
Trades Over Tech: Buying an Appliance Repair Business
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Brian Seeling sought a blue-collar business with a good manager in place. He found exactly that — with $2.6m in revenue.
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Topics in Brian’s interview:
- Being an entrepreneurial kid
- Moving from IT to blue-collar
- Getting value from SMBootcamp
- “Riches are in the niches”
- Satisfaction of developing people
- Not all SBA lending is the same
- “Billionaires do business with billionaires”
- Tactfully bringing about change
- Continuing the commission-based compensation model
- Replacing old tech in the business
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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