For trade business owners

Mentorship to build your business. Marketing to keep it growing.

We run your marketing and bring you qualified leads. Mike coaches you to run the business behind them.

The Working Class: Built on experience. Driven by results.

We are a team of business owners, marketers and growth strategists. We help contractors and trade businesses grow.

We run your marketing and bring you qualified leads. A qualified lead is a real person who asked for the service you sell. Our goal is more customers, more booked jobs and more revenue for you.

Then we help you turn those leads into long-term, profitable growth, with hands-on business guidance, sales strategies and operations support.

  • Marketing and qualified leads

    We run your ads and follow up your leads, so the people who need your service find you.

  • Mentorship and business guidance

    Mike coaches owners one on one and in our community, so you can run what we help you grow.

  • Sales and operations support

    We help you turn leads into booked jobs, and run the business behind those jobs.

Our focus is simple

  • Generate real opportunities.
  • Execute effective strategies.
  • Deliver measurable results.

Five things we stand on.

No hype. This is how we work with you.

  • Real marketing and lead generation

    We run campaigns that bring in qualified leads, appointments and new business.

  • Real experience

    Our team has real business ownership, marketing, sales and operations experience.

  • Real execution

    We do not only give advice. We help you put the plan in place, and we run the campaigns.

  • Measurable results

    We measure leads, new customers and revenue growth, so you can see what is working.

  • Long-term partnerships

    We want to help you build a business that lasts, and to work with you for the long run.

Who this is for

  • HVAC
  • Plumbing
  • Electrical
  • Roofing
  • General contracting

If you run a trade business, this is for you.

Real jobs. Real vehicles. Already trusted by local, home-service businesses.

What a trade business needs.

Five things. This is what each one takes and what my team does about it.

  1. You need to be found on Google.

    People search Google for your trade. You need to know whether they find you, and what that costs you. The Whole Chain Marketing plan covers Google, Local Services Ads and Maps.

  2. You need ads built from your own job photos.

    Your job photos should not sit on your phone. My team turns them into finished Facebook and Instagram ads and runs the ad account, so you do not hire a designer or learn the ad account yourself.

  3. You need every lead in one place.

    Leads arrive by form, text and message. They all come into one inbox, with fast responses and ongoing follow-up, so fewer leads are lost for lack of a reply.

  4. You need to know which ad pays.

    Each month you see what you spent, how many people asked for your service and what each one cost, so you can put your money where each lead costs least.

  5. You need your updates in one place.

    Each client has a group message in Slack with my team, so updates, questions and files stay in one place.

What you get.

Your ads, your lead follow-up and your reporting, handled by my team. Month to month.

What my team does for you.

Report cards for Google Search ($8,724 spend, 215 leads, $40.58 per lead) and Google Local Services Ads ($1,720 spend, 64 leads, $26.88 per lead)
Google Search and Local Services Ads: spend, leads and cost per lead.

Google Ads and Local Services Ads

In The Whole Chain Marketing plan.

Right now

You are not sure whether people searching Google for your trade ever find you, or what that costs you.

With my team

You show up in Google search and Local Services Ads, and each one is listed with its spend, leads and cost per lead.

Left: a raw photo of a white gas range in a kitchen. Right: the finished ad made from it for Tito's Appliances, with the headline One rate. No renegotiating.
Photo to finished ad, for Tito's Appliances.
Facebook and Instagram ad manager for Horizon HVAC, last 30 days: two active campaigns showing 41 and 2 website leads, and two campaigns that are off
Active lead campaigns in my own business, Horizon HVAC.

Meta ads and ad editing

In every marketing plan.

Right now

Your job photos sit on your phone, and ads mean hiring a designer or learning the ad account yourself.

With my team

I turn a plain job photo into a finished Facebook and Instagram ad, and my team runs the account, so your ad budget goes into ads that show your real work.

GoHighLevel team inbox for The Working Class with the conversation list covered. The open conversation shows an automatic reply that reads: Hey, it's Mike's team. Quick one so we point you the right way. What are you after? with three buttons: Marketing for me, Coaching and community, Just a question
My own Instagram inbox in GoHighLevel. A new message gets an automatic reply with three choices.

