Episode 3 - Get Fired up & Fire yourself! (an accidental podcast) With Edward Rivera & Eddie Cruz

SUMMARY KEYWORDSpeople, eddie, talking, business, electrical, questions, electrician, trust, call, customer, edward, fellas, big, edie, problem, life, put, company, man, askedWhat’s the difference between winning and losing in business?4:45When do you get to cash in on your equity?7:22How many times does an electrician go to a home that isn’t sold every year?11:44How to interrupt your client.15:54What’s the most important piece of engagement?19:53What is your lifetime customer value after?24:26The conversion equation is not just as simple as saying “Here’s our price”.28:40The Law of hindrance and how to use it.36:17What’s been the biggest roadblock?39:58The greatest success that you’ll realize is through the leverage of other people.44:24What’s the difference between you and the next guy who becomes lazy and gives into a crazier?50:02What is the vision for Ion?54:43The risks of keeping someone available 24/7.1:00:33How do new entrants figure out their pricing? Where do they charge?law of hindrance, two things that hold back business business owners. One is they say deficiencies in the discipline. So what discipline right the discipline of doing the right things at the right time for the right people. Here's the problem. That changes as you grow your business. What are you supposed to be doing today? What do you suppose to do tomorrow? Every time you fire yourself? The Disciplines got to change. Yeah. So that's problem. One's huge. Most people don't figure that out. Problem two is trust connected to problem one, we tend to build ourselves a little electrical or HVAC Island. As a contractor, we never figure out how to delegate how to fire ourselves and trust someone with a little bit of framework to take that framework, run with it, focus on it and do it better than we ever could. And that is so important. So the two of those combined law of hindrance.themselves. Business for me yeah, health came into big factor for me. When I started my got into the industry of traveling and fixing those machinery because you're traveling you're on the road, you don't have access to a kitchen. Like I was home maybe for almost like it was an eight year eight or nine years I was only home maybe four or five days a month. So when you're on the road for that much, it's very easy to go on McDonald's Applebee's, all this other crazy shit, you know, all that bad shit. You're not supposed to eat every day. You know, I was 23 I was 2223 years old, weighing two or 350 pounds with a 42 inch waist. It's just like, boy, thank you, dude. Super thick. Now Oh, no, yeah, and this guy's like Wolverine without it. But it was just like, it was just crazy. Because, you know, I had to go to doctors and like, Hey, you're 23 I got to, if I have to prescribe you, you know, high blood pressure pills. It's like, if you keep going with this lifestyle, you're not gonna live a long life. So that for me was just like a, like a switch. Sounds like you know, I need to research I need to figure out what I need to do. Or I can do that. I add that to my lifestyle of traveling not being on the road. And now started searching counting macros. I started researching this with so you know, researching the body, how the body reacts to certain things, complex carbs, I'm just like, again, just forever student just learning just absorb and pivot around. And yeah, so now I'm staying healthy, chubby, even 232 inch waist them all have a lot of good.