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HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Short #33 AMA - Business Tips

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

Training, Careers, Airconditioning, Self-improvement, Hvac, Business, Education, Refrigeration, Heating, Ac, Apprenticeship

4.8985 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this short podcast episode, Bryan shares his experience as an entrepreneur and his tips for anyone who wants to run and grow a successful business.

When growing a business, the best thing you can do is listen to others who have started a business. It's especially useful to listen to those who have already "made it" in the business world.

Growing a business requires you to stay focused. While you may have to work in your business, you also want to make time to work on the strategic parts of your business. Make goals, hire good people, and make sure your business has all the right people and tools to help it grow. Know your hirees' motives, and it's also important that the people in your personal life support you. Your business will also grow most effectively if you can keep your emotions under control.

On a financial level, you need to have a good grasp of your personal finances before tackling business finances. Make wise decisions, and don't make excuses to spend money on things your business doesn't actually need. One of our main business tips is that it's best to avoid dumping your money into things you don't understand. Marketing is something that a lot of HVAC businesspeople don't understand and may not actually need. So, keep your investments limited to things you understand early on.

Networking is a critical element of business. Your business needs to develop relationships with people you can trust. Trust-based relationships help foster an appreciation between your customers and your business. Appreciation for employees is another element of this. When everyone is aware of the value of your relationships, your business can grow with the right people within the company and the right people paying for your services.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode actually came out of our Ask Me Anything on Facebook.

0:07.0

Timothy Nogler asks, I know there's a whole business podcast, that is,

0:10.4

Terschablisits Service Business Mastery Podcast,

0:13.0

check that out.

0:14.0

But I've seen you give some tips on how you started,

0:16.1

grew your business.

0:17.2

Can you share those?

0:18.8

That's a long thing there.

0:20.4

But I'm going to do my best to answer it

0:21.7

in a short podcast air, so here we go. Oh, first off, I'm going to do my best to answer it in a short podcast air so here we go.

0:23.4

Oh, first off I'm going to remind you that this podcast is made possible by our great sponsors.

0:27.4

Carrier, Refrigeration Technologies, Navac, Air Oasis, and Field Piece.

0:34.8

So how did we grow Kailos?

0:35.9

Kailos Services of the business that I started with my uncle

0:39.2

and my father in 2015 as the HVAC license holder and the sole HVAC employee back then.

0:45.0

And so the question is how do we grow it?

0:47.0

Well, okay, the first thing is by the grace of God, because growing a business is really hard.

0:51.0

And especially if you don't have experience running a business in the past which of course I didn't because I was very new to it I was very young in my early 20s

0:59.4

and regardless of how good of a technician you are regardless of how good you are with people.

1:04.4

I mean, those are very important skills, obviously,

1:06.2

for an HVEC business.

1:08.0

But there's still all sorts of other things

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