Dollar a Day for Contractors: What Marko Sipila Learned Running Ads in the Trades

Dennis Yu developed the Dollar a Day strategy as a way for small businesses to build brand awareness without a massive ad budget. Marko Sipila took that framework and battle-tested it across three home service verticals — concrete coatings, HVAC, and fencing. The 77-minute webinar they recorded together breaks down exactly how contractors can apply this approach without wasting money …

How Marko Sipila Grew HVAC Quote to 300 Customers Using Conference Videos

Most SaaS founders make the same mistake with video content. They film polished product demos. They create scripted walkthroughs of their dashboard. They talk about features and pricing tiers. And nobody watches. Marko Sipila took the opposite approach with HVAC Quote — and grew from zero to 300 paying customers in roughly a year. Make Videos About Other People, Not …

Dennis Yu and Gavin Lira, CEO of The Empathy Firm, December 2022

Gavin Lira on Why Active Listening Beats Every Growth Hack

Gavin Lira cold-called a marketing agency owner named Spencer X Smith when he was still a senior in high school. He did not ask to pick Spencer’s brain. He left a voicemail offering a specific Instagram growth strategy that he could tell Spencer was not using. Spencer called back ten minutes later. That single phone call launched the network that …

Most people who run YouTube ads for roofing target consumers searching for “roof repair near me” or “best roofer in Atlanta.” That makes sense if you sell roofing services directly to homeowners. But we sell to roofing companies, not their customers, and that changes every targeting decision in the campaign. We set up a YouTube ad campaign inside Google Ads …

How Claude AI Built a YouTube Ad Campaign in Google Ads — Step by Step (With Reasoning, Token Estimates, and PPC Guidelines)

Dennis Yu gave Claude AI a plain-English brief to promote his interview with Erik Huberman on YouTube. Claude built the entire Google Ads campaign — targeting, bidding, creative, and launch — without a human touching the interface. Here is the full breakdown of how it was done, what it cost in tokens, and what came from BlitzMetrics guidelines vs. AI knowledge.