GoHighLevel

In every marketing plan.

Right now

Leads arrive by form, text and message in different places, and some wait too long for an answer.

With my team

Leads from forms, texts and messages come into one inbox, and your plan includes fast responses and ongoing follow-up, so fewer are lost for lack of a reply.

The Working Class client workspace home screen with ten tiles: Clients, Content, Publish a video, Onboarding Progress, Tasks, Payments, Reports, SOPs, AI Search and Guide
My team's client workspace, with a page for clients, content and reports.
  • Meta Ads report for the last 30 days: $16,193 spend, 543 leads and a $29.82 cost per lead
    Meta Ads report
  • Google Search report for the last 30 days: $8,724 spend, 215 leads and a $40.58 cost per lead
    Google Search report
  • Report for all channels, last 30 days: $26,638 ad spend, 822 leads and a $32.41 blended cost per lead. Meta Ads $16,193 and 543 leads, Google Search $8,724 and 215 leads, Google Local Services Ads $1,720 and 64 leads
    All channels report

Client records and reports

Monthly cost-per-lead reporting is in every marketing plan.

Right now

You do not know which ad pays, because the spend and the leads sit in separate ad accounts.

With my team

Each month you see what you spent, how many people asked for your service and what each one cost, by channel and across all channels, so you can put your money where each lead costs least.

Slack sidebar for The Working Class showing a list of direct message groups, one for each client, such as Reliable Heating and Air, Luccia Bro's Marketing and Active Air Marketing
My team's Slack: a group message for each client.

Slack

How my team keeps in touch with you.

Right now

Updates are scattered across texts, chats and notes, and you search to find what was said.

With my team

You get a group message in Slack with my team, so updates, questions and files stay in one place.

The Working Class community page on Skool with its intro video and a count of 51 members
The community page on Skool: 51 members.

Skool community

In The Working Class community.

Right now

You run the business on your own, with no other owners to ask.

With my team

You join a private community of trade owners on Skool, with me and live community sessions every week, so you learn from them and use it in your business.

Meet the team.

Six people. One job each. You always know who is doing what for your business.

Mike

Mike

Founder
Opened Horizon HVAC in 2023

Built the marketing behind Horizon HVAC from the back end with no trade background, then turned that system into The Working Class so other trade owners can use it.

  • Trade business owner
  • Sales
  • Lead generation
Ethan

Ethan

Head of Marketing Operations
Built our client CRM

Builds and manages your Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns, and runs the client system that keeps every lead and job in one place for you.

  • Meta ads
  • CRM
  • Account setup
Ken

Ken

Marketing Performance Specialist
The diagnose-and-fix specialist

Manages your GoHighLevel account, oversees your Google Ads and takes on special requests. When something breaks or underperforms, he finds the cause and fixes it.

  • GoHighLevel
  • Google Ads
  • Troubleshooting
Josh

Josh

Paid Ads
9 years running ad accounts

Has managed Meta and Google ad accounts for about nine years, and reviews your campaigns to decide what to keep, cut and change.

  • Meta
  • Google
  • Ad reviews
Kyle

Kyle

Video Editor
Short-form video specialist

Turns your raw job clips into short social videos with readable on-screen text, clean transitions and sound design, in a personal, informational style.

  • Editing
  • Sound design
  • On-screen text
Brett

Brett

CPA
Licensed CPA

Handles payroll and payments for the team, bringing a licensed accountant's discipline to how a small business tracks and grows its money.

  • Payroll
  • Payments
  • Accounting

Real community calls.

This is what happens inside my community. Watch owners on a live call share what is hard and what worked.

  • Live calls with me, every week
  • One-on-one work with me
  • Access to the private Skool community
  • Business-building video resources
  • Learn to bring AI into your operations

From inside the community.

Hear directly from members of the community.

  • A member's perspective
  • Another voice from the community
  • Andrew Swecker, community member
  • A member and trade business owner
Meet the founder

Mike Cesaroni.

I own Horizon HVAC in Rhode Island. I opened it in 2023 with zero trade experience.

