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Working with your spouse can be challenging, but in this episode of the DYB Podcast, Steve and April bring you 9 Steps to Working With Your Spouse, Effectively and Enjoyably.
Starting with a confession of needing marriage counseling themselves and how that changed their marriage for the better and how you can, too!
They start by laying the foundation and end with the best tools they have found, so far.
Whether you are married or not, Steve and April share relatable stories and easy to use tools for growth in your relationships and team members.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:0:47 "Let's say on a scale of 1 to 10, your expectation was a five. That's what it was (in your marriage) before. Let's just say. And so I was coming in this marriage with an expectation of 10, and let's just say it was a seven. So you were super happy. You were stoked. And I was like, (deflated), "Wow. Yeah." So we decided to go to marriage counseling."
2:18 "How you can have a thriving marriage, a great marriage. Okay, this is possible. We just have these tools that we need to use. And so we want to share these with you guys. Not because--and this is why, well, one of the reasons why, it's taken us so long to produce this podcast is because for me, a fear of listen to this podcast because we've got it all together and this is perfect and this is what you should do, too. But rather, this is what worked for us and if it can at all help you guys, we want to share that to help other marriages. Or even if you're not married, this would be a great podcast to listen to if you're not married so that, you know, when you are thinking that direction, what you can use and some tools and things you need to think about before you get married..."
8:12 "What we're missing in the world today is understanding. That doesn't mean that you agree with the other person, but you can see where they're coming from and you can have empathy. Again, it doesn't mean that you agree with them, but you can understand where they're coming from."
13:51 "It's not fair to expect something if we haven't discussed it or had an agreement first. (In) so many sitcoms, you see the wife is like, "Well, you should know what I want. I shouldn't have to tell you." I just, I don't understand that --that's not logical. It doesn't make any sense."
17:22 "So extreme ownership, taking ownership, even when it wasn't something that was in your control. If you just blame it on someone else and say, "No, I'm a victim of this circumstance or of this person doing this." You've given all the power away, but taking back ownership saying no, what could I have done differently? How did I contribute to this? I own this. How can I change it? That shifts you from a victim and this marriage will never get better mentality to, wow. We can do this. Let's figure out how this works. Let's do this. It's so powerful."
HIGHLIGHTS4:27 Step 1: Supporting the Mission
7:43 Step 2: Knowing Personality Types & Languages of Appreciation
13:55 Step 3: Expectations vs. Agreements (Steve Chandler)
15:56 Step 4: Ownership vs. Victim (Mentality)
19:22 Step 5: The List of ____ :)
21:41 Step 6: Foregoing This
23:49 Step 7: Empty This
27:44 Step 8: Four Tools
43:28 Step 9: The Golden Question
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Steve Chandler
Jacko Willink Extreme Ownership
Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES:DISC Personality EP75
Languages of Appreciation Podcast EP 76
9 Steps PDF of How to Work With Your Spouse Effectively and Enjoyably Schedule Your Free Strategy Call With Steve Burnett Thank you very much for joining us today! If you received value, would you take a quick few seconds and leave us a review on iTunes, please? Press and hold to visit the page: Show Notes PageSUMMARY:
The DYB Podcast is connecting with our mates Down Under as we bring you Rob Vuckovic, owner of Fusion Painting in Canberra, Australia!
Rob shares many mindset changes he went through after starting his business, Fusion Painting.
Like many of us, he learned painting from his father, but unlike many of us, his dad had him working from the age of 12 so that he would be persuaded to never paint, but to work hard in school and avoid manual labor and get an office job.
Rob’s father taught him how to work hard and he excelled. Rob became a mechanical engineer only to hate it and want nothing more than to be out painting.
Rob then worked for his dad until his dad recommended he start his own company, which Rob willingly and excitedly did.
Feeling like he couldn’t fail, he took on what he thought was the best job and best market for him on millionaires lane—only to find it was nightmare lane.
After losing $27,000 on that job, receiving no referrals, and not even being remembered by the home owner, he went to work for many GC’s. Having an awful time with them, his amazing paint rep help him and told him he should break into the residential market (avoiding the Big House on the Hill clients from then on!).
This was one of many mindset changes or mind-shifts Rob went through and he shares them with us today.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:09:14 "After a little while, I was able to join a group and learn about the business side of painting. That was the thing that was a real mind shift: learning about knowing your numbers, understanding a profit and loss, understanding how to track jobs and learn costs and things like that, learn how to read a balance sheet, print out a profit and loss statement at the end of every month and read it and study it and understand it. That was really the shift, the transition from a craftsman painter into a businessman."
