Show Notes
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đ Top 5 Takes for this Episode! There are two types of business owners â those who build for cash flow, and those who build enterprise value to sell.
Know which one you are before you start. More marketing never fixes a broken operation. Fix your booking rate, cancellation rate, and conversion rate first. Then scale spend. A players today can become C players in two years.
The business grows, the people don't always grow with it. Watch for it. Never take on work outside your lane just because it's a big dollar. Scope creep creates liability, inflates AR, and distracts the whole team.
"Everybody wants the views, but very few people are willing to take the hike." â the one quote that defines the cost of real success.
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- Introducing Jordan White and Seek One Roofing
- The hardest thing in business right now
- Building a business as an asset vs. a cash flow machine
- Year by year: $2.5M to $28M in four years
- What salespeople don't know when they start a company
- Why some industries are impossible to scale
- Building trust and credibility before you have a brand
- What happens at $28M â private equity, roll equity, or rebuild
- How faith shows up in real business decisions
- Protecting integrity while training salespeople to win
- The marketing formula nobody talks about
- Why adding more marketing spend right now is a mistake
- Building a real-time data dashboard with custom metrics
- Why you should own a market before you enter a new one
- When to walk away from a market (we pulled out of 7)
- The hardest leadership lesson Jordan learned
- Turning down an $8.3M commercial job and why
- Aaron Stokes tribute â the plane accident and what it meant
- What loss teaches you about enjoying the journey
- If you don't enjoy the journey, the destination won't change it
- Don't tie your identity to your business
- What changes as a leader when the company outgrows you
- The CFO who sees around corners
- Colin's story: from Tractor Supply at 19 to $273K in year one
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