Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

In this republished and condensed episode, we revisit the seven deadly objections every service technician needs to know. Through practical role-plays, we break down how to uncover what customers really mean, communicate value without being pushy, and confidently move the conversation forward. ———————————————————- Stop leaving money on the table. Every call is a chance to close. Every day is a chance to win. If you’re a plumber, HVAC tech, electrician, or roofer who wants to close bigger tickets, handle objections without flinching, and build a career in the trades — this is your community. Blue Collar Closer is where 346+ home service professionals get live sales coaching, proven scripts, and real-time Q&A with Brian Burton. Not theory. Not fluff. The exact words that close jobs. bluecollarcloser.com   Full show notes + transcript: Every episode has searchable show notes and a full transcript at wastenoday.com   Waste No Day is hosted by Brian Burton and Nate Minnich — two guys who are in the trenches of home services every single day. Brian is the General Manager of Benjamin Franklin Plumbing of Scottsdale, one of the top-rated plumbing companies in the Phoenix Valley, serving Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, and the East Valley. Find them at benfranklinplumbingaz.com

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  Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup   Lorne Sederoff is the Vice President of Search Kings and has spent more than 20 years helping multi-location businesses generate leads through digital marketing. He works with manufacturers, private equity-backed companies, and franchise networks to build scalable marketing campaigns across the home services, legal, and medical industries. In this episode, we talked about local services ads, Google reviews, customer experience, AI, lead generation...

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Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup   Brent Buckley is a Las Vegas-based HVAC and plumbing leader with more than 23 years of sales and executive experience. Raised in the trades, he worked his way from technician to one of the industry’s top comfort advisors, personally producing over $100 million in residential replacement sales. He later became co-owner of Fetch A Tech, helping grow the company to a successful eight-figure exit. Today, Brent mentors and trains HVAC and plumbing professionals across the country, helping the next generation of techs reach their full potential. <

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Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup   In this episode, we talked about clarity, urgency, leadership, communication, process… 

Atlantic City. July 17th and 18th. Two days on objections, in-home sales, and the real conversations your techs are losing right now. Tickets and VIP info at wastenodaybootcamp.com   Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Brian Gottlieb is a business leader, author, and speaker who built a company from a plastic folding table and $3,000 into a business that generated nearly a billion dollars in lifetime revenue. In the conversation, he talks a lot about leadership, building people, and creating a strong company culture inside the trades industry. Through his book, Beyond the Hammer, he focuses on practical leadership lessons that contractors and business owners can actually relate to — especially the messy realities of growing teams, leading people, and evolving as a business owner. He also shares how his goal was to write something for the industry that feels real and familiar to people working in it every day. In this episode, we talked about leadership, culture, belief, empowerment, training...

Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann is a former Green Beret who spent most of his adult life in Army Special Forces, serving in places like Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Afghanistan. His work focused not just on combat, but on building trust in low-trust environments - helping small teams connect with locals and turn them into strong partners. After the military, he shifted that same focus on human connection into leadership coaching, storytelling, and writing. He’s the author of Nobody’s Coming to Save You and his newer book The Generosity of Scars, and he’s known for helping leaders improve by focusing on relationships, storytelling, and real human connection.    In this episode, we talked about storytelling, leadership, trust, emotions, struggle... Website: https://scottmann.com/about/, tfpineapple.org Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@TheScottMannPodcast Play: 11 Days  WND Ep: 04/14/2025 Scott Mann - Build Unbreakable Connections Through Authentic Storytelling Books: Nobody’s Coming to Save You, The Generosity of Scars Concepts: Rooftop Leadership

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Atlantic City. July 17th and 18th. Two days on objections, in-home sales, and the real conversations most techs are losing right now. Tickets and VIP info at: wastenodaybootcamp.com Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about maintenance calls, communication, trust, sales...

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about commitment, tenacity, progress, legacy...

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about trust, influence, safety, body language, sequence... Featured Experts Mentioned Dr. Jack Schafer  WND Ep: 11/29/2021 Books: The Like Switch, The Truth Detector Dr. Carol Kinsey Goman  WND Ep: 2/28/2022 Book: The Silent Language of Leaders Dr. Robert Cialdini   WND Ep: 1/6/2025 Books: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Pre-Suasion

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Anthony Hamilton is the co-founder and CEO of The Water Heater Company, a residential home service business he started in 2019 with his business partner, Gonzalo Albarellos. What began as a two-man operation has grown into a 26-person team that’s on pace to hit around $12 million in revenue. He’s focused on leadership, building strong teams, and helping people in the trades grow - both personally and professionally. In this episode, we talked about discipline, responsibility, mindset, integrity, growth...

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Jonithan Phillips works in the home services industry as a sales trainer, speaker, and leadership developer. He serves as a senior instructor at A1 Garage Door Academy, where he trains and develops technicians and sales professionals for one of the largest residential garage door companies in the United States. In this episode, we talked about sales, mindset, relationships, trust, fear...

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Jack Johnston is a fourth-generation plumber from Phoenix. Known in his shop for constantly working to improve and helping lift up the people around him, Jack recently hit $1.6 million in revenue in a year.  In this episode, we talked about sales, relationships, fear, communication, trust...

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Zach Reynolds is an HVAC sales professional who started in the trade as an install helper, learning the work from the ground up before moving into full-time HVAC sales in July 2024. Originally from Tennessee and now based in Las Vegas, Zach has quickly built momentum in his sales career, reaching $4.1 million in sales in 2025 with a $16,000 average ticket and surpassing $6 million in total career sales. His background in the field and focus on serving homeowners well have played a big role in his early success. In this episode, we talked about discipline, mastery, mentorship, sales, sobriety...

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Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Ryan Fenn is the founder of CHIIRP, a revenue optimization and follow-up platform built specifically for home service businesses. He grew up in the trades, dropped out of high school, washed windows, and spent years learning firsthand how missed calls, weak systems, and poor follow-up cost contractors real money. Today, his work is rooted in lived experience, using data, language, and AI-driven insights to help service companies tighten communication, improve follow-up, and close more work without relying on pressure or discounts.   In this episode, we talked about certainty, trust, follow-up, AI...

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Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community — join today before the next live Q&A drops: https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Coral Whale is a returning guest on the podcast and specializes in maximizing HVAC maintenance calls. She focuses on turning traditionally low-profit maintenance visits into consistent, profitable opportunities by simplifying communication, building trust with homeowners, and presenting clear solutions. Coral shares real-world experience from the field, emphasizing consistency, respect in customers’ homes, and strong communication as the foundation for long-term client relationships and repeat business.   In this episode, we talked about maintenance calls, conversion, discipline, consistency...

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  Want to double, triple and even 10X your income without being pushy? Inside Blue Collar Closer, you’ll get scripts, live role-play coaching, and the exact sales system techs are using right now to close bigger jobs without the sleazy tactics. Join over 200 top techs. Spots open weekly. Join today 👇 https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about the game-changing value of having a coach, how to shorten the learning curve, perseverance… 

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