40% Growth in Year 1 of a Paving Business

We are prepping the job site before we get there. And then, you know, we're going to do what we said we're going to do. And then if something's wrong, we're going to come back and fix it.

Right. Hopefully it's not, but sometimes it is. And along the way there's so many companies that for whatever reason just they stumble somewhere or you know, we've all heard the term where the owners working in the business, not on the business.

And I repeatedly run into guys that are over tasked. They're the owner of the company, but they're also out there on the job site every day. They're also the one doing the scheduling, the phone calls.

So you know, when you're able to delegate those things out and you know, really define people's responsibilities, you can, you can execute those things at a high level. Yeah, yeah.

So it's, it's one of those simple but not easy.

Yeah.

Things.

That's true.

So, so all the stuff that you described, sure. We can all wrap our heads around it. Just get back to your customers, prep the job site correctly, customer service, etc.

Show up on time, but actually doing that day in, day out, very, very consistently is simple but not easy to pull off. Yeah, okay. Okay, great. That was helpful. Before we get more into your actual acquisition of a business, you had dabbled in starting a small local services business. Starting one because.

Well, why don't you tell that story and how you decided ultimately against it?