Case Study

Presales sold through. Phase 2 launched.

A Colorado builder. A wellness community in Fruita, surrounded by parks and trails. A system designed to turn traffic into signed agreements — community after community.

Phase 1

Presales Complete

13 Floor Plans

3 Design Themes

Bi-weekly

Optimization Cadence

Phase 2

Now Launched

The Customer

Copper Creek Builders.

Fruita, Colorado.

A western-Colorado home builder developing Korima — a wellness community of single-family detached homes in Fruita, surrounded by parks, trails, and a community garden.

Korima is the Tarahumara word for generosity. Copper Creek donates $2,500 from every home sold to non-profits supporting children in Mexico’s Copper Canyon and around the world.

The launch ahead.

Copper Creek's vision for Korima was specific: a wellness community of single-family detached homes set among trails, parks, and a community garden, marketed to buyers drawn to Fruita's outdoor-adventure lifestyle. The buyer journey had to be clear, high-trust, and easy to navigate — and the marketing infrastructure had to support both presales and ongoing inventory sales as construction progressed.

What we built together.

The Korima system launched with 13 floor plans across 3 design themes — European Farmhouse, Scandinavian Villa, and Colorado Cottage. Featured virtual model homes were produced for the lead plans, each with an interactive kitchen visualizer, and a buyer journey wired into HubSpot. The website, mobile experience, and sales-center touchscreens all updated from the same source: change a finish on the kitchen visualizer once, and it propagates everywhere automatically.

Then the work began.

Every two weeks, the team reviewed what the data was actually showing. Which pages were buyers spending time on? Which floor plans were they returning to? Which ad campaigns were producing registrations that became appointments — and which were producing clicks that went nowhere?

Customer-Driven Marketing

Copper Creek runs the marketing. The system runs underneath.

The system is built so customers can publish, edit, measure, and pivot independently. Copper Creek does — every week.

Content They Publish Themselves

A library of resident voices.

Copper Creek has built an entire library of resident video testimonials — homebuyers speaking about life in their communities — published directly through HomeGyde's content editor. New sections, new pages, and the blog itself are all created by the customer's team without involving us.

Most builder marketing platforms either ship a rigid template or require a vendor ticket for every change. HomeGyde does neither.

Full HubSpot Integration

Every action ties to a customer record.

Korima runs on HubSpot. Every page view, virtual tour, kitchen visualizer interaction, and form submission ties to a real CRM record — and the analytics flow back in so the team sees what's working, end-to-end.

That's how the bi-weekly meetings can identify which content drove which signed agreements — and act on it.

One System, Every Device

Desktop, mobile, tablet, sales-center touchscreen.

The same system serves Korima's website at home, on a phone, on a tablet, and on the touchscreen in the sales center. HomeGyde detects the device and renders the right experience automatically — no separate apps, no duplicate content, no double maintenance.

Change a kitchen finish once, and it propagates to every screen the buyer might encounter.

Their Brand, Their Domain

livefruita.com is theirs, not ours.

Korima lives on Copper Creek's own domain, not on a HomeGyde subdomain. The customer keeps full ownership of their brand and SEO — the platform just runs underneath.

Switching DNS, not switching identity. The relationship is the value — not the lock-in.

Featured Virtual Model Homes

Thirteen floor plans. Three design themes.

Each plan is available in European Farmhouse, Scandinavian Villa, or Colorado Cottage. Featured virtual model homes give buyers an immersive preview of how each home feels — before construction begins.

Korima · Aspen — Colorado Cottage virtual model home

Featured Plan

Aspen.

Colorado Cottage

Fully staged virtual model home with interactive kitchen visualizer.

Korima · Aster — European Farmhouse virtual model home

Featured Plan

Aster.

European Farmhouse

Fully staged virtual model home with interactive kitchen visualizer.

Korima · Columbine — Scandinavian Villa virtual model home

Featured Plan

Columbine.

Scandinavian Villa

Fully staged virtual model home with interactive kitchen visualizer.

Korima · Larkspur — European Farmhouse virtual model home

Featured Plan

Larkspur.

European Farmhouse

Fully staged virtual model home with interactive kitchen visualizer.

Each tour is explorable across desktop, mobile, and the touchscreen at the sales center — the system renders the right experience for the device it's on, automatically.

Abby Silzell
Abby Silzell
Sales & Operations Coordinator
Copper Creek Builders
In Their Words
"Their website design and digital marketing tools have provided our clients with such an immersive experience that we have had customers say that they already feel like they know our neighborhood as well as our homes."

Abby joined Copper Creek in 2025 and started using the HomeGyde system without prior context. From the start, the team was — in her words — "exceptionally welcoming and incredibly helpful, being patient as well as available for any and all of my questions or needs."

The work has produced real lift on the metric that matters most: "We have seen a rise in leads coming from organic searches as a result" of the content tools and tracking.

"I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a partner for their project — because working with David and his team isn't just hiring someone for a project. They partner with you to reach your goals."

An Industry Observer's Take

A third-party view of the data.

Mark Partin is a long-time real estate strategist who has reviewed the Korima at Copper Creek analytics independently as part of broader industry consulting work. His comments reflect his outside perspective on the project's performance — he is not engaged by the customer and observed the data with their authorization.

"On a recent project, we saw an appointment show rate of 100 percent and capture rates more than 3 times the industry average."

"If you want to stop waiting for the market to change and start beating your competitors, then HomeGyde can help you be more scientific about your sales funnel from lead gen to the final sale."

Mark Partin
Mark Partin
CEO, Mark Partin & Co. · Third-Party Observer
Inside the Engagement

What the bi-weekly meetings actually do.

The optimization meetings aren't a status check. They're where the system gets sharper — every two weeks, in collaboration with the customer's team.

Review

What's actually working.

Lead volume by source. Funnel conversion at every step — visits, registrations, appointments, signed agreements. Page-level attribution: which pages and floor plans were visited before each high-intent action. Heatmaps showing where buyers click and where they trip up.

Decide

What to change next.

Hypotheses form. The customer's marketing and sales priorities are reviewed — pre-sell more units, hold and build, sell down inventory. The system gets tuned to whatever the priority is this quarter.

Execute

Changes go live.

Action items get scheduled. Updates push through Slack between meetings. Every change ripples across the website, mobile, and the touchscreen experience automatically — one change, everywhere.

Measure

The next meeting starts with proof.

Two weeks later, the data tells you whether the change worked. Sometimes it did. Sometimes it didn't. Either way, the next decision is informed — and the system tightens.

What This Proves

The system works when you let it work.

Selling out a phase isn't just a marketing result. It's the product of a builder who showed up to the meetings, made the calls when the data was ambiguous, and stayed committed to refining the buyer journey through every iteration.

That's the model. The system compounds. The team stays. And the work doesn't stop after launch.

— What carries forward to Phase 2
  • The CRM is already integrated. The workflows are already running.
  • The team knows the system. No retraining, no re-onboarding.
  • Top-performing pages and ads from Phase 1 can be redeployed.
  • The insight about what drove signed agreements travels forward.

Phase 1 was the investment. Phase 2 — now launched — is the return.

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