Bro I take it back lol wtf It’s over Adessa

Biggest mistake I see business owners make: We want to do everything ourselves. Control it all. Save every dollar. We tell ourselves we can handle it. We can't. Last year I hired an office manager. Retention, reviews, profit. All went up. This year I hired a warehouse manager. Trucks ready every morning. Zero wasted time. Some things you don't need to pay for. But some things it's just plain stupid not to. You're not saving money. You're hurting yourself.

Just walked off a dealership lot. CEO visiting Sunday. Glass has to be perfect. We're booked out a month. My guys don't work weekends. He said he didn't care what it cost. So we're opening up the weekend. Rush rate for him. Triple pay for my crew. Found us on Google. Good way to end the week.

I'm not a doom guy at all but I will say this year you gotta work harder for the work I've talked to people in roofing, real estate, all kinds of stuff and a lot of people are holding their money back a little I got a buddy who only sells $10M homes in Fort Lauderdale and he told me there's basically no showings right now. I asked him if those people even finance and he said anything over 2.5 mil is cash So it's not that they don't have it. They're just waiting to see what happens I'm still booked out about a month and a half in both businesses so I'm not complaining. But with Christmas lights this year I had to be way more aggressive and I've had people tell me they want to spend a little less. That never really happened before Not saying it's over. People are just being careful So take care of your customers. Give them a better experience. Losing one costs you way more than you think And don't cut your ads. That's what everybody does and it's a mistake. Keep it the same or bump it up, you'll pick up some great customers while everyone else pulls back

Just pulled the numbers. I'm a little shook. Paid a media buyer for 6 months. AI beat him in 30 days. Same creative. Separate accounts I've hired 2 media buyers. AI is outperforming both. Wtf

Every rich person I've met had one thing in common. They had no clue what they were doing. Not at the start. They knew a little. Just enough to start. And they ran with it. Meanwhile I know broke guys who could teach a class on business. They know everything. And they still think they need to know more. That's the trap. The more you know, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the less you move. Know a little. Move a lot.

second week in business I'm on a ladder cleaning this lady's windows door to door guys walk up knock on HER door while I'm standing right there squeegee in my hand pitch her ask what she's paying us say they'll do it cheaper looking right at me the whole time I was heated like bro I'm literally right here drove home still thinking about it then it hit me he didn't do anything wrong didn't lie didn't cheat he just wanted the same customer I wanted business is war we can be cool but out there unless you're my friend friend it's all fair game that day used to bother me now I’m glad it happened you can come for my customers I'll be coming for yours too

Competitor pulled up to quote the house next to my job today. Big house. He was on the far end measuring. So I knocked on the front door. Told her I'm doing the neighbors across the street. She called them right there. They said they were happy $5,000 He was still measuring. Sorry bro. Game is game.

hate admitting this. But I'm telling my son the truth. College isn't necessary anymore. I dropped out of high school. Figured I'd work for someone forever and make nothing. Instead I built a home services company. The gap is wild now. The opportunity has never been bigger.

Got a call to quote Christmas lights a yacht lol Bro I’m so poor

Got a call from an 18 year old today. No company. No trucks. No employees. He runs ads for home service businesses. People call him. He books the appointment. Or takes your pricing and books the whole job. All over text. Sells it to guys like me for $30 to $100. $25K a month. I'm still processing this.

I had to turn myself in to the city last year Over yard signs When I started my window cleaning business I was putting out 30 to 50 signs a day. Had every spot tracked Out till past midnight putting signs up, then cleaning windows at 7:30 brutal city spent months trying to figure out who it was. Eventually, had to go down there and tell them it was me $30K fine. They worked it down to a couple grand Those signs took me from 0 to 30K. Worth every penny

The bar is so low it's almost funny. Most home service companies take hours to reply to a lead. Some never do. The fix takes a couple hours. Have Claude or ChatGPT build you a simple Zapier or Make automation. Form comes in on your site. Lead gets a text in 30 seconds. Hey, this is [Name] with [Company]. Just got your inquiry, thank you. We'll reach out shortly. You get a text with every detail from the form. Everything saves to Google Sheets or Airtable. Ninja move: Daytime text says we'll call you shortly. After hours says we'll reach out first thing in the morning. No CRM. No developer. Just first contact in 30 seconds. That alone puts you ahead of most of your market.

Starting a painting company. Not even launched yet. Just did some basic SEO. 0 reviews $0 on ads. lead just came in. Is painting a gold mine or am I tripping?

actually surprised people got heated over this personally I grew up talking however I wanted everybody did then I got hired at a fancy restaurant when I was 21 they had rules on everything how you talk, how you stand, how you look no visible tattoos either same idea guests judge you before you say a word then again once you open your mouth now I'm in million dollar homes same exact thing my guys walk up and the client already decided how they feel I'm not gambling on that nothing against tattoos (trust me) it's just not the first impression I'm selling you don't gotta agree I just know what works

I have never seen a profitable business running only Google Local Service Ads. Doesn’t exist.

Ai iS bAD Dot just caught a $670 double payment I sent. They never said a word.

At my company, tattoos get covered. No exceptions. Not even me. And I have a lot of them. Yes, it's 2026. I know. doesn't matter. My clients live in multimillion dollar homes. When I knock on their door, they don't know me. They don't know my work. They don't know my standards. All they know is what they see. Every tattoo showing is one more objection. One more thing to get past before we even talk about the job. Took me a while to accept that. Some people never do. They'd rather be right than get the job. I'd rather get the job.