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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Building an 8-figure Business Through the Franchise Model

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Mike Andes is the Founder and CEO of Augusta Lawn Care, an eight-figure international lawn maintenance franchise. He also shares his knowledge in the field of marketing, brand awareness, sales, operations, and growth strategy planning through his Youtube channel and his podcast, The Mike Andes podcast. He is also an author who has already written three books, with his latest release titled P4P (Pay for Performance): Why Hourly is a Failing Formula.

In this episode, we talked about sales, leadership, scalability, franchising, and growth strategy planning…

Transcript

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0:00.0

just being very clear and honest, and I've done better now about like, look, you're buying a system

0:04.5

here that makes money and it just so happens that I'm at the top of this and trying to lead

0:07.7

the organization, but it has nothing to do with me. The systems work independently of Mike Andy's.

0:12.4

They work independently of any person, and a true system works independent of a personality.

0:17.8

And most businesses are personality dependent instead of systems oriented. And every

0:22.6

single time when something happens in the business and you have to step in, your strong personality

0:27.6

will probably carry the business for so long, but eventually that will fail. And that's why systems

0:31.7

have to be put in place and supported as the company grows. Welcome to the home service expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class

0:41.3

entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership

0:46.6

to find out what's really behind their success in business.

0:50.9

Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

0:57.7

All right, welcome back to the Home Service expert. I'm your host, Tommy Mello. Today, I have

1:03.5

Mike Andy's from Bellingham, Washington. He's an expert in sales marketing, brand awareness,

1:10.1

operations, and growth strategy planning.

1:13.6

He's done quite a lot of things.

1:15.2

He's the Augusta Lawn Care founder, CEO, franchise developer for 2014 to present.

1:22.5

A lot of companies here, Mike Andy's Enterprise LLC.

1:27.1

He's an entrepreneur and an author, Anytime Fitness,

1:30.9

Katosis, Food, LLC, and Andy's lawn care. So he's the founder of the international law

1:36.0

maintenance franchise, Augusta Law Care, like I said. He's also co-owned a large lawn care business

1:42.1

with his brother at the age of 12 and with the college at the age of 13.

1:47.0

You're going to have to talk about that.

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