Ken Goodrich: Picking the Brain of the 9-Figure HVAC Maven

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Ken Goodrich is an expert in business process, negotiation, mergers and acquisition, business planning and operations management. As CEO of Goettl, he is widely recognized by organizations such as the Las Vegas Business Press, Top 40 Under 40 Professionals, and the Business Professional of the Year Success Club, He has been successful at flipping companies and has nearly 3 decades of experience in acquiring, integrating and developing HVAC, plumbing and contracting businesses.

In this episode, we talked about business acquisition tips and signals, understanding your cash flow, hiring from outside the industry, effective employee training...

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0:00.0	I read something the other day and said, people will join your team for the vision, people
0:05.8	state for leadership, right?
0:07.6	So you paint a nice, good enough vision of opportunity.
0:11.5	There's a lot of people, there's a lot of very talented, educated people in big corporations
0:16.4	who hate it.
0:17.6	There's no future.
0:18.6	They're just drones.
0:19.6	And you give an opportunity to help build something
0:22.1	and be part of something. Maybe there's something for them in the future. They'll sign up.
0:27.9	Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs
0:33.5	and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's
0:39.6	really behind their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.
0:49.6	Welcome back to the Home Service Expert. I'm really excited about today. I've had Ken on three shows. Now, this is the third one. For those of you that don't know, this is Ken Goodrich. I'm sure you guys have heard of him. He came out with Michael Gerber in this exact room. Then we had another one years ago. Let me just tell you a little bit about Ken. He's an expert in business process negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, business
1:12.5	planning and operations management. He's a CEO of Gettle from 2013 to today, from 2009 to 2012,
1:20.7	American Residential Services President in the Western Zone, the vice president of Southwest Division.
1:27.0	He's flipped a lot of companies.
1:28.7	He drives a really nice jet to work all over the country. Nearly three decades of experience
1:34.4	in acquiring, integrating, and developing HVAC plumbing and contracting businesses has assembled
1:38.9	and managed teams that have installed over 250,000 air conditioning systems and completed over a million service calls.
1:46.3	Recognized by organizations such as the Las Vegas Business Press, top 40 under 40, business professionals,
1:52.2	business professional of the year, Success Group International, LeVette Entrepreneur of the Year,
1:56.7	by International Business Magazine. I think the list goes on and on. But Ken, hey, thanks for coming in today.
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