Same business. Same craftsman. Different marketing.
Karl opened Rocket Tint in March 2021 and ran it solo for two and a half years. Total sales over that window: $67,000. Magnet came on in September 2023. The next two and a half years (Sep 2023 → April 2026): $474,221 in sales on $52,600 in ad spend. Same business. Same length of time. 9x return on ad spend, traceable end-to-end in his own Google Ads dashboard.
Karl opened Rocket Tint in March 2021. He had a great product, a strong work ethic, and the kind of craftsmanship that wins repeat customers. What he did not have was a marketing engine. He pieced together a website, ran Instagram himself when he had time, and tried to figure out paid ads on his own.
From March 2021 to September 2023, the entire business generated $67,000 in total sales. That is two and a half years of work, mostly word-of-mouth, with bursts of unsystematic ad spend that never quite paid back. Karl was good at the job. The marketing was the bottleneck.
That is the apples-to-apples baseline. Same business. Same founder. Same craftsmanship. Different marketing.
Karl handed us the keys to the ad accounts and the funnel. Our brief was simple: keep his calendar full, every week, predictably, and make the math obvious.
Audited the existing site, fixed the lead-capture flow, and made sure every ad click had a clean path to a booked appointment. No more leaks between click and conversion.
Captured every high-intent "window tint near me" and "mobile tint STL" search. Low-volume, high-conversion keywords. We tracked the searches that actually book, not the ones that look impressive in a vanity report.
Audiences built around automotive enthusiasts and recent car buyers inside Karl's service radius. Creative rotated regularly. Retargeting layered on top of the prospecting.
We track ad spend in Karl's own Google Ads dashboard. Karl tracks revenue in his point-of-sale. The numbers in this case study come from his real, live dashboards, not from anything we control.
Two and a half years before. Two and a half years after. Same length of time. $474,221 in sales on $52,600 in ad spend. That is a 9x return on ad spend, fully attributed inside Karl's own Google Ads "all time" view, run live in front of us.
Karl on the result, in his own words:
The campaigns we set up in September 2023 are still running today. Karl held the ad budget steady, we optimized creative on a regular cadence, and the local-market awareness kept compounding. As trust built and reviews accumulated, Rocket Tint moved up-market into higher-end vehicles and ceramic coating, and the ad funnel kept feeding that without us touching the budget.
The ledger above is the all-time closed-invoice export from Karl's point-of-sale, covering both his solo period (early invoices, smaller average ticket) and the Magnet period (2023 onward, where the average ticket climbed past $300+ as Rocket Tint moved up-market into higher-end vehicles and ceramic coating). The total there reflects the lifetime business. The 9x ROAS number above is specifically the Magnet-attributable spend and revenue, exported live from Karl's Google Ads dashboard.
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