THE STONE MAN‍ ‍Charlotte, NC • Premium Hardscape & Luxury Outdoor Living

From Fragmented to Fully Connected — Premium Fit, Not Just Pipeline

The craftsmanship was there. The pipeline behind it wasn't built to match.

Over the
engagement
287

Keywords ranking on Google

136

Keywords ranking in the Top 3

Integrated

HubSpot, paid, SEO, email, and AI search running as one system

01 Results · First Year

When every channel feeds the next, the numbers compound.

Across twelve months, The Stone Man moved from fragmented channel performance to one connected growth system. Paid, SEO, email, local search, Meta, HubSpot, and AI visibility started feeding each other, creating stronger attribution, better-fit opportunities, and clearer decisions around where to invest next.

287

Keywords ranking on Google

136

Keywords ranking in the Top 3

7

Priority Fort Mill geo keywords at position 1

563

GBP-sourced calls from local visibility

37.5%

Open rate on the top Curator email

28%+

CTR on the branded search campaign

366K+

Reach on Meta feeding retargeting pools

02 The Problem

A trusted brand with a fragmented growth engine.

The Stone Man project

Paid, SEO, email, and CRM were operating without meaningful connection. The brand was trusted, but the growth engine was fragmented.

Since 2001, The Stone Man has built premium hardscape and outdoor living environments across Charlotte and the Carolinas. Licensed general contractor leadership, stonemason-level craft, turn-key delivery.

The client base knew them and trusted them. The problem was the growth engine didn't match the brand. Paid media, SEO, email, and the CRM operated without meaningful connection to each other. A tracking gap in BuilderTrend made it difficult to see which channels were producing qualified opportunities. Leads came in, but routing, follow-up, and audience segmentation weren’t unified.

For a firm selling $25K+ projects to homeowners who research carefully and decide slowly, that fragmentation was costly. Speed-to-follow-up matters. Channel attribution matters. Knowing whether a prospect is a $50K Curator or a $150K one matters even more.

The work was exceptional.
The growth engine wasn’t.

03 The Build

They didn’t need more activity.
They needed the right homeowners moving through one system.

Premium homeowners don’t decide quickly. They research for months, compare carefully, and choose the company they trust. Halstead built the system around that reality: visibility early in the search process, paid and social touchpoints through the comparison stage, HubSpot segmentation by project size, automated follow-up, and one clear pipeline view.

01 Visibility

Showing up early when homeowners research hardscape and outdoor living across Charlotte and the Carolinas.

02 Paid Media

Staying visible while premium homeowners compare options and move through a longer decision cycle.

03 HubSpot

Routing every inquiry into the right segment based on project size, with one connected pipeline view.

04 Follow-Up

Automated email and sales follow-up before anyone had to remember to send it.

The Stone Man project
“..sales have been ahead of plan, and we're up 30% compared to last year.”
Alan

Owner, The Stone Man

Every Channel · Connected · Segmented One HubSpot Revenue System
SOURCE CAPTURE HUBSPOT FOLLOW-UP Google Ads PAID SEARCH Meta Ads RETARGETING Organic SEO HIGH INTENT Local Search GBP · MAPS AI Search AI VISIBILITY CallRail Forms INQUIRY CAPTURE THE CONNECTIVE LAYER HubSpot Revenue System SOURCE · SEGMENT · PROJECT SIZE FOLLOW-UP · PIPELINE VISIBILITY ATTRIBUTION · QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY Curator Segment PROJECT SIZE Automated Email FOLLOW-UP Sales Team RIGHT MESSAGE DISCOVERY → CAPTURE → SEGMENTATION → FOLLOW-UP → PIPELINE VISIBILITY BUILT FOR FIT · NOT VOLUME
SOURCE Google Ads PAID SEARCH Meta Ads RETARGETING Organic SEO HIGH INTENT Local Search GBP · MAPS AI Search AI VISIBILITY CAPTURE CallRail Forms INQUIRY CAPTURE HUBSPOT THE CONNECTIVE LAYER HubSpot Revenue System SOURCE · SEGMENT · PROJECT SIZE FOLLOW-UP · PIPELINE VISIBILITY ATTRIBUTION · QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY FOLLOW-UP Curator PROJECT SIZE Email AUTOMATED Sales Team RIGHT MESSAGE

It’s no longer about whether the system is working. The Stone Man can now see which homeowners are in the Curator segment, how fast follow-up is moving, and where the next creative rotation should go.

A homeowner finds The Stone Man through organic search, gets warmed through Meta retargeting, enters the right email segment based on project size, and receives automated follow-up before anyone has to remember to send it.

The StoneMan HubSpot dashboard
04 What Changed

For the first time, they could see exactly which projects were worth pursuing.

The Shift

Nothing falls through. The business can see its pipeline, trust what it sees, and make decisions from clarity instead of guesswork.

04 What Changed

For the first time, they could see exactly which projects were worth pursuing.

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It’s no longer about whether the system is working. The Stone Man can now see which homeowners are in the Curator segment, how fast follow-up is moving, and where the next creative rotation should go.

A homeowner finds The Stone Man through organic search, gets warmed through Meta retargeting, enters the right email segment based on project size, and receives automated follow-up before anyone has to remember to send it.

The Shift

Nothing falls through. The business can see its pipeline, trust what it sees, and make decisions from clarity instead of guesswork.

START WITH CLARITY

If you can’t see which channels
are producing your best projects,
you’re guessing.

See what a connected demand system could look like for your business.