12:05 "I think it was Richard Branson who said, "Look after your staff and they'll look after your customers." And really, really the team is everything to our business and it should be to everyone else's business. They are really the engine room of the business. You know, I go out and sell a job and do all that and generate leads and stuff, but really, at the end of the day, if you can't produce a job, you're not gonna make any money. So these guys are out there, they're at the coalface, really producing the job. They are the ones who are interacting with our customers day to day, they are the face of your business. They're the guys that have got the branding on the tee shirts, branding on the vans. They are really everything in a business, you know, without them, we don't have a business really. ... Really that is so important to me that's where the company culture has to come into it. So it's strong, it's a very strong thing. And I've always, always, always valued that."
12:58 "(Following Up) This is something you read about in books, back when I started, many years ago: follow up, follow up, follow up. It was something that I was resistant to do. I could have given you 20 reasons why. I didn't want to do it. It was only when I had people come over and bid to do things around my own home. And the guys that followed up, it really, really left an impression on me. And that was it. That was my mind shift. The way I felt when I got followed up, because I almost (used to feel) it was a bit cheesy or a bit almost like a used car salesman thing, but really, it's the way you do it. And these people will follow me up because they were genuinely interested in the job. It really left a great impression on me. And I tell you from that moment, I'm following up."
HIGHLIGHTS09:14 Learning the Business Side
09:49 Good Painter, Bad Businessman
12:05 Company Culture Strategies
14:50 Traveling to US and comparing US to AUS businesses
16:04 Pre-selling to Clients
17:15 Focus on Customer Experience
17:58 Importance of Following Up
19:06 Influence
20:02 Endless Referrals by Bob Burg and the impact on Rob's business
20:37 Extreme Ownership by Jacko Willink and the impact to Rob
22:56 Overcoming the Superman Complex
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Endless Referrals by Bob Burg
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Extreme Ownership by Jacko Willink
Rob Vuckovic
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES: House on the Hill Article Above The Line Philosophy Schedule Your Free Strategy Call With Steve BurnettPress and hold to visit the page:
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Thank you very much for joining us today! If you received value, would you take a quick few seconds and leave us a review on iTunes, please?In this episode of the DYB Podcast, Seth Peek of S. Peek Painting out of Atascadaro, California and Mike Gallagher of Gallagher Painting out of Winchester, Massachusetts, join me to discuss the power of finding their target market. They, like other DYB Members, found it is vital to know your target market if you want to grow a successful painting company peacefully.
Like a majority of painters when they begin their journey, they didn't want to turn down any work and that is the way you may have to start, just to get some jobs on the calendar. However, the first goal should be to --as quickly as possible-- shift your calendar to only work with your target market and referrals of your target market, as you'll hear about from Seth and Mike.
Also, I'll give you step by step directions on how you, too, can find your target market to increase your profitability and streamline your company.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:08:09 When scheduling things come up with them now, I feel more confident in the current jobs we're in just to put my foot down and say, "We can't be there till this date." It gives them opportunity to reflect whether or not they want to get a bid out to somebody else or if they just want to wait for us to do it, but I'm no longer going to cater to another contractor in order for our work to get done.
10:01 We're going to just keep going with what works for us and, in turn, those referrals will just bring in more of the jobs that fall within our 3P's. I'm feeling confident and I'm feeling pumped and I'm stoked for the new frame of mind I've gotten. It feels really good as a business owner to finally have the confidence to say no to certain clients.
11:12 So you're getting similar jobs from similar people in similar neighborhoods because they're all referring to their friends who live in similar houses. After a while, as long as you do your job and you're friendly and your guys take care of the process, it kind of just works on its own after that.
12:49 At that point, I just realized something had to change. Year after year, I was like, "This is the year I can make this work." And it just never did. I found that I had guys, when I would bring in a crew that, towards the end of the job, they could tell a customer was frustrated. I was frustrated. And it just really set a low moral standard amongst my employees. when we first started talking and we realized that this was my biggest thing was affecting me. The very first thing you said to me is just cancel those jobs.
13:51 Knowing that I could then focus on jobs that I could finish on time that I could make a profit on and that my crew would be satisfied with at the end, was such a big game changer for me.
