Results · Case study
Honey Rock Media
He was shooting all day and editing until 2 a.m. Seven months later, revenue is nearly 4x January, and his team ran the shoots while he took his first vacation since founding the company.
Trey Pruitt is the founder of Honey Rock Media, a video agency in Clarksville, Tennessee. A husband, father, and man of faith, he built the company on craft: cinematic brand films and social content good enough that he never lost a client. But most of his small-town clients still thought of him as a freelancer they'd hired, and every video still ran through his own hands.
Shooting all day, editing until 2 a.m., clients waiting ten business days for deliverables. In his own words: “It's literally shooting and editing, and we're not building the business at all, or the systems.” He'd hired his first teammate, Jake, but couldn't let go of the work: “I'm such a feel editor... I just haven't trusted him, I guess.”
An operating system that got the business out of his head: 85 recurring tasks that surface on the day they're due instead of living on post-it notes. Jake trained and trusted to run full shoots solo. Pricing corrected to the market, the same video that makes Clarksville gasp at $300 is “okay, cool” at $2,000 in Nashville. And a deliberate repositioning from freelancer to agency.
Revenue went $6,450 in January to $22,630 by April, with $23–28K months since. $45,000 sits in the business savings account. His first real-estate video pulled 20,000 views and produced two multi-million-dollar leads. A client has offered $50–60K a year, unprompted. And in July he took his family to the beach for the first time since founding the company, while Jake ran the shoots.
These are the phone calls that I enjoy. I would love for my wife to hear the back end of that call, because I want her to feel the passion and the inspiration and hear what you've done.
“These ones are infinitely clear.”
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