The Sales Reframe That Changes How Every Technician Thinks About Their Job
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.7 β’ 793 Ratings
ποΈ 26 May 2026
β±οΈ 65 minutes
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Summary
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Joe Crisara has trained thousands of home service technicians β and the number one thing he hears is that they don't want to be called salespeople.
In this episode, Joe breaks down why that resistance is costing your team money, your customers their options, and your business its potential. The fix isn't motivation. It's finishing the sentence. Joe's system, built over decades working with plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, and garage door companies, is simple: make a friend, diagnose the whole system, build premium, mid-range, and economy options, personalize them, and close with "what should we do?" That framework closes 92% of jobs. Not because it's pushy, because it's honest.
What you'll learn:
β Why "sales" became a dirty word and how to fix it for your team
β The five-step system behind a 92% close rate
β Why financing is the primary offer
β not an afterthought
β How "magic moments" create raving fans without manipulation
β The self-esteem problem behind underperforming techs
β and the trainable fix
β Pure-motive service and why caring outsells closing every time
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're not completing what's involved with sales. |
| 0:02.5 | When we just say the word sales, |
| 0:04.0 | you're bringing it down to the most shortest element |
| 0:07.8 | and the thing that seems negative like somebody's pushing me. |
| 0:10.7 | What I'm really in the business of doing is selling people on the notion |
| 0:14.7 | to allow me to take care of them. |
| 0:16.3 | So you need to complete the sentence when they say the word sales. |
| 0:19.2 | I want to sell people on allowing me to |
| 0:21.7 | be their friend, allowing me to find a permanent solution. I want to sell people on giving them |
| 0:26.5 | choices and not ultimatums. All right, guys, today I got an amazing guest. He's been on the podcast |
| 0:32.3 | several times. He's done a lot of training with us. His name is Joe Chris Sara, and he's an expert in sales, business, |
| 0:40.3 | home services. He knows a lot about HVAC. He's the guy in the home closing deals. He's based |
| 0:46.2 | out of L.A. Service sales coach for Plumbers, HVAC technicians, comfort advisors, and electricians, |
| 0:52.4 | and even garage drug company, service MVP. |
| 0:55.7 | He's known as America's service sales coach. Joe Grasara has been transforming the way home |
| 1:01.0 | service contractors think about sales and business management for decades. As the founder of |
| 1:06.8 | contracting selling.com and the creator of Total Immersion Sales Summit, Joe has helped thousands of owners, managers, and technicians triple their results |
| 1:14.4 | while creating happier customers. Joe isn't just about theory. He's about real world results. |
| 1:21.4 | Joe is helping contractors across the country, earn more, serve better, and build businesses |
| 1:25.2 | that thrive. And he wrote an amazing book. It's right here. And it's one of the things we make our technicians read, what should we do? And I'm a big endorser of this book. Tommy, thank you. Thanks for inviting me here again. You know, it's like when I first met you, I remember when you first met I thought it was just |
| 1:44.6 | going to meet a client I didn't had no idea I was going to have somebody changed my life and |
| 1:48.7 | and definitely become a great friend too I didn't know I was going to get a friendship out of it |
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