powerful for so many small business owners.
We haven driven millions in sales and eyeballs to our clients companies.
Start building a Facebook presence.
Reply “interested” if you would like to work with us
Some recent recent reviews ⬇️
Take a look at the metrics working with a restaurant using facebook groups.
Almost zero reach before we started posting into Facebook groups.
Now we are reaching about 2k people a day.
We’ve been spreading the word about their free shrimp taco giveaway today.
I bet they’ll be
One of our new clients is TimeOut screen printing.
A week into working with the company we have already generated 10 leads from Facebook groups.
They have closed one $700 deal and four more quotes already sent out.
Best part about screen printing is that customers tend to be
Today, I am building a hiring funnel to constantly receive high-quality overseas applicants.
Here is my strategy:
1. Determine how to automate posting to as many job boards as possible.
2. Link the initial application in the job post. I will make the initial application easy
Nick Is something else himself. He’s 27 owns 5 cleaning companies, a mattress company, and a killer seo agency.
Go out there and make connections with people on this app and build cool stuff.
Spoke with
@DannyMagazu
earlier today.
Sharp dude doing some very much needed work.
Check him out!
So many people out there grinding. Love to see it! 🔥🔥
My business did not burn down while I was on vacation.
Here is how you can keep your business operational without your direct involvement.
Bookmark for later use.
For context, Ride The Wave has grown from 2-30+ clients in the first five months of 2024.
I help
Facebook groups are proving to be super strong in the suburban Cincinnati Area.
12 leads and counting for
@BenG_SMB
cleaning business today.
Definitely looking to partner with more businesses in the Cincinnati area.
Reply "Interested" if you want to learn more.
Hiring reliable people for home services businesses can be incredibly difficult.
In my experience, Facebook groups presents an alternative way to find high quality candidates.
So I am doing a free hiring service giveaway:
I am looking for 2 business owners that need help with
I've grown my business to six figures without spending a single cent on paid advertising.
Sounds unbelievable, right?
Here's how I do it and 3 tactics I need to employ.
A thread 🧵
Facebook groups start working as soon as you start posting.
Facebook does not take 6 months to start seeing results like some other lead channels
Results are quick and compound with time.
Start posting.
Home service businesses need to learn organic Facebook Marketing.
Building a solid organic presence is a game changer.
Organic Facebook marketing and Facebook groups will lead to less money being spent on Google and Facebook ads.
Last month, we crushed it for this pest
What can I do to increase the percentage of people who fill out my clients lead gen forms?
I generate a lot of buzz in Facebook Groups for my clients.
Interested people click on the links in the Facebook post to request more info.
On our best form 14% of visitors fill out the
This was years ago and definitely learned a valuable lesson.
Since then I went on to start my next venture.
Follow
@dannymagazu
to watch me build Ride The Wave.
I am thinking about hiring an overseas sales rep for my company.
I’ll let this post serve as a thread of information for anyone thinking of doing the same.
Best country to hire sales reps?
Do any agencies specialize with overseas sales reps?
Does anyone have positive or
Facebook groups hold immense potential to drive leads for small businesses across America.
Daily posting in Facebook groups gained AA Awnings the following results last month.
- 1,053 website visitors
- 31 leads
Oh and probably an estimated 50,000 people saw their posts as
My favorite global/remote hiring hack.
Send applicants a quick assignment that resembles the job.
You immediately know if they are capable of doing the job.
Cut all the applicants who do not know what they are doing.
A great businessman can quickly solve problems.
2 weeks ago I had no idea how to hire global talent.
Today I have 500 applicants worldwide apply to my job.
Learn, take action, and improve from your mistakes.
Riding The Wave is what entrepreneurship is all about.
Community Facebook Groups are filled with thousands of people.
By posting consistently you constantly increase brand awareness.
Our clients will often strike deals with realtors, property managers, and commercial accounts.
You never know who is lurking in facebook groups
Facebook group leads coming in all day every day.
