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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Q&A With Tommy - Taking Market Share: How to Manage Finances and Scale Without Debt

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 58 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 customer service, finance and credit, talent retention, scaling strategies...

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0:00.5

We've got to earn the customer's business.

0:03.3

We need to make sure conversion rate is 100%.

0:05.9

We need to do whatever it's going to take.

0:08.0

You might not make a lot of money on this.

0:10.1

Most of my guys are on performance pay.

0:12.4

We need to do what's right by the customer or you're not going to have a job here.

0:16.1

You know, it's very hard to talk about a culture when you're in the position you're in.

0:23.4

You are squeezing everybody.

0:25.0

You have to.

0:25.9

You're using credit cards to pay your bills.

0:27.6

You cannot afford one-star reviews.

0:29.6

You cannot afford to get that call not booked.

0:32.2

You cannot afford that technician to not feel like going to that job that day.

0:36.1

So making sure everything is optimized and get into marketing, go meet the people, build

0:41.1

relationships.

0:41.9

I go back to B&I meetings and door hangers and email blasts and meeting the people because

0:48.3

that's the only way to grow in this type of economy.

0:52.3

I mean, literally, I'm willing to lose money to grow.

0:55.5

I'm willing to lose money in certain markets to take market share when everybody's drowning.

1:00.2

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

1:05.8

and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind

1:12.9

their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

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