Growing an Electrical Business from $0 to $7M with George Saldana of Mister Sparky Electric

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting George Saldana in your passenger seat to discuss growing an electrical business. George Saldana was born in San Antonio, TX. He studied business in Junior college in the late 1970's and decided to open his first electrical contracting business at the ripe old age of 19 years old. After obtaining his City Electrical Journeyman's license in 1982 and his City and State Master Electrical license in 1989, George has continued to hone his knowledge through annual Continuing education courses and on the job expertise that can only be obtained through years of practical experience and satisfied customers. Moving through commercial, residential new construction, and now residential retro-fit, George has seen many sides and seasons of the electrical industry. Taking the plunge into the residential home services, George grew a business from just him and his son to over $7M in revenue. Now, operating as a Mister Sparky Electric franchise in San Antonia, George shares the lessons that he has learned throughout decades of trade service. He has been married to a beautiful and supportive wife for 36 years and has 3 wonderful children, Jeff 31, Shari 33 and Marcus 24. His hobbies include motorsport racing in the national organization NASA, riding his Harley Street glide and hanging out in his backyard with his family by the pool.

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0:00.0	Back to Habit Service, good character is incredibly important.
0:06.9	I would say the ability to articulate their communication is critically important.
0:12.9	I would say their ability to understand and have empathy for anybody, for any reason is critically important.
0:22.0	Those are the kind of things that make up a recipe for a good employee and a good person.
0:26.9	Most of the stuff you can teach in our world, but you can't teach habit of service.
0:31.3	You either have that or you don't.
0:37.1	Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.
0:48.9	More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.
0:54.5	It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.
0:56.6	It is a refuse to lose pursuit.
0:59.1	It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.
1:03.1	Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick.
1:19.3	Hey. Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast, your host, Nate and Brian, joining you once again for this new episode.
1:22.3	This time we are inviting on Mr. Sparky owner and operator, George Saladonna.
1:26.9	He joins us live and in person in our studio
1:30.4	all the way from San Antonio, Texas. It's going to be a great show. We're going to talk about
1:35.7	a lot of things about developing an electrical business from the ground up to $7 million
1:41.3	plus. And we're going to have a great conversation with him. But first, we're going to turn to Brian for a little bit of a breakdown, starting with our
1:48.4	quote.
1:49.6	The Fisher Brothers built carriages during the horse-drawn buggy days.
1:54.0	The automobile was invented, and all of a sudden, the transportation business changed.
1:59.5	The Fisher brothers adapted. They started building
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