The Home Service Expert Podcast
The Home Service Expert podcast is the No. 1 podcast for ambitious home service entrepreneurs, whether they are in plumbing, HVAC or another niche.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 25
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #22 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest episodes
The Guy Behind Tommy Mello's Emails Only Sends 4 A Month For A Reason | Zac Garside (opens the original)
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🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Zac Garside spent eight years training CSRs before he noticed the most profitable channel in home service was the one nobody used: the customer list. Now his agency Send It runs email for some of the biggest contractors in the country, including A1. In this episode Zac and Tommy break down why contractors rebuy customers they already paid for, the one-email-a-week plan any company can run tomorrow, the Will/Won't research framework
The Best CSR, Dispatcher And Tech In The Company Was The Problem | Jim Leslie & Al Levi (opens the original)
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🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Revenue is everywhere in home service right now. Profit is not. Tommy sits down with his mentor Al Levi, author of The 7-Power Contractor, and Jim Leslie, president of Home Service Freedom, to break down why: the hiring excuse every contractor uses ("nobody wants to work") and the answer Jim gives back, what a lost tech really costs, the five things of staffing, why you should triple your pricing, why the owner who is the best CSR,
How a Home Service Owner's Cheapest Hire Is Now His Biggest Revenue Line (opens the original)
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🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Most home service owners hear virtual assistant and think someone to answer emails. Alyssa Shivers and Mia Juan of Ready Roles think bigger: five callers on $5.75 an hour brought one moving company almost $500,000 in paid estimates in a single month. In this episode they break down what owners get wrong about VAs, why a $3 an hour VA gives you a $3 outcome, the 10-day onboarding that makes a remote hire work, the flat fee model wher
The First KPI Every Home Service Owner Should Track (Not Revenue) | (opens the original)
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🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Derek Cornish got laid off, answered a job ad, and became the top salesman at a window company. Then he and his partner Lakota Tidd built Top Home Improvements from a garage to $20 million a year across three Michigan locations on door knocking and 300 events a year. In this episode Derek breaks down the sales system behind it: why close percentage is the first KPI to track, why his Detroit manager did more revenue with fewer reps,
You Hit $5M, Then $10M. Why It Never Feels Like Enough (& What Actually Does) (opens the original)
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🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Tommy Mello does $410 million a year and admits he is still chasing the next thing. Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course in Harvard's history, built the world's first master's and PhD in happiness studies, and won Israel's national squash title at 16 only to feel nothing three hours later. Together they break down the arrival fallacy that runs every entrepreneur, why happier companies post better margins, the SPIRE model, m
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Apple #22 · US
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