Case Study

Rupertan LLC: 37% Revenue Growth and Net Margin from 8% to 17%

Rupertan had been underpricing nearly every job for twenty years with almost no digital presence. A combined brand, pricing, website, and local search rebuild changed the economics of the business, not just the lead volume.
5.0 verified client review
on Clutch
Verified results
37%
Revenue growth, year over year

Client-reported, engagement began June 2025

8% → 17%
Net margin

Client-reported, following service-line pricing restructure.

~3x
Total profit

Client-reported as “nearly tripled”

Verified results
5.0

This engagement is documented in a verified client review on Clutch. Jesus Gonzalez, Owner and President, Rupertan LLC rated Strativera 5.0 for quality, schedule, cost, and willingness to refer.

The challenge

What challenge did Rupertan face?

Rupertan was underpricing almost every job and had, in the client’s own words, basically no digital presence. The company has operated in Polk County, Florida since 2005 across hardscaping, landscape design, irrigation, sod, lighting, and lawn care, and the owner’s stated goals for the engagement were to generate more leads, improve the website, and work with margin and cost efficiency. According to the verified Clutch review, the starting position was two decades of solid work priced below what it was worth, which meant more leads alone would have scaled a margin problem rather than fixed one.

The approach

How did Strativera approach it?

Strativera treated Rupertan as a whole business rather than an ad account, with one senior team working the economics before spending on demand. That principal-led sequencing is what the client singled out as the differentiator, and it ran through five workstreams:

1

Pricing and margin analysis across paver installation, sod installation, irrigation repair, and landscape design, identifying underpriced jobs and restructuring service-line pricing for profitability.

2

Full brand and logo redesign positioning Rupertan as a premium landscaping and outdoor living company in Central Florida.

3

Website redesign and migration built on local SEO best practices, with dedicated service pages for pavers and patios, low-voltage landscape lighting, landscape curbing, irrigation and water management, sod installation, and lawn care, targeting Winter Haven, Lakeland, Auburndale, and surrounding Polk County markets.

4

Google Ads PPC on high-intent landscaping and hardscaping searches across Polk County to generate net new estimate requests.

5

Local SEO and Google Business Profile optimization to improve map pack rankings for landscaping, sod, irrigation, and paver searches.

The order mattered. Fixing what Rupertan charged came first, so that every lead the brand, site, ads, and map work produced afterward landed on restructured economics.

The results

What results did Rupertan achieve?

Rupertan grew revenue 37% year over year, lifted net margin from 8% to 17%, and nearly tripled total profit, all client-reported in the verified Clutch review. The margin move is the story: it came from the service-line pricing restructure, not from volume alone, which is why the profit change outran the revenue change. The company also went from almost no digital presence to ranking in Winter Haven and across Polk County. The client did not disclose absolute revenue, so the 37% is published here without a dollar denominator, deliberately, rather than estimating one.

MetricBeforeAfterSource
RevenueBaseline year+37% year over yearVerified Clutch review
Net margin8%17%Verified Clutch review
Total profitBaselineNearly tripledVerified Clutch review
Digital presence“Basically no digital presence”Ranking in Winter Haven and across Polk CountyVerified Clutch review
In their words

What did Rupertan say about working with Strativera?

5.0
“What stood out most was that they treated our business like it was their own.”

Jesus Gonzalez, Owner and President, Rupertan LLC, from the verified Clutch review

“We had no idea how much we were leaving on the table until they showed us.” is how the same review puts it elsewhere.

The straight answer

What would have made this engagement better?

Rupertan’s honest answer, paraphrased from the review’s improvement question: any new working relationship takes time to find its rhythm, and once priorities were aligned the work was smooth. Strativera now front-loads that alignment, with priorities set explicitly in week one of every engagement so the finding-the-rhythm phase is measured in days instead of weeks.

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