The Home Service Expert Podcast

Ken Goodrich is an expert in business process, negotiation, mergers and acquisition, business planning and operations management. As CEO of Goettl, he is widely recognized by organizations such as the Las Vegas Business Press, Top 40 Under 40 Professionals, and the Business Professional of the Year Success Club, He has been successful at flipping companies and has nearly 3 decades of experience in...

Philip Zimmerman is the President of Engineering Leadership Design, LLC and the author of Unleash the Millennials and Save The World. With over 30 years of executive corporate leadership experience and leadership development, Philip frequently shares his deep knowledge about next generation leader development, and millennial engagement at various conferences across the country. In this episode, we...

Ismael Valdez is the owner and COO of Nexgen Air, a company based out of Orange County, CA. Founded in 2015, Nexgen grew to become the #1 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) company in Southern California in a span of barely 5 years. With more than 15 years of experience and a commitment to provide the best service to his customers, Ismael has helped solidify the exponential growth of...

Al Levi is the author of The 7-Power Contractor and co-author of The Home Service Millionaire. A former contractor who worked for 25 years in every aspect of his family's Long Island-based HVAC/plumbing business, Al has been rated as one of the 25 most influential contractors in the United States by Plumbing & Mechanical Magazine. He now helps other contractors learn how to run their businesses wi...

Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $40 million-plus home service business with over 200 employees in 9 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his learnings and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Millionaire podcast, To...

Joshua Kim is the founder and CEO of 7a Accelerator, a company that provides consultations, resources, and concierge-style assistance for business owners on capital solutions and securing the right SBA lender. By leveraging $2.5M+ in SBA 7(a) financing, he purchased his first businesses at 19 and 20 years old. A transactional entrepreneur, he is an expert in M&A and government-guaranteed financial...

Josh Fulton is the Founder and Managing Partner of eSquared Communication Consulting, a provider of high end business telecommunications services for construction, service, and other industries. He grew his company's revenue from $7.2 million in 2014 to $20.6 million in 2017, a 185% increase in a span of three years. In this episode, we talked about B2B, sales, marketing, leadership, business comm...

Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $40 million-plus home service business with over 200 employees in 9 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his learnings and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this episode, we answered some of our listeners' most pressing q...

Brian Biro is a professional leadership speaker, coach, and best-selling author who has delivered more than 1,400 presentations around the world. His clients include Lockheed Martin, the US Army, Microsoft, the University of Notre Dame, senators and representatives from thirteen western states, and hundreds more. He was also rated the #1 speaker at four consecutive INC. Magazine International Busi...

Andrea Waltz is the co-author of the best-selling book, Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There. She launched her own training company at the age of 24, and is a Speaker Member of the Direct Selling Women's Alliance. She was named one of 25 Sales Experts You Should Follow On Twitter by Hubspot and 25 Sales Influencers to Follow on Twitter by Salesforce.com and Live Hive.  In thi...

Ryan Lucia is the founder of Aaron Overhead Doors, Such n Such Media, Garage Door Store, and the Torsion Talk Podcast. A former software executive, Ryan decided he wanted to go blue-collar. He started his own business with a wife and two children at 36 years old. He has since become a mentor, sales leader, marketer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who has started multiple businesses, including a...

Joy Hawkins is the owner and president of Sterling Sky, Inc. and a Search Engine Land Columnist. She has examined thousands of Google local listings for SMBs in the US and Canada since 2006. Certified in both Google Search & Display, she enjoys spending time managing Google Ads accounts. She has been a speaker at various search engine marketing conferences such as SMX & LocalU, Pubcon, and Mozcon....

Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $40 million-plus home service business with over 200 employees in 9 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his learnings and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this episode, we answered some of our listeners' most pressing q...

Dirk van Reenen is the founder of BERGflow, a company launched in 2017 that specializes in helping service based companies build better teams to grow and scale through talent acquisition systems, focused organizational structure and processes and training. Prior to founding BERGflow, Dirk ran a business for six years until the age of 27, eventually becoming the CEO of a company doing close to $800...

Jaynie Smith is the bestselling author of the books Creating Competitive Advantage and Relevant Selling. An international speaker and consultant, she has spent over 35,000 hours consulting CEOs and C suite executives, and two decades working with Fortune 500 companies. She received one of the 15 Top Performer Awards for CEO coaching, and has been featured in Entrepreneur, and Industry Week, among...

Austin Haller is the founder of Schedule Engine, a customer service support solution for home service contractors. Prior to founding Schedule Engine, he owned and led a $30M energy company, which he and a partner acquired and sold for 3x the invested capital in less than 3 years. Armed with 15 years of experience in the industry, he has been focused on bringing pioneering technology and services t...

Kim Archer is the Vice President of Coaching for Business Development Resources, Inc. and the lead trainer for BDR's financial courses, Accounting & Office Management and QuickBooks for the HVAC Contractor. The architect of BDR's Profit Launch business planning workshops, she created the templates used to produce hundreds of monthly financial statements, with combined client revenues over 1.8 bill...

Danny Kerr is a Managing Partner at Breakthrough Academy, managing over $900 million worth of revenue and helping over 300 entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level. At 20 years old, Danny took a leadership position for a franchise company, and grew sales from $400,000 to $1,300,000 in just a single year. In this episode, we talked about hiring, systems, productivity...

Danielle Putnam is the president of The New Flat Rate, the first menu pricing system for home service contractors, and an Advisory Board Member of Women in HVACR, an organization that provides professional avenues for women growing their careers in the industry. An opinion columnist at CEOWORLD magazine, Danielle has experience in business development and management, operations, and related fields...

Jim Johnson is the Head Coach of ContractorCoachPRO, a full service coaching company for home service contractors. He has worked closely with over 1,500 contractors and coached 300+ more, and has seen just about every way of succeeding or failing as a contractor, from contractors doing less than $1 million in revenues to companies making over $100 million. In this episode, we talked about contract...

Sky Stephens is the co-founder of the Association of Professional Builders, a business coaching company that provides cutting-edge systems, world-class support, and sales & marketing training to the construction industry. She has been working with builders since 2014, helping them grow their businesses sustainably and consistently. In this episode, we talked about marketing communications, social...

Eric Siu is the CEO of both the content intelligence software ClickFlow and the digital marketing agency Single Grain. He has worked with major clients such as Amazon, Airbnb, Salesforce and Uber to acquire more customers. He also hosts two podcasts with more than 30 million combined downloads to date: Marketing School with Neil Patel and Leveling Up. In this episode, we talked about digital marke...

David Litwin has been in the branding and advertising industry for over three decades, working with notable Fortune 500 companies like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sony, Pacific Bell and Sun Microsystems. He started two agencies, the second of which generated over 3M dollars in revenue in its first 24 months of operation, and authored the books Cre8tve Success, MLK2.0, Mission, Parables & Parallels, and...

Sean Castrina has started over 20 businesses in two decades, and runs a multimillion dollar service company along with other startups. He is the host of The Ten Minute Entrepreneur podcast, and is the bestselling author of the books 8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Startup Success, The Greatest Entrepreneur in the World, and World's Greatest Business Plan. In this episode, we talked about entrepre...