This conversation-centric podcast episode focuses on the topics of business growth, leadership and overcoming challenging situations. Guests, Steve DHondt of PMS weretheguys.com, a successful brick paver company, and Eric Reno of Paramount Building Incorporated, a firm developed from scratch, share their own personal experiences and growth narratives. They discuss various strategies including dealing with public relations, employee happiness, excellence in customer service, strategic delegation, and optimal process development. The discussions also emphasize on adopting a positive mindset for business growth, the dynamic nature of service business economy and the value of a driven, collaborative team. They highlight their respective core business values and the important role of faith in their personal and professional lives.

 

"The common theme that I'm seeing again amongst these entrepreneurs that are growing their businesses and succeeding is they're extremely proactive. They're not sticking their head in the sand. They're not being a little bitch and wanting to run under, hide when things happen."

 - Keith Kalfas

Topics Covered:

• Business Growth Essentials: Overview of growth strategies and employee management.
• Entrepreneurial Journeys: Insight into Eric's evolution and Steve's challenges.
• Strategic Planning for Success: Vision, scalability, and the role of leadership.
• Learning and Networking: Power of networking, learning, and proactivity.
• Facing Business Challenges: Overcoming fear, leveraging processes, and adapting.
• Passion and Persistence: Building a YouTube channel, entrepreneurship joy, and drive.
• Mentorship and Support: Importance of mentorship, support, and teamwork.
• Balancing Professional Life: Challenges of scaling, personal-professional balance.
• Adapting to Unexpected Challenges: Resilience, adaptability, and customer satisfaction.
• Business Success Factors: Vision, mission, perseverance, and commitment to quality service.

 

Key Takeaways "It's going to be about, evolving your mind because brief story, like I was stuck, I don't want to say I was stuck at the 5 million revenue mark, but I was stuck at the 5 million,  um, place in my mind. Like I was personally stuck there. Like I wasn't growing as a person and I wasn't evolving as a person, though I wanted more. So it's more geared toward evolving the mind because everything that happens out here is a product of what happens up here.  So that's really what I focus in on, keep the distractions out as you're growing. And when you scale a business to scale, scaling a business is mental. It's not physical, right? So coming from me, somebody that's physically. In roofing and I'm out there getting it and I'm laying shingles and I'm running crews and doing what I want that's not going to get you to eight figures right up here. This is what's going to get you to eight figures. It's physically impossible with the amount of hours in a day to make more unless you do it with your mind and leverage.  " - Eric

 

"It's just the leaders. The leaders of our company are the ones that understand. It's shared with the whole vision, but we're seasonal, and a lot of my guys do end up going to Mexico for the winter. So I don't have as much contact with them. We do let them know we post things up. We make sure that, our core values are everywhere. Everything that we are about and what we're changing, from our five year plan and our 10 year plan and our, all those things. The guys are aware of what we're trying to do and the girls as well and as a company and we've implemented profit sharing every single month to every employee and it's always the same. It doesn't matter if you've been here for 30 or 20 years or you just started everybody gets the same profit sharing check. So it really has helped bring more people to my business as well where people have labor shortages. We had six new guys sign on, so we had six new guys sign on to our company, which that's huge. It's huge in our business especially six that not only worked out, they were fantastic or fantastic. " - Steve

 

Connect with Eric

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-reno-78471865/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eric.reno.165/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eric_reno/Website: https://paramountbuildinginc.com/our-team/

Connect with Steve

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-dhondt-534b23166Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weretheguys/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChx5v0dBiCB8UaGNfn4S4Ng/videos Website: https://www.weretheguys.com/about-us

Connect with Keith

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithkalfas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelandscapingemployeetrap Website: https://www.keithkalfas.com/resources Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@keith-kalfas

 

Resources and Websites: 

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LANDSCAPING BUSINESS  How to Guide: https://www.keithkalfas.com/16

Get Jobber: https://getjobber.com/im/ambassador-referral/?gspk=a2VpdGhrYWxmYXM4NTIx&gsxid=Rs6pwtznLDcs

Get Ballard: https://www.ballard-inc.com/

Easy Budgeting Blueprint: keithkalfas.com/budget