HIGHLIGHTS15:04 Step by step, how to find your target market
16:21 The 3P Process Distinction
17:28 The compounding of referrals in the target market
18:55 What happens when you find your target market
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:3P's Process to Finding Your Target Market Worksheet (FREE)
Seth Peek
Mike Gallagher
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES: Schedule Your Free Strategy Call With Steve Burnett Thank you very much for joining us today! If you received value, would you take a quick few seconds and leave us a review on iTunes, please? Press and hold to visit the page: Show Notes Page
DYB Podcast EP78 brings Ben Campbell of Campbell Painting and Drywall in Anchorage, Alaska to the show. From the very beginning, his family started a couple of paint retail stores in the 1950’s in Alaska. Then Ben started his company in 2006 with his brother and went solo in 2009. He shares his very relatable early mistakes to his current successful company with 15+ employees, on track for $1,000,000 revenue for 2020.
Ben shares how overcoming huge adversity helped build his drive and grit. Though he wouldn’t want to go through the obstacles again, he looks for the positive and what he can learn from each situation to learn and grow and not give up. He also shares his strategy for hiring and keeping a great team.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:04:39 "(When you started) How did you generate your leads? Word of mouth was basically it at the beginning. We had yard signs and did some networking at church, but it was mostly word of mouth."
21:01 "Keep grinding, you know, that's all I wanted to say. Just keep grinding and it will get better, but learn from your mistakes. You know, if you did something wrong once, don't do it again. If I'm bidding a job and I didn't make money on it, well then why didn't I make money? Ask that question."
09:02 "Why don't you do much new construction? There are a lot of great builders, but the bottom line is, painting is an expense to them. They want to keep their expenses down, so they don't use the highest quality paint that we do or want to spend time making the job perfect, like we do."
21:28 "There's good money in what we do."
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:TSheets GPS Time Tracker
Quickbooks Online
Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
Ben Campbell
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This episode of the DYB Podcast is called "Fanocracy: Turning fans into customers with David Meerman Scott". Today, Steve Burnett and David sit down to discuss fandom culture and how any business can grow by cultivating a devoted and loyal group around fandom culture.
David shares that showing your passions to your existing and potential customers is the key to creating a genuine human connection. In this way, you gain positive brand recall that makes you stand out from the crowd. He also shares 3 actionable tips that you can apply to your own painting business today.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:07:12 "Building fans is all about a true human connection. We spoke with neuroscientists to find out what's going on in our brains when we become a fan of something and it turns out all of us are hardwired in our DNA, in our ancient brains, to want to be part of a tribe of people, to be part of a group of people because that's when we feel safe."
08:16 “Passion is infectious-even if you don’t share the same passion.
09:05 "Here's what this means for painting contractors is, the more you can share what you love with your existing and your potential customers, the more they have an opportunity to bond with you as a human being, not just as a painter."
13:21 "The lesson here, I think, for painting contractors is... it doesn't have to be skateboarding obviously, it should be whatever you're passionate about. But show what you do in your off time. Show what you do in your life. Show perhaps what your family does. What do you do when you go on vacation? Show that on social networks, show that on your website."
17:34 "Everybody listening in here probably has something they love, whether it's a sports team they love or a hobby they have or some physical activity they love to do or whatever it is on their off time that, should you be able to showcase that, allows you to stand out from the crowd. And you're not just the painter. You're the painter who loves to birdwatch or whatever it is."
26:08 "I mentioned earlier the closer you get to someone, the more powerful the human connection. So video and photographs are very powerful if they're shot within about 4 feet away and you're looking directly at the camera and because our brain processes that, intellectually we know it's on a video or photograph, but our ancient brain, our subconscious brain, processes it as if you were right next to that person. Which is exactly why we feel we know movie stars because of mirror neurons."
27:27 Matt Risinger in Texas built his contracting business from zero to 20 million and he credits me completely with the advice to record videos from 3 feet away or less. He has more than ½ a million subscribers to his YouTuber channel.
30:39 "The [first thing] I would do right away is, number 1, take a look at your externally-facing website, your social media and make sure, number 1, that you're eliminating all the images and words that make you generic. If you're using stock photos of houses and buildings, you should be removing them. You should use real photos of buildings and houses that you've painted."
