Episode 45 w/Mark Baker

So what does a typical day look like for you right now?

Well, usually get in the office around seven in the morning, uh, get on the computer, look at emails, um, then we always try to plan our schedule out a week before.

So basically you're setting up your schedule or checking your schedule from the previous week.

So recently we just started a new computer system or a CRM tool, Jobber.

So now this, like the last couple weeks, I'm getting in there, checking emails, doing whatever I need to do.

And then I'll get on there and start playing around with it.

Um, and then also entering in a lot of our old proposals into the new system.

So, you know, anytime you start something new, it takes a little bit of time.

Um, but, uh, By then, usually maybe just take a quick break for lunch and then come back and then hopefully have some proposals to type up if Jeremy gets them back to us on time.

Other than that, that's on a daily basis.

And then, like I said, you're always trying to set up meetings, set up inspections.

Delivering proposals to your clients.

You know, sometimes it doesn't work, so you have to email them.

You're always following up.

I mean, there's never a day where you cannot pick up a phone, shoot a text, make a call, you know.

Email is kind

of dying down these days.

It's kind of the old thing with all the filters and blocks.

It's just tough to do any type of communication unless you are emailed something.

There's that little conversation through an email.

That's about the only thing.

But if you can't pick up the phone, cell phone, I mean, my God, everybody's got the cell phone in the back pocket.

So, yep.

But I find most of my clients are text.

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