After a phone call with @William Swingle I had to get my butt in gear. First time working with Canva, can you guys give me some feedback on this facebook ad? https://photos.app.goo.gl/6te53tZXa7UZbohv7

How in the world do you deal with them when you're doing land clearing? Mulching is easy, you're in the machine. But when you need to be out felling trees and cutting stumps, what do you do? I've been a farmer for awhile now. And I've been around these critters my whole life, and I've only ever been stung twice, in my life, until this job. 2 or 3 got me one day, and then 2 or 3 the next day. 5 total, but I don't remember in what order they happened. And they were bald faced hornets. Those suckers hurt! Anyways, what do you do when you're at the site and they start coming for you like crazy?

NOTE: I just updated these numbers. I was looking at the past 30 days, these numbers are now for the life of the campaign, started 2/12 Ok! So things are going gangbusters and the season is off to a fabulous start here. I started running my new ad campaign mid-February while we still had a lot of snow on the ground. Things were a bit slow to start but as soon as the snow started melting I've been getting multiple leads a day. Here's some stats for the campaign so far: Daily ad budget: $50 Amount spent so far: $1995 Impressions: 125,858 Reach: 56,091 Cost per lead (CPR): $16.36 Leads generated: 122 Leads qualified for estimate appts: 75 (22 of these appts are upcoming) Estimates converted to jobs so far: 17 Gross revenue from booked jobs: $51,575 Estimates that seem likely to convert later in the year: 11 Estimate appointments that did not convert: 8 "No contact" Leads: 17 (leads that I could never get on the phone despite 10+ contact attempts) Over all rate of estimate appts converting to booked jobs: 68% (Last 2 years this was around 50%) Personal observations: - I called every lead 10 minutes that came in during business hours. Maaaybe 5% of these actually answered the phone call. I left a voicemail and followed up with a text message right away. - Average number of contact attempts (calls/voicemails/texts) per lead converted to job: 2.69 (range was 2-10)

Met with a contractor today that does fire mitigation by hand (no machine). He wants to collaborate with us since he does not want to buy equipment. Trying to figure out a fair way to work together? He is also a general contractor. I was thinking of billing him with a 10% discount if he brings us in on a job. Does that seam reasonable?

Chat GPT can do some impressive things with a few prompts. Getting the initial design was fine, getting it refined to fit a template is a bit more of a challenge. Feedback from the group? Too busy? Im trying to capture some keywords that might spark someone's interest instead of just "forestry mulching'