Just wanted to share some of my thoughts from this week. I have been working on a shower for the past two weeks. This project is with a GC that I had done work for in the distant past and had priced myself out of their budget long ago. As some of you know, I had worked out a reduced daily rate because I was sitting home with no work. I reconnected with this GC because I was slow knowing that they were cheap. To my surprise they hired me for this project. Come to find out, they didn't have a budget for the project and subsequent rejected estimates showed that they hadn't changed much. Working on this project at my reduced rate has been frustrating because this GC was not prepared for me to be on the project. I have been helping iron out the design on the fly as I install and this has dragged the install out into a 3rd week for me. Super frustrating. My takeaway is that I won't be doing another project at a reduced rate for this GC. The project manager has been suffering along with me, sharing my frustration that nothing was decided before the project was started (he just started working for the GC). The reduced rate stresses me out because there is a lot less margin for this kind of unorganized work. My bad. Lesson learned.

I wanted to tell you guys about the success we've been having with the tile inspection side of our business. For years, people would call us and ask us to check out crappy tile. You guys know how it is. You run out there acting like the hero, spend a lot of time giving out valuable info, you make up a bid and CRICKETS. Especially when you're wanting real money for your work. So, now, when the multitudes call me about bad tile work, "my contractor just got done and it's horrible" type of stuff, I mention our "inspection service"... I tell the homeowner that most of the contractors see them as "dumb homeowners" and when we get involved it's a different story. I explain the value of the service.... Here's what it looks like: A written report where we break down the national standard violations. There are always at least 3 from a VISUAL inspection. I produce a video with Jason talking about the standards and proper installation practices and what our findings are, while he's standing in the failed shower. We've done 10+ of these and we've had success with helping 2 homeowners get the contractor to the table to make things right...our most recent one, she had a contractor that is going to pay to have us re-do the entire shower to the tune of 20k! We had another where the contractor replaced all of the showers in her house. We have one right now, in the court system. Now, if this one is a winner for the homeowner...I feel confident saying we are on to something. This is a $100k+ job that the homeowner got ripped off on. It's in court now and our report was requested by the other side during the discovery process, so it's a real thing! Here's examples of the videos we make and these are the two winners:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7pW5nHrgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKJs-i7aanE There's a PDF of the report we make at the bottom. So, essentially, we are not giving away our expertise anymore. I've made a product to sell to people. We started selling these at $400 now we are up to $600 and eventually I hope to get these up to $2000, I feel like that would be a fair price for what we do.

Great to listen to the zoom today. Really keen to check out the performance max that was mentioned as well as the other stuff. Hope everyone has a good Friday.

I will be using this thread to upload various business documents that have been shared by some of the members of this community &/or the Tile Money FB group.

Hi all! I hope everyone is having a great start to your week! Last week we tried something new & the results were great! So for the time being, Tuesday open mastermind calls will be held at 7 pm EST for the next few weeks. Last week we had a lot of great participation which is exactly what today's zoom call is designed for. Something powerful happens when a small group of like-minded individuals gets together to openly discuss their day-to-day wins & frustrations. I hope you can make it! We've also got 3 amazing guest speakers joining us this month, this Thursday Mallory Lee joins us to discuss Scaling with Process Management. This will be a great zoom to join for those of you wanting to improve your systems & processes. Mallory has built an amazing business in a short time. Next Thursday the 23rd Brandon McKee joins us to discuss the 5 steps undefeated marketing system to boost your ROI. Brandon specializes in marketing & will bring some relevant information on what's working & what's not in 2023. On Thursday the 30th, we have Rob Baugher joining us to discuss his process of remodeling bathrooms using subcontractors to add $500 profit every single day to his bottom line. Rob has been a contractor for 50 years, 25 on the tools and 25 off the tools, show up and gains knowledge from a very experienced contractor! Let me know if you want me to get speakers who specialize in a topic you are interested in. Looking fwd to seeing everyone this week! 😊