HVAC Ladder - Career & Business Growth

In this episode, my guest Michael Housh and I discuss his experience transitioning from a service technician to the owner of his own company. You can find Michael on Facebook or his business on the web at www.houshhomeenergy.com.  

Today, I continue my discussion with Dr. Dan Elash, business mentor and strategic coach. Dr. Dan has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and decades of experience. If you’re already an owner or considering becoming an owner, you should absolutely listen to this episode and episode 17 – it’s packed full of great information you NEED […]

Today, I interview Dr. Dan Elash, business mentor and strategic coach. Dr. Dan has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and decades of experience. If you’re already an owner or considering becoming an owner, you should absolutely listen to this episode – it’s packed full of great information you NEED to know. You can find Dr. […]

Today, I finish the interview with Tersh Blisset, a small HVAC business owner in Savannah, Georgia about the fighting season in HVAC (the busy season). How do you deal with it and what strategies can be used to balance out the busy season with the off season? Icebound, his current business, is the third HVAC […]

Today, I talk with Tersh Blisset, a small HVAC business owner in Savannah, Georgia about the fighting season in HVAC (the busy season). How do you deal with it and what strategies can be used to balance out the busy season with the off season? Icebound, his current business, is the third HVAC business Tersh […]

In this episode, I share that HVACLadder episodes will be a little more spaced out. I’ve been putting a LOT of time into Fieldstone Service Management and other consulting efforts and don’t want the quality of HVACLadder to suffer so I’m slowing the pace down a bit. Links I mentioned in this episode are: Join […]

In this episode, I talk about the pressure a lot of folks feel trying to make a single decision in their life about what they should do. For me, this pressure was highest in high school when trying to decide what I would do afterwards. My message in this episode is simple – don’t sweat […]

Are you interested in a career in commercial/industrial HVAC? In this episode, I interview my dad who started in commercial/industrial HVAC in his late thirties and worked in it for almost 20 years before retiring. This is a photo of my dad welding a broken outdoor wood furnace damper for me last winter. He spends […]

If you ask a random person “what would make this product better?” most of them will tell you to make it cheaper.  Price is always the focus when the product or service isn’t differentiated in any other way. Do you let customers brow beat you into believing your service isn’t worth what you’re charging?  Do […]