EP# 10: Buying and Growing a Garage Door Company with Michael Barrett of Access Garage Doors

In this episode of Lifted: The Garage Door Podcast, I sit down with Michael Barrett, owner of Access Garage Door Sales & Service in Greenville, South Carolina. Michael’s path into the garage door industry is different than most. Before buying Access Garage Doors, he spent nearly a decade helping scale a garage door company across multiple markets through acquisitions and operational systems. That experience gave him a unique perspective on what makes a garage door company valuable, how deals actually happen, and what buyers look for when evaluating a business. We talk about what it was like stepping into ownership after purchasing an established company, how he approached culture and team trust after the transition, and why the customer database he inherited turned out to be one of the most valuable assets in the business. Michael also shares some of the marketing and operational ideas he’s experimenting with right now in the Greenville market—from newsletters and outbound customer outreach to simple local branding tactics that help keep the company top of mind with homeowners. We also get into a topic that’s frustrating a lot of legitimate garage door companies right now: fake Google Maps listings and lead-gen operations showing up in local search results. Michael has been actively investigating some of these listings in his market and shares his perspective on how they impact real businesses trying to compete fairly online. This episode is a practical conversation about ownership, growth, and what it really takes to run and expand a local garage door company today. Connect with Michael Barrett Access Garage Doors & Sales – Greenville, South Carolina Website: https://garagedooraid.com Connect with Lifted • Think you’d make a great guest on the show? Apply here. • Need serious SEO for your garage door company? Learn more at https://garagedoorseoexperts.com/ • Follow Lifted on Facebook • Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube