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Midweek with Tyler: Architect Referral Gone Awry

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Modern Craftsman

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tyler discusses his frustration with being left out of a renovation project for returning customers after referring them to an architect, and shares lessons learned about remaining involved throughout the entire design and referral process. 

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0:00.0

Sometimes the best word that I can describe it is incestuous, meaning that the architects, the designers, the contractors, they're all in bed with each other and it's just this circle and they're revolving and it's just passing the names from one to another to another to another and it doesn't grow outside of that.

0:17.5

I've never really played that game. Like it's great to have these relationships but to pass a lead to somebody because you're hoping to get more work out of it or because somebody did you a favor, I don't know if that's the right move as far as like who's the fit for this job, hey this job came to me through this lead it should

0:36.2

go to this person.

0:37.5

So that's my relationship with architects very similar to designers as well.

0:42.6

It's limited because I'm not who they use to make money.

0:48.6

What's going on, going on everyone?

0:55.0

Hope you are having a good week here.

0:58.0

It is, what's the day, the 6th, 6th of February.

1:02.0

My wife said that January was extremely long for her and I'm not going to lie January was long for me too but I somewhat enjoyed it

1:11.8

getting everything back in order. I feel like I've said this to you guys before but

1:17.7

catching up on life this past job beating me up some and getting back to it

1:22.3

taking care of some things that I need to getting to return customers all of that

1:26.8

January was slow and drug out but it was nice it didn't fly by as the rest of life has been for the past however so long.

1:39.0

I guess since I became an adult, but I enjoyed it. February's going relatively slow as well. It's going to be like,

1:46.6

what's it? It's got to be close to Valentine's Day already, but it's only the six.

1:50.8

So we still have some time yet. I still have some time yet I still have some time yet Rachel I

1:54.6

still have time she listened to she doesn't listen to my podcast but she

1:59.4

ended up listening to the one about relocating and just a restart and what I have felt, what I continually

2:10.0

do feel, and she came in the door pissed off at me.

2:14.0

She's actually never really pissed at me.

2:17.0

She and I are very different personalities,

2:20.0

very different motivations, different people.

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