OUTTA THE WEEDS

Most of us learned the trade by doing it. The business part, how to price, how to market, how to hire, how to choose which work is worth taking, we figure out slower, usually by making expensive mistakes.

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Meet Ryan Deemer

I’ve worked with hundreds of trades contractors over the past decade. Same story, different truck. Guy starts a business because he’s good at the work. Three years later he’s making less per hour than his employees, hasn’t taken a real vacation since he filed the LLC, and his wife stopped asking when things would get better.

The answer was always “soon.” But soon is too slow.

I know the pattern because I lived it. And I’ve watched enough contractors break out of it to know the path works. The ones who build real structure – systems that carry the weight instead of their willpower—they get their evenings back. They sit through their kid’s soccer game without checking their phone. They take home what the work is actually worth.

That’s what we talk about here. How to build a business that doesn’t need you white-knuckling it every single day.

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From Shop Talk to National Audience

What started as conversations between a few contractors turned into a regular part of how people in the industry learn, compare notes, and keep up with how others are running their businesses.

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These are working contractors comparing notes. What they charge, what they regret buying, what finally fixed their crew problems. Put on an episode and see how other shops are running their businesses.
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