The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello: $200 Million Founder|Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur Columnist
The Home Service Expert podcast is the No. 1 podcast for ambitious home service entrepreneurs, whether they are in plumbing, HVAC or another niche. In this show, Tommy Mello, a $200M business founder, will talk with the best entrepreneurs and experts in the home service industry and beyond, to share insights that have made them successful: from the newest marketing tools to the best scaling strategies. Previous podcast guests include Terry Nicholson (former national trainer of NYSE-listed home services company), Craig Smith (President of HomeAdvisor, a home services marketplace valued at $2B+), Cameron Herold (former COO of three $100M+ companies), etc.
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Feb 14, 2020 • 1h 34min
Ken Goodrich - From Losing $250,000 A Month To Making $100M A Year
Ken Goodrich is the President and CEO of Goettl Air Conditioning, and a renowned expert in the field of negotiations, mergers, and operations development. With over three decades of experience in HVAC, plumbing, and contracting business acquisitions and development, Ken’s specialty is in building up businesses by forming growth-oriented teams with excellent leaders and the right priorities. Throughout his career, he has established and sold eight successful companies. He is also a bestselling author, and a member of various local and national trade organizations. In this episode, we talked about Customer Database, Marketing, Pricing...
Feb 7, 2020 • 1h 4min
Using The 64/4 Rule To Explode Your Marketing Results
Allan Dib is the bestselling author of “The 1-Page Marketing Plan.” Throughout the course of his professional career, he has established, run, and successfully ended numerous businesses, including one that made it to Business Review Weekly’s coveted Fast 100 list. He reaches out and works with people across the globe as a business coach and consultant, applying years of experience in his mission to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses with technology and strategic action. In this episode, we talked about marketing, performance tracking, automation...
Jan 30, 2020 • 1h 47min
How To Stop Losing Money Using The Boring Success Formula
Shawn van Dyke is a business coach, mentor, and expert in the construction and contracting industries. Drawing from two decades’ worth of professional experience, Shawn authored Profit First for Contractors, which details clear, actionable steps on how contractors can apply the Profit First formula to achieve sustainable profitability. Shawn also travels across the United States for speaking engagements, and to help construction business owners in developing streamlined processes and tailoring their operations for success. In this episode, we talked about construction, contracting, coaching and mentoring, growth and leadership...
Jan 24, 2020 • 1h 9min
How To Conquer Your Biggest Obstacle To Growth
Kenyon Curtis is an expert at team-building, small business, and leadership development. Kenyon has had a decade’s worth of professional experience as a trainer, accountability partner, and personal growth advisor to entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on helping them develop the right mindset for success. In this episode, we talked about team-building, small business, leadership development...
Jan 17, 2020 • 1h 3min
How Accountability and Zero-Based Budgeting Saves a Ton of Money for Business
Sean McGraw is the CEO and founder of FOR Energy, a residential energy conservation, production, and automation company based in Arizona. For two years in a row, he’s been on the INC 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. A home service expert on everything from air conditioning to replacement windows, Sean does energy audits, and helps customers save on costs by making energy-smart choices. In this episode, we talked about manuals, direct marketing, networking...
Jan 10, 2020 • 1h 4min
How A Proven Sales Process and A Focus On Value Can Double Your Profit in Less Than 60 Days
Shahn Ellis got his professional start at age 27, putting up a thousand-dollar business and successfully growing it into a seven-figure subcontracting business. After enjoying this success, he sold his business and became a full-time consultant. With extensive experience at construction, entrepreneurship, and subcontracting, he guides businesses in the same industry toward maximizing their growth and achieving their goals, as both a consultant at Subcontractor Revolution and the host of the Blue Collar Businessman podcast. In this episode, we talked about contractor subcontracting, entrepreneurship, construction management...
Jan 3, 2020 • 1h 18min
How To Win At Entrepreneurship By Making Everyone Else Win
Eric Barstow is the founder of Painting Business Pro, and is a certified painting and contracting expert. Even before his business took off, he had already been sharing his knowledge, training and mentoring college students to prepare them for a successful career in the future. With nearly a decade of experience in entrepreneurship, he is now a leading figure in the paint industry. In this episode, we talked about painting, contracting, entrepreneurship...
Dec 27, 2019 • 1h 4min
Using The 80/20 Rule to Identify The Best Clients To Invest In
Janice Porter has had a long and illustrious career as a teacher and corporate trainer. She found her niche in the world of training, using her expertise in relationship marketing and networking to instruct entrepreneurs and corporate professionals in the ways of building and nurturing business relationships. This LinkedIn master shares her insights on social media marketing, entrepreneurship, and making meaningful connections on her podcast, Relationships Rule. In this episode, we talked about relationship marketing training, networking, entrepreneurship consulting...
Dec 20, 2019 • 1h 27min
Special Episode: Meet the A-team Behind A1 Garage Door Service’s Success
To celebrate our 100th episode, we’re getting up close and personal with individuals from different departments of A1 Garage Door Service who play key roles in ensuring the company’s growth, profitability, and success. In this special episode, we talked about sales, marketing, relationship building, recruitment...
Dec 13, 2019 • 1h 2min
How To Grow Your Sales With The Five Steps of Sales Differentiation
Lee Salz is the founder of Sales Architects and The Revenue Accelerator, as well as the author of five bestselling books, including “Sales Differentiation” and “Hire Right, Higher Profits.” With his remarkable expertise in sales and entrepreneurship, Lee has assisted hundreds of companies in building world-class sales forces, developing effective strategies and processes for maximizing profit, and transforming their sales perspectives from people-based to process-based. In this episode, we talked about sales management, entrepreneurship, social media...
