Pants Around Ankles Prevention

Who Should Run Our Service Department?

Most of my work has traditionally been done with commercial roofing contractors. I was recently asked a question from a commercial roofing contractor in regard to his service department. And the question that came in was this. Who's the ideal person to run our service department? Find out my answer in this episode.

Which Comes First?

In this episode of pants around ankles prevention, we've got a different approach because we had a question come in from someone who already has their pants around their ankles! The questions is: "It seems like we either have too much selling going on and can't get it all done or we have excess operational capacity and need more sales. How do you balance this?"

Taking Your Foot Off The Gas?

I'm pretty sure that you can relate to the experience that I've had when I have been driving a car down the road and I take my foot off the gas because when I take my foot off the gas, my experience has been that the car starts to slow down. So there's this expression that many of you have heard that if you're not growing, you're dying. I'm 70 years old, my body doesn't work the way it used to, so I'll go out and ride my bicycle. And what I've discovered, it takes a lot longer for me to build fitness than it used to. And if I take a week off because I have to travel someplace the other thing I discover is I lose that fitness a lot faster. This principle is applicable not only to your personal physical fitness, but also to how your brain works and how your business runs.

Principles

If you're like me, there have probably been times in your life, maybe in your business life, no, not maybe in your business life and in your personal life where you've wanted to make some changes. You've got some goals that you wanted to set. You've got some things that you were striving for, and so you, you really didn't know how to get there, which is probably a sign that's a worthwhile endeavor. And, and so you, you read about it and maybe you hire a consultant or you watch some videos online, again, read books or articles, and then you get the ideas about how to go about it and you go apply these ideas. Then it doesn't work ever happen. And, you know, often this takes some time. You know, in my first business endeavor as a a commercial roofing contractor, I did it for 14 years or 12 years or whatever before I decided it didn't work.

Do You Know How to Exit?

There is a mistake that I see many people make in the industry in terms of how they run their business, and they end up with their pants around their ankles. The mistake they make is that although they build a big business plan for how to go into business and how to build their business, they have no plan for how to build succession and exit plans, and it's a tragedy.

Do You Have Personal Goals?

Today's episode is on a very important topic, and that topic is your life! So many people I work with have goals for their businesses, but very few have goals for their life. Listen to this podcast and find out why it is more important to have the latter.

A Cashflow Crisis

A couple years ago, I had a meeting where a contractor came in and he came in with his pants around his ankles because of a series of events that he really had no control over and could not reasonably have been expected to fully anticipate. He was in a cashflow crisis and he didn't know what to do... Find out how we were able to help him get his pants buckled firmly back on his waist!