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Bring On Success is a podcast for people who want to WIN in life! Over the years, Jim Klauck has interviewed great leaders in their field of expertise. Join Jim and his guests on the quest for better health, wealth, and happiness!

  1. 2d ago ·  Video

    🎙️ Quality Time Remaining: Live Intentionally Before It's Too Late with Steve Baker

    🎙️ Bring On Success Podcast: Quality Time Remaining – Turning Life’s Biggest Questions Into Your Greatest Opportunities ⏳ What if knowing how much time you have left could change the way you live today? In this powerful episode of the Bring On Success Podcast, Jim Klauck sits down with Steve Baker, author of Quality Time Remaining, for a thought-provoking conversation about how confronting our own mortality can become the catalyst for living a longer, healthier, and more meaningful life. 💡 Steve shares his deeply personal journey, including his cancer diagnosis, his actuarial insights into life expectancy, and his innovative “Red Book” system—a simple, actionable blueprint designed to help you take control of your future. 📘 Together, Jim and Steve explore four critical areas of life where intentional changes can make a lasting difference: ❤️ Health: Make smarter choices to improve longevity, energy, and quality of life. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Relationships: Invest more time and attention in the people who matter most. 💰 Finances: Take practical steps to create greater financial security and peace of mind. 🚀 Purpose: Discover what truly matters and make the most of the time you have remaining. 🔥 This isn't just a conversation about mortality. It's about taking action, making better decisions, and recognizing that the time to build a better life is right now. Your future is shaped by what you do today. How much quality time do you have remaining? 🎧 Tune in to the Bring On Success Podcast and discover how to make every moment count! Contact Steve: steve@qtrbook.com Also Go To qtrbook.com to get your copy of Steve's book. #BringOnSuccess #JimKlauck #SteveBaker #QualityTimeRemaining #PersonalDevelopment #LiveWithPurpose #SuccessMindset #Longevity #HealthyLiving #FinancialFreedom #MeaningfulLife #TimeManagement #PersonalGrowth #LifePlanning #MakeEveryMomentCount #Podcast #SuccessPodcast #QTRBook #LiveYourDream

  2. Jun 19 ·  Video

    Tommy Mello From A1 Garage Door Discusses His Book - ELEVATE With Jim Klauck

    A friend of Jim Klauck,  Tommy Mello, founder of A1 Garage Door Service joins Jim today on this episode of Bring On Success. Tommy's latest book - ELEVATE was released this past week and is available with this link - Tommy wrote the book ELEVATE : Build a Business Where Everybody Wins - ELEVATE. This book will change the lives of many home service business owners.  On this episode, Tommy tells stories of how he has built a $200,000,000 home service company through elevating his team! Enjoy! Here’s a fraction of what you’ll learn from Tommy's book:   ✅ The structure to Elevate your team and build a company that runs by itself. In their best day they sold $512,000 and Tommy wasn't even there.   ✅ Why most advice about Culture sucks, and the right way to build a culture of A-players for your company. Tommy has 700+ employees in 19 states, and his company’s retention rate is through the roof.   ✅ How to create a magnet for talent, so you'll have the best employees begging to work for you. Last month Tommy hired 50 new technicians.   Go get your copy now at:   ➡️ https://book.elevateandwin.com/jimklauck   Podcast Episode Transcription:   My friend Tommy Mello is joining me here on the bring on success show hey Tommy how are you good Jim pleasure to be here I always love these intimate sessions with you yeah with you buddy you know it's great so just read your new book it just came out everybody's talking about it elevate the five pillars it's you know really kind of a simple you know simple idea the way you set up the book and it's all about elevating your team of course you have to build the team and you elevate them and you reward them talk a little bit about the book yeah so it's five pillars leadership culture marketing recruiting systems and it really is about elevating your mindset and everybody around you I just did a shop tour with three companies and I was just explaining what is your guys's goal what do you wanna be what's your dream what's your life look like when you hit what you want you gotta have a meeting of what you wanna hit you gotta have a mindset and the book is really about just elevating build the business where everybody wins the employees win the clients win I win my partners win the vendors win and the whole industry wins and I think that in life we're taught we went and lose I just had one of my buddies Jake that's out of California um he said I can't put your book down my mind is racing it won't stop I want to grow just not my business but the people involved and you know the message goes on and on it's a couple of paragraphs but it's the ultimate compliment when somebody reads it and it's not a big book I mean it's easy to digest yeah it's easy to Lev was in the book and he said Tommy I read your book 3 hours from soup to nuts and that's what I wanted to keep it simple concise I love I I've started to really enjoy writing books and this book took Me 2 years and I think I'm gonna get faster because coming up with systems but you know first I had to figure out what the biggest things that wanted people to take and those were the pillars and these five things are just going to they're going to blast people through their mindset and the walls they have no absolutely OK so in chapter two that's the first pillar it's leadership when you touch upon what people would find in that chapter yeah so I tell stories throughout the book Tom how wrote the foreword I think the main goal of the leadership is you gotta lead by example lead from up front you know that there's a lot of chapters in the book I just are finishing the audible and it's interesting I tell a story of just we recently partnered with me and what P is able to do to accompany a smaller company by putting in systems and getting the right leaders it's amazing I feel like everybody's getting tested right now to make sure they're at a level that could go to a billion dollars and it's about growth mindset and leaders look Simon cynic wrote a book leaders you'd last and leadership is not just about tracking KPI's it's about building relationships and it's about caring and that's really what this whole book is really all about yeah and then culture is a bad word marketing is my passion and marketing I look at as recruiting marketing is very similar people don't look at marketing the same way for recruiting and it's a shame yeah no this is important um you know the recruiting piece is critical and HR is generally the most expensive piece of any business labor there's no question no almost every business it's also often for the leader for the business owners and some managers the most difficult thing because people aren't machines they have emotions they're all different they're not all motivated by the same thing and that's where I believe a lot of businesses struggle is managing people because just because you're a good technician as an HVAC guy and you leave the company to start your own so now you so you were a tech and now you start your own business and now you're like well I'll still be a tech and I'll hire people and I'll manage people then you find out well I don't like to manage people and how come people don't listen to me and how come they're not like me and how come I tell them to stay at home because I can do it better you've done something amazing by finding hiring and training and then managing a great team yeah you know what I learned this from Levi he says you've got to recruit you got to Orient well recruit hire Orient train and then retain and I our levy share some stories in there about him and his dad working for his dad and what just the nightmare the business could be without systems and processes in place you know bringing on Jody with Brad and hire really helped me understand that I was going fishing in the same spot everybody else was so looking outside of the box to find people and understanding attribution models of creating framework for hiring that we could actually compare to people because we interviewed the exact same way and it's crazy 18 player could run circles around 3:00 or 4B players yeah when you started acquiring a players and giving them systems the business becomes fun and al always calls it vanilla because you know you're not firefighting there's everything's kind of running smoothly and every time I get to this point of vanilla I decided to grow and I grow and right now I'm buried because we're going I'm gonna 10X this business again and the framework of 10 Xing is into this book it's can't get rich wrote some stuff on the back I mean it's um Danny Kerr wrote some stuff in here with repeat a breakthrough Academy I mean that it took a few people um because it really hit the points I wanted to iterate in the book and it's really just a lot of great stories it explains you know there was a hockey game and during a power play they were way down 3 three or four enough and it's amazing what a team could pull through when you're when you when you got to get things done and you got the goals and you got the mindset correctly it's really that simple you know if you think about big machines like a McDonald's any big organization has to have systems and if you don't have systems you have chaos you have a bunch of employees running around managers putting fires out and when things are systematized and everyone knows what to do and how to do it there's just less chaos and fire you know I was on this show called American I forget the name of it was years ago American entrepreneur or something like that and I said where were you guