Getting Ready For The Home Service Gold Rush with Joshua Latimer and Tommy Mello
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Most tradespeople start a business to keep the full hourly rate, but they think like technicians rather than CEOs, which caps their growth before it ever starts.
Word-of-mouth alone can carry a business, but ranking organically for every keyword on Yelp and Google turns referrals into a predictable, scalable lead engine.
Understanding your lifetime customer value lets you calculate a maximum customer-acquisition cost, so you can confidently outspend competitors on Google without losing money.
Relationship-marketing tools like automated greeting cards, gift boxes, and voicemail drops keep existing customers engaged and dramatically increase repeat business.
Partner marketing and leveraging each other's email lists with builders, realtors, and complementary businesses is one of the cheapest, highest-ROI growth levers available.
Parkinson's Law and basic financial literacy are never taught, so operators must deliberately learn to manage cash, credit, and spending to build real wealth.
Giving away your best knowledge freely builds authority and trust, which ultimately drives more business than hoarding secrets ever would.
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