Jeff Dudan

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The Home Service Expert Podcast · Mastering the Art of Franchising with Jeff Dudan · 25 Apr 2025 podcast

But or, you know, you can shoot me a message on YouTube and on the Homefront podcast, you know, just just there. But not hard to get a hold of. Instagram's good.

OK, my choice is probably is Instagram and LinkedIn.

Instagram and LinkedIn. And usually I'm just in there just checking for anything that I need to do, any engagement that I need to pay attention to, you know, how things are performing or whatever it is. An hour a day between Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn is enough time to check, but not enough time to get to scroll.

God shaped me way back.

Can't Hurt Me is great. You know, Good to Great was something early for me. Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Lencioni was something that was very instrumental for me early. Man, I'm big into Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time right now. I mean, if I had to pick one book for people to read right now, that might be it.

Oh, well, hey, I appreciate it. Gosh. I don't know. I don't know, man. We went all over the place here. This is what I love to do. Yeah. I mean, I think if anything, you know, just encouraging people to be outcome focused, encouraging people to, you know, we heard this great thing about internal, external locus of control. You were talking about that earlier. Like, I'm in charge of this.

I'm in charge. And You know, letting people understand that, like, you are in control. Every decision that you make, every action that you take determines the slope of your line. It determines the velocity of your business. It determines the quality of your life. And, you know, you can do that in a franchise model. You can do that in your personal life. You can do it in direct business.

But at the end of the day, man, like, it's body of work. And every action that you take or every inaction that you should have taken that you didn't, it's a plus or a minus check, man. And at the end of the day, there's a tally. At the end of the week, there's a tally. And at the end of your life, there's a tally. And just for God's sake, stop worrying about what other people think.

Stop making decisions based on ego. We had a great conversation this week, man. People – there's these HVAC guys and some of them have 11 locations and they're like, yeah, we should have stayed in one location because it was our ego that drove us to open up those other cities. And they weren't fully committed. So, I mean, I hate that I have to be 56 years old.

to continue to learn hard lessons, making mistakes. But man, just take care of your business. Raise your, you know, like only care about your own standards. Do things like that when nobody's looking, like I brought the guy that sandwiches today. And just, you know, people should have a great life.

I don't understand why everybody can't, within their own capabilities, within their own skill, from wherever they sit, Have a great life. And I would like to leave people with that. At Homefront Brands, man, we are 100. It used to be there's lots of different things in franchising. Responsible franchising or autonomy or freedom. Like we are focused on outcomes. Outcomes, outcomes, outcomes.

I want you, if you're a normal person, it's your first business, can you build a $3 to $5 million business in five years and sell it for several million dollars and make it be that first chunk that you have to give yourself that little bit of freedom?

Yeah. Yeah. And then like, you know, can you you know, you win the next opportunity by succeeding than the one that you're in. And business is an infinite game.

So if you can come to us and we can and you can and it's hard and you can learn these business skills and you either expand within our platform on this monopoly board that we call Homefront Brands and you start building hotels and grabbing territories or. Or you sell your business with us and you go on and do something great. I tell you, I'll leave it with this.

We were at our industry event last week in Vegas. And they award franchisees of the year. So if you have a franchisee of the year in your system, They give about 100 of these out across the 4,000 brands. So one of our top real fence franchisees, Bob Stewart from Richmond, got Franchisee of the Year. And he walked across the stage with these other people.

And I'm walking out of the room, and I see a woman that I recognize kind of smile, light face lights up. And then I see the young gentleman with them, and I recognize it was one of my AdvantiClean franchisees. I saw you interview them. Yeah, who was there getting Franchisee of the Year.

Yeah, so he was an E-2 visa. They were in Argentina. The economy was falling apart, and they came to AdvantiClean, and they brought their entire extended family over. He was one of the young brothers or sons or nephews or whatever it was. There was about 10 of them that came over. built a great business in South Florida.

Half of them sold it, made really good money, and went on and built an import-export business. And Mariano is still operating there. And I mean... What impact did that little AdvantiClean business make in their life and the fact that we see each other, we tell each other we love each other?

And then one of the executives from AdvantiClean came up to me and he said, hey, I've been trying to get in touch with you. I go around to these offices with AdvantiClean and they've all got the pictures up on the wall from the conferences that you had and all of that. And part of it is how can we get the culture back to when Jeff had it?

and he asked me to do a video to play at their owner's conference. Oh, wow. So I did the red eye. I got home, and I'm like, oh, he said he needed it today. I hadn't slept all night. And I'm like, well, let me put some Preparation H under the eyes. And I did just a three- or four-minute video.

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