How Tommy Mello Became the Home Service Millionaire
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Tommy's rise wasn't luck — it came from putting his money where his mouth is with pay-for-performance and refusing to accept average.
Most technicians operate at roughly 20% of their capacity; the upside is in coaching and systems, not just hiring more bodies.
Booking rate is where revenue quietly leaks — the calls you don't book cost more than the marketing that generated them.
Culture is a filter: he protects the team from negativity because good people won't stay where it's tolerated.
Scaling past owner-dependence requires a CTO/operator who makes the business run without you — moving from absentee-in-name to genuinely systematized.
Give back — much of his success came from people who helped him along the way, and he tries to do the same.
The definition of insanity — doing the same thing and expecting different results — is exactly the trap most business owners live in.
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