Dec 15, 2023
This conversation-centric podcast episode focuses on the topics of business growth, leadership and overcoming challenging situations. Guests, Steve DHondt of PMS weretheguys.com, a successful brick paver company, and Eric Reno of Paramount Building Incorporated, a firm developed from scratch, share their own personal experiences and growth narratives. They discuss various strategies including dealing with public relations, employee happiness, excellence in customer service, strategic delegation, and optimal process development. The discussions also emphasize on adopting a positive mindset for business growth, the dynamic nature of service business economy and the value of a driven, collaborative team. They highlight their respective core business values and the important role of faith in their personal and professional lives.
"The common theme that I'm seeing again amongst these entrepreneurs that are growing their businesses and succeeding is they're extremely proactive. They're not sticking their head in the sand. They're not being a little bitch and wanting to run under, hide when things happen."
- Keith Kalfas
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Key
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"It's going to be about, evolving your mind
because brief story, like I was stuck, I don't want to say I was
stuck at the 5 million revenue mark, but I was stuck at the 5
million, um, place in my mind. Like I was personally stuck
there. Like I wasn't growing as a person and I wasn't evolving as a
person, though I wanted more. So it's more geared toward evolving
the mind because everything that happens out here is a product of
what happens up here. So that's really what I focus in on,
keep the distractions out as you're growing. And when you scale a
business to scale, scaling a business is mental. It's not physical,
right? So coming from me, somebody that's physically. In roofing
and I'm out there getting it and I'm laying shingles and I'm
running crews and doing what I want that's not going to get you to
eight figures right up here. This is what's going to get you
to eight figures. It's physically impossible with the amount of
hours in a day to make more unless you do it with your mind and
leverage.
" - Eric
"It's just the leaders. The leaders of our company are the ones that understand. It's shared with the whole vision, but we're seasonal, and a lot of my guys do end up going to Mexico for the winter. So I don't have as much contact with them. We do let them know we post things up. We make sure that, our core values are everywhere. Everything that we are about and what we're changing, from our five year plan and our 10 year plan and our, all those things. The guys are aware of what we're trying to do and the girls as well and as a company and we've implemented profit sharing every single month to every employee and it's always the same. It doesn't matter if you've been here for 30 or 20 years or you just started everybody gets the same profit sharing check. So it really has helped bring more people to my business as well where people have labor shortages. We had six new guys sign on, so we had six new guys sign on to our company, which that's huge. It's huge in our business especially six that not only worked out, they were fantastic or fantastic. " - Steve
Connect with Eric
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-reno-78471865/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/eric.reno.165/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/eric_reno/
Website:
https://paramountbuildinginc.com/our-team/
Connect with Steve
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-dhondt-534b23166
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/weretheguys/
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChx5v0dBiCB8UaGNfn4S4Ng/videos
Website:
https://www.weretheguys.com/about-us
Connect with Keith
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithkalfas/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelandscapingemployeetrap
Website: https://www.keithkalfas.com/resources
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@keith-kalfas
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