E: 48 - Lori Tschol - From Burgers to Bangles to Heating & Air! A True Journey In Entrepreneurship
11/10/21 • 67 min
Lori Tschohl is no stranger to owning a business. She started with a McDonald’s franchise that did $10M/year, decided she wanted to retire so she sold it but then got bored of travelling so she bought not one but TWO Pandora franchises, decided she didn’t want to travel to those locations as much, so she then decided to start an HVAC company in her local area. (Run-on sentence, I know). Their HVAC business started out as solely commercial work, and after 5 years they made the move to add on residential. They are now doing about $1.5M/year in just residential after 2 short years. Lori sits on the advisory board for Service Nation Alliance, is a member of LadyTitans, and is a member of the Women in HVACR. She is an ambassador for women in the trade and is constantly mentoring women in the HVAC industry. Normally a wine drinker, she said she would get into the whiskey with us today. Better get yourself a bottle, too!
How do you find the things to work on your business?
How do you approach customer service?
Is there a way to handle negative clients?
If humanity was put on trial by an advanced race of aliens, how would you defend humanity and argue for its continued existence?
What have you learned from traveling and how does it relate to business?
How do you lead and mentor women in the trades?
How do you recruit people into your business?
Is employee ride-along worth it?
Should I do an annual succession planning seminar?
Find Lori:
Via Email: [email protected]
Via Cell: 360-316-6065
Join Our Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hvacrevealed
Presented By On Purpose Media: https://www.onpurposemedia.ca
Lori Tschohl is no stranger to owning a business. She started with a McDonald’s franchise that did $10M/year, decided she wanted to retire so she sold it but then got bored of travelling so she bought not one but TWO Pandora franchises, decided she didn’t want to travel to those locations as much, so she then decided to start an HVAC company in her local area. (Run-on sentence, I know). Their HVAC business started out as solely commercial work, and after 5 years they made the move to add on residential. They are now doing about $1.5M/year in just residential after 2 short years. Lori sits on the advisory board for Service Nation Alliance, is a member of LadyTitans, and is a member of the Women in HVACR. She is an ambassador for women in the trade and is constantly mentoring women in the HVAC industry. Normally a wine drinker, she said she would get into the whiskey with us today. Better get yourself a bottle, too!
How do you find the things to work on your business?
How do you approach customer service?
Is there a way to handle negative clients?
If humanity was put on trial by an advanced race of aliens, how would you defend humanity and argue for its continued existence?
What have you learned from traveling and how does it relate to business?
How do you lead and mentor women in the trades?
How do you recruit people into your business?
Is employee ride-along worth it?
Should I do an annual succession planning seminar?
Find Lori:
Via Email: [email protected]
Via Cell: 360-316-6065
Join Our Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hvacrevealed
Presented By On Purpose Media: https://www.onpurposemedia.ca
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E: 47 - Trent Booth - Start, Stop, Keep & Vulnerable Leadership
Today’s show marks our one-year anniversary (ish) of the show! I say -ish because we didn’t even have a show name other than “hey let’s drink whiskey and shoot the shit with people live on Facebook”. And here we are... 1 crazy year later! Rather than hear us gush about how much we love y’all, we decided to one of our very first guests, Trent Booth!
- What can you start, stop, and keep in your business?
- do you feel like there is a space to be vulnerable with the people who are working for you?
- Thoughts on the Leadership
- What is the most powerful hack that you can do for your business?
Connect with Trent:
FB / IG / LinkedIn: @trentbooth
TikTok: @thebenttruth
Email: [email protected]
Join Our Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hvacrevealed
Presented By On Purpose Media: https://www.onpurposemedia.ca
For HVAC Digital marketing: https://www.onpurposemedia.ca/hvac-digital-marketing
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E:49 - Brandon Stowe - Building A Multi-State HVAC Business
Brandon Stowe has been in the HVAC industry for his entire life, starting out working with his Grandfather as a kid cleaning condensers. The ride hasn’t always been easy for Brandon. Learning from his past mistakes in business, he is charting an aggressive and existing new path forward. Today, he is the owner of CrackJack Home Services, a multi-state company that has aggressive growth plans for the future. Going to have a wide variety of topics, from mergers and acquisitions to sales, to bootstrapping new companies.
We got into:
What happened to HVAC Sales Matrix?
How to build resiliency?
How do you recover after a business failure?
Is there a way to manage business growth?
What fad or trend do you hope comes back?
What are the pillars you’ve put in place in your business?
And more!
Find Brandon :
On The Web: https://crackerjackhomeservices.com/
Via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realstowe
Join Our Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hvacrevealed
Presented By On Purpose Media: https://www.onpurposemedia.ca
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