The Trade Traction Podcast with Dennis The Apprentice

Send us Fan Mail 👇 Take the Trade Traction Score Assessment and discover what to focus on next in your business: https://tradetraction.scoreapp.com You can’t afford an apprentice because your price doesn’t include one. You’re trying to fund the future of your plumbing company out of whatever happens to be left over, and for a lot of owners, nothing is. Dennis says the one-man shop is hurting the industry for three reasons, and it starts with a locked door between young people who want i...

Send us Fan Mail 👇 Take the Trade Traction Score Assessment and discover what to focus on next in your business: https://tradetraction.scoreapp.com If your plumbing company doubled in size tomorrow, would things get better or twice as hard? Twice the calls, plumbers, trucks, payroll, and problems. Dennis learned the hard way that growth doesn’t automatically create freedom. Sometimes it just creates a bigger job for the owner. This is part six, the final part of the Plumbing Business ...

Send us Fan Mail 👇 Take the Trade Traction Score Assessment and discover what to focus on next in your business: https://tradetraction.scoreapp.com You’re probably paying to introduce yourself to a stranger 30 miles away, then paying your plumber to sit in traffic to get there. Dennis does almost the opposite. If he owned a small plumbing company again, he wouldn’t try to dominate three counties, and he’d start with five miles. This is part five of the Plumbing Business Apprenticeship...

Send us Fan Mail 👇 Take the Trade Traction Score Assessment and discover what to focus on next in your business: https://tradetraction.scoreapp.com You keep saying there aren't enough good plumbers. Dennis agrees they're hard to find, but he thinks that's not your real problem. The real problem is that you're trying to find plumbers instead of build them, while every other company in town fights over the same handful of people. This is part four of the Plumbing Business Apprenticeship. ...

Send us Fan Mail 👇 Take the Trade Traction Score Assessment and discover what to focus on next in your business: https://tradetraction.scoreapp.com If you're pushing your plumbers to sell more, stop. They didn't sign up to be salesmen, and your customers didn't call expecting to be sold. In this video, Dennis breaks down the 80/20 sales process, a way to grow revenue without turning good plumbers into pushy closers. He walks through the two failed extremes he lived through, high pressur...