Investment I’ve been talking about “Investment” on Facebook for awhile now. “The #1 Rule of Investment is to only invest where you’ll get a return worthy of your investment.” While I seldom invest more than a few hundred dollars in Facebook advertising every month, I have invested a significant chunk of my time — which …
These are my original notes for my talk at The Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, TN with Lowe’s ProServices in partnership with GAF Roofing. A special thank you to Alyssa Hall and her outstanding team for putting together this memorable event. 1954 The year was 1954. A young staff sergeant by the name of John …
You want to be great at prospecting for new roofs, right? Let’s get straight to the point… #1 Have a Great Opening Line You get to the front door, knock, and then they open the door. So far, so good, right? What you say next few has everything to do with whether or not you …
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Somewhere in the mid 80’s, my favorite pizza joint started selling a “free refill” cup. Back in those days a pizza place might sell you a small, medium, or a large drink, or maybe even a pitcher of Coke, but nobody was doing free refills — much less free refills in a 16 ounce cup. …
The mall in Abilene, TX was packed-full of shoppers. I had gone out to check out their monster hail storm a few years ago. That was some big hail! While in Abilene, my family wanted to stop, do some shopping, and grab something to eat after I finished checking out the storm damage. We shopped …
They said it would be easy; they lied! Maybe you’re teetering on the edge of giving up on roofing right now. You look around and see everybody else having good weeks, making good money, but you’re still striking out on a daily basis. You’ve put in a lot of work without having much to show …
My Dad left me behind at a gas station, out in the middle of nowhere, when I was a kid. He didn’t see me crawl out of the back of our station wagon while he was inside paying for gas. Everybody else in the vehicle was asleep, but I woke up because I really, really, …
If you’re like I am, you’ve noticed how life is full of predictable patterns. Have you ever looked out the window of an airplane or seen photos from space? Did you see the patterns? Almost everything that seems completely random up-close, falls into a system of organization if you can view it from far enough …
I’ve never had much success chasing Florida hurricanes or working the Texas coast. In September of 2004, Hurricane Ivan slammed into the Gulf Coast near Mobile, Alabama with a 16-foot storm surge. Pensacola, Florida, 35 miles east of the storm’s eye, caught the front right quadrant of this Category 3 with sustained winds up to …
The front pockets of my jeans were bulging with hundred dollar bills. I walked into the furniture store with my wife. We were anxious to buy a new bed, dresser, and night stand for my son’s room. He was getting way too big to sleep in his crib; we had to get a “big boy” …
