OWNR OPS Podcast

Austin Gray @theownerop
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The OWNR OPS Podcast is for land‑clearing and forestry‑mulching owner‑operators who want a real business, not just a busy machine. If you’ve got at least one real machine and you’re stuck under ~$100k/month, we break down the Price–Pipeline–Playbook OS: - PRICE – crew‑day math, bids, and minimums - PIPELINE – Google, Facebook, and follow‑up - PLAYBOOK – weekly scoreboards, scheduling, hiring Real numbers, teardown episodes, and simple frameworks you can steal and install.

  1. 2d ago

    How to Win More Land Clearing Jobs Without Cutting Your Price

    💰Apply for OPS Accelerator ➡️ https://ownrops.com/accelerator📞 Quo: Never miss a lead — Quo answers your calls with AI, summarizes them, and syncs the call summary and transcript straight into your Jobber Requests ➡️ Get 20% off Quo here: http://get.quo.com/ownerops Why do some land clearing guys close deals without a single price objection, while others can't give the job away? In this one, Jacob Neffendorf and I break down the trust gap every new operator deals with — and exactly how to close it with proof, speed, and reviews. What you'll learn: Why zero reviews means zero trust, no matter how good your work isThe "proof first" move I'd make if I was breaking into a brand new marketMy review math behind scaling Bear Claw Land Services past $100k a monthWhy speed to lead and speed to estimate decide whether a lead turns into a paid jobReal close rate numbers for land clearing and home service sales — and why getting told no 80 times out of 100 is normalHow to use Clear Path AI to build your own inbound lead script and site visit checklist 🔥 Services We Use 🔥 We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing ➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops 💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops Want to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business? 📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletter Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

  2. Sep 25

    Optimize Your Google Business Profile Using this AI Prompt

    💰Apply for OPS Accelerator ➡️ https://ownrops.com/accelerator 📞 Quo: Never miss a lead. Quo answers your calls with AI, summarizes them, and syncs the call summary and transcript straight into your Jobber Requests ➡️ Get 20% off Quo here: http://get.quo.com/ownrops Most land clearing guys are invisible on Google and they don't even know it. In this episode, I sit down with Jacob Nefondorf (Rise Online Ads) to break down exactly how to get your land clearing or forestry mulching business ranked on Google Maps, plus why speed to lead is still the #1 thing separating operators who grow from operators who stay stuck. What we cover: Why calling your leads fast (and often) matters more than any marketing trickThe real reason leads go cold — and how to win them back with multiple numbers, texts, and emailsHow to optimize your Google Business Profile step by step (services, photos, Q&A, pricing)Why 40+ five-star reviews can 2-3x your leadsThe fastest way to stack reviews when you're just starting outThe difference between a real SEO strategy and a $300/month agency doing the bare minimum 👉 Get your own Clear Path AI pricing sanity check prompt at https://landclearing.io/ 🔥 Services We Use 🔥 We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing ➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops 💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops 🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: https://stryker-digital.com/?el=oo Want to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business? 📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletter Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

  3. Sep 18

    How To Price Land Clearing Jobs Using ClearPath AI

    💰Apply for OPS Accelerator ➡️ https://ownrops.com/accelerator📞 Quo: Never miss a lead. Quo answers your calls with AI, summarizes them, and syncs the call summary and transcript straight into your Jobber Requests➡️ Get 20% off Quo here: http://get.quo.com/ownrops If you don't get your pricing right, nothing else matters. In this episode, I sit down with Jacob Neffendorf to break down the three part pricing framework every land clearing and forestry mulching business needs, plus what we learned running our first ever media day and how we think about AI as business owners. We walk through prompt three in our nine-week Clear Path AI series, the crew day pricing sanity check, and run a live demo so you can see exactly how it works inside the tool. We also get into why charging a day rate is a lazy way to bid, why project bid pricing builds trust with your customer, and why chasing a low cost per lead is the wrong metric to obsess over. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: The three part pricing framework: crew day rate, production rate, and project bid pricingWhy day rate pricing caps your business and project bids build customer confidenceWhat we learned filming 12 months of content in a day and a half media dayHow pricing correctly lets you reinvest in your people and your equipmentWhy real, raw content on your phone outperforms polished productionWhy ROI matters more than cost per lead, and how reactivation campaigns turn dead leads into paying jobs 👉 Get your own Clear Path AI pricing sanity check prompt at https://landclearing.io/🔥 Services We Use 🔥We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: https://stryker-digital.com/?el=ooWant to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business?📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletter

