Contractors' Stories · June 5, 2026
Scale a Contractor Business Without Losing Trust
Dominic Vella explains how focus, pricing, marketing, and steady improvement helped Fantastic Fence grow beyond an owner-dependent shop.
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Home Service Lessons
Field-tested lessons from contractors and home-service specialists interviewed by Jim Klauck.
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Check A Pro Radio Show · June 15, 2026
Five Garage Door Myths Homeowners Should Know
Garage-door specialist Adam Greer explains five common myths about door quality, installers, springs, opener force, and replacement parts.
Check A Pro Radio Show · June 29, 2026
How to Size a Whole-Home Standby Generator
Delton Landry explains how loads, fuel, transfer equipment, permits, monitoring, and maintenance shape a standby-generator plan.
Check A Pro Radio Show · May 25, 2025
Create a Home-Service Offer People Act On
Jim Cosmas shows contractors how to build a focused offer with urgency, real value, risk reversal, and economics the business can support.
Contractors' Stories · July 3, 2025
Build an HVAC Career From the Ground Up
Brian Davis explains how Army leadership, shop work, trusted referrals, and teaching helped him grow from HVAC student to general manager.
Contractors' Stories · April 9, 2025
Modernize a Family Contractor With Less Chaos
Kevin Lipps explains how operating manuals, priority discipline, delegation, and a bold rebrand helped modernize his family electrical company.
Contractors' Stories · December 16, 2024
Scale a Trades Platform With Systems
Jim Klauck and Trades Holding CEO Phil Dodyk explain how systems, field leaders, training, and trust support multi-brand home-service growth.
Contractors' Stories · December 10, 2024
Grow From Lawn Mowing to Outdoor Living
Jim Klauck and Chris Vincent trace the move from one mower to specialized outdoor living through learning, pricing, branding, and team growth.
Contractors' Stories · March 29, 2025
Add Water Treatment Without Losing Trust
Glen Blavet explains how contractors can add water treatment through technician training, recurring service, and a contractor-only sales model.
Contractors' Stories · November 25, 2024
Document a Home-Service Business to Scale
Jim Klauck and All Pro's Katie Smith explain how process documentation, role backups, niche focus, and client education make growth safer.
Contractors' Stories · January 24, 2025
Scale a Recurring Mobile Service Business
Jim Klauck and Kontota founder Hoss Belyadi unpack recurring service, route density, training, branding, franchising, and customer recovery.
Contractors' Stories · January 29, 2025
Define What Growth Is For Before You Scale
Tim Fitzpatrick explains how clear positioning, operational trust, measured marketing, and a personal definition of enough can guide contractor growth.
Contractors' Stories · February 13, 2025
Use Coaching to Break an Owner Bottleneck
Nathan Shafer explains how coaching, role clarity, faster decisions, and shared leadership helped a family HVAC company move beyond owner dependence.
Contractors' Stories · March 18, 2025
Turn Warranty Calls Into Direct Customers
Scott Klintworth explains how warranty-dispatched appliance repair can earn direct customers without abandoning the volume that supports the business.
Contractors' Stories · February 24, 2025
Build Systems Before Franchising
Jake Still explains why a service company should document delivery, unit economics, people systems, and compliance before trying to franchise.
Contractors' Stories · March 25, 2025
Grow a Roofing Company Through Service
Dustin Bower explains how repair-first advice, clear expectations, documented work, and accountable callbacks can help a roofing company grow.
Check A Pro Radio Show · February 26, 2026
Troubleshoot a Garage Door That Will Not Close
Cody Johnson explains safe checks for a door that reverses, stalls, or feels heavy—and which spring and opener symptoms require a professional.
Contractors' Stories · December 22, 2024
Earn the Path From Technician to Owner
Patrick Somers explains how technical training, owner-level habits, community trust, clear vision, and calm leadership can create a path to ownership.
Contractors' Stories · December 19, 2024
Turn Trade Skill Into People Leadership
Justin Wilson explains how systems, emotional intelligence, field credibility, family leadership, and persistence move a service company beyond its owner.
Contractors' Stories · December 8, 2024
Handle Storm Claims Without Crossing the Line
Adam Olson explains how roof inspections, contractor boundaries, documentation, and honest communication support safer storm-claim decisions.
Contractors' Stories · November 22, 2024
Right-Size HVAC Beyond Rules of Thumb
Cory Huffman explains how load calculations, equipment selection, airflow, humidity control, measurement, and field training fit together.
Contractors' Stories · December 28, 2024
Build a Roofing Brand on Proof, Not Promises
Heidi and Brad Black show how a roofing company can pair durable-product positioning with written proof, clear roles, and a values-led team.
Phenomenal Business Growth Podcast · November 12, 2024
Step Out of the Truck Without Losing Control
Kevin Babb explains how a plumbing owner can hire the next technician, coach decisions, document handoffs, and make time away from the truck possible.
Service MVP Podcast · March 25, 2024
Serve First in a Home-Service Sales Call
Rick Picard explains how customer-first intent, shared information, responsibility, and honest options change a home-service sales call.
Service MVP Podcast · July 10, 2023
Conduct an In-Home Service Proposal
Rick Picard lays out an in-home proposal sequence: interview first, prepare real choices, present value clearly, and protect the customer's decision.
Bring On Success with Jim Klauck · March 22, 2023
Build a Business Where Stakeholders Win
Tommy Mello explains how purpose, leader development, recruiting systems, scorecards, coaching, and reinvestment can reduce founder dependence.
Service MVP Podcast · January 21, 2024
Build a Home-Service Brand People Recognize
Dan Antonelli explains how naming, visual identity, vehicle legibility, culture, rollout, and brand standards make a home-service company recognizable.
Service MVP Podcast · April 8, 2024
Stop Business-Owner Self-Sabotage
Kelly Resendez explains how vision, documented systems, protected capacity, outside help, and clear roles keep an owner from becoming the bottleneck.
Contractors' Stories · January 25, 2025
Answer Buyer Questions Before the Sales Call
Marcus Sheridan explains how honest price guidance, buyer-focused articles, useful video, and sales enablement can earn trust before an appointment.
Contractors' Stories · January 3, 2025
Diversify Home-Service Discovery Beyond Google
Mitch Smedley explains how direct brand searches, useful field videos, owned customer relationships, and operating capacity reduce lead-platform dependence.
Service MVP Podcast · April 3, 2023
Connected HVAC Data Without Losing Judgment
Ken Goodrich explains how connected HVAC data can support diagnosis, installation QA, maintenance, and dispatch without replacing qualified judgment.
Check A Pro Radio Show · March 5, 2025
Balance Brand Building With Sales Activation
Ryan Chute separates brand message, sales activation, and market presence so contractors can balance memory, action, and demand capture.
Service MVP Podcast · October 2, 2023
Run Privacy-Conscious Call-by-Call Coaching
Amanda Triolo's call-by-call coaching loop becomes usable when training, live support, review, privacy controls, and human judgment work together.
Service MVP Podcast · June 26, 2023
Explain a Premium Home-Service Price
Rick Picard's pricing discussion becomes a consumer-respectful method for explaining scope, service, tradeoffs, and written terms without pressure.
Pipeline To Profitability · February 28, 2023
Install the 7-Power Contractor Framework
Al Levi's 7-Power framework becomes an ordered rollout: choose priorities, define roles, document work, train people, coach, market, and budget.
Pipeline To Profitability · March 20, 2023
Design a Home-Service Membership Customers Value
Billy Stevens explains how a clear service promise, inspection cadence, customer participation, documentation, and repeatable fulfillment shape a membership.
Service MVP Podcast · January 8, 2024
Turn Customer Proof Into Clear Differentiation
Tim Brown explains how contractors can mine real reviews, capture truthful testimonials, prove a specific promise, and repeat it across useful content.
Service MVP Podcast · February 26, 2024
Reduce HVAC Technician Research Time
Matt Case explains how manuals, parts data, structured escalation, and human technical support can reduce research friction without replacing field judgment.
Service MVP Podcast · March 18, 2024
Build a Ductless Service Line Customers Can Trust
Michelle LaFrance explains how training, customer education, truthful capability proof, and a coordinated content system can support a ductless service line.
The Beach Money Podcast · October 12, 2023
Build Authority With a Home-Service Podcast
Jim Klauck explains how interview-led podcasts can answer buyer questions, reveal the people behind a service company, and build a useful content library.
Pipeline To Profitability · July 6, 2024
Build a Repeatable Podcast Content Cadence
Jim Klauck turns recurring homeowner questions into a practical recording, repurposing, publishing, and review cadence for home-service teams.
Service MVP Podcast · February 12, 2024
Manage Home-Service Reviews Responsibly
Cassandra Webster's review framework becomes an ethical operating loop for asking, responding, learning, and escalating documented policy violations.
Service MVP Podcast · July 6, 2024
Lead a Home-Service Team With Clear Standards
Chloe Davis explains how written standards, lived values, focused coaching, and individual motivation can make home-service leadership clearer and fairer.
Service MVP Podcast · September 18, 2023
Lead Yourself Before Leading a Service Team
Stephen Akian explains how learning, visible standards, vulnerability, delegation, and reciprocal accountability turn self-leadership into team leadership.
Service MVP Podcast · August 28, 2023
Hire and Train an Accountable Plumbing Team
Nicole Snyder explains a hiring, field-training, customer-service, and prompt accountability loop for a plumbing team, with recording-time role guardrails.
Service MVP Podcast · August 14, 2023
Build Service Culture Through Training and Values
Kalee and Clint Moore explain how written values, job-relevant hiring, documented procedures, gradual-release training, and reciprocal service shape culture.
Service MVP Podcast · April 24, 2023
Grow an Electrical Career Through Learning
Anthony Moore explains how cross-role experience, mentors, supervised training, current instructions, and ongoing study support an electrical career.
Service MVP Podcast · May 29, 2023
Design a Repeatable Home-Service Call Experience
Nathan Keller outlines a repeatable home-service call experience built on clear coverage, pre-call training, consistent handoffs, and careful review.
Service MVP Podcast · March 4, 2024
Use Evidence to Protect Business Focus
Landon Brewer explains how evidence, bounded tests, explicit review rules, and exit conditions can protect a service business from unproven potential.
The Beach Money Podcast · July 5, 2024
Build a Referral Network by Helping First
Nate Dominguez shares a help-first referral practice built on listening, useful resources, consent-aware follow-up, and deeper relationships.
Service MVP Podcast · February 19, 2024
Turn Service Growth Into an Accountability Loop
Helmi Ben Flah and Joe Rivera describe a service-growth accountability loop built on customer care, explicit processes, internal training, and review.
Service MVP Podcast · March 13, 2023
Set Clear Roles in a Family Service Business
Roy Jaramillo's family-business discussion becomes a practical system for roles, decisions, disagreements, accountability, and after-hours boundaries.
ABACUS Plumbing Podcast · January 1, 2025
Build Employee Support Before Customer Service
Alan O’Neill's people-first lesson becomes a practical employee-support system with clear manager limits, confidential routing, and learning loops.
Phenomenal Business Growth Podcast · March 13, 2024
Turn Trade Experience into Customer Education
Jeff Buck's career-change story becomes a careful teach-before-propose method that separates useful customer education from unsupported technical claims.
SEAL Podcast · August 7, 2024
Set a Privacy-Aware In-Home Access Protocol
Cori McDougald's in-home service discussion becomes a privacy-aware protocol for arrival identity, access limits, personal items, and secure closeout.
Contractors' Stories Podcast · December 13, 2024
Operationalize Integrity in a Service Company
Billy Gregus's integrity discussion becomes a practical control loop for promises, work changes, quality checks, recovery, and team accountability.
Bring On Success Radio · September 5, 2022
Apply AC Lockyer's Five Keys to Pattern Success
AC Lockyer's five-key framework becomes a guarded operating loop for planning, action, review, replication, documentation, and exceptions.
Phenomenal Business Growth Podcast · August 21, 2023
Run a Clear Service Communication Procedure
Renée Marino's communication discussion becomes a practical service procedure for listening, clear messages, channel choice, escalation, and closeout.
Contractors' Stories · September 1, 2024
Test Service Processes With Frontline Ride-Alongs
Ellen Rohr's field-observation lesson becomes a consent-aware ride-along method for testing service processes before a company-wide rollout.
Phenomenal Business Growth Podcast · August 7, 2023
Evaluate a Complementary Supply Business
Loren Goodrich's recording-time supply story becomes a go/no-go method built on separate economics, capacity, controls, and a stop rule.
Phenomenal Business Growth Podcast · January 29, 2024
Validate a New Service With a Bounded Pilot
John Torres's cautionary startup story becomes a lawful, competence-bounded pilot for testing one adjacent service before scaling it.
Check A Pro Radio Show · March 19, 2026
Diagnose Uneven Home Comfort Before Replacing HVAC
Use a room-by-room comfort log, qualified airflow and duct tests, humidity evidence, and repair history before deciding whether to repair or replace HVAC.
Check A Pro Radio Show · February 11, 2026
Inspect the Roof and Attic Before Repair or Replacement
Use dated exterior and attic evidence, safe qualified inspection, and written scopes to separate roof maintenance, repair, ventilation work, and replacement.
Check A Pro Radio Show · February 24, 2026
Test Water Before Choosing a Softener or Filter
Start with the utility report and fit-for-purpose testing, then match hardness or a verified contaminant to the right treatment and maintenance plan.