31:16 "I actually recommend going from third person that's talking like, “We are such and such a painting contractor and we operate in the Boston area, that kind of thing, to 'I'. I've been painting for the last 20 years. I've been running this business. My customers etc. Go from third person to first person."
HIGHLIGHTS:04:08 Create fans with a true human connection
10:08 Show what you love to your customers
15:03 Get attention: your passion makes you different
19:38 Avoiding politics and religion
21:25 Questions from the community
26:44 YouTube: make your audience know you
30:24 Top 3 steps to achieve Fanocracy
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Fanocracy.com
David Meerman Scott: LinkedIn & Twitter
Matt Risinger’s YouTube Channel
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES:Schedule Your Free Strategy Call With Steve Burnett
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In this episode of the DYB Podcast called "How to Grow an All-Star Team with the 5 Languages of Appreciation," Steve and April Burnett define the 5 languages, how to recognize each one, and share how to communicate between them so every person on your team feels appreciated. Why? Because "70% of employees say they receive little or no appreciation at work" according to Gary Chapman and Paul White in their book entitled The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People.
They share examples of how to know your own language of appreciation, how to know one another's language of appreciation, and tie it back to the workplace to strengthen your relationships to grow a strong team as well as utilizing this information to close more sales. Steve and April also touch on how the 5 languages of appreciation can be applied to other relationships, such as family and friends, as well.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: -What are the 5 Languages of Appreciation -How to Know Your Own Language of Appreciation -How to Find One Another's Language of Appreciation -How the Language of Appreciation Helps to Build Strong Teams -How to Close Sales Using the Language of Appreciation QUOTES:03:36 "One: Words of Affirmation. 'You did a great job!' is an example of Words of Affirmation.
05:57 "Two. Quality Time. Take your team out to lunch. Connect with them. Maybe grab a tool and work with them for a little bit. Maybe ask them to ride along with you on a sales call. (That's) Quality Time."
15:37 "Three. Acts of Service. Providing assistance, ask, "What can I do to help?" Make sure that they win by setting them up to succeed. So ask (your team), how can you serve them? How can you help them?"
18:43 "Four. Gifts. Tangible gifts. I believe this is Ron's. Ron Ramsden. He is awesome. So we have that retreat a couple of years ago. He bought all the coaches a branded DYB hat. He is so thoughtful like that."
26:56 "Five. So here's the last one and it's kind of interesting. Physical Touch. Okay, so this one, we have to have a huge caveat here because there's appropriate workplace touch and there's inappropriate and you do not want to cross the boundaries here. Handshakes, fist-bumps, and high fives are all great and appropriate forms of Physical Touch."
HIGHLIGHTS:01:49 Lack of appreciation in the workplace
03:37 Language of appreciation 1: Words of affirmation
05:57 Language of appreciation 2: Quality time
10:24 Quality time in the workplace
15:32 Language of appreciation 3: Acts of service
18:43 Language of appreciation 4: Gifts
21:23 Gifts in the workplace and marriage
26:56 Language of appreciation 5: Physical touch
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace:
Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People by Gary Chapman and Paul White
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES: DYB System PDF Download Video Testimonial Checklist Schedule Your Free Strategy Call With Steve Burnett (Press and hold to visit the page) Show Page Notes
In this episode of the DYB Podcast called "How to Close More Sales and Build Stronger Teams with DISC", Steve Burnett chats with April Burnett and together they walk through what DISC is and how these personality types mix with each other AND, most importantly, how you can use this knowledge to close more sales and build strong teams!
Steve and April share real-world examples of how DISC works and its benefits-—from applying it to sales jobs to dealing with your team to improving family relationships. In particular, they share how they apply DISC to their work and marriage to build a better company and stronger family.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: - DISC - How each of the 4 personalities related to one another - How to communicate with other personalities different from your own - How to play a game to increase your skill of recognizing others' personality - Stories to illuminate just how this all works QUOTES:03:48 "First is Dominance. The High D. I'll open with a story. I remember before I learned this, I was working on job site and there was a guy there that I felt was so rude to everybody. He was inconsiderate and interruptive and just rude and domineering. So, dominance through and through. After I studied DISC, I learned, oh my goodness, he's just a high D. He doesn't mean to be insensitive. He doesn't mean to be rude."
06:36 "High I's. They want everybody to be happy and everybody be okay. They avoid conflict. There's a book, I think it's Strengths Finder 2.0, that calls it WOO. Winning Others Over. And that's huge for high I's, I believe, across the board."
