Tommy Mello: $200 Million Founder|Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur Columnist
The Home Service Expert Podcast
The Home Service Expert podcast is the No. 1 podcast for ambitious home service entrepreneurs, whether they are in plumbing, HVAC or another niche. In this show, Tommy Mello, a $200M business founder, will talk with the best entrepreneurs and experts in the home service industry and beyond, to share insights that have made them successful: from the newest marketing tools to the best scaling strategies. Previous podcast guests include Terry Nicholson (former national trainer of NYSE-listed home services company), Craig Smith (President of HomeAdvisor, a home services marketplace valued at $2B+)...
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Tommy Mello: $200 Million Founder|Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur Columnist
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Jul 7, 2026
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Focusing on Standard Operating Procedures And KPIs To Boost Business Efficiency 20.01.2023 54:04
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $150 million-plus home service business with over 500 employees in 16 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tomm...
Disruptive Marketing Strategies to Win Your Customers' Attention 13.01.2023 52:24
Anna Tutckaia is the Head of Marketing at ManyChat, the world's leading chat marketing platform that helps businesses across 190 countries engage and support billions of customers in real-time and at scale. She is also the Co-Founder at Scalefully, a marketing agency focused on customer acquisition for software and eCommerce brands. In this episode, we talked about demand generation, mobile market...
Getting In Front Of Leads That Are Ready To Do Business 06.01.2023 1:11:12
Doriane Mouret is the VP of Marketing at Jobox, a software company that provides home service marketplaces with an AI infrastructure to directly connect their customers with home service pros. As an experienced leader and entrepreneur, Doriane understands the challenges that come with starting and managing your own business. Today, Doriane helps home service pros overcome the challenges they face...
How To Get Clients To Sell Themselves On Your Brand Before They Even Call You 30.12.2022 1:09:06
Dan Antonelli is the President and Chief Creative Officer of KickCharge Creative, an award-winning New Jersey-based branding agency that specializes in helping home service businesses redefine themselves and stand out with disruptive brands. With more than 2,000 home service brands under his belt, Dan and his team have overseen the branding of more home service businesses than any other brand agen...
Q&A with Tommy - Creating a Thriving Culture Where Everybody Wins 23.12.2022 37:04
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $150 million-plus home service business with over 500 employees in 16 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tomm...
Building an 8-figure Business Through the Franchise Model 16.12.2022 1:03:51
Mike Andes is the Founder and CEO of Augusta Lawn Care, an eight-figure international lawn maintenance franchise. He also shares his knowledge in the field of marketing, brand awareness, sales, operations, and growth strategy planning through his Youtube channel and his podcast, The Mike Andes podcast. He is also an author who has already written three books, with his latest release titled P4P (Pa...
How to Make Your Business More Profitable And Find True Financial Freedom 09.12.2022 1:06:27
Meaghan Likes is a small business accountant & consultant, speaker, teacher, and volunteer with nearly two decades' worth of professional experience. She founded Bookkeeping Academy, and owns five businesses in Northern California. Meaghan's mission is to educate and empower other business owners across the world to find financial freedom in their own lives. In this episode, we talked about leader...
Using Automations to Qualify and Convert Prospects More Efficiently 02.12.2022 57:24
David Tal is the CEO and co-founder of Verse.io, a next-generation Lead Conversion Platform with specialized technology and highly skilled human concierges. David helps businesses create effective and authentic connections with their prospects by effectively merging the best abilities of technology and people. In this episode, we talked about SMS, sales, marketing, lead conversion...
Maximizing Your Assets to Expand Your Business Quickly Without Losing Momentum 25.11.2022 54:38
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $150 million-plus home service business with over 500 employees in 16 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tomm...
Outmarketing your Competition with the Five-Step Marketing System 18.11.2022 1:01:55
Phillip Stutts is the founder and CEO of Win BIG Media, a corporate marketing agency, and Founder/Executive Chairman of Go BIG Media, a political marketing ad firm. Over the course of more than two decades, he has contributed to 1,472 election victories, including three U.S. Presidential victories, and worked with multiple Fortune 200 companies. Phillip has written multiple best-sellers, including...
Closing More Calls with Personalized Customer Service 11.11.2022 1:09:18
Zac Garside is the CEO of Power Selling Pros, a company that gives personalized CSR & dispatch training to create a thriving culture of "WOW" experiences. He was previously Head of Marketing for the company, wherein he has personally coached more CSRs than he or anyone else at Power Selling Pros can count. He also hosts his own podcast called This Call May Be Recorded where he listens to recorded...
Developing Persuasive Employees to 10x Your Sales 04.11.2022 1:08:29
Michael Bernoff is the President and Founder of Human Communications Institute, a company that specializes in working with people whose success depends on communication clarity. He is also a leader in the personal and professional development industry, and has worked directly with individuals as well as corporate executives who desire to transform their corporate culture in an ever changing market...
Focusing Your Resources on Marketing And Hiring to Set Your Business for Success 28.10.2022 1:11:24
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $150 million-plus home service business with over 500 employees in 16 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tomm...
Transforming your Employees into Resilient Leaders through Ethical Influence 21.10.2022 1:27:11
Keith Mercurio is the Senior Director of Executive Success of ServiceTitan, and CEO & Founder at Ethical Influence Global. Keith has spoken to nearly 20,000 people on the topics of leadership, influence, sales, and personal development. He has guided over 600 businesses and transformed their own leadership identity and led unprecedented growth for their teams. In this episode, we talked about coac...
Using Marketing Technology to Become a Powerhouse in the Home Service Industry 14.10.2022 1:02:14
Wesley Mathews is the co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of High Level Marketing, a nationwide full-service digital marketing company. High Level Marketing has been helping businesses grow their reach and impact online since 2009, and quickly became one of the fastest-growing web marketing firms in Michigan. In this episode, we talked about digital marketing, customer satisfaction, SEO, CRM, bran...
Using Text Messaging to Turn More Leads into Happy Customers 07.10.2022 58:35
Aaron Weiche is the co-founder and CEO of Leadferno, a text messaging platform that aims to help close more leads faster. He is an entrepreneur, founding and leading multiple companies and digital marketing agencies over the past 20 years. Prior to Leadferno, he was the CEO of GatherUp where he led the company to experience 5X growth in a span of four years and appeared in the INC 5000 list for 20...
Hiring Employees You Won't Want to Fire through the Core Fit Hiring™ Process 30.09.2022 1:04:10
Ryan Englin is the CEO of Core Matters and an Advisor of Fathom. Core Matters helps out blue-collar companies in the hiring and retention process of their employees. Ryan shares his expertise in a podcast entitled "Blue Collar Culture Podcast" where he highlights success stories and shares secrets to winning with blue-collar culture. He also published a book titled "How to Hire the Ones You Won't...
Building Your Team of A-Players by Focusing on Employee Satisfaction & Retention 23.09.2022 55:45
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $150 million-plus home service business with over 500 employees in 16 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tomm...
Top Recruitment Strategies to Attract High Caliber Talents 16.09.2022 1:00:28
Barb Bruno is the CEO of Good as Gold Training, a company that delivers comprehensive, logical, and easy to implement training to help guarantee that participants realize a strong return on their investment of time and money. She is recognized internationally as one of the top experts in the Talent Acquisition and Staffing and Recruiting Professions. Barb released the book "High-Tech High-Touch Re...
Adjusting your Leadership Style to Bring Out the Best in your Employees 09.09.2022 1:06:48
Danny Kerr is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Breakthrough Academy, a company made to help contractors transition from being doers of all things, to builders of great systems and leaders of great people. At 20 years old, Danny took a leadership position for a franchise company and grew sales by 300% in one year, and over the next six years was managing over 150 staff in the organization. In t...
Q&A with Tommy - Dialing in on Proper Systems and Delegation to Double your Efficiency 26.08.2022 46:49
Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $150 million-plus home service business with over 400 employees in 16 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. In this special episode of the Home Service Expert podcast, Tomm...
Vertical Track: The Event That'll Create 1,000 Recession-Proof Businesses 19.08.2022 45:01
Jim Leslie is the Chief Technology Officer of A1 Garage Door Service. He is known as Tommy's right-hand man and go-to guy for building software needed by A1, and is also a great contributor to the success of organizing Vertical Track events. In this special episode of The Home Service Expert Podcast, Tommy and Jim talked about Vertical Track, and what participants can expect from the 3-day live ev...
Building A Strong Workforce To Outlast Your Competitors Through Change Leadership 12.08.2022 1:16:48
Randy Pennington is the owner of Pennington Performance Group, a management consulting company that offers ground-breaking solutions to drive performance and organizational climate change for clients around the world. He is also the author of two best-selling books, "Make Change Work: Staying Nimble, Relevant, and Engaged in a World of Constant Change", and "Results Rule!: Build a Culture That Blo...
Million-Dollar-Plus Secrets to Hiring, Training, and Managing a Sales Team 05.08.2022 1:21:44
Jonathan Whistman is the CEO of PerceptionPredict, an organization composed of a pool of data scientists and leading experts that focuses on building high performance sales teams through human-centered data-driven AI models. He is also the Founding Partner of The Sales Boss, a sales consultancy built around the concepts of his International Best Selling Book, "The Sales Boss: The Real Secret to Hi...
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