The Highest ROI Marketing Tool for Home Service Businesses (Tim Hilcove)
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Email tim@smartwrap.com to get your first wrap FREE!
Tim Hilcove is the founder of SmartWrap, a Phoenix-based vehicle wrap and branding company he launched in 2009 alongside his father. Over the past 15+ years, Tim has helped businesses across the country transform their vehicles into high-performing marketing assets: combining design, messaging, and strategy to generate real, measurable growth. With a background in design, production, and marketing, Tim has built SmartWrap into a full-service operation, producing and installing thousands of wraps annually through an in-house model that prioritizes speed, quality, and consistency. His work focuses on helping small and mid-sized businesses stand out in crowded markets by turning everyday vehicles into mobile billboards that drive visibility, brand recognition, and inbound leads. Whether you're in home services, local business, or scaling a growing company, this conversation offers a practical look at how to maximize your marketing dollars and turn your brand into a lead-generating machine.
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| 0:00.0 | How much time do you have to be reading wraps while you're trying not to drive into the person in front of you? |
| 0:04.9 | They're not going to be reading your five-star review. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the home service expert, built for blue-collar entrepreneurs who are ready for more. |
| 0:14.1 | When your customer says yes, stop talking. |
| 0:17.7 | You find that the pursuit of a goal, at least for me, is a source of my happiness. |
| 0:23.4 | You're never going to be a successful doing what everyone else does. |
| 0:25.5 | New episodes every Monday. |
| 0:30.0 | Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. |
| 0:33.5 | First, I want you to implement what you learned today. |
| 0:36.3 | To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. |
| 0:42.1 | So I ask the team to take notes for you. |
| 0:44.0 | Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299. |
| 0:51.0 | That's 888-526-1299, and you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. |
| 0:58.7 | Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. |
| 1:03.6 | I'll share with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million |
| 1:07.6 | company in 22 states. |
| 1:09.6 | Just go to elevate and win.com for slash podcast to get |
| 1:13.2 | your copy. Now let's go back into the interview. Welcome back to the home service sector. Today I got |
| 1:17.5 | Tim Hillcove here. He takes care of my vehicle wraps and he does a fantastic job. He gets it done |
| 1:24.0 | with quality. He wrapped my personal truck. If you're watching this, I got a little |
| 1:28.6 | souvenir. But he keeps up. We've got 42 guys training. They all need new trucks. We've got 60 coming |
| 1:35.6 | in next month, hopefully 90 the next month. And not a lot of people know this, but I used to |
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