Transcript
A (0:00)
Hey, what's up? To the Point listeners. It's your boy. Excited as always when my homies are on the podcast. We got Chad Peterman from Peterman Brothers and Aaron Gaynor from Eco Plumbers Heating and Air Conditioning Technicians. About a quarter of a billion dollars worth of revenue from Indiana and Ohio. But I love it because they talk about, you know, current problems that you guys are having and solutions for or. Or potentially future problems you guys are having against some solutions for that they've found and worked through. So, like real life scenarios. So I love these type of episodes. And another thing, an important thing, turn the volume up. You might start noticing some changes with the to the Point Home services podcast come May 1st. Why? You ask why? I'll tell you. Because your boy just got full control back from Rhino. Since I exited Rhino, so I got full control back, which means I get to do my own thing, and that means more. We need to start shaking it up and doing more with this podcast. And now I've got free reign to do it. So pay attention come May 1 or the first episode in May, because you just might notice a difference. So enjoy this episode with the homies. Chatty P and Aaron G.
B (1:24)
This is
C (1:25)
to the Point, a Rhino experience. Voted one of the top home services, marketing and operations podcasts. Cutting through the bullshit and getting to the point.
D (1:42)
All right, thank you both for being here. Start off, wanna say congratulations to Chad and closing a great deal. Really proud of you. So, wingman, what's your call sign?
B (2:02)
Viper.
D (2:03)
Viper and I, we went through all the surveys, and instead of just going one subject to one subject, we used used a confidential technology with AI to figure out what everyone was most concerned about. And so we formulated some questions along that lines. A lot of people had similar questions and issues in their business. So with that, you know, looking Back to like 2020 through 2023, we had a lot of stimulus, easy money, companies grew, a lot of private equity entered our market or our. Our industry. And then in the last couple years, we've heard, you know, leads have gotten softer, it's harder, margin's been compressing. So we're going to start around there. We're going to start with kind of the market shift. H Vac manufacturers have reported that shipments have been down year over year, about 30%. So the first question is, what do you guys think is causing this? Is it the macroeconomic pressure? Is it, you know, consumer sentiment changing? Or is it just that we pulled all those installs up from during COVID
