And so I had to be very selective and I oftentimes would pass on opportunities because I just felt like I could not fill that owner's shoes. And to your point, on. On the baseline, oftentimes people feel like I can run this business better than the old owner.
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And maybe that's true, but you better be prepared for you to be able to just Run it just as good as that owner and be exactly where they are. And so going back a little bit, when I would search and I'd see a vehicle and we'd dig in, we had a very consistent process for emailing. One, we had this app or widget at the time called not contact, maybe Contact Monkey or mailchimp.
Monkey or something like that wasn't mailchimp. It was something that when we sent an email, we, we could see if you had opened it, if you had clicked on an attachment, if you forwarded, if it, you know, if you didn't do anything. So we had down to the.
The subject line was very specific. And we had the first email that basically went out and the first paragraph was very unique. The second paragraph was like for the industry.
The third paragraph was like, hey, just a quick background about who we are. And everything for Olympic holdings was at that time and was oversold. You see Olympic holdings in this email.
You're like, this might be a. These guys seem pretty credible and there might be some there. Some something there.
There wasn't anything there. The names on there that said they worked. There were people that were my friends.
Okay. Yeah. So because I.
You were leaning on that Harvard credential pretty hard. I was leaning on the Harvard credential hard. Running payroll, paying your bills, closing your.
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