Dirt2Dollars Reviews From October 2026: What Five Contractors Said on Their Campaign Progress Calls
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Author: Brady Carlson | Dirt2Dollars
Published: 2 November, 2026
Most “Dirt2Dollars reviews” you find online are a sentence or two on a review site. Good sentences. But they don’t tell you what actually happened on the calendar, what the jobs were worth, or what the contractor said when nobody was recording a testimonial.
So here’s something different. Every two weeks, our client success managers sit down with each contractor on a recorded campaign progress call. We go through every single appointment we booked. Did it happen. What was the quote. Is it going to close. What’s the follow-up plan.
This post pulls from five of those calls in October 2026. First names only. Real numbers. Real quotes, including the parts that aren’t flattering.
October 2026 was the biggest month in Dirt2Dollars history: $285,000 in total revenue. That only happens if the contractors we work with are making money. Here’s what five of them told us.
Blaine: $32,800 Closed in the First Two Weeks, Two Pond Quotes Over $40,000 Pending
Blaine runs an excavation company and came to us in October 2026 after his revenue swung from a $120,000 month down to a $35,000 month. He was living off referrals and shared-platform inquiries that went nowhere.
On his October 29, 2026 progress call with Filip, two weeks into his campaign, here’s where he stood.
First appointment we booked: a pond job. He closed it for $32,800 and had already collected half when we talked. Crews started the day before the call.
Second appointment: a pond excavation quoted around $40,000. Still negotiating on the volume of material.
Third appointment: a pond repair on a hunting property that he and his dad estimate at roughly $70,000. The owner had already spent heavily on the pond and knows what a fix costs.
Two more quotes out, two more appointments booked for that weekend, and one booked out to November 20.
One guy told him no. Blaine quoted $15,000 and the homeowner wanted to spend $5,000. That’s a no we’re happy to hear fast.
His all-in investment for the three-month program, including ad spend, was $15,000. He made that back on appointment number one.
Here’s what he said at the end of the call:
“It’s not to get emotional or anything, but it’s like for the first time in a while, I actually feel some hope.”
And:
“Y’all have done a… it’s been great so far.”
Filip’s response was honest. He told Blaine that closing the very first appointment is rare, that most of the people he met are in early stages of buying, and that the real score gets settled at the end of 90 days. We don’t sell jackpots. We sell a system.
Blake: 17 Appointments, 3 Jobs, About $25,000 in Month One
Blake does land clearing and mulching and started on our lower-tier rolling program, not the flagship. His first-month numbers from the October 19, 2026 progress call:
43 inquiries. About 20 booked on-site appointments. 17 of them had happened by the time we talked.
Three closed jobs: $20,000, roughly $4,000, and about $1,000. One pending $12,000 quote he’s chasing. One $1,500 field cleanup he was waiting on a church board to approve.
One wasted trip. He drove two and a half hours to a commercial inquiry that said it was outside his range because it looked like a big job, and the guy didn’t show. He owned that call. So did we. Our confirmation process exists exactly so that doesn’t happen, and he’d skipped it.
Blake’s quote when Filip asked how it was going:
“Dude, it’s picking up.”
And when Filip asked him to commit to three more months so the media buyers could stop relaunching ads every two weeks:
“You just keep closing. You keep doing you. I’m good for three months.”
That’s the review that matters to us. Not the words. The renewal.
Alex: A $97,000 Pipeline and a Calendar That Finally Works
Alex clears land and builds ponds. His October 23, 2026 progress call with MJ was about two things: the pipeline and the schedule.
Pipeline first. Three quotes from appointments we booked: $25,000 for two acres of clearing, $44,000 for two acres plus a pond, and a $28,000 subdivision clearing job waiting on permits. That’s $97,000 in open bids. Plus a $30,000 four-acre quote from a homeowner who’s waiting until after the new year, a $17,000 stump and cleanup quote from a homeowner saving up, and a $3,000 mulching quote.
Two homeowners declined on price. Two cancelled. We list those because they’re real.
Now the schedule. Alex’s problem wasn’t appointment volume. It was that appointments scattered across the week were wrecking his production mornings. So MJ rebuilt his booking calendar: machines run Monday through Wednesday, estimates get booked Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning only.
That’s the part of this job most marketing companies never touch. Booking the appointment is step one. Booking it when the contractor can actually be productive is the whole point.
MJ also built him a fill-in-the-blank contract template for his iPad so he can close and collect a deposit on-site instead of emailing a quote and praying.
Brian: Two Pond Inquiries, Two Appointments, Two Yeses
Brian runs mulching and dirt work in Texas. His October 26, 2026 call with Filip is the one I’d want every skeptical contractor to hear, because it covers what goes wrong.
We ran a pond campaign for him and paused it because the inquiries were expensive. $230 each. Only two came in before we shut it off.
Both became on-site appointments. Both homeowners said yes. One approved a $14,000 pond job. The other scheduled a pond build.
Then real life happened. The $14,000 homeowner went quiet for a week and a half after approving. The other one cancelled the morning of the job, after confirming the day before, with Brian’s haul trucks already on the road at 4:45 AM. He pushed it to December 1. Brian kept the $150 cash deposit and has the job flagged as a risk.
Brian also walked away from a $24,000 pond repair because the homeowner bragged about suing three different contractors and then asked Brian to drop to a day rate while the homeowner rented his own skid steer. Brian said no. His wife said thank God.
On the same call, Brian confirmed two more closed jobs from our appointments at his $2,000-per-day mulching rate, one of them from an inquiry that came in a full month earlier and called back ready to go.
Filip’s decision on the call: turn the pond campaign back on and get the cost down. Two for two on the front end is two for two, even when the back end gets messy.
We’ll cover the cost-per-lead lesson from Brian’s campaign in its own post this week.
Dillon: 10 of 16 Inquiries Became Estimates
Dillon does septic installs and land clearing. His October 7, 2026 progress call with MJ was early in the campaign, so this one’s about conversion, not closes.
Septic campaign: 7 inquiries, 5 became on-site estimates.
Clearing campaign: 9 inquiries, 5 became on-site estimates.
That’s 10 of 16 turning into a truck in a driveway. The two that didn’t were septic projects that couldn’t be permitted, and one homeowner who’d already accepted another bid.
The fix MJ made on the call: a permit-status question on the septic intake form. If a homeowner answers “no permit,” they can’t submit. If they answer “in process” or “yes,” the sales team books the appointment. Dillon stops driving to properties that can’t legally be worked on.
His biggest open quote at the time: a septic system in the $15,000 to $25,000 range depending on which design the homeowner picks.
What These Five Calls Have in Common
Every one of these contractors has a cancellation, a no-show, or a tire kicker in their story. We put them in this post on purpose. If a marketing company tells you every appointment closes, they’re lying to you or they’ve never booked one.
Here’s what’s also true in all five.
The appointments happened. Real property owners, real projects, real quotes in the tens of thousands.
Somebody from our team was on a recorded call going line by line through every single one of them. Not a dashboard. A person.
When something broke (a scattered calendar, an unpermitted septic inquiry, an expensive pond campaign), it got fixed on the call.
And in every case where the first month was strong, our CSM said the same thing: don’t judge this on month one. Judge it on 90 days, because the people you met in week two will close in week ten.
That’s what a Dirt2Dollars review looks like when you read the whole transcript instead of the headline.
One Clarification
Dirt2Dollars is a done-for-you marketing agency. We are not a coaching program. This is not a course. We run your ads, build your website and landing pages, and handle all of your marketing. Our in-house sales team books qualified on-site appointments directly on your calendar. All you have to do is show up and close the deal.
There’s another business with a nearly identical name that sells coaching programs. If you’re reading reviews and the words “course” or “community” come up, you’re reading about them, not us.
Ready to Be on One of These Calls?
If you’re a land clearing, excavation, or forestry mulching contractor and you’re tired of relying on word of mouth or competing on shared platforms, we should talk.
We’ve generated over $100 million in on-site estimates for more than 250 contractors, and the five above are from one month.
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Brady Carlson / Dirt2Dollars