    How To Price Land Clearing Jobs Using ClearPath AI

  4. Sep 11

    How to Get Better Leads Using This AI Prompt for Core Messaging

    💰Apply for OPS Accelerator ➡️ https://ownrops.com/accelerator 📞 Quo: Never miss a lead. Quo answers your calls with AI, summarizes them, and syncs the call summary and transcript straight into your Jobber Requests➡️ Get 20% off Quo here: http://get.quo.com/ownrops Most operators can tell you everything about their machines and nothing about why a customer should call them instead of the guy down the road. That's the problem we fixed on this one. In this episode, Jacob from Rise Online Ads and I walk through how to build your core message — the one sentence that should show up in every ad, every phone call, and every conversation you have with a prospect. We use Clear Path, the AI tool we built specifically for land clearing and forestry mulching, to build a complete messaging framework. What you'll get out of this one: Why saying "we do land clearing and 37 other services" is costing you good leadsThe exact core messaging framework: we help [who] achieve [result] without [fear/objection]How to turn your ideal customer profile into fear-and-desire ad copy that actually convertsThe phone script opener I use that changes how prospects respondWhy I never take the first AI output as final — and how I push it furtherWhy I save every output to a backup context file, no matter what tool I'm usingHow tightening this message helped cut cost-per-lead in half on a live campaign 🔥 Services We Use 🔥 We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing ➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops 💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops 🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: https://stryker-digital.com/?el=oo Want to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business? 📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletter Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

  5. Sep 4

    The Ideal Customer Profile Every Land Clearing Business Needs

    💰Apply for OPS Accelerator ➡️ https://ownrops.com/accelerator 📞 Quo: Never miss a lead. Quo answers your calls with AI, summarizes them, and syncs the call summary and transcript straight into your Jobber Requests ➡️ Get 20% off Quo here: http://get.quo.com/ownrops Most land clearing and forestry mulching owners are busy every day and still broke by Friday. This raw and real episode is about why: you're saying yes to the wrong customers. Jacob and I open up about qualifying leads and still working the unqualified ones anyway, and my $1,900 day that turned into a $1,200 loss after I stacked three small jobs. Then we break down the $74,100 job (plus a $29K repeat) that came from getting clear on my Ideal Customer Profile — and how I use Clear Path AI to build one fast. Topics covered: - Why every business starts out taking anyone with a pulse - My $1,900 day that became a $1,200 loss - Defining your Ideal Customer Profile - Matching your ICP to your specific service - The ICP worksheet: naming your three best customers - Using Clear Path AI to build a profile fast - Scoring leads green/yellow/red and disqualifying the wrong ones - The roadmap for the next 8 weeks of training 🔥 Services We Use 🔥We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing ➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops 💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops 🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: https://stryker-digital.com/?el=oo Want to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business? 📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletter Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

