Q&A With Tommy - Growing Your Biz Without Working Like a Madman
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $40 million-plus home service business with over 200 employees in 9 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his learnings and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses.
In this episode, we answered some of our listeners' most pressing questions.
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| 0:00.0 | you don't get burnout when you love what you do and your job should be to fill out people your job |
| 0:05.6 | should be able to get as many people as possible doing the things that you absolutely hate i don't sit |
| 0:10.6 | there and do the accounting because quite honestly going through the bills and figuring out how much |
| 0:16.2 | we owe the electricity bill is not my idea of a good time. When you're stepping in and the beginning of a business, |
| 0:21.4 | you'll learn to do the things that you have to do. But if I were you, I'd work on an org chart |
| 0:26.3 | and I'd put in the pieces that you know you need. First thing I got burnt out at is at a movie |
| 0:31.5 | theater when I have to answer a damn phone call. I used to love the phone to ring. I'd be like, money, hell yes. So I grabbed the phone and be like, dude, yes. |
| 0:39.3 | And then finally I was like in the middle of dinner, in the middle of a movie, in the middle of a day. |
| 0:43.3 | Whatever it was, it started to really bother me. |
| 0:46.3 | So I hired my first CSR. |
| 0:48.3 | Then I got my first bookkeeper. |
| 0:50.3 | And slowly but surely I got to do what I love. |
| 0:53.3 | I love training. I love doing things like motivation. |
| 0:56.5 | I love the passion. I love exciting meetings. I love the big picture. I love whiteboarding. |
| 1:02.7 | So learn to do what you love. Turn your job into what you always wanted it to be and that's something |
| 1:07.1 | you love. Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, |
| 1:15.8 | like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, |
| 1:18.9 | to find out what's really behind their success in business. |
| 1:22.7 | Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. |
| 1:29.8 | All right, so we're trying something new today. |
| 1:32.2 | I guess I'm just going to answer some questions. |
| 1:35.8 | So the questions are from people who bought the Home Service Millionaire book. |
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