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Yelp Responds To Contractors’ Biggest Complaints | Part 1
Yelp COO Jed and Hatch CEO Chris Bake joined the Home Services VIP podcast to address contractor frustrations with the platform, particularly around how reviews are filtered and displayed. Two co-hosts, both owners of...
The Highest ROI Marketing Channel Most Contractors Get Wrong
Zac Garside, founder and president of Send It Email Marketing, joins Chris Yano, Chad Peterman, and Aaron Gaynor to talk about why email marketing remains one of the highest return channels available to home...
WELL SH*T! Throat cancer!
Chris Yano shares a personal health update with listeners, announcing a recent throat cancer diagnosis. He describes the news as serious but emphasizes that the specific type of cancer he has been diagnosed with...
Preaching Through the Pipes: Bubba Thurman’s Journey to Leading a $100M Business
Bubba Thurman, president of Baker Brothers Plumbing, Air and Electrical in Dallas, discusses how AI is reshaping the way customers find and evaluate home service companies. His core argument is that AI-driven search is...
How Josh Campbell Built, Scaled, and Sold Rescue Air | VIP Guest Josh Campbell
Josh Campbell, founder of Rescue Air in Dallas, Texas, walked through how he built a residential HVAC and plumbing company from scratch after a failed first business in Northern Virginia. The conversation covered how...
Why This $45M Home Services Company Still Refuses to Sell | VIP Guest John Waldorf
John Waldorf, vice president at Estes Services in Atlanta, joined the conversation to talk about how a 76-year-old, third-generation family HVAC and plumbing company has grown to $45 million in revenue while remaining fully...
How Redwood Services Built a $1.1B Home Services Platform | VIP Guests Richard Lewis & John Conway
Richard Lewis, CEO of Redwood Services, and John Conway, longtime home services operator and part of the Redwood leadership team, discussed how the residential HVAC and plumbing services industry has changed and what separates...
Inside a $67M Family-Owned Home Services Business | VIP Guest Hugh Joyce
Hugh Joyce, second-generation owner of James River Air Conditioning Company in Virginia, joined the podcast to discuss how he has grown a family-founded business into a multi-location, multi-brand operation targeting $67 million in revenue....
Building a $30M Home Services Business & Still Independently Owned | VIP Guest Jason Hanson
Jason Hanson of Sierra Pacific Home and Comfort joins Chris Yano, Chad Peterman, Ken Goodrich, and Tommy Mello to discuss what it takes to grow an independently owned home services company to roughly 30...
The NEW To The Point Home Service VIP Room Podcast | A New Era of To The Point
The host announces a format change for the To The Point podcast, rebranding it as the To The Point Home Services VIP Room. The new format is modeled after shows like the Bob and...
Inside the $2.5B Blackstone Deal with Champions Group
Frank DiMarco and Leland Smith, CEO and Founder of Champions Group respectively, walk through how they built a 19-brand, multi-state home services platform that attracted a $2.5 billion acquisition by Blackstone. The conversation focuses...
Unleashing Explosive Growth: How These Titans Built a $250M Home Services Empire! 🚀
Chad Peterman of Peterman Brothers and Aaron Gaynor of Eco Plumbers discussed how the market shift after the COVID-era demand surge exposed operational weaknesses that strong growth had previously concealed. Both agreed that softening...
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