Building a Business That Thrives Without You with Mike Andes
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How can you succeed with a 10-year career mindset?
Think of your career in 10-year swings. And if you think of that way in your 20s, you have five, six solid swings left in you. And if you actually committed yourself for 10 years, and let's just say it didn't work out, I happen to believe you would have learned so much more and gone so much deeper in that industry, your second swing would be that much more precise.
Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind their success in business. Now, your host. the home service millionaire, Tommy Mello.
Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to implement what you learned today. To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. So I asked the team to take notes for you. Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S to 888-526-1299. That's 888-526-1299.
And you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. I'll share with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million company in 22 states. Just go to elevateandwin.com forward slash podcast to get your copy. Now let's go back into the interview. All right, welcome back to the Home Service Expert. I got a special one for you guys today. Mike Andes is here. I've known Mike for a long time now. Spoke at your event, I don't know, six years ago now? Yeah. Has it been that long? I think it's been three or four. Three or four. Time flies. The funny thing is, is Mike's a badass when it comes to landscaping. And I had a landscaping company in Michigan and Arizona. And I love landscaping because... There's a lot of money to be made in landscaping. It's kind of hard if you're just mowing lawns with a 22-inch Honda.
But once you really master it, it's something a lot of people could get into. And you had a lot of successful people at the event. But you're a busy man. You've got your own CRM. You've got Augusta Lawn Care. You've got Anytime Fitness, and you're the host of your own podcast called the Home Service Millionaire Podcast. Very similar to mine. Yeah. But mine's a home service expert. Yeah, I still remember way back in the day listening to your podcast when I was just my first location before we franchised, did the software, anything like that. And I remember very specifically one time. I think I might have shared this with you when you went on my podcast. and that was I was at a camp and the only thing I wanted to do though was go like listen to your podcast I just found it and I was just binging on it and so I appreciate everything you've done for younger guys like myself in the industry how old are you these days 29 29 yeah well that's awesome because
To get started and be as passionate as you were, when did you get into the business? So I was 11 years old when I first started pushing the lawnmower around. 11 when you started pushing it, and then you started Augusta in 2014. Is that right? Yep. So I was 18 when I started. I dropped out of medical school because I went to college when I was 13. That's when I started. So I dropped out of medical school at 18 and started Augusta Lawn Care then. And then five years later is when we franchised. Okay. And so you've been in the franchise industry about five or six years? Yep, going on our sixth year now. There's a lot of people that want to do franchises. Everybody and their brother's like, I think I should franchise. I'm like, why? Yeah. Like you better be the best of the best in like five markets, take market share. What would you tell somebody knowing what you know now?
Yeah, like I would say if you're doing it just for the money, usually it's actually not the best and fastest route to money. Usually if you have a good model and you don't have a huge amount of startup capital that is required to start in the service industry, it's actually just faster to cash in terms of just corporate expansion. You have more control.
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