The Roofer Show

I’m so excited to bring you this interview today. Rick Dutmer is my old business coach that helped me build my roofing company over the course of thirty years into an extremely profitable business so that I was later able to successfully exit and do the things that I wanted to do in life. When I first hired Rick, I was really struggling and wearing all the hats in the business. I knew there was a...

Welcome to The Roofer Coach podcast! We have made some changes and improvements and are rebranding the podcast, business, and platforms from The Roofer Show to The Roofer Coach. Everything we do here is to help you grow a more successful roofing business! We want to help contractors, and we keep it simple by giving you tools to make things happen. I’m joined by my co-host, John DeLaurier, who brin...

Welcome to The Roofer Coach podcast! We have made some changes and improvements and are rebranding the podcast, business, and platforms from The Roofer Show to The Roofer Coach. Everything we do here is to help you grow a more successful roofing business! We want to help contractors, and we keep it simple by giving you tools to make things happen. I’ll be joined each week by my co-host, John DeLau...

I have some good news and some bad news today. The bad news is that this will be the last episode of The Roofer Show. The good news is that we are rebranding as The Roofer Coach Podcast with John DeLaurier as my co-host!  John and I do coaching, we have the Roofer Mastermind, and we have also developed several programs to help our clients come up with great ideas and become more profitable. I have...

Exciting things are happening as we approach the Episode 300 milestone! There are rebranding changes taking place as we further our quest to provide helpful content for roofing contractors, and John DeLaurie will be co-hosting the brand-new podcast, The Roofer Coach . In today’s show, we lay out the framework necessary for building a profitable business. Roofing is not an easy profession, but it c...

Everything hinges on the numbers! Success in the roofing industry comes down essentially to knowing your numbers and what to charge for your work. Join us in today’s show for a closer look at understanding your finances.    Gina Malvestuto is the owner of Green Tree Bookkeeping, a Chicago-area company that fits the bill perfectly if you need to outsource your bookkeeping processes. For over 20 yea...

Welcome to another great show as we make our way toward a big milestone episode! Number 300 is just around the corner, and it’s going to be great! Today’s show covers how to cut costs, save time, and close more deals. Isn’t that what we all want? Join us to learn what SalesRabbit can do for YOU!   **I have a big announcement about something new and exciting! Changes are coming! Listen in to be the...

In the world of Google, SEO is everything. It is vitally important in the roofing industry, and there are scammers everywhere who will promise the moon in terms of your SEO and prey on hardworking roofing business owners. There is a better way to handle your SEO, and today’s show will help you understand the system better. My guest has wisdom and insights galore about SEO, and he’s a great guy tha...

So many business owners just aren’t making the profits they should! The failure rate is shocking, but what’s even worse are the people who are working their lives away and earning so much less than what they should. On today’s episode, you’ll learn which jobs are making money, which jobs are losing money, and what to do about it. What you’ll hear in this episode: How we can make more money: either...

I’ve got a secret. It’s the marketing secret that 90% of contractors miss, and my guest is sharing it with us in today’s show. Join us to learn more! Joining us today is Tim Brown from the Hook Agency. Tim has been featured on The Roofer Show several times and knows sales and marketing from the inside out. He is my go-to guy for marketing, SEO optimization, and web design. Because Tim works with m...

Sell Me This Pen If you saw the movie The Wolf of Wall Street you’ll remember the final scene where Leo, just out of jail and banned from selling stocks, is teaching a group of eager salesmen looking for the “silver bullet” of selling. Leo asks a nervous victim in the front row that classic sales manager question, “Sell Me This Pen”. The movie ends before we get the answer. Today, I show you the r...

Links: Let me know if you’d like to join one of our new Mastermind groups for contractors. Email me: dave@theroofershow.com or visit  The Roofer Mastermind  to sign up.   Download my FREE 1-Page Business Plan template at  www.theroofershow.com .   Contact me about one-on-one coaching at  www.theroofercoach.com .   I need reviews for the podcast! Please leave a five-star review. It matters!      Ve...