07:56 "S is the steady, loyal, even-tempered, accommodating, patient, humble, tactful person. They're the golden retriever if we're talking about the animal for each personality. They're very loyal."
09:41 "C's are the conscientious, analytical, reserved, precise, private, and systematic."
19:25 "But for sales, you had this system of Peg, Pace, and Mirror. You taught me this. So Pegging is being able to say okay, now you know the personality profiles, all four of them--can you peg that potential customer, at the estimate, can you peg their personality? Peg their personality and then pace. Can you then keep up to their pace? And then, of course, mirroring that back to them, speaking their language in a sense."
32:30 "This is all about increasing your ability to communicate with your team, which then builds your team. The better communicator you are, the more money you make."
43:19 "Whether you work with your spouse, if you don't, just personally, I encourage you to consider it. If you feel like, you know April said hey, I would never work him. Well, recently she's learned a few tools, a few strategies, and we're going to go over those. If you do work with your spouse, like many of our clients do, and they build successful businesses."
HIGHLIGHTS:03:48 D for dominance
05:27 I for influential
07:57 S for steady
09:39 C for conscientious
18:33 Application to sales
23:07 Interacting with other personality types
32:30 DISC in the team and other people
38:05 DISC in the family and marriage
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: DISC Personality Quiz by DYB Coach You'll need to Make a Copy to take the quiz so everyone can use the same link here. :) ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES: Schedule Your Free Strategy Call With Steve Burnett Press and hold to visit the page Show Page NotesSUMMARY
This episode of the DYB Podcast Steve Burnett chats with Kevin Maller himself to discuss his amazing journey in the painting business.
Kevin starts by telling his roots in painting and eventually branching out to pave his own way with his own company.
In here, he learned hands-on how to grow from word of mouth to doubling with Facebook marketing
From making 100k annually, he has now grown his business tenfold past the million-dollar mark...
QUOTES
21:57 "Everything was word of mouth. I basically had a bunch of contractor friends that I had called around and... my dad actually had some residual phone calls.
Paintegrity, the company I was working for was kind of, you know, sending me anybody that called their old number.
So... everything was word of mouth all the way up from 2012 to 2016.
And I prided myself on being a word of mouth painter."
24:32 "Indirectly or directly, most of these extra leads were coming from Facebook. So I really got inspired to start marketing to generate more leads.
And from 2017 to 2018, we jumped another 100k to half a million that year and that year I really...
I feel like it was right around when I got around 400 or 500 likes to my page is when my Facebook really started working for me."
26:09 "So I would take before and afters or I would take a bunch of really quality photos, I'd post them up on Facebook,
I would add really catchy lines, use great words like 'imagine' or 'ask a question' or if a rhetorical question and try to get people engaged."
34:06 "With before and after, I always like to put the after photo first because the first photo is the biggest photo.
So you want that photo to be kind of your wow photo. And then you would put the before photo second.
So it may say before and after is up there but you always want to put the after first. You don't want the old dingy photo to be the biggest photo in the box."
39:33 "Really, if you have enough leads coming in, you're not going to care if you get that job or not. You're going to price that job accordingly and you're going to spend that job off and it's up to them to figure out how they're going to come up with that money to pay for that job. Not you.
So by getting more leads, you're sending more higher dollar bids out and you're doing actually less work and you're making more.
If that makes $ense."
49:49 "You know, all of my competitors are my friends. I've really made it a thing to befriend everybody in the area.
I know all the big contractors around. First name basis. We all have each others' phone numbers. We all call each other, bounce stuff off each other.
We pass jobs to each other if we can't handle it..."
HIGHLIGHTS
03:20 Kevin's professional history and introduction to the painting business
11:45 Getting lost, returning as an estimator, and learning how to hustle
18:35 Founding his own company and growing leads
23:00 Facebook as a main marketing tool
35:48 Motivation, a thirst for knowledge, and cultivating leads
44:26 Kevin's reading list and apps he uses
RESOURCES
Schedule Your FREE Strategy Call With Steve BurnettMaller Painting Co on Facebook
The E-Myth Revisited
Traction
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Culture Code
One Million Followers
Estimate Rocket (60 day free trial)
Acuity Online Appointment Scheduling
PipelineDeals: Sales CRM
Mailchimp Email Marketing Platform
QuickBooks accounting software
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