Renee Lucas, co-owner of LCS Heating and Cooling in Indianapolis, tells us about her business and her top rules for success in the HVAC industry. You won’t want to miss it!

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82 - Renee Lucas - Renee's Rules

Dirk Payne is the owner of Sunshine Plumbing & Backflow Prevention in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dirk shares his story of how a natural disaster completely destroyed his business, and how he rebuilt it into a thriving operation.

81 - Dirk Payne - Starting Over

Glen Wojcik is the owner of Pioneer Valley Environmental in Ware, Massachusetts. Glen joins us to share his experience with a recent acquisition and what he learned through the process.

80 - Glen Wojcik - An Acquisition

Tom Peregrino of Daffan Mechanical recently won the prestigious Contractor of the Year award. Tom joins us to discuss his unusual entry into the industry, his path to success, and how he gives back to his community. You won’t want to miss it!

79 - Tom Peregrino - Contractor of the Year

Mike O’Connell is the Director of Strategic Accounts and Partnerships at PowerPay and has a deep understanding of the benefits of consumer financing. Mike joins us to discuss home improvement financing and some best practices for offering financing options to customers in our  industry.

78 - Mike O'Connell - PowerPay

Nancy O’Hare-Zika is owner of Yellow Dog Creative in Michigan, focusing on the marketing needs of companies in the skilled trades industry. Nancy shares some great low-cost ways to market your business, as well as sharing some current trends in marketing. You can contact Nancy through her website, https://yellowdogcreative.com.

77 - Nancy O'Hare-Zika - Marketing Ideas You Need

In 2005 Nikolai Matveev came to the USA speaking no English and with no experience in our industry. Flash forward to the present and he’s an owner of a large,  successful Plumbing and HVAC business that he and his business partner started in 2013. How did he do it?

76 - Nikolai Matveev - Cardinal Plumbing, Heating & Air

Chandler Pernell is going to be a force in our industry. He joins us to share his story of how he joined our industry, how he transitioned his role within the family business, and his vision for the future.

75 - Chandler Pernell - Building and Growing

The Best Bibliophile returns to tell us about the top business books he read in 2020. And he has a special offer for listeners of this podcast.

74 - Dave Rothacker - Best Books of 2020

Colleen Keyworth is the 2020 Woman of the Year. Colleen is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Online Access, an HVAC web marketing company located in Michigan. Colleen has a multi-faceted perspective on the industry. She gives us a bit of her professional history, and helps us with ideas to improve employee recruiting.

73 - Colleen Keyworth - Woman of the Year

In 1983 a young Tim Boudreaux started Tim’s Air Conditioning. Thirty-seven years later he sold it and is heading off into a well-funded, adventurous, and active retirement.  In this episode Tim generously shares the story of his company and some of what he learned along the way including: his valued relationship with Lennox, Vicki LaPlant, Focus on the Future, an enterprising yellow page rep, moving to a bigger market, business processes, and more. Tim built a great company and Tim’s success is well-deserved. Learn from those that have been there and done it!

72 - Tim Boudreaux - Tim’s Air Conditioning

If you’re in business very long, you will eventually have an opportunity to interact with the media, for good or for bad. How you manage that interaction can make a big difference for your company. Lorri Allen, the Soundbite Coach, is an expert on all aspects of the modern media. You need to know what she can tell you.

71 - Lorri Allen - The Soundbite Coach

Lori and Delayne Stickling are growing their family business. This is definitely a company to watch. What are they doing to grow and improve?

70 - Lori Stickling - Covenant Plumbing

Thanksgiving is the best of holidays! Appropriate for this great holiday season, we speak with Jason Ball, president and owner of Artic Bear, who is well-known for his great company and his involvement in the community. Please listen to the very end; I’ve got a small request for you.

69 - Jason Ball - Giving Back

Lori Tschohl is the owner of Eagle Pipe and Mechanical in Port Ludlow, Washington. An amazing businessperson with a unique path into the HVAC industry, Lori shares how she went from a career owning several McDonalds restaurants, to starting two jewelry stores, and then becoming a business owner in HVAC.

68 - Lori Tschohl - Burgers to Bangles to Pipe

Do you like stories about business? I do! I’m endlessly fascinated by the creative and innovative strategies business people employ to build their businesses. I love the stories of how businesses were started, bought, sold, grown, failed, and the stories of pitfalls and advances. They’re all interesting. As someone who runs a business and advises others who run businesses, I find the stories useful and informative as well as cautionary and inspirational.

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