We run a local business on the same platform we sell you
Open Mind Marketing wasn’t dreamed up in a startup office. It was built in the back of a flooring and remodeling company in Yucaipa, California — by an owner who got tired of paying an agency thousands a month for work he couldn’t see.
Hi, I’m Greg Pilon
Founder, Open Mind Marketing · Owner, Construction Station Flooring and Design
For 18 years my family and I have run Construction Station Flooring and Design out of Yucaipa, California. Kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, whole-home remodels — across Redlands, Rancho Cucamonga, and the rest of the Inland Empire. It is a real business with real crews, real payroll, and real months where the phone doesn’t ring enough.
Like most local owners, I hired a marketing agency. I paid thousands of dollars a month for years, and I could not tell you whether a single one of those dollars produced a job. The reports were full of impressions and “reach.” The Google profile sat untouched for months. Leads came in at 9 p.m. and got a callback two days later, if at all. When I asked which ad generated last week’s kitchen, nobody had an answer.
So I stopped asking and started building. First it was just tools for us — something to post to Google every week, something to text a lead back before they called the next contractor on the list, something that showed me which campaign paid for itself. It worked. Construction Station started ranking, answering leads in under a minute, and knowing exactly what was working.
Open Mind Marketing is that system, opened up to every other local business in the same spot. This is not a theoretical SaaS product designed by people who have never had to make payroll. It is the platform I use every single day to run my own company, and I am still its most demanding customer.
Greg Pilon
Founder · Yucaipa, CA
Client #1 — and still is
Construction Station runs on Open Mind Marketing — the same Google posts, blogs, review automation, ad management, and lead follow-up your business would get.
18
Years in business
Family
Owned & run
Inland
Empire, CA
Why this isn’t another marketing platform
Most marketing software is built by people who have never had a customer walk out because nobody returned their call. Ours wasn’t.
Built from the job site, not a whiteboard
Every feature started as a problem Construction Station actually had — leads going cold overnight, a Google profile nobody was updating, no idea which ad produced which job. We build the fix, run it on our own company first, and only then ship it to clients.
If it can't be measured, it isn't marketing
The agency years taught us that "brand awareness" is what an invoice says when nobody can point to a lead. Everything in the platform ties back to something you can see: calls, form fills, booked appointments, rankings, revenue.
No retainers for work nobody did
Flat monthly pricing, no long-term contracts, no percentage of your ad spend, and no line items you can't explain to your bookkeeper. You always know exactly what you're paying for and exactly what got done.
Our Mission
To replace the overpriced, underdelivering marketing agency with an AI-powered platform that actually does the work — so any local business can compete online without a five-figure budget or a full-time marketing hire.
An agency charges a local contractor $3,000–$5,000 a month and assigns a junior account manager who has never worked a trade. The Google profile goes stale. The blog stops. The leads sit. We think that model is finished. AI can do the repetitive work — posting, writing, optimizing, following up — faster and more consistently than any retainer team, at a price a real local business can actually carry. What’s left for humans is the part that always mattered: strategy, judgment, and picking up the phone.
Want to see where your business actually stands?
Start with a free local presence scan — the same one I ran on my own company before any of this existed.
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