26 leads across my clients today.
Working on a software that will alert you anytime is looking for your service in a Facebook group.
Facebook is the most underutilized channel for home service business.
So much brand
A customer called me hammered drunk, adamant he wasn't going to pay his $5k bill.🍺 Here's what happened, how I got my money and the important lessons I learned.
Thank you to
@mcday
for hosting to me his platinum partners groups coaching call.
Today marks my first time teaching a group of business owner's how to utilize Facebook Groups for brand awareness and leads.
Felt cool sharing knowledge about groups I have been developing for
What’s your favorite part of being an entrepreneur?
I’ll start:
Constantly evolving and learning new skills.
My business aptitude is growing exponentially every month as I face different challenges.
Share you favorite part below ⬇️
How can I help a home improvement contractor get in touch with development contractors?
He is trying to move away residential work.
He wants to start developing relationships with big contractors to move into commercial.
I am thinking contractor facebook groups but what else…
Franchises are starting to harness the power of Facebook groups.
We started working with
@gvh41
in April.
Now we are working with 5 Bumble roofing Franchises.
@gvh41
has received 25 leads this month from facebook groups.
The secret?
Greg has a talent for creating
Home service business owners:
Is anyone using snapchat ads for lead gen?
I have a prospective client that’s telling me he crushes it with Snapchat ads.
Has anyone tried this? Thoughts?
Ride The Wave is suffering from our own success.
We have completely booked
@MichaelRStraus
South African safari retreat in 1 month.
Our big win goal was to sell out in less than 3 months.
Safe to say we crushed it at Ride The Wave on this one.
@KongBTC
@GOLF_token
I have been following golf since the beginning.
The team is legit.
Dev is a successful entrepreneur.
No one has given up.
And it inspired me to believe in them.
I think big things are in Golfs future.
It would help if every day you strived for:
- Constant improvement
- Constant curiosity
- Constantly getting better
Results do not matter.
The compounding result of showing up everyday matters.
What countries have the best software engineering talent?
At my current growth rate and systems, I am going to have a 100 person workforce in 2 years.
@collin_ruth89
helped me realize this is not scalable on a larger level.
I need to be optimizing and automating my current
In the first two days of posting in Facebook groups, A mobile auto repair shop is crushing it
With a proper strategy in place, any small business can dominate Facebook.
Some numbers from the first two days
- Reach an additional 4,300 people.
- 2 leads. 1 already closed
They
Losing most of my employees to college has me working a lot more hands on with my projects.
Makes me miss when I had a full team working for me.
Also it’s reminding me the grind of landscaping.
I think it’s important to always have systems in place to replace your talent when
When
@brian_moriarty0
was asked if he wanted free lunch today.
He responded:
“I don’t eat. My only fuel is landscaping”
Now that’s commitment.
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.
All jokes aside, this one project came out pretty good.
It was an honor coaching you and beginning your journey to unlock the power of Facebook groups.
Facebook groups are so powerful for already established and trusted small businesses.
Thank you for the shout out.
Please keep me updated on how groups impact your business.
Anyone
I was super excited to wake up this morning and see 500 followers.
Thank you to everyone for following the journey thus far.
Next stop: 1000 followers.
I have fully wrapped up my landscaping operation to focus on my next endeavors.
A little update:
I recently teamed up with
It was an honor coaching you and beginning your journey to unlock the power of Facebook groups.
Facebook groups are so powerful for already established and trusted small businesses.
Thank you for the shout out.
Please keep me updated on how groups impact your business.
Anyone
Yesterday, the most successful person I know broke my brain.
We were discussing my business and he asked me what I thought we could do in top line next year.
I said I thought $4-5M was realistic (optimistic) if we really knocked it out of the park.
He then asked, what if
Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Warning in Massachusetts today.
This has to be the wackiest summer weather I have experienced growing up here.
July was the second wettest in Massachusetts recorded history.
We are going to have one snowy winter if this keeps up.