Sep 2, 2026 · 47 min · 19 segments
Send us Fan Mail We tackle the ongoing debate in the shed industry: do you win with big inventory and instant gratification, or with custom builds…
Sam FawcettGuest
Shannon LathamHost
And then sometimes people just want to know your genuine thoughts on, you know, they just want to ask the hard questions.

You know, why don't you ask the hard questions? And I was like, look, I'm not the hard question guy.

So like if, if, if, you know, if the meaning of that is that it's going to like hurt somebody or, or tear somebody down.

Now I understand you have private conversations and private business boardroom meetings and things that you have to do and, and, and, and, you know, to survive in business.

I mean, goodness, you know, the church has even got to pay the electric man, you know, to stay, to stay in.

And just even what you were saying with those different companies doing and focusing on those different things, we're not here saying one's better than the other or right or wrong.

Everybody's choosing whether it's a focus on customization or it's a focus on quantity over quality.

There's some theory of the case that says, and there's some theory in the minds of dealers, man, if this is ever something the Shed Sales Summit and those guys over there should discuss, it's what sells more buildings? Is it a good salesperson who can focus and show the quality through an existing building and then walk the customer down a journey that is a 3d configurator build so that they can see it and, and discuss the delivery and go out and do a site check and all those things.

Unfortunately, all we got is a purple and green dog kennel that came back after 59 out of 60 months on an RTO contract.

And then sometimes people just want to know your genuine thoughts on, you know, they just want to ask the hard questions.

You know, why don't you ask the hard questions? And I was like, look, I'm not the hard question guy.

So like if, if, if, you know, if the meaning of that is that it's going to like hurt somebody or, or tear somebody down.

Now I understand you have private conversations and private business boardroom meetings and things that you have to do and, and, and, and, you know, to survive in business.

I mean, goodness, you know, the church has even got to pay the electric man, you know, to stay, to stay in.

And just even what you were saying with those different companies doing and focusing on those different things, we're not here saying one's better than the other or right or wrong.

Everybody's choosing whether it's a focus on customization or it's a focus on quantity over quality.

There's some theory of the case that says, and there's some theory in the minds of dealers, man, if this is ever something the Shed Sales Summit and those guys over there should discuss, it's what sells more buildings? Is it a good salesperson who can focus and show the quality through an existing building and then walk the customer down a journey that is a 3d configurator build so that they can see it and, and discuss the delivery and go out and do a site check and all those things.

Unfortunately, all we got is a purple and green dog kennel that came back after 59 out of 60 months on an RTO contract.
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