Owned and Operated - A Plumbing, Electrical, and HVAC Business Growth Podcast

The SMBesties are back as John and Reg Zellers hop on to cover a few topics on today’s show. They’ll jump into economics and how low demand even in the home services industry has forced some strategy changes. Business to Business is still doing well, but John talks about the struggles of Business to Consumer during Q1. Reg talks about how his businesses are starting to get busier. He touches on his struggles to find people with labor shortages. The guys also discuss the shipping and freight issues and how they try to deal with it. Episode Hosts:John Wilson: @WilsonCompaniesJack Carr: @thehvacjackSpecial thanks to our sponsor: Service Scalers: Looking to scale your home service business? Service Scalers is a digital marketing agency that drives success in PPC and LSA. Discover more growth strategies by visiting Service Scalers.Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

It’s SMBesties time again! John, Kelsey Lehrich, and Reg Zellers are joined this time around by Joshua Schultz as they will cover a few topics along the way. They will mention their Q1 struggles and successes, how they occasionally have to wear multiple hats and what can happen when this occurs. The guys touch briefly on mental health with the ups and downs of Small Business. The big topic is the difference between Corporate vs pure bred entrepreneurship in Small Business. They dive into the mindset between the two. The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a part of Corporate America as opposed to the SMB world. Jobber: Jobber is a mobile and online app that helps keep your business organized, efficient, and professional. Get paid on time, go paperless, and impress your clients. Try it free today at: https://getjobber.com/im/oao/Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

Emily Holdman is the Managing Director at Permanent Equity out of Columbia, MO, where she’s worked with her current business partner for 14 years. Her background is in marketing, as she also went to school for journalism. Hear about her super impressive career as she is going to be a keynote speaker at the HoldCo conference, which is being held in Cleveland, July 24-26. Head over to holdcoconf.com for more details. That’s hold c-o c-o-n-f .com. In her current position, Emily focuses on marketing and the individual opportunities that come their way, where she moves it towards diligence and takes everything through LOI. Emily talks about her experiences along the way and how they grew up in the market taking punches so young and how that has helped them get to the place they are now. She says, "We love running boring businesses, but running a business is anything but boring." Listen in as she expresses how she loves the intellectual challenges of running businesses and how they handle acquisitions. Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

Joining John on today’s podcast is Greg Moran. Greg currently runs his own podcast called "The Founder’s Journey." He started in the music industry and realized it wasn’t for him. Then, 13 years ago, he started a company called Check.com. Today he has moved to again work with Early Stage Founders and started a Venture Fund called Evergreen Mountain Equity Partners that focuses on the future of work. Here he works with founders to start companies that are really going to define the next generation of work. Tune-in as Greg and John discuss his vision for the future of this very new venture fund he just started in January of 2022. He’s got a ways to go to get there, but he has the excitement and steps in place to get to where he wants to be.Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

On the podcast today, John welcomes Hayden Slack to the show. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, he has worked in the Department of Defense and, in 2014, started working for his father-in-law’s foundation repair company, GL Hunt, which he still runs to this day. Then, about four and a half years ago, he started a plumbing business that started slow, but has steadily grown over the past few years. Hayden will talk about how even the roughest starts to owning a business can turn into a profitable venture, as was the case with his plumbing company, Service Squad Plumbing. He mentions how important a social media presence is for home service businesses. Hayden says it can make you look like a marketing genius by just implementing it. Like most business owners, Hayden has future visions and challenges, and he will share those with John today. Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

On today’s podcast, John welcomes in, Jon Matzner. Jon is the CEO of Garage Excell. They are garage remodeling and organization specialists based out of Southern California. Mr. Matzner, originally from the East Coast, came from the National Security world, where he spent time in Africa and the Middle East for the better part of a decade. He went from working for Uncle Sam to marketing to owning businesses, and now into the SMB world. They’ll dive into how each lesson Jon learned along the way helped and led him to where he is today. You’ll hear his passion and excitement for buying and building businesses as it radiates through his voice while he talks a little bit about the Geographic Growth Model, or as he likes to call it, the Anti-Franchise. Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

Josh Schultz will be joining John for today’s podcast. Josh has a background in fields such as supply chain and finance but has ventured into the world of foundries. In fall of 2021 he connected with Reg Zeller and now works as president of Canekast. Canekast is a company acquiring US based non-ferrous foundries and is revolutionizing the foundry industry overall. He’ll discuss their partnership dynamics and explain how he executes on Reg’s visions as well as the operational aspects and details of the business. You’ll also learn about the importance of problem solving, long term thinking, and autonomy throughout the company. We hope you enjoy the show. Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

Today joining John on the pod will be Lucas Loptain. Lucas has created several companies and currently has a startup studio dedicated to creating anti-unicorns, mainly targeting SAAS companies, which are all tech-enabled.They'll be diving into what his company investments look like, the scale and pace at which they go through this process, and how they help companies understand how far they can go.He’ll also break down the format of deciding which founders to work with from their hundreds of monthly applicants. These anti-unicorns are en route to success and you’ll learn how Lucas put them on this path.Enjoy!Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

Benton Moss is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and formerly played professional baseball for 5 years. He married into a family actively involved in real estate and the interest must’ve stuck as he’s now president of a full-service real estate companyHe currently runs two different businesses, one in property management and the other in HVAC and Plumbing. Both work commercially and residentially. Today, he’ll discuss multiple topics with John, such as how the development process works, how you scale in the industry, how you develop an existing asset versus a blank slate, and SO much more. Enjoy!Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.

Chris Edwards is a small business owner born and residing in Colorado. After college, he jumped into a finance position but eventually decided to switch out of corporate America and into the SMB world. So in February of 2021, he closed on a flooring store called Affordable Flooring Warehouse. They have a storefront location as well as a warehouse operation to provide installation services to customers. You’ll get to learn how this has created a competitive advantage and differentiated their business.You’ll also get to hear about why it seems more consulting guys are purchasing small companies, as well as the trajectory and direction he envisions his company going in. Enjoy the show!Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.Contact us:Youtube: @OwnedandOperatedPodcastX: @ownedoperatedcowww.ownedandoperated.cominfo@ownedandoperated.comSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&O John's YouTube Channel Weekly Newsletter Leave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer:Some links may include UTM parameters for tracking. Episodes may feature paid sponsors, but all opinions are our own. Always do your own research before making business decisions.