Return of the Mello with Tommy Mello of A1 Garage Door Service - Part 1

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting Tommy Mello in your passenger seat to discuss people, profit, training, and whatever else happens to be on his mind. Tommy Mello is the owner and operator of A1 Garage Door Service, the host of the Home Service Expert podcast, and owner, partner, or investor in multiple other businesses ranging from Christmas lights to real estate to mobile apps. In 2007, Tommy became the sole owner and operator of a single Phoenix-based garage door service business, which came with $50,000 in debt. Today, A1Garage generates north of $170 million dollars in annual revenue. Tommy is a regular contributor to Inc., Entrepreneur, and other business publications on the topic of entrepreneurship and small business as well as a sought after podcast, radio and television guest. When not in the office or working on the businesses, you’ll find him on a plane headed to exotic destinations or chasing the little white ball around one of Arizona’s many golf courses. Make sure you list to the exciting conclusion of this conversation on part 2 next week.

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0:00.0	When you're choosing profit or people, you choose the people. And the profit comes. It's a byproduct. That's what people don't understand. Rockefeller back in the day, if you saw the men who made America, he used to be the kerosene guy. And the byproduct of kerosene was gas. Well, this guy, Thomas Edison came out, and he lit up America. to let up the United States. So Rockabell is sitting there going, what do I do with this buy product?
0:23.0	And yet, then he up the United States. So Rockefeller
0:20.9	sitting there going, what do I do with this byproduct? And yet, then he was the richest man
0:25.1	ever because of fuel. And I think the byproduct of doing things great and taking care of people,
0:29.4	the byproduct is profit. It comes naturally when you take care of people.
0:37.2	Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.
0:48.9	More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.
0:54.5	It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.
0:56.6	It is a refuse to lose pursuit.
0:59.1	It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.
1:03.1	Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick. Hey, welcome to another episode of the Wastin'er Day podcast.
1:18.1	Your host, Nate and Brian are hanging out with you again, and we are looking forward
1:21.4	to bringing back none other than the Tommy Mello back onto our show, The Return of the Mello,
1:27.4	as it is part one and part two.
1:29.6	Yep, this is already going to be a two-parter and we are really excited to break into this conversation.
1:36.1	Before we do all that, we're going to break down the ideas for you ourselves.
1:39.3	And we're going to start with Brian and the quote.
1:42.0	It's a small price to pay, but investing a little extra effort into the life you choose
1:48.1	will move you from average where the competition is to the top.
1:54.0	Richie Norton.
1:55.9	All right, all right.
1:56.8	That's got to go down in the waste no day books as one of our quotes, you know, circle back to that one. Yeah. Yeah. You should, uh, do, do a little social media post like you used to. I should. Oh, well, he didn't, he didn't actually say it on the episode. True. Yeah. All right. Cool. Yeah. Small price to pay. Uh, it doesn't feel like a small price to pay. You know when it doesn't feel like a small price to pay?
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