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Leading Your Home Service Business with Power with Mike Agugliaro and Tommy Mello

πŸ“… December 25, 2019 ⏱️ 58:01 🎀 Mike Agugliaro, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Introducing Mike Agugliaro, the Business Warrior
  • 3:22
    Why mindset alone kept him stuck
  • 6:38
    You have to pay to play to learn what others don't
  • 9:54
    Treat every day like you're going to sell
  • 13:17
    Mike's story: vocational kid to business owner
  • 16:37
    The partner who walked in and quit
  • 20:02
    Raising average ticket by expanding scope
  • 23:19
    Reading core values in every company meeting
  • 26:43
    Breaking through limiting beliefs
  • 33:31
    The four beliefs that plague selling
  • 36:47
    Getting mentored by people who knew how
  • 46:44
    Running the business on CRM and dashboards

Speakers

M
Mike Agugliaro
Founder, CEO Warrior; Co-founder, Gold Medal Service; Author, Secrets of Business Mastery
T
Tommy Mello
Host; Founder & CEO, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

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Mike Agugliaro took a struggling two-person electrical business with a broken-down truck and built it into a $30M+ home service company with roughly 190 employees and 145 trucks, becoming one of the top companies in central New Jersey.

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Mindset alone doesn't fix burnout. Mike was already positive and read every mindset book, yet stayed stuck; the real turning point came when his business partner walked in and quit, forcing him to look in the mirror and change how the business actually operated.

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If you treated every day like you were going to sell the business, you'd never tolerate the sloppy management and low standards you currently accept.

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You have to pay to play to learn what others don't. Surrounding yourself with people who already know how to do it and getting mentored accelerates the growth you can't reach alone.

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Raise your average ticket by expanding scope, for example getting licensed to service the main junction box so a typical $500 job becomes far larger.

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Break the four limiting beliefs about selling. Mike used to think charging real prices meant ripping people off, when in reality proper selling is doing customers a favor.

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Run your business on data and systems: a CRM with voicemail drops, text messages, and mailed cards, plus dashboards where you can instantly see your top and low performers.

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