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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Jim Leslie - The Mindset That Squeezes the Gold Out Of Every Lead

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 69 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/FBgroupJim Leslie is the Chief Operating Officer of Home Service Freedom, working closely with Tommy Mello to bring the company’s vision to life and help members scale their businesses. Previously, he was the Chief Marketing Officer at A1 Garage Door Service, where he drove significant growth by refining marketing, operations, and leadership systems. In this episode, we talked about lead cost, sales mindset, customer follow-up, customer empathy, marketing vs sales alignment...

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0:00.0

Understanding that one call can create two, three, four, five other calls.

0:08.1

That guy didn't leave the house until he asked the customer if he could connect them to

0:12.0

three people that they might know that might need our service, right?

0:15.5

I'm like, oh, it's a great idea.

0:17.6

I just started doing it.

0:18.9

What's the worst I can do is say no, right?

0:22.6

Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services

0:28.5

industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical. More than a podcast,

0:35.0

Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.

0:39.0

It is a never-ending discipline.

0:41.1

It is a refuse to lose pursuit.

0:43.4

It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

0:47.0

Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick. Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast.

1:02.9

Your host, Nate and Brian hanging out with you and looking forward to a great episode.

1:05.7

We're bringing on the show, Mr. Jim Leslie, to talk about squeezing the gold out of every lead. Seems like a perfect time of the

1:13.0

year to really be focused on making sure you're maximizing the leads that you're getting

1:16.7

instead of trying to scrape for the scraps. We're going to have a good episode and talk about

1:22.5

that whole concept with our conversation with Jim. But before we get there, we're going to start

1:26.6

off with an introduction. And we're going to look to Brian to give us a quote.

1:30.5

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it, for by very tossing,

1:39.3

it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely. The fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny

1:47.7

valley, Seneca. A little growth through struggle here this morning. I like it. Yeah, buddy. We're going to be

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