Chris Hunter is the founder of Hunter Super Techs and Go Time Success Group. He is also the Director of Customer Relations with ServiceTitan. Over the last two decades, he has delivered quality service and leadership in his industry, earning him over 3500+ positive online reviews and a plethora of awards and recognition. These include the Tom McCart Consultant of the Year Award, Nationally Recognized Contractor of the Year in 2016 by ACHR, and the Ron Smith Industry Trailblazer Award. In this ep...
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Dahlke is a serial entrepreneur, business coach, investor, and turnaround specialist. After leaving the financial world in 2011, he jumped into entrepreneurship, and now focuses on both home service companies and business turnaround situations that require strategy and capital. A featured speaker across the United States for different organizations, he built Blue Skies Services from $60,000 of revenue to over $3,000,000 in six seasons. Currently, he owns equity in over 15 businesses in 8 di...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast Lenny Gray is the CEO of D2D Millionaire and Rove Pest Control, and the author of Door-to-Door Millionaire: Secrets of Making the Sale. Since 1998, he has been in the pest control & door-to-door industries. From selling door-to-door in college to earn money for tuition, he is now the president of a multi-million-dollar company, training door-to-door sales reps with effective and profitable D2D techniques. In this episode, we talked about door-to-door sales, team building, sales operations, marke...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast John Corcoran is the co-founder of Rise25, LLC. He runs SmartBusinessRevolution.com, and has been publishing the Smart Business Revolution podcast since 2012. A writer for Forbes, Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Art of Manliness, Entrepreneur and many more, he landed a job as a Writer in the Clinton White House, without having any insider connections. In this episode, we talked about entrepreneurship, networking, blogging, small business, business strategy, mediation, civil li...
Sep 15, 2020•52 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast Danny Kerr is the managing partner of Breakthrough Academy, a company that works with over 300 contractors across the continent, managing nearly a billion dollars’ worth of revenue. An expert on recruitment, leadership, and company culture, he continues to push boundaries and create his own success in life, while helping other entrepreneurs do the same. In this episode, we talked about hiring, systems, productivity......
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast Jim Packard is the author of Consistency is The New Currency, and has built several successful businesses, including one with roughly 16,000 representatives and 40,000 customers. A Dale Carnegie Instructor and a certified trainer for both the John Maxwell Leadership Team and the Kaufmann Center for Entrepreneurship, he shepherded various inventions through development, and has also appeared on QVC over 25 times. George Campbell is the author of The Consistency Chain for Network Marketing. From a...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast Rick Cesari specializes in direct response strategies and video marketing. A direct-to-consumer marketing consultant with over two decades of professional experience, he has used these techniques to help build iconic brands such as The Juiceman, Sonicare, The George Foreman Grill, OxiClean, and GoPro, and grow companies from start-ups to over a billion dollars in sales. In this episode, we talked about direct response marketing and television marketing, strategic marketing plans, branding, video...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast Al Levi is the author of The 7-Power Contractor and co-author of The Home Service Millionaire. A former contractor who worked for 25 years in every aspect of his family’s Long Island-based HVAC/plumbing business, Al has been rated as one of the 25 most influential contractors in the United States by Plumbing & Mechanical Magazine. He now helps other contractors learn how to run their businesses with less stress and more success through consultations, workshops, and webinars. In this episode, we ...
Aug 28, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast Stephen King is one of the top thought leaders in the accounting industry. He is the President & CEO of GrowthForce, one of the nation’s largest cloud-based accounting services, and has a life-long commitment to giving back to the community through charitable causes. His eBooks and blog provide insights on management accounting, business strategy, and finance to small businesses and nonprofits, the latter being his largest client sector. When not immersed in helping clients grow, he serves as a ...
