The Future of Home Services is Here | Jon Jordon

Send us Fan MailJon decided on HVAC because he felt there was an opportunity to use his technological background and create efficiencies in the industry. 00:00:00] Welcome to the Successful Life Podcast. I am your host Corey Berrier, and I am here with my man, Jon Jordan. What's up, Jon? Hey Corey, how's it going? Good, man. Good to see you. So Jon is gonna bring some pretty cool information to us today, and I tell you, I'm, I've been really excited about this and I would wish we could have done this earlier, but, things happen and here we are. [00:00:24] But, so Jon owns a couple of companies Comfort Monster is the one that we have had the most conversations about. And you've got locations here in Raleigh and then in Charlotte, which is an HVAC company. And then Atlantic bt, which is where you started, right? Yep, Absolutely. So tell us about, tell us a little bit about that journey, Jon, if you don't mind. [00:00:46] It's definitely a long journey. I'll try to keep it relatively short, but I was in college and the first entrepreneurial idea I had was essentially a way to send prescriptions from the doctor's office directly to the drug store. Came up with this idea where you put a kiosk, a mini ATM in the [00:01:00] doctor's office. [00:01:01] So back, this is way back in 98, you'd write a handwritten prescription, you'd have it, and at that point, you'd have to go wait at the pharmacy. This system actually allowed you to, in the waiting room, choose a pharmacy stick in your prescription. It would scan it and send it across town. So when you drove over there, it was already filled. [00:01:15] That was pretty unique at the time we were working with all the major pharmacies, including Walmart and some of these big guys, to build that system out. So that's where my technology background started. And then, we morphed into providing more custom solutions. [00:01:28] And we've continued to work with publicly traded companies, everything from governments to publicly traded companies to build. Technology solutions. So that's, that was my first company. And I still own that company. And at some point, it got to where there were other managers that were more wanted to have more responsibility, and I just stepped back and said, Hey you want to do that? [00:01:47] That's great. I'll take some time and relax a little bit. And I did that took a couple of years. I spent a lot of time in Turks and CAOs and doing other things that weren't terribly productive. And then at a certain point I really had the, just woke up. I was like, You know [00:02:00] what,  [00:02:00] you're wasting your talents and your time. And I felt like I needed to do something else. And so I looked around and a lot of people said why didn't you get into doing something, some kind of software? And I said I really, I've always grown up working on things and. And the technology business is very intangible. [00:02:16] You build things, but they're all nothing you can really touch. And I wanted to see my trucks driving around town and I wanted to I just wanted something that was a little more tangible. So looked at a number of different businesses and came up with the H V A C as being one that people practices that I'd learned working in the technology and the space where you really are competing highly for talent all the time. [00:02:36] And also how to apply technology and create efficiencies. I believe that H V A C was a prime opportunity to leverage those things that I had experience in. I did not realize that I, so I, of course, knew about the software company, but I don't know that I've ever asked you too many questions about it, and I really didn't know that the prescript, I had no idea that was part, that was something that you had a part of. [00:02:59] I, I just didn't [00:03:00] know that. That's fascinating. Which makes this next conversation even more fascinating because yeah, you knew nothing about H V A https:newpathemployment.com  https://www.audible.com/pd/9-Simple-Steps-to-Sell-More-ht-Audiobook/B0D4SJYD4Q?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflowhttps://www.amazon.com/Simple-Steps-Sell-More-Stereotypes-ebook/dp/B0BRNSFYG6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OSB7HX6FQMHS&keywords=corey+berrier&qid=1674232549&sprefix=%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreysalescoach/