Building A Multi-Million Dollar Business From The Ground Up

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Jason is the Founder, President, and CEO of Phillips' Painting, Roofing and Gutters, a multi-million dollar business. He was featured in CNBC’s Blue Collar Millionaires in 2017, which cast light on how he built his business 19 years ago with with a bucket of paint, $2 to his name, and unparalleled determination. In this episode, we talked about customer service, hiring, management...

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0:00.0	This is the Home Service Expert podcast with Tommy Mello.
0:03.5	Let's talk about bringing in some more money for your home service business.
0:07.2	Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, to find out what's really behind their success in business.
0:21.6	Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.
0:30.6	Hey, Tommy Mello, back with you.
0:32.9	Hello to all those listeners out there.
0:34.8	I'm here today with Jason Phillips.
0:37.0	Obviously, I've already
0:37.8	gave you a great introduction into who he is. Jason, thank you so much for being on the show today.
0:43.5	How's your day going? It's wonderful. Thank you. Yeah, it is. It's beautiful. It's a Tuesday.
0:50.3	We're almost halfway through the week, although I do love Mondays. I love Fridays more.
0:55.5	But tell me a little bit about what you've been doing. I mean, you just had your 20th year
0:59.8	anniversary. You won the Inc. 5,000 several years in a row. You built a wonderful team that you give
1:06.6	a lot of credit to. Tell me how you got in this business, because you're doing a lot of things.
1:10.7	I want to dive into that. Tell us what you do, where you started from, and where you're
1:14.9	headed. Great. Well, I was in the home improvement business, specifically in painting for several
1:21.3	years. And I just, I noticed some injustices in the market towards customers and towards employees like me
1:29.5	and even towards what I call the people who do the real work climbing on the ladders.
1:34.3	And just after the company I was working for was being bought out and the new owner wasn't running
1:41.5	well, he wasn't paying me.
1:42.7	I was six weeks behind on my pay.
1:44.6	My wife and I were getting groceries out of my parents and her parents' pantries.
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