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Inspector Toolbelt Talk — 206 episodes

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Title
1

Run Your Home Inspection Business On Your Terms

2

Inspections to Pest Control - How to Make It Happen

3

Why Vacations are Hard - And How to Change That

4

Home Inspectors Could Take Over The Pest Control Industry

5

Your Best Inspection Tool Is Social Awareness

6

Q3 Market Outlook - 2026

7

Million Dollar Success - With Ian Mayer

8

Do Not Let AI Write Checks Our Knowledge Can't Cash

9

"All The Legal Stuff" With Joe Ferry, The Home Inspection Lawyer

10

Value Over Price

11

Are People Getting Harder to Deal With?

12

Higher Level AI For Home Inspectors

13

Manage Expectations

14

Liability Layers For Home Inspectors

15

Q2 - 2026 Home Inspection Market Outlook

16

Growing Pains

17

Quick Tip: Control the Situation

18

The Commercial Mindset

19

A Thousand Little Things Build an Inspection Business

20

The Human Element

21

Questions with Answers

22

Should You Add Solar Inspections?

23

Things Are Moving Fast

24

2026 | Q1 Home Inspection Market Outlook

25

Ubiquity is King

26

Continuing Education - The Ultimate Marketing Engine

27

How To Explode into 2026

28

Avoid Slow Season Pitfalls

29

How Home Inspectors Add Lucrative Verticals

30

Should You Do Home Inspections for Tenants?

31

Q4 Home Inspection Market Outlook - 2025

32

5 Books Every Inspector Should Read

33

The Transition To Commercial Inspections - Harder Than it Looks

34

Using Hand Signals Instead of Annotations

35

Remembering Your Why

36

How To Get AI To Notice Your Business

37

The Golden Age of Commercial Inspections

38

Why "Home Inspector Near Me" Are Not Good Keywords

39

AI & The Future of Home Inspections

40

AI Call Answering/Chat Services For Home Inspectors

41

Should Your Clients Tag Along on the Home Inspection?

42

Q3 2025 Home Inspection Market Outlook

43

Utilizing Neutral Language in Home Inspection Reports

44

Charge More - Deliver More

45

Push Past the Usual Marketing

46

203K Consulting For Home Inspectors

47

Stuff That's In My Inspection Agreements

48

Don't Put All Your Eggs in the GLSA Basket

49

Why Recessions Are Good for Home Inspectors

50

Using the Word "Further" In Reports

51

Optimizing Home Inspection Reports

52

Creating a Better Customer Experience

53

My Favorite Report Disclaimers

54

Diversify To Grow your Business

55

How To Construct a Narrative

56

Q2 2025 Home Inspection Market Outlook

57

Building a Great Inspection Template

58

Using Ratings In our Inspection Reports

59

Setting Boundaries in Your Home Inspection Business

60

Using Past Tense In Home Inspection Reports

61

How To Grow Your Home Inspection Business

62

Q1 2025 HOME INSPECTION MARKET OUTLOOK

63

How To Optimize Search for ChatGPT & AI

64

Grouping Defects Together in Reports

65

Principles of Influence & Sales

66

Play To Your Weaknesses

67

2025 Home Inspection industry Predictions

68

Slow Season Strategy Fails

69

Don't Overcomplicate It

70

How The Increase Your Close Rate

71

Should You Have A Return Visit Fee?

72

Pareto Distribution in Home Inspections

73

Q4 Home Inspection market Outlook - 2024

74

HOW TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF VALUE

75

How To Beat Burnout in the Home Inspection Industry

76

Direct-to-Consumer Marketing for Home Inspectors

77

Home Inspection News - 2024

78

Confident Pricing

79

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

80

Mastering the Driveway Speech - With George Karampoulis

81

The Client Perspective

82

Strategic Goal-Setting for Home Inspection Success

83

Good Business is Good Business - With Randy Lima

84

Social Media Success - With Inspector AJ

85

Are Mandatory Home Inspections a Good Thing?

86

Relationship Marketing for Home Inspectors

87

Group Psychosis in the Home Inspection Industry

88

Vets & Public Servants as Home Inspectors

89

Vanity Numbers vs Real Numbers

90

Drinking With Jay - Dealing With "People Burnout"

91

The Q2 - 2024 Home Inspection Market Outlook

92

Mastering Growth and Profit in Home Inspection: A Talk with Nick Gromicko

93

Dealing With Difficult People in Home Inspections

94

What The NAR Settlement Means For Home Inspectors

95

Boutique, Branding, & Success

96

Home Inspection News - Spring 2024

97

Get Past "The Stall"

98

How To Bid Commercial Inspections

99

What's Changing In Our Industry

100

How To Become a Successful Commercial Inspector

101

How To Hire Inspectors

102

Social Media Trends for 2024

103

How To Be Successful As a Solo Inspector

104

Breaking Into Commercial Inspections - With Dillon Winiecki

105

2024 Home Inspection Market Outlook

106

Crafting a Compelling Marketing Message

107

Leveraging YouTube Shorts For Home Inspection Marketing

108

Fighting To Win - Don't Roll Over for Legal Issues

109

Direct-to-Consumer Marketing for Home Inspectors

110

NAR Lost - Now What?

