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Growing from $2M to $15M in 20 months with the Right Systems and Mindset

📅 July 19, 2022 ⏱️ 1:12:01 🎤 Lance Bachmann, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Intro: Lance Bachmann, 1SEO and home service
  • 3:17
    Systems fail most people who don't dig in
  • 12:58
    Branding with KickCharge and Dan Antonelli
  • 16:12
    Why the same owners stay stuck at conferences
  • 19:26
    Charlotte vs. Philadelphia markets
  • 22:40
    Defining success: family over cars and houses
  • 25:51
    Building wealth with cash flow and property
  • 32:18
    Can the owner still run every sales call?
  • 35:32
    HVAC seasonality and margins
  • 48:28
    Coaching an owner to raise prices
  • 51:40
    Business partnerships are like marriage
  • 1:10:56
    Just do one thing and move forward

Speakers

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Lance Bachmann
Founder, 1SEO Digital Agency & Home Service Owner
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Tommy Mello
Host / Founder, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

Growing from $2M to $15M in 20 months came down to installing the right systems and refusing to let the owner remain the bottleneck on every function.

Owners who attend the same conferences year after year but stay the same size never change because they never actually implement what they learn.

Real success is measured in vacations, quality time, and being present with family, not cars or houses — define the win before you chase revenue.

The smartest wealth play for a successful operator is using the business's cash flow to buy property and build assets around a network of people who can educate you.

Even a great salesman can't personally run every sales call at scale, so the job becomes building a sales team and process that sells as well as you do.

HVAC seasonality means roughly four months carry the year, so plan slower months and margin dips deliberately instead of being caught off guard.

Business partnerships fail like marriages when partners don't define terms in black and white up front, so agree on the hard scenarios before you start.

The single most important move for any owner is to just do one thing and move forward — like going to the gym, momentum compounds after day one.

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