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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Secrets to Service Champions’ $500M Success with Leland Smith

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Leland Smith is the Founder of Service Champions Heating & Air Conditioning, an industry leader that continues to provide homeowners in Southern California with services beyond expectations.

In this episode, we talked about recruitment practices, training & development, happy money promises...

Transcript

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We were going to be the most expensive, but we were going to pay our people better than anyone else, and the quality of work had to be there.

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We couldn't cut corners.

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If anything, we would overdo it to do extremely quality work, and customers never complained.

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And they saw the quality, and, you know, there's Bentley's and Mercedes and there's

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honda's out there.

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And too many of the people that are in our market that I see are half our price, but they do

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half the quality.

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They don't do anything that we do.

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And that's the difference.

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We insist that the quality was there, even in the tuneups.

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Our tuneups were at least an hour and a half and pulling blower motors, pulling heat exchangers, all of that. The quality

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was there. And how we taught our people to get the customer involved to see the quality, so they

0:50.0

would buy into that fact that we're not cutting corners, we're not just collecting money.

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

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

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really behind their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service

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Millionaire, Tommy Mello. Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things

1:20.0

with you. First, I want you to implement what you learned today. To do that, you'll have to take a

1:24.7

lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the

1:28.5

interview. So I ask the team to take notes for you. Just text, note, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299. That's 888-5-2-6-1299, and you'll receive a link to

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download the notes from today's episode.

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Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out.

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