  6. Aug 28

    How to Train AI the Right Way for Land Clearing Businesses

    Most land clearing guys using AI are typing random questions into ChatGPT and getting random answers back. In this episode, I've got Jacob Neffendorf on with me and we break down why that happens, and how to actually train AI to think like your best advisor, using real operational and sales data instead of guesswork. We'll walk through Clear Path, the AI tool Jacob and I built and trained specifically for land clearing, forestry mulching, and fire mitigation businesses, pulling from 5+ years of pricing data, scorecards, top performing ad scripts, and sales sequences across 400+ land clearing accounts. Then we map out the 9 prompt system I'm rolling out live over the next nine weeks to help you install AI into every part of your business. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:✅ Why your AI outputs are only as good as the inputs you feed it. Garbage in, garbage out✅ Why Clear Path is different among other AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini✅ The 9 core prompts every land clearing business owner needs. ✅ How to actually prompt AI so you get a useful answer instead of a generic one✅ Why you should not replace yourself on camera with AI🔥 Services We Use 🔥 We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops 📞 Quo: Never miss a lead. Quo answers your calls with AI, summarizes them, and syncs the call summary and transcript straight into your Jobber Requests➡️ Get 20% off Quo here: http://get.quo.com/ownrops 💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops 🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: https://stryker-digital.com/?el=oo Want to learn more about starting and scaling your own service based business?📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletter Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

  7. Aug 25

    How to Grow Your Sales in Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching

    💰Learn Google Business, Facebook Ads, and Automation tips for your Blue Collar Business ➡️ ⁠https://skool.com/ownrops⁠ Most land clearing companies don’t lose jobs because of price.They lose them because of bad sales process. In this episode of OWNR OPS Podcast, we break down the exact system to stop losing jobs you should be winning. You’ll learn: 📌 Why sales is the #1 growth constraint in land clearing 📌 The 5-minute speed-to-lead rule (and why it matters) 📌 The 72-hour booking machine 📌 How to follow up without “being annoying” 📌 The 10–15 touch rule that separates pros from amateurs 📌 How to control the call and sell the on-site estimate 📌 Why billion-dollar companies obsess over process If you’re an owner-operator or running crews, this is the difference between:$300K/year… and multiple seven figures. Sales solves cash flow. Sales solves growth. Sales solves most problems. 📥 Free pricing spreadsheet + sales templates:⁠https://skool.com/ownrops⁠ 🔥 Services We Use 🔥 We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing ➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: ⁠https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops⁠ 💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: ⁠https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops⁠ 🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: ⁠https://stryker-digital.com/?el=oo⁠ Want to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business? 📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: →⁠ https://ownrops.com/newsletter⁠ Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

  8. Aug 21

    How to Make Sure Your Land Clearing Ads Are Always Profitable

    💰Apply for OPS Accelerator ➡️ https://ownrops.com/accelerator📞 Quo: Never miss a lead — Quo answers your calls with AI and syncs call summaries straight into your CRM➡️ Get 20% off your first 3 months of Quo here: https://get.quo.com/ownrops 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 workshop series with Jacob Neffendorf of Rise Online Ads, connecting content, ads, and follow-up into one working system. What you'll learn: The signals that tell you your ad creative is fatigued — before your cost per lead spikesThe exact rule for killing a dead ad instead of riding it downHow to scale ad spend without breaking your results (the 20% rule and horizontal scaling)Why speed to lead — contacting a new lead in under 5 minutes — can 4x your close rate 🔥 Services We Use 🔥We use Jobber to handle our estimates, scheduling, & invoicing➡️ Get 20% off Jobber here: https://go.getjobber.com/ownrops💰 Bookkeeping: Get 50% off bookkeeping for 3 months with the Home Service Bookkeeping Pros: https://dialedinbookkeeping.com/ownrops🚀 Get ranked #1 On Google With Stryker SEO: https://stryker-digital.com/?el=ooWant to learn more about starting and scaling your own service-based business?📩 Sign up for the OWNR OPS Newsletter: → https://ownrops.com/newsletterDon't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes with blue collar entrepreneurs sharing their best insights and growth tips!

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The OWNR OPS Podcast is for land‑clearing and forestry‑mulching owner‑operators who want a real business, not just a busy machine. If you’ve got at least one real machine and you’re stuck under ~$100k/month, we break down the Price–Pipeline–Playbook OS: - PRICE – crew‑day math, bids, and minimums - PIPELINE – Google, Facebook, and follow‑up - PLAYBOOK – weekly scoreboards, scheduling, hiring Real numbers, teardown episodes, and simple frameworks you can steal and install.

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  • Creator
    Austin Gray @theownerop
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    155
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Austin Gray @theownerop
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    OWNR OPS Podcast

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