Is systematizing your business a priority for you?

Imagine owning a lawn care services business and having to deal with serious allergies.

DJ Carroll President and Founder of EasyPro Property Services had no choice but to systematize his business so it can run without him successfully otherwise he would have had to cope with serious allergies.

You will discover how he literally avoided working on the field by systematizing his business, the exact steps he took to train his employees and how as a result, he now lives every day like it’s Saturday!

In this Episode You will Discover:

* Why DJ would willingly trade in more money for more free time.

* Why DJ believes you should know what you want your lifestyle to look like before you start building your business.

* How DJ uses criticism as motivation to be successful.

* Why DJ believes business owners should see problems as an opportunity to create systems.

* Why DJ is working on streamlining his employee onboarding process.

* Why DJ believes you need to stop doing what you hate first.

* Why DJ felt that freewill was one of the biggest challenges in his business.

* How DJ split his business into three different segments.

Episode Transcript:

OWEN: My guest today is DJ Carroll and he’s the president and founder of EasyPro Property Services. DJ welcome to the show.

DJ: Hey, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

OWEN: This podcast is all about getting entrepreneurs like yourself in here to talk about how they’ve been able to systematize their business so it runs successfully without you. And before we even go right I want to give the listeners something to keep their interest throughout the entire interview. So what will you say are some mind blowing results that you now experience as a result of going through the process of systematizing and automating your business?

DJ: Right, absolutely. I want to appreciate you having me on. Being a young entrepreneur of 27 years old I’ve bought, sold, or started over a dozen businesses now. I’ve come to the realization that basically there are three types of entrepreneurs. There are the freelancers, and I call those the enter type entrepreneurs. These are the people that normally live in their mom’s basement and either do software design stuff or strike it rich because some Palto Alto company comes in and buys them out. So you got the inventors. But then we also have the sales and the managers. So with me, my natural strong suite is in sales. It’s easy for me to go out and just hustle day in and day out. It’s in my DNA. The problem with that is, and what I quickly come to realize in business is that normally the front line sales guys are the worst managers. Because all I want to do is I just want to go out and sell. I don’t want to hand hold and lead people along. So the problem that I had early on when I started growing my business was that I saw that I didn’t want to be in the field every day. I started mowing grass. So I quickly realized that systems and processes were going to be my way out. My way to give employees a how-to guide on their job so that they could repeat it day in and day out without me having to continually come back and check up on them. And what was really amazing was that when I gave up my college football scholarships, and I decided I wasn’t going to be the first person in my family to go to college. I wasn’t going to take these scholarship moneys, and I was going to start my own business, and I was going to start mowing grass. I know a lot of people that told me, “You’ll never be successful. It’s not going to work. What are you going to do? You’ll just mow grass for the rest of your life. So I had all these pressures against me.