Grow With The Bros

The Spark That Ignited Our Personal Growth - Bonus Episode: 34

From a Small Gutter Business to a National Franchise. Ryan and Ken Parsons come to you with a Bonus Episode of Grow With The Bros! In today's special edition we take an excerpt from our recent Franchise Meet the Team day and listen to Ken and Ryan's introduction speech in which they talk about starting from nothing and finding the spark that ignited them to become the national franchise that they are now. Listen in and leave us a 5-star review if you feel that we have given you value and make sure to subscribe to us for future episodes!

Episode 33: How Franchising Changed My Life Ft. Luke Smith

Luke Smith is the owner of The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Franchise in Columbus, GA. Luke started his Franchise with Brothers Gutters almost two years ago and has been fortunate of achieving success in his business and his life. Luke speaks on his decision to join the Brothers and expresses his gratitude to Co-Founders Ryan and Ken Parsons. This podcast is full of emotion, gratitude, and key tips to achieving success in your life and business from the lens of impact or as Luke says it, "Proper Impact."

 

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Episode 32: Networking for Commercial Properties Ft. Don Lindars

On today’s episode of Grow with the Bros. We have part 2 of our Networking series. In part one we talked about the different types of Networking —how to expand your network and ways to reach primarily retail customers. If your focus is on homeowners or retail businesses, I recommend you go back and listen to part one as well. In this episode, we are going to be speaking with Don Lindars about his approach to Networking – especially for commercial business. Don, Welcome to Grow with the Bros!

As always, if you've learned something from this podcast and taken value please leave us a 5-star review and a comment of your favorite takeaway!

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Episode 31: Networking & Accelarating Your Business Ft. Danielle Perry

In today's episode, we are going to be discussing Networking with New York area Solutionist Danielle Perry to gather her insights on how you can accelerate your business. Danielle has a lot of experience over many different skills to offer in terms of business networking for contractors and franchisees alike.

As always, if you've learned something from this podcast and taken value please leave us a 5-star review and a comment of your favorite takeaway!

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Episode 30: Stay Small Keep It All Ft. Russ Brigante

Stay Small Keep it All, Part 2!

Welcome back to the Grow with the Bro's Podcast! On this episode we bounce off of last episode except with a special guest in our friend Russ Brigante. Russ is the CEO/Owner of R. Brigante Excavating Inc. and a great example of the positive side of the Stay Small Keep it All mentality. Last episode we talked about our experience with The Brothers that Just do Gutters and some of the disadvantages of staying small and why it became necessary for us to scale out of the Stay Small Keep it All mentality. This episode is a great look into some of the benefits from a different perspective and if you are trying to decide what path is the best for you we hope this episode will help you on your way!  As always, if you've learned something from this podcast and taken value please leave us a 5 star review and a comment of your favorite takeaway!

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Episode 29: Stay Small Keep it All P.1

In this episode of Bro Brainstorm, Ken and Ryan talk about the Stay Small Keep it All mentality, and how they got out of being a small local gutter company to becoming a national franchise. They talk about the sacrifices, the trials, and the success they saw once they learned how to walk away from that mentality and began to scale. If you or someone you know is a business owner and struggles with the Stay Small Keep it All mindset, share this podcast!

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Episode 28: Myth-Busting the Cost of Franchising

Throughout our business journey we've realized that there are many misconceptions that people have about franchising. Today on this Out of the Gutter series episode. We sit down with Jimmy Olang, The original franchisee. Jimmy is the owner of Brothers Gutters Pennsylvania and he answers the questions that we have and that we hear about the cost of franchising, how it has worked out for him, and why he chose not to do it all himself and join The Brothers that Just do Gutters as their first ever franchise location. The brothers also compare their progress when it came to their first 5 years of business to Jimmy's first 5 years, learning to become a leader, the cost of a franchise, and much more! Remember to rate this podcast 5 stars and leave a review if you gained something from this episode! Check out our earlier episodes and subscribe to stay tuned for more!

Episode 27: Avoiding Employee Turnover

In this podcast of Bro Brainstorm, The Bro's sit down and talk about avoiding employee turnover. They discuss past experiences, building the great team they have now, and when it truly is time to let someone go. This podcast is all about serving you, the listener, in order to help you grow and succeed in all areas of business. If you are an employee or unemployed and want to learn what a winner employee looks like, or a business owner looking to build their championship team this episode is for you. Don't forget to subscribe to the Grow with the Bro's podcast, give us a five star rating if you enjoyed and leave a comment on what impacted you the most and what you would like to see in the future.

