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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Riches in Niches: Surge Protection - Part 2 - Special Guest:Jamie Mellinger

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we interview special guest Jamie Mellinger. Jamie serves as an electrician and safety advisor with Mister Sparky Electric in Lancaster, PA. Returning to the podcast, Jamie dives into the power of whole home surge protection and why he has found the riches in this niche. Exploring topics from the details of whole home surge to how to share with and educate homeowners, Jamie reveals some key factors that have made him successful.

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0:00.0

The most common objection I get that, well, I've been in this helm for 20 to 30 years,

0:07.2

and we've never had a surge, which is where I go back to talking about the car accident.

0:14.0

I mean, I've never been in, you know, a 60-mile-an-hour crash where the airbag saved my life.

0:20.5

Sometimes that objection is just someone trying to, that they

0:24.3

really just, they don't care. They're not doing anything. And so when we start talking about cars and

0:29.4

airbags and seatbelts, that's something that a lot of people resonate with.

0:37.1

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.

1:17.4

Hello. Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast.

1:18.5

I'm your host, Nate.

1:20.0

I'm your co-host, Brian.

1:25.3

And we are excited to introduce you to a second round guest.

1:29.8

We've brought back Jamie Melliner for this podcast. and we are going to wrap up our series of riches and niches by having him talk about the idea of surge protection.

1:36.1

So let's jump into it. Jamie, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm glad to be back.

1:40.3

Glad to have you, buddy. Thank you. Our first repeat guest.

1:45.0

I feel honored.

1:46.2

And we feel honored as well.

1:47.7

As far as I know, and I guess we'll find out at the convention in October, but Jamie was most likely the top-producing tech in terms of VoltValtz, which in Mr. Sparky means panel sales in all of Mr.

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