Michael Kramer is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Baths & Kitchens R Us Remodelers, a remodeling franchise based in Gretna, Nebraska that serves homeowners throughout the Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington regions. Michael’s journey into entrepreneurship initially began following the loss of his beloved father, who owned an auto body shop. After seeing the struggles his family faced following the devastating loss, he became passionate about building a legacy that would positively impact his family’s life while serving and empowering others. In 2003, he purchased his first franchise business, and in 2007, he sold the business for more than he initially believed it was worth.

Michael joins us today to share his journey into entrepreneurship and the importance of understanding why you chose to become a business owner. We discuss the importance of building effective systems and processes into your business and how these processes can help you scale your company through outsourcing. We also discuss how your mindset, fears, and confidence impact your decisions, the effects of avoiding hiring help, and how to reverse engineer your current systems to discover ways to improve your process and scale your business.

 

“Your drive - no matter your level of success - has to be for a higher calling and a purpose.”- Michael Kramer

 

This Week on the Agripreneur Podcast:

• The worst advice he has received about entrepreneurship.
• The impact of trying to do everything yourself.
• How losing his father at a young age impacted his life and the decisions he makes for his legacy.
• The importance of delegating and outsourcing tasks.
• How creating systems and processes enable you to grow your business effectively and efficiently.
• How to avoid complacency.
• The importance of starting with the end in mind and reverse engineering your processes.
• Overcoming mindset challenges, limiting beliefs, and fears of growing your business.
• How building a legacy impacts your life as well as your family.
• How a tragic home remodeling accident impacted his faith, confidence, and self-esteem and how he overcame those challenges to achieve success.
• Marketing strategies he uses to promote his business.

 

Key Takeaway:

• Understand the ‘why’ of what you are doing - whatever the business may be. Good things will follow if your intentions are pure and good.

 

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