4.8 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Josh Trees started We Hang Christmas Lights, a Christmas light installation business, in 1997 for residential and commercial clients in Temecula, California. By the third year of his business, he hit a net profit of right around $138,000, and to this day, his business continues to enjoy the benefits of incredibly fast growth.
In this episode, we talked about marketing, business strategy, recruitment, seasonal businesses...
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0:00.0 | As a leader, you know, as owners of the company, we have to train the managers to recognize |
0:06.4 | the difference between that. |
0:08.4 | And in my opinion, that would be us evaluating things, taking an outside look, jumping in, |
0:15.8 | taking an inside look when we need to, and making a lot of notes, and then sitting down for a few hours with a cup of |
0:22.6 | coffee or a beer, whatever, and going through it, and I've done this plenty of times. |
0:27.3 | I like to find a different environment sometimes when I'm doing this kind of stuff like |
0:31.2 | at a poolside at a hotel and a cabana or whatever, just where I'm relaxed, just not even |
0:35.6 | at the office sometimes, and you go through and looking like, okay, what are we doing wrong here? Go through all the steps in that process |
0:42.5 | and how can we do this better and then get them trained on that. Welcome to the home service expert, |
0:49.3 | where each week Tommy chats with world class entrepreneurs and experts experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, |
0:56.4 | hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind their success in business. Now, your host, |
1:03.3 | The Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. Welcome back to the Home Service expert. My name is Tommy Mello. And today I have a buddy of mine. We actually met at a Christmas light event, actually. It's going on two years, and it was in St. Louis. And he owns a really extraordinary huge best practices. They sell flights. they've got everything figured out in the |
1:31.0 | christmas slate industry and you know some of you know that i'm involved a little bit in the |
1:34.8 | crimson slate but i'm more of a silent partner so this is going to be great my partner |
1:38.3 | johnny kicks ass and and i've got dustin who who whops but and these guys are the most |
1:42.9 | amazing guys and i've been focused a lot more on and these guys are the most amazing guys. |
1:45.9 | And I've been focused a lot more on A-1. |
1:48.0 | It's hard to split the focus. |
1:50.1 | But I want to tell you a little bit about Josh. |
1:51.8 | He's out of California. |
1:52.9 | Thank God. |
1:55.8 | And he's doing business in Texas now. |
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