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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Andrew Dobbins - Unlocking High-Ticket Sales Without High-Pressure Tactics

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community — join today before the next live Q&A drops: https://wastenoday.pro/BCCJoin the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup   Andrew Dobbins is the founder and owner of Intelligent Design Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Solar, & Electric. He’s been in the trades since 2004, with experience in HVAC, roofing, and plumbing. Andrew’s company has grown to 80 team members across five divisions, earning over 22,000 five-star reviews while staying rooted in Tucson. Andrew’s core focus is sales - helping teams identify customer needs, communicate with care, and close with integrity.   In this episode, we talked about sales techniques, customer needs & pain points, gratitude, communication strategy, mindset...

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0:00.0

Well, most of the guys that are trying to explain the engineering and how cool the thing is,

0:07.9

you're doing it wrong. One, you're offering unsolicited advice. You're not asking questions.

0:12.4

And you're selling based on how cool the product is rather than to solve a pain.

0:18.0

So what we're doing is we're identifying wants, needs, desires, and pain. And then if I

0:23.3

identify a pain, I poke the pain. I say, tell me more. So let's say, I go in and say, hey, which is

0:28.6

the hot room in the house? Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about

0:36.6

the home services industry as it relates to

0:39.0

plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical. More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo,

0:45.7

a determination, a mindset. It is a never-ending discipline. It is a refuse to lose pursuit. It is a

0:52.8

wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

0:56.1

Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick.

1:08.4

Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast.

1:12.1

Your host, Nate and Brian hanging out with you.

1:14.1

I am operating out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, tri-branded location.

1:18.4

Mr. Brian Burton operating as the general manager, the Benjamin Franklin, the best plumbing provider in the Phoenix area.

1:24.6

And we are excited to be here with you to talk about some new ways and some old ways

1:30.5

to make your sales and communication better. We're bringing back a fan favorite. Mr. Andrew

1:35.8

Dobbins is rejoining us and we're going to be having a good conversation today. He had a

1:40.7

great episode, one of my favorites back from February of 2020, talking about selling

1:45.5

out of your own wallet, and I know he's going to bring the fire today in continuing that

1:48.9

conversation to make you a better person in the home. Before we get to him, and before we have

1:55.0

that great conversation, we're going to start it off with a quote, and as always, we're looking

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