Episode 26: Recruiting and Training employees

In this podcast we have our guest speaker, George Apap, of George Apap Painting out of Patterson , New York. In this podcast, we discuss the techniques on how to properly recruit and train potential new employees. Tune in to our podcast and we hope you get some great nuggets to take with you for future employments.

Episode 25: Avoiding Burn Out

     In this podcast, we discuss the steps to avoid being burnt out. Either within your personal life, career or relationships, burnout, fear and anxiety are all common feelings that everyone goes through at some point in their life. We often say we’re stressed out or feeling anxious about something, but the goal is to reach the point of understanding that we can control those thoughts. It is important to realize when you are feeling burnt out, business professionals have been there, too. Here, Ken and Ryan Parsons go through the necessary steps to help keep you moving forward! We hope you enjoy this podcast and get some great tips from it.

Podcast Ep: 24 Knowing Your Region

In this podcast we discuss "Knowing Your Region" with our Northeast Atlanta Franchise Owner, Josh Bowie. In this episode we gain a ton of knowledge on how to become successful in owning a Brother's Gutters Franchise and the important steps you need to take in order to fully know your territory and region. Josh Bowie is currently six months into owning his Brother's Gutters Franchise and it is remarkable to see the growth his company and himself has had in just a short amount if time.

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Episode 23: Do Whatever It Takes To Hit Your Goals

    Episode 23: Everyone Misses Goals

Create a team that that will invest in themselves and you! Setting goals and writing those goals down, will become much more achievable. Stay focused and keep raising the bar. Breakdown your goals to your team and make them digestible so that everyone working together and achieve them! No matter the size of the goal, set yearly, monthly and daily goals and watch how much yourself, your business and your team will grow!

00:50 - Set Goals

02:00 - Set goals before New Year starts

05:00 - SWAT Analysis

07:40 - Forecasting

08:50 - Setting mini goals

09:45 - Goals with sales

10:20 - Yearly, Monthly, Daily goals

13:00 - Put planning into your business

14:23 - Have a solid foundation in place

15:30 - Crystal Ball

18:30 - Data &  Metrics

19:45 - Net Profit

21:00 - Put goals in front of you that are achievable

22:15 - Activity levels need to be high

24:00 - Tools to monitor your goals

25:50 - Re-forecasting goals

30:00 - What to do if you don't hit your goals

33:00 - Long term misses

34:30 - Develop the right team

37:00 - Stop making excuses

38:50 - The business will grow if you put a strong team together

42:10 - Raise activity levels, so you hit your goals

44:15 - Comfort can go away at any time

45:00 - Breakdown your goals. Make them digestible

46:40 - Self- Reflection

51:30 - "Winning"

54:00 - Prioritize your time around your goals & work that plan

Episode 22: From Broker to Owner

Episode 22: From Broker To Owner

Have you ever thought about becoming a franchise owner? Add an asset to your net worth? Or even just try something new for yourself? This podcast talks about all the steps and values coming from becoming a franchise owner. No matter what your background is, as long as the dedication and willingness to learn the business and be teachable, owning a franchise might change your life entirely.

 

00:45 - Rich Beyer background

01:05 - more background from Rich and his military days

01:46 - Chief Operating Officer in Corporate America

03:30 - Big Company vs Small Company

04: 30 - Business Leadership

06: 10 - Franchise Consulting

07:05 - How Rich Beyer met Ken & Ryan

11:15 - Company lives on, people don't

11:30 - The company needs people you can count on

12:00 - Create something sustainable

12:30 - Transferable skills

12:50 - Learning construction

13:45 - You have to be willing to learn

14:15 - Corporate structure

14:35 - Growing pains

15:15 - Consult with an expert

18:00 - Sales experience

19:00 - Jacksonville Brothers Gutters sales guys

21:15 - How Rich Beyer found Brothers Gutters Franchise

22:11 - Rich & Ken doing 1 on 1's, looking at territory

22:30 - Discovery Day

23:00 - Access to Capital

24:35 - Digital Marketing

25:00 - Start something new is going to be scary

27:00 - Growing pains

33:45 - Take risk to create an asset

34:45 - Leap of Faith, Protect yourself

38:20 - Freedom is on you're own time

39:10 - What Rich pictures happening in the next 3 years

43:00 - Market will dictate where your business goes

43:30 - Business expansion

44:50 - Franchise opportunity

45:15 - Personal goals

53:00 - 3 crew mark

53:30 - Represent the brand

54:00 - Rich's' Million dollar question

54:45 - What are you willing to do to get there

1:01:20 - paying employees

1:02:54 - You want to be able to provide for your employees with your company

1:03:26 - Lifestyle

1:07:00 - Entrepreneurial bug

1:07:39 - Freedom

1:12:15 - Beginning stages of freedom means making your own schedule

1:12:50 - Why Franchising? Only takes a certain amount of money to begin

1:19:14 - Finding the right person for the job

1:22:00 - Dynamic Franchise owners

 

 

 

Ep. 20: From Installer to Owner

From Long-Time Installer To Franchise Owner 


 

From the beginning stages in a company to scaling yourself within that company, growth and belief in yourself in highly needed. Starting out at the bottom in a company, will not only give you the skills and training from ground up, but with discipline and continuing to educate yourself, you can work your way up in the company. In order to become a franchise owner, it is important to understand  every piece that goes into running a successful business. From installer, to branding, marketing, sales etc. It's crucial to keep educating yourself and keeping that open mind. A franchise not only gives you the tools and structure for success, but
the ability to grow and really create something bigger than yourself. 


01:00 - Peter Awando's background 

03:00 - How Peter and Ken met

07:00 - Peter begins working with Brothers Gutters

08:10 - Peter leaves Brothers Gutters and worked for another company 

21:00 - Peter explains more on why he left Brothers Gutters 
25:00 - Peter's new job took a lot out of him
29:00 - Peter comes back to work for Brothers Gutters 

30:15 - The comfort of working with a franchise and the structure it offers 

36:00 - Team meeting to formulate a plan during the pandemic 

40:00 - Growth 

42:00 - What qualities are you looking for in owning a franchise 

43:00 - Respect yourself and your business 

50:00 - "3 H's" Hungry, Honeable Honorable 
53:00 - Replaceable to promotable attitude will lead to success 

56:00 - As an owner, you want your employees to know what winning feels like

1:00 - Peter discusses his flaws in sales 

1:05 - Have to keep educating yourself 

1:06 - Failure is never an option 

1:09 - Peter's success turnaround in sales 

1:15 - Always go above and beyond and take a it a step further 
1:19 - Appreciation 






Episode 19: The Right Size For Your Business

Scaling A Business 

When it comes to scaling a business, it is sometimes hard to know when the right time is to scale. Some indicators of the need for a scale up can be determined within your market or based on the schedule, etc. Once you have determined that you think it is time to look into scaling a business, you may be wondering how to scale. In some instances, especially when it comes to owner-operator trades businesses, you may have tried a scale up and it failed. But, that doesn't mean it can't be done. What went wrong? What did you put into place before beginning your attempt to scale? Have you considered franchising?

In this episode, we are discussing how to know what the right size is for you business, how to determine when it is time to scale a business, how to know when growth is not right for your business model, and how to get help scaling! 

Episode Breakdown - 

00:40 Different Sizes Of Trades Businesses

01:55 Life Of Owners At Stages

04:33 Wearing All The Hats

05:55 How Do You Know It’s Time To Scale?

08:35 Uncertain Of Unknown

10:27 What Does It Take To Get To The Next Truck?

12:25 What To Do First

13:10 Foundation = Desire & Hunger

14:03 Parable Of The Pipeline

15:42 Becoming A Leader

16:36 Teach The Pipeline To Others

17:18 Looking At Final Result Vs. Work

18:57 Knowing When Growth Isn’t Right Fit

22:00 Removing Fear

26:19 The Right Size For Your Business

29:00 Thinking Past What’s In Front Of Your Face

31:19 Don’t Get It Perfect Before You Hire

33:10 Tried To Grow & Failed

35:25 Get A Coach/Mentor/Buy A Franchise

37:05 A Different Path – Blue Collar

38:15 Franchising Success

39:45 Third Truck In Year 1

41:00 Franchise Removes Fear

42:00 But… It’s Not Easy

46:00 Vision Of Growth Beyond The Growth

49:35 When We Realized We Needed To Grow

53:54 Keeping Good Tradesman Through Opportunity

55:22 Laid Groundwork For Franchising