The Contractor Fight with Tom Reber

Brad Balentine is an electrical contractor and the owner of Tri-Point Electric outside of Philadelphia. He’s been part of The Fight and some of the programs for several years now and has been doing some cool stuff. Nine years ago, Brad started Tri-Point with just him and a van and since then he’s grown his business every single year to the point where he now has 10 full time employees. Listen in as Brad shares some of the most important things he’s learned while being a part of The Fight.   Links to resources: Tri-Point Electric Order Your Fight Planner The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Text CONTRACTOR FIGHT to 877-807-1740 to get more connected and help you build a better business   Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Mark Bunker is the owner of Bunker Building, a building and remodeling company out of Massachusetts. He’s been a part of the Fight Community for some time and eventually jumped into some of the programs. In just a couple of years he’s been able to go from being in the field full time with one helper to now having four full time guys while he takes care of sales and maintaining the business. He’s a really good dude who did some simple stuff including doing all of the basics and getting in the right mindset and now he’s kicking ass in sales. Listen in as Mark tells his story and shares some crucial advice.   Links to resources: Bunker Building Order Your Fight Planner The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Text CONTRACTOR FIGHT to 877-807-1740 to get more connected and help you build a better business   Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Today’s guest is Joe Everest, the owner of Ozark Fence. Joe has been a part of some of the programs in The Fight for the past year and a half and he’s been doing some amazing things. Not only is he learning a lot and growing his business, but he’s been a huge resource for other members in the group. He runs a rockin’ high profit, high revenue company and he’s always willing to share his insights and mentor guys in the group. Today we talk about some of the challenges he’s been facing as a business owner and how he overcame them, he gives some advice on how to convert your sales a little bit better, and a whole lot more.   Links to resources: Ozark Fence Joe Everest On YouTube Order Your Fight Planner The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Text CONTRACTOR FIGHT to 877-807-1740 to get more connected and help you build a better business   Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Brad Huebner is a handyman from Southern Indiana. He’s been a part of The Contractor Fight for a while now and has been having some great success in his business. Today, I wanted to bring him on so that you can hear from a peer of yours talk about a couple of things that he’s learned the past year as a part of The Fight and how he’s applied that to his business.    Links to resources: TeamHandy.com Order Your Fight Planner The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Text CONTRACTOR FIGHT to 877-807-1740 to get more connected and help you build a better business   Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Workglue is “The Ultimate Project Management Software” and was made with Contractors in mind by a Contractor himself. John Busick is the co-founder of Workglue and is a painting contractor from northern California with 35-40 employees doing $3-4 million a year. After many years of managing his contracting business, John finally scratched his itch and started developing Workglue. Because of that, we now have an awesome product that will help you be more profitable as a company, track your sales, do job costing, and so much more.   Links to resources: Workglue PodDecks Order Your Fight Planner The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Text CONTRACTOR FIGHT to 877-807-1740 to get more connected and help you build a better business   Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business. Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Kyle Hunt hosts the podcast Remodelers on the Rise where he inspires entrepreneurs like yourself with great tips, strategies, and information that helps grow remodeling businesses. In this episode, Tom and Kyle discuss many of those tip and strategies that can help out ANY contracting business. Links to resources:Remodelers on the RiseRemodelers Community Facebook GroupText JOIN to 516-219-9735 to Join Kyle’s Weekly Text GroupFight PlannerThe Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night$100k ContractorThe Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy PodcastText CONTRACTOR FIGHT to 877-807-1740 to get more connected and help you build a better business Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business. Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Laura Reale is a 20 year veteran in the marketing and landscaping industry. Laura and her husband own and run AquaReale, providing the Philadelphia area with beautiful natural landscapes. In addition to that, Laura is also the host of the podcast Landscape Marketing Secrets and the owner of pondtent, an email marketing system geared towards pond builders and landscapers.   Links to resources: Landscape Marketing Secrets Landscape Marketing Secrets on iTunes AquaReale Pondtent The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Who doesn’t want to grow their business? What if we told you there’s a couple of steps you can take to not only grow your contracting business, but do it quickly as well? In this episode, Tom shares some key ways that you can quickly and efficiently begin to grow your business so that you’re able to take it to the next level.    Links to resources: The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

It’s something every contractor struggles with - finding and retaining A-Players (or FWs as we like to call them). Today Tom welcomes back “The Business Psychologist” Dr. Sabrina Starling. Sabrina is the author of How To Hire The Best Series and the co-host of the Profit by Design podcast. In this episode we talk about her new book, How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees and learn some of her secrets on how to find and keep those A-Players in your business.   Links to resources: Sabrina’s Book “How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees Tap the Potential Tap the Potential - Free Assessment Profit by Design Podcast PodDecks Fight Fest - Nashville, TN The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge One Nail The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

Have you ever been in a situation where a prospective client will say to you “if you can meet our budget, we’ll let you do the job”? It’s ridiculous how often we are at the mercy of a prospective customer. The root issue is we’re giving our control away as a contractor and it’s been happening for decades. In this episode, Tom shares three huge ways that you can take that control back today.   Links to resources: Fight Fest - Nashville, TN The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night $100k Contractor The Bridge One Nail The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99