I did it all from the back end, so I built The Working Class to give you the same thing. We write your scripts, our in-house editor cuts your videos up, and we manage your accounts.

  • 2023The year Mike opened Horizon HVAC
  • $200K to $3MHorizon HVAC in 24 months, in Mike's own account
  • Rhode IslandWhere Mike runs his business
Mike Cesaroni in a black Horizon HVAC polo with a woman behind him, outdoors

This is the next step.

You already know the trade. Let me give you the back end.

I’ve noticed that the hardest thing to do is change the mentality of an operator and turn him into an owner.

You run your jobs. My team handles your ads, your lead follow-up and your reporting.

Marketing plans.

Month to month. Ready? Pick a plan. Not ready yet? Apply below instead.

  • The starting point

    CRM / Marketing Maintenance

    Get your ads running and your leads followed up.

    $1,500/mo, plus $2,500 one-time setupThe $2,500 setup is charged once. It is paid through a separate payment link we send you. Then $1,500 each month.

    • All your leads in one place
    • Fast responses and ongoing follow-up
    • Managed Facebook & Instagram ads
    • Creative built from your job photos
    • Monthly cost-per-lead reporting
    Subscribe: $1,500 a month
  • Expand your reach

    The Whole Chain Marketing

    Show up in more places your customers look.

    $2,500/mo, plus $2,500 one-time setupThe $2,500 setup is charged once. It is paid through a separate payment link we send you. Then $2,500 each month.

    • Google, Local Services Ads & Maps
    • Re-engage your past customer list
    • Everything in CRM / Marketing Maintenance
    Subscribe: $2,500 a month
  • Build your next system

    Runs without you marketing

    The whole chain, with AI built around your business.

    $3,500/mo, plus $4,500 one-time setupThe $4,500 setup is charged once. It is paid through a separate payment link we send you. Then $3,500 each month.

    • Everything in The Whole Chain Marketing
    • A second-brain AI built on your business
    • Custom automations for day-to-day processes
    Subscribe: $3,500 a month

Month to month. Every plan has a one-time setup fee, shown on its card. Ad spend is separate and paid directly to Google and Meta.

Mentorship with Mike.

Want to learn to run it yourself? Work on your business with Mike and a community of trade owners.

Coaching, not marketing

Personal coaching with Mike

This is separate from the marketing plans. You work on your own business with Mike and a community of blue-collar owners.

$5,000 one-time

Ask about coaching
  • Live community sessions every week
  • One-on-one work with Mike
  • Access to the private Skool community
  • Business-building video resources
  • Learn to integrate AI into your operations

Questions and answers

What is the difference between mentorship and the marketing plans?

With the marketing plans, we run your ads, your lead follow-up and your reporting. With mentorship, you work with Mike and a community of trade owners to learn how to run and grow the business. Tell us which one you want in the form below.

What do I get with each plan?

Every plan includes all your leads in one place, fast responses and ongoing follow-up, managed Facebook and Instagram ads, creative built from your job photos, and monthly cost-per-lead reporting. The higher plans include everything in the plan below them, and the plan cards above list what each one adds.

Is ad spend included in the marketing fee?

No. Ad spend is the money you pay to Google and Meta (the company behind Facebook and Instagram) to show your ads. You set your ad budget and pay them directly. The monthly fee for your plan covers management. Every plan also has a one-time setup fee, which is separate: $2,500 for CRM / Marketing Maintenance, $2,500 for The Whole Chain Marketing and $4,500 for Runs without you marketing.

Am I locked into a marketing contract?

Marketing is month to month. Every plan has a one-time setup fee, charged once. It is not charged again each month.

How do I pay?

Choose a plan above. The button opens a secure Stripe checkout page, where you pay. Stripe is the company that handles the payment.

Does sending the form cost anything?

No. This form does not charge you, and sending your details does not commit you to anything.

Who is this for?

HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and general contracting owners looking for marketing support, better operations, and accountability.

Apply now

Five quick questions. If it looks like a fit, you can pick a time for a 15 minute call with Mike.

Please pick one to continue.

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