Episode 11: Technology Takeover

Business Technology In Today’s World

For many years we’ve been boasting that ‘robots will take our jobs’ and the technology takeover is coming. But, this hasn’t quite come to fruition… until now. With 2020’s pandemic, and stay at home conditions, we are forced to make extra use of technology. Technology today is changing every day and looks a bit different even now than it did a month or two ago. While we’ve always had all this technology at our fingertips, as a society, we haven’t always used it to its maximum capacity. Does your business strategy center around technology and adaptation? If not, you may be realizing it's time to make some quick changes.

Benefits Of Technology

At The Brothers that just do Gutters, technology has always been the center of our business systems and we make sure to stay ahead of the curve, franchise-wide, as much as possible. We are very aware of the benefits of technology, and these business technology benefits are apparent now more than ever.

How has your business been forced to change during this time? Remote workers? Digital estimates? Digital meetings? Are all of these practices new to you? Or was adaptation quite easy for your business model? Now is the time to evaluate your business strategy and begin prepping it for the technology changes to come.

In today’s episode we are diving deep into technology; the technology our system already utilizes, changes we’ve made during this time, changes we think are here for good, how we’ve learned to adapt over the years, and how being a part of a franchise system can help during unfortunate times like these. Danny Horboychuk, one of our NY salesman is our featured guest in this episode, speaking specific to sales. There are many benefits of technology and we are seeing that now in full force.

Episode Breakdown -

01:32 Technology Changes We’ve Seen Now

04:10 There’s Always Been People Who “Don’t Want To Meet”

06:07 Going Forward – Will We See More Of This?

06:52 Challenges As A Salesperson

09:09 So, Does It Become A Price Competition?

13:30 Is Zoom The New Normal?

15:05 Virtual Estimate Permeant Option Moving Forward?

16:44 Plan For Both

18:06 Our Franchise System Technology

21:30 Ken’s Remote Work In TX

24:00 Planning For “What If Moments”

26:25 Using A Drone For Estimates

32:36 How We Used To Run Our Business

36:00 Our Process Now

37:10 Technology Makes Install Questions Easier

38:05 Technology’s Only Useful If You Know How To Use It

39:17 Biggest Change During Pandemic

40:47 Response Time Even More Important Now

44:26 We All Have Access To The Same Technology

45:45 Future Proofing Your Business

47:54 Technology Updates In Franchise System

50:24 Selling As An Owner

54:40 Million Dollar Gutter Salesman

57:20 Business Owner’s Job To Stay Ahead Of Curve

01:01:47 Hard To Survive This Without A Team

01:05:10 Our Team Can Be Your Team

01:07:33 Franchising Fixes Your Frustrations