The recession is coming! The recession is coming! That’s what you hear on the news every night. Manufacturing is down, property values down, and retail stores filing bankruptcy. But construction is booming, we can’t find people to do the work because unemployment is low, and the stock market is at record highs. Recession? What recession? What’s going on? It’s been over 10 years since the last rece...

Getting paid faster is something every contractor wants. Today’s construction market brings unique obstacles, and legal help is more important than ever. Join us to learn the steps you need to take to make sure you are getting paid for your work in 2022.  Alex Barthet is a trained mechanical engineer who is now a board-certified construction lawyer in the Miami area. His firm was started by his fa...

To run a profitable roofing business, you have to understand the basics of accounting and the basics of setting up your financial system. In this episode, I discuss with my go-to accounting expert, Diane Gilson, the easiest way to do just that! Diane Gilson created Info Plus(+) Accounting® In 1994 to help business owners establish job-cost accounting systems so they can access critical day-to-day...

If you’ve listened to me for more than five minutes, you’ve heard me say that my goal is to help you grow your business, make more money, and have more free time. Free time to step away, spend time with family, and take real vacations are the things that most contractors can only dream about. I want to change that! Last week’s show focused on the sales process, which is the starting point to get m...

THIS is the show that will help you close more deals! We are talking all about the sales process today with my expert guest. Join us to learn more!   John DeLaurier of DeLaurier Roofing is an expert in automating his sales process. John is partnering with us in our new Mastermind group for contractors to help them understand the sales process. He knows what works and what doesn’t, and he’s here to...

I’m in the hot seat today! I was recently interviewed on The Commercial Roofing Radio Podcast, hosted by Nick Peret. Nick is CEO and founder of Summa Media and Peak Leads, and he’s got a great thing going with his impressive podcast. In this interview, we cover several topics, including my story of niching down and tackling the common problems that contractors face. Nick and I are all about helpin...

Today’s show is all about the numbers! You MUST run your business by the numbers and know your numbers. Let’s talk about why it’s not what you make, but what you keep that is most important. Join us now!   Erik Jackson is here to talk about building wealth. Building wealth for the life you want begins with running a profitable business and understanding the tax laws and tax advantages will allow y...

There is a new government program since COVID that many business owners, contractors, and even CPAs are not aware of. There are tax rebates with the real potential to help many people–if you qualify by showing specific business losses. Join us to learn more! Ken Sullivan started RPC Financial Services in 1989 with the sole objective of saving money for California property taxpayers. Casey Kinslow...

On today's episode Dave is joined by Jen Silver. With only five years in the roofing industry, Jen Silver is a relative newcomer compared to many. But in this short period of time, Jen has already made her mark in the Utah roofing community. She began working the phones as an inside sales representative at Roofline Supply, a subsidiary of SRS Distribution. From there she went on to work at a small...

SUMMARY / INTRO Before the stages, the books, and the $200 million company — there was the grind. In this early conversation with Tommy Mello, founder of A1 Garage Doors and author of  Home Service Millionaire , we talk about what it actually takes to build a profitable business that doesn’t consume your life. At the time of this interview, Tommy was already successful — but nowhere near the...

“There just aren’t people out there who want to work.” You’ve heard this statement–or made this statement–hundreds of times. The truth is that it’s an excuse for why you aren’t doing what it takes to build a quality workforce. My guest today is Joel Patzke, who owns and operates TrueWorks Roofing in Houston. Joel shares how he and his co-owner, his wife Laura, have solved their #1 problem, which i...

If contractors think they can’t leave business behind to take their family on a two-week vacation, that just means they don’t have their systems and processes in place, yet. Today’s guest is a regular listener to the podcast and someone I’ve stayed in touch with over the last few years. If you’re a roofing contractor who’s interested in hearing from another roofing contractor about what’s working...

To run a profitable roofing business, you have to understand the basics of accounting and the basics of setting up your financial system. In this episode, I discuss with my go-to accounting expert, Diane Gilson, the easiest way to do just that! Diane Gilson created Info Plus(+) Accounting® In 1994 to help business owners establish job-cost accounting systems so they can access critical day-to-day...