bootstrapped crm with 0 funding competes with $100m+ company Chase your dreams kids

Numbers from my house painting business so far this year. Not where we wanted to be, will probably end up close to 1.5 this year. I took a lot of time away from the business to focus on DripJobs, but, for a painting business ran mostly remote, can' t complain! AMA

Can’t scale without being an outlier ✅

Stop reading business books. Start doing business. Your first 100 door knocks will teach you more about sales than any guru course ever will. Your first angry customer will teach you more about service than any podcast. Your first payroll mistake will teach you more about

How to make a home service business sellable: Make it to where if you sold the company, no one would know but you and the buyer.

Correction 1.5. A little short of our goal. Still cool though 💪🏆

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The person who decides "I'm not quitting no matter what" always wins eventually. They get hung up on 50 times. They keep calling. They lose money on their first 10 jobs. They keep going. They hire someone who quits after two days. They hire someone else. Everyone else stops

Hardest part of a service based business is that you hit production capacity Only so many jobs can be handled at once. More jobs = more people problems (customers and team) = more stress Service business should be a stepping stone into something else Scale it, sell it

Most contractors don't need another business idea. They need to actually do the work on the idea they already have. You know you should be running ads. So run them. You know you should be following up with leads. So follow up. You know you should be hiring. So hire. Stop

Embrace the grind. It pays off.

God has blessed my life abundantly But I don’t ask God for blessings I ask God for wisdom To help with my decision making, discernment, and temperance I make it a point to ensure my relationship with God is imbalanced I want to do most of the Giving I want to do my part

AI tools are coming out at the speed of light. The overwhelm is starting to hit business owners. The gold mine in today's world is: Implementation Implement AI for businesses, just like "lead gen" was the hot commodity 5-6 years ago and all of the online marketers promised more

Glad I stopped playing after high school. My kids won’t play. Not worth it

Problem is he’s doing the work himself. He should have 3-4 bathrooms going at once. Tale as old as time

Left one says “choose for me”

More leads won't fix bad follow-up. Most contractors have dead leads sitting in their phone they never worked. Close what you have first. Or just automate it But there’s money there