Aug 21, 2020•53 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast David Giannetto is the Chief Executive Officer of WorkWave, and the author of 3 books: Big Social Mobile, The Performance Power Grid, and The Decoy Artist. He has spent almost two decades leading and managing international organizations focused on the deployment and usage of enterprise-level technology, across a wide range of service-oriented industries. A frequent writer for national magazines, he also shares his expertise to various audiences as a keynote speaker. In this episode, we talked ab...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Michelle Myers is the founder and CEO of Pink Callers, a team of virtual assistants providing remote customer service for business owners seeking to automate their daily tasks. When she’s not busy ensuring that her company provides great service and inspires great reviews for their clients, Michelle works with other home service support businesses on an initiative called the Safe Distance Service Association, which is a free member association for home service businesses utilizing safe distance ...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast John Akhoian is the founder of Rooter Hero, a plumbing and rooter service company with 14 locations across California and Arizona. Initially widening the reach of his business through old-fashioned marketing techniques, John now utilizes various media platforms to reach a broader audience and increase brand awareness. Before establishing Rooter Hero, he owned and operated a home service franchise for over two decades. He is also the author of three books: Creating 99 Millionaires, The Secret to ...
Aug 11, 2020•53 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Michel is an internationally recognized, highly acclaimed motivational and informational speaker. He is the founder of Service Nation Inc., which operates the Service Roundtable, the world’s largest contractor alliance. Matt was the 35th and youngest person inducted into the Contracting Business Hall of Fame, and was named one of the 22 most influential people in the history of the residential HVAC/R industry by Contracting Business Magazine. In this episode, we talked about strategic plann...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast Mark C. Winters is the co-author of the bestselling book Rocket Fuel. A CEO with more than 25 years of entrepreneurial leadership experience, Mark has worked with everyone from multi-billion dollar global enterprises to raw startups in their earliest stages. This frequent keynote speaker and Certified EOS Implementer has delivered over 500 full-day EOS workshops with companies across the United States. He has received numerous awards and recognition through his career, including being a Tech Tit...
Jul 30, 2020•56 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast Jay Abraham is one of the world’s top marketing strategists and business innovators. Jay is the founder and CEO of The Abraham Group, Inc., and has been a coach and mentor to over 400 experts, including some of the biggest names in various industries. He has spent over three decades solving problems and increasing the bottom lines of more than 10,000 clients from a thousand industries and over 7,200 sub-industries worldwide. In this episode, we talked about marketing strategy, marketing consulti...
Jul 24, 2020•49 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast Curt Kempton helps service companies in fine-tuning their quoting process with his service quoting software, Responsibid. As the founder and CEO of Symphosize LLC, Curt has provided invaluable assistance to businesses in closing higher-quality jobs at better rates. He has been working full-time on his passion—helping entrepreneurs achieve major goals by crafting systems best suited to their business' DNA—ever since he sold his window service company back in 2014. In this episode, we talked about...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast Randy Stanbury is the author of The Small Business Freedom Formula. He is the founder of Service Freight Systems, a business he started at 23 years old in 1995. He has since grown it into a multi-million-dollar company, which he later sold—a true success story of a business that was essentially founded in a bedroom in his parents’ house. Nowadays, he gives business advice to stressed-out entrepreneurs in the Ontario area to help them take back control of their contracting business, achieve massi...
Jul 14, 2020•54 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast Paul Maskill is the host of the Business Owners Freedom Formula Podcast. He is a true-blue entrepreneur with years of experience in owning and running companies. He also successfully sold his last company. Building a $500,000 service business while putting it on auto-pilot and keeping his freedom—a feat that not many entrepreneurs can claim—is among Paul’s career highlights. In this episode, we talked about finance, management, entrepreneurship, small business survivability......
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Yano is the CEO of RYNO Strategic Solutions, a digital marketing company focused on the home services industry, as well as the host of the “To The Point” Podcast. A former race car driver, he has done countless keynotes, breakouts and webinars on best practices in digital marketing for companies in the home services space. In this episode, we talked about entrepreneurship, internet marketing, search engine optimization, account management......
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast Joe Crisara is called America's Service Sales Coach, and is a world-wide sales educator and entrepreneur. He combines 40 years of contracting experience with strong expertise in performing “Pure Motive Service.” He co-developed a sales educational firm and website for HVAC, plumbing and electrical service contractors, www.ContractorSelling.com, that helps thousands of owners, managers, service techs and sales people in the HVAC, plumbing and electrical contracting business create high revenue an...
Jun 26, 2020•56 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast Gino Wickman is the author of Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business and Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable . . . Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results. He is the founder of EOS Worldwide, a leadership team development company based in Livonia, Michigan aimed at the small business and entrepreneurial community. He developed the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a practical method with tools that are used by almost 100,000 companies worldwide. In the past two decades, he ha...
Jun 19, 2020•58 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast Joseph Sheehan is the owner of Colony Pest Management, Inc. and the co-host of the Colony Confidential podcast. In 2003, after working for his father Ed’s company—a part-time position he held since he was five years old—he established Colony. Since then it has grown to $2.5 million in yearly sales by providing essential pest management services all over the New York Tri State area. In this episode, we talked about pest control, customer service, team building, strategic planning, small business,...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast Dustin Kaehr is a leadership and business coach at R/I Solutions, and has over 20 years of experience working with large and small organizations throughout North America, helping them with leadership challenges, operational management, and employee/customer engagement. He is the author of two books, “Retail is…50 Thoughts, Ideas, and Conversations to Make Your Business Better” and “Dear Boys…The Letter Every Son Needs From His Father”. In this episode, we talked about leadership, account managem...
Jun 12, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Buehler is the owner and founder of Buehler Air Conditioning, a Florida-based company. Across two decades of heating and cooling experience within the Jacksonville Beach community, Jason has serviced more than 5,000 customers. He has an extensive knowledge of HVAC, coupled with integrity and professional training. In this episode, we talked about HVAC, customer relationships, energy efficiency, green building......
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast Meridith Elliot Powell is an award-winning author, a public speaker, and a business strategist. She travels approximately 300 days a year for speaking engagements and hosts her own podcast, providing valuable business insights to entrepreneurs based on years of industry expertise and experience. She has been cited as one of the top 15 Business Growth experts to watch by Currency Fair. In this episode, we talked about leadership, business development, sales, marketing, consulting......
Jun 05, 2020•52 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Hong has been an SEO and Digital Marketing Expert for over 15 years, and has worked on over a thousand websites to date. As the head of Infintech Designs, he supports small and large businesses alike in maximizing their online reach, improving their exposure, and increasing their sales. In this episode, we talked about design, marketing, advertising, SEO & digital marketing...
May 29, 2020•56 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast Scott Harkey is the co-founder and managing partner of OH Partners, one of the fastest-growing independent advertising agencies in the United States. Crowned by the American Advertising Federation of Phoenix as its Ad Person of the Year in 2018, Scott is a member of the 4A’s Business Council. He is also on the Arizona Republic’s “35 under 35 Entrepreneurs” and the Phoenix Business Journal's “40 under 40” lists. In this episode, we talked about advertising, marketing strategy, media buying......
May 22, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Hunter is the bestselling author of High Profit Prospecting and A Mind for Sales. Well-versed in the various areas of sales—from prospecting to maximizing price—Mark utilizes over three decades’ worth of sales leadership experience to help salespeople get into the right mindset and sell more effectively. As a true expert in the field, Mark has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing Leaders in the World." In this episode, we talked about sales process stra...
May 15, 2020•51 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Tom Howard is ServiceTitan’s vice president of customer service and the co-founder of Blue Collar Profits. An experienced home service entrepreneur and consultant, Tom owns multiple residential and commercial service companies in California, including a pest control company and an engineering company. In this episode, we talked about business forecasting and planning, marketing strategy, lean management, business management training......
May 08, 2020•55 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast Meaghan Likes is the founder of Bookkeeping Academy Online and owner of Likes Accounting. She uses her years of expertise and experience in helping small business owners do their bookkeeping correctly. An entrepreneur with five businesses in Northern California, Meaghan is a prominent figure in the window cleaning industry, and is the third fastest female window cleaner in the world. An active philanthropist since 2004, Meaghan devotes a considerable amount of her time to volunteering and travel...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast 
