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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Q&A with Tommy - Dominating the Home Service Market through Continuous Growth

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and Elevate, and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $200 million-plus home service business with over 700 employees in 19 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses.

In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy answers your biggest questions about investment opportunities, leveraging manuals, loan management, growth strategies…

Transcript

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0:00.0

My biggest skill in life is asking for help reading and educating and being a student and being the dumbest guy in the room.

0:07.4

And that's the secret is continued education.

0:11.0

Like elevating yourself, you might work a 60 hour work week.

0:13.8

How much are you putting in the time to grow?

0:15.7

Your personal development.

0:17.3

If you're not putting in several hours, hopefully a day, but a week, at least, then you're

0:22.7

really missing out.

0:24.2

How did you learn the garage door trade?

0:26.9

The heart of Knox, the tough life, man.

0:30.0

I learned.

0:31.1

I paid the distribution centers to teach me.

0:33.8

I saw a guy out there doing scrap metal that rode a truck.

0:37.4

I paid him 200 bucks a day to train me on things I didn't know how to do. I saw a guy out there doing scrap metal that wrote a truck. I paid him $200 a day to train me

0:39.4

on things I didn't know how to do. I hired guys to learn from them. I mean, you're never going to

0:44.7

learn a whole industry by a couple weeks to ride-alongs. I mean, look, if you don't have a mentor,

0:49.8

a strategy, a group to belong to, that talks about branding, marketing, hiring, inventory,

0:57.8

CRMs, and I could dive so much deeper into it.

1:01.6

Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs

1:07.1

and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find

1:12.7

out what's really behind their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire,

1:19.7

Tommy Mello. Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to implement what you learned today.

1:29.9

To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview.

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