111

Inspection Reports - Mastering Efficiency and Effectiveness

112

ReportHost vs Spectora. How Does It Impact Our Industry?

113

Becoming a Captivating Speaker

114

Will Two National Lawsuits Get Rid of Buyer Agents Forever?

115

Mastering the Art of Dealing with Know-It-Alls: A Guide for Home Inspectors

116

Training Your Market, Agents, & Clients

117

Take Back Our Industry

118

Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset

119

A New Inspection Type - Changing The Industry

120

Growing Your Inspection Business Through Referral Groups

121

Charge More, Be More - With Juan Jimenez

122

Expert Witness Testimony: A Guide for Home Inspectors

123

Expanding Horizons: Diversifying Your Home Inspection Business

124

Are You Ready to Go Multi-Inspector? | Navigating Challenges, Boosting Profitability and Exploring Ancillary Inspections

125

Q3 2023 – Home Inspection Market Outlook

126

A Review Of Reviews

127

Striking the Balance

128

Lessons Learned - The Ups & Downs of Inspecting

129

Where is the Inspection Industry Headed?

130

Team vs. Solo: The Pros and Cons of Team Inspections

131

Home Inspection News

132

The "Windshield Perspective"

133

Marketing For Introverts

134

How To Become a Successful Female Home Inspector

135

Q2 Home Inspection Market Outlook - 2023

136

How To Upsell Services

137

The Social Media "Secret Sauce"

138

Is Our Industry Consolidating?

139

The Client-First Mentality

140

Google Guarantee Program/GLS - Jason Bowings

141

Drinking With Jay - Teaching and Mentoring Other Inspectors

142

Psychology For Inspectors part 2/2

143

Psychology For Inspectors part 1/2

144

Behind The Scenes with Google Ads

145

Growing & Marketing Your Inspection Business With Kevin Maxwell

146

How to Properly Visit Open Houses

147

Home Inspection Facebook Group Etiquette

148

Hiring a Virtual Assistant for Home Inspectors with Greg Brooks

149

SPECIAL EPISODE! A Big Market Change is Coming

150

Can Field Inspections Help You Through the Downturn?

151

Real Numbers to Run Your Business By

152

Q1 Home Inspection Market Outlook - 2023

153

Home Inspection News With Ian & David

154

Don't Give Up

155

End of Year Tax Tips With Tom Kubiak

156

Business and Sales for New Home Inspectors

157

This Is The Time To Grab Market Share

158

Marketing Pre-Listing Inspections with Dave Klima

159

Market Through It - With Mike Crow

160

Should You Have a Cancellation Fee - Drinking With Jay

161

A Success Story - What Works & What Doesn't - Mike Ortiz

162

Q4 2022 - Home Inspection Market Outlook

163

How Inspectors Can Mitigate Risk

164

How to Properly Visit Real Estate Offices

165

How to Make Your Clients Feel Seen and Heard

166

Changes in the Inspection Industry - Good or Bad? With Christian Adams of Repair Pricer

167

What Is The Future Of The Home Inspection Industry

168

Rising to Meet the New Customer Journey - With Aaron Ziomek from ACC

169

Dress to Impress

170

Confessions of a High Profile Salesman

171

State of the App July 2022

172

Change Your Mindset to Grow Your Business - With Istvan Zsako

173

Firing Clients and Blacklisting Agents - With Jay Wynn

174

Business Structure, Taxes, & Paying Inspectors - With Tom Kubiak

175

Mid-2022 Home Inspection Market Outlook

176

Part 2 - Q&A With Nick Gromicko, the Founder of InterNACHI

177

Part 1 - Q&A With Nick Gromicko, the Founder of InterNACHI

178

How to Manage Client Expectations

179

Social Media Strategy For Inspectors - With Inspector Media

180

Home Inspection Marketing Ideas

181

What Does InterNACHI Plan To Do About The “Takeover of Our Industry" with Nick Gromicko

182

Is InterNACHI Worth It? With Ben Gromicko

183

Should You Hire a Home Inspector Call Center? - with Paula Pinnix of ACC

184

How to Increase Your Per-Inspection Revenue - Dave Klima

185

Inspectors Eat Well When They Charge Enough - James Gonte

186

How to Deal With Client Complaints

187

How To Beat Inspector Burnout

188

Fuel Prices & Interest Rates - What They Mean for Us

189

The Ancillary Service Every Home Inspector Should Offer - With Harold Van Dyk

190

Home Inspection Agreements With Isaac Peck

191

Home Inspector Safety with Bob Madewell

192

The "State of the App Address"

193

How To Be a Better Communicator

194

Barry Cohen - The Creator of Homeinspectology.com

195

How To Make a Home Inspection Blog Easy

196

Joe Ferry - The Home Inspector Lawyer!

197

How to Make Your Own Home Inspection Website

198

Accepting Bitcoin as a Home Inspector

199

2022 Home Inspection Market Outlook

200

Why Branding is Important For Home Inspectors

201

Grow Your Business Without Hiring Other Inspectors

202

Home Inspector Marketing with Dave Klima

203

You Aren't Charging Enough!

204

Scot Baker on Crawlers for Inspectors

205

Fractional Marketing Strategies for Inspectors

206

Who are we? What is this?