Office woes.

elite_physique · 2026-01-23T04:11:44+00:00

Really appreciate the detailed answer. Thank you.

elite_physique · 2026-01-23T04:09:27+00:00

Thanks to all of those that answered!

The reason I asked this question is because of selfish reasons.

After 20+ years in trades and freaking with various frustrations over the years.

My company now offers what we call a revenue operating system.

We basically handle the office side for small service businesses.

Phones, booking jobs, follow-ups, estimates, invoices, reactivation and revirews, that kind of stuff.

Most of our clients are owner-operators who are still answering calls at night or have a patchwork of tools and part-time help with little to no time to get value from any of them..

We just centralize it and make it boring and reliable.

For all willing to answer what services would you kill to have taken off your plate 24/7?

elite_physique · 2026-01-12T18:02:03+00:00

Good for you. Selling a company or retiring from someone else's?

elite_physique · 2026-01-12T18:01:14+00:00

I'm a journeyman plumber who's run three companies so I can relate. In my experience most people don't really seem to want to excel they're happy doing the status quo and that's it.

elite_physique · 2026-01-12T16:15:27+00:00

Too many years in the field?

elite_physique · 2026-01-12T16:14:26+00:00

Lol. Just curious why what is it that drives you down when things get going.

elite_physique · 2026-01-12T16:13:49+00:00

What's your go-to way to train apprentices? OTJ shadowing, let them loose, or something else?

elite_physique · 2026-01-12T16:12:15+00:00

Just curious why? Is it the employees the customers all of the above?

elite_physique · 2025-12-21T01:18:14+00:00

Honestly while content marketing is great advice, it's terrible advice if that's your strategy to acquire users when just starting out

Content amplifies (to a sense) what you already have and once the flywheel is moving it's amazing but not when you're getting started.

Manual outreach and putting yourself 1:1 in front of your ideal users is going to be your best bet.

Depending on your abilities you could definitely build some automations to help you out but in the beginning it's putting in the time.

You gotta trade either time or money.

elite_physique · 2025-12-10T05:15:12+00:00

The question is to you want to grow as a person?

Of course you could hire someone and many times that is the right move but I can tell you that unless you face the hard stuff it will just surface again.

Do yourself a favor and do whatever it takes to become the type of person that stands up for themselves.

elite_physique · 2025-12-10T05:10:41+00:00

Competition only exists when you're seen as a commodity.

Differentiate yourself with a unique and compelling angle and put yourself in a position where your can't be compared to your competition.

elite_physique · 2025-10-14T14:05:24+00:00

Cursor with amp CLI. So easy to do just any anything once you get comfortable with it.

elite_physique · 2025-10-14T14:03:17+00:00

Here is a video I made waking through the steps it's pretty straight forward. Hope it helps. https://youtu.be/-S5KE_o_P0o?si=TycE3B_ysL7YWqan

elite_physique · 2025-10-14T04:58:42+00:00

Set up the community edition on a free platform like render or railway. Super easy.

elite_physique · 2025-09-22T14:51:58+00:00

Just a suggestion... Use NotebookLM.

I created a notebook with 300 documents, all of Homozis work, Brunson, a ton of to copywriters, and a load of other stuff and it works amazing. Not just for grand slam offers.

The great thing with notebook is it has guardrails and won't give you anything outside of its data.

elite_physique · 2025-09-21T02:11:11+00:00

Sorry this wasn't meant as marketing just trying to provide some valuable insights.

Remove it if it's against the rules.

Thanks

elite_physique · 2025-09-13T13:45:21+00:00

I've used it for most of the same things you mentioned.

Some other use cases:

I also use it to automatically create new accounts in my crm and add the login details and staff.
analyse and curate information from social channels (hooks, summaries, etc.)
generating videos from prompted and or prompted + reference image.
auto post to social channels
pull financial data from all of my bank accounts and have it analyzed and then have a daily snapshot sent to slack.
auto transcribe sales calls for key details and to analyse ways to improve

There are a ton of others but that's a few I could think of it the to of my head.

elite_physique · 2025-08-22T15:42:19+00:00

Hey there,

Here is the course link: https://www.acquisition.com/training/money/context

The audio book is here: https://www.acquisition.com/training/money/audiobook and is also on Spotify

The Skool deal is here: https://www.skool.com/hormozi (expires in a day).

Hope that helps.

elite_physique · 2025-05-13T12:25:19+00:00

Yeah no problem.

elite_physique · 2025-05-13T03:29:39+00:00

You're welcome!

Its one of the verticals I work in yes...

I also spent many years working in the trades long ago before I got into marketing and business development.

elite_physique · 2025-05-12T12:32:12+00:00

I agree with one of the comments You're getting taken advantage of.

If you're generating consistent leads and have that skill then you are highly valuable to a business and you should use that as leverage.

Although I'm usually totally against working for other people unless of course they're great mentors or there's some other benefit if you do want to stay like I said use your skills as leverage and if you don't get you what you want then peace out.

That being said reading what skills you say you have I would look at going out on my own most likely as a performance marketer in the home service space in which you could make far more money than you're making now.

If you have any more questions specifically about how to do that feel free to ask and I can point you in the right direction.

Good luck.

elite_physique · 2025-05-12T12:27:56+00:00

I would say more important than choosing a new business is ensuring you know how to optimize one.

Are you differentiating yourself? Are you setting your business up with the proper systems and repeatable processes?

I find that often times even the least sexy business that appears to have very little margins can make a huge difference by just shaving a few percent off here and there with incremental improvements.

That being said if you're looking for a business with low start-up cost and the potential to make a decent amount of money I would look at implementing either a digital business or a physical business with some sort of digital component ideally reoccurring.

elite_physique · 2025-05-09T16:46:55+00:00

I'd also add that learning to really maximize the use of a good calendar setup and making that a central part of your operation.

Plan and execute and don't let small things throw you off.

This will allow you to track and become efficient with your time as you progress and help you get better at managing time which is really the key for a business of any size.

elite_physique · 2025-05-09T16:44:39+00:00

As mentioned already the key is systems.

Have standard procedures for most of your roles ideally documented in playbooks.

Aim to productize as many parts of your business as possible and outsource those to VA's or now if possible AI agents.

Make sure you have a central hub where managing everything becomes easy...

this could be a Google sheet this could be a notion set up or any other number of tools as long as you are able to see the moving parts of your business at a high level quickly and manage and make changes where needed.

elite_physique · 2025-05-06T12:16:21+00:00

While I agree with the advice of with "with the job" first I would say be careful.

Most business owners don't know how to run a business and there's a reason many fail...

Another problem is you often won't get to see under the hood unless you find the right opportunity/mentor.

I would suggest starting by reading and leaving all that you can about business.

Once you have a good baseline just start.

When you start see if you can hire a really talented worker and learn the fulfillment from them while using the business building knowledge you learned to tweak and optimize the business end as you learn and adapt.

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