Navigating the Balance of AI and Human Interaction in Business with Brigham Dickinson
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What are the key communication skills needed in home services?
We're not talking about turning your technicians into sales guys. We're talking about improving their communication skills to the point where they provide a service that a homeowner will appreciate. That's what great customer service looks like.
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.
What blind spots exist in call conversions?
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How does private equity influence training in the home service industry?
Welcome back to the Home Service Expert. I'm here with a good buddy of mine that I like to keep in touch with, Brigham Dickinson. He is an expert in sales business, call monitoring, call coaching, technician coaching, pretty much everything you can think about in home service. He's the founder of Power Selling Pros and an author of several books, but Something to Give is one of them. He's the owner and founder of Power Selling Pros, a company that powers your customer experience with call handling, training, and coaching for thousands of companies in the home service industry. He's also the owner of Booked, a night answering service for hundreds of companies in the home service industry. Also an owner of Athleticare, a sports recovery company for athletes.
Brigham continues to personally consult and train companies throughout the home service industry as long as they are within a reasonable driving distance from his home. I don't know why that's in here. Not really. I put it in there. But, yeah, no, that's great. So, dude, I'm excited to have you. You guys, you said you're 60% up this year. Just more companies reaching out. A lot of people caring more about booking the calls.
What strategies can maximize technician performance and lead generation?
Yeah. Last year you were talking a lot about blind spots. And one of the major blind spots in the home service industry or in a home service company is that they don't know where their call conversion's at. And even if they do, they really don't spend time on it. Most business owners, they spend time on technicians. I ask them all the time, hey, guys, how much time do you spend with your technicians and your supervisors? Oh, I train them every day. Every day, cool. And how much time do you train – how much time do you take to train your CSRs? And it's crickets, right? They spend zero time. It could be a lack of passion. It could be a lack of time. Regardless of the reason, they don't have time to do it.
And I think –
Why is comprehensive customer service vital?
that them recognizing that blind spot and a lot of it has to do with technology the technology today um that's available to us is showing us and kind of putting a spotlight on what was a blind spot before yeah and so this time last year about 900 trainees in our program and we train them one-on-one twice a month using their own phone calls so it's it's performance coaching it's not just the training that we do and then we leave Yeah. Right. It's it's a training where they're held accountable over time. So we're at 900 trainees this time last year. And right now we're pushing almost 1400 trainees in our program. So insane. Yeah. It's insane growth. It's insane growth. It's fun. It's exciting. Sometimes I look at my team and go, how did we do this?
Yeah. Now it's impressive, man. And I think I think you're getting more experience in there. I remember we talked in the last couple of years and you said private equity companies, the first thing they do. at a detriment to their own companies, has cut the training on the call center. They think we've got this. We hired somebody internally. I've been there.
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Chapters
9 chapters
1
What are the key communication skills needed in home services?
0:00–0:30
2
What blind spots exist in call conversions?
0:30–1:16
3
How does private equity influence training in the home service industry?
1:16–2:22
4
What strategies can maximize technician performance and lead generation?
2:22–3:06
5
Why is comprehensive customer service vital?
3:06–4:29
6
How can businesses balance technology with human interaction?
4:29–6:23
7
What role does leadership play in achieving business success?
6:23–7:01
8
How can ongoing training and accountability improve performance?
7:01–9:27
9
What are the latest trends in investment within home services?
9:27–1:00:02
Speakers
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