How Automation Can 10x Business Efficiency And Slash Costs
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Uzair Ahmed is a Solutions Consultant at Cottonwood Automation, a home-service business process automation and outsourcing firm mainly for plumbing and HVAC systems. After graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, he started his career in a hybrid sales and technical role at Baker Hughes. Now, he works with business clients to reduce their costs by up to 60% through automating workflows and building an offshore team.
In this episode, we talked about automation, employee appreciation, hiring and training strategies…
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, the person they're describing needs to get help. They don't need to lower their ego and they have to get help to get them out of that rut. |
| 0:05.2 | And I've talked to people about that. And it's hard from the comprehend. It's like a mental hurdle that they have to go through, which is like, listen, I did that for the first few years. I spent the last |
| 0:21.7 | three years having like a midlife crisis. Like what am I even doing? Because my business was growing |
| 0:26.3 | and running so well without me doing anything. I felt useless if anything, you know. And that's because |
| 0:31.9 | I had all my systems, my automations, my offshore team, everyone doing their work. And that was a, I don't know the mindset changed for me because that's why I wanted, |
| 0:40.2 | I wanted to get out of the day to day as fast as I could. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the home service expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world class |
| 0:47.5 | entrepreneurs and experts in various fields like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership |
| 0:52.9 | to find out what's really behind their success in |
| 0:56.2 | business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. |
| 1:04.4 | Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to |
| 1:08.9 | implement what you learned today. To do that, |
| 1:11.2 | you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. |
| 1:16.4 | So I ask the team to take notes for you. Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299. That's 888-5526-1299, and you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. |
| 1:33.5 | Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. |
| 1:38.3 | I'll share with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million company in 22 states. |
| 1:44.4 | Just go to elevate and win.com forward slash podcast to get your copy. |
| 1:48.8 | Now let's go back into the interview. |
| 1:51.3 | All right. |
| 1:51.8 | Welcome back to the home service expert. |
| 1:53.7 | Today's going to be really cool because the biggest question I get is, |
| 1:57.4 | what are you doing with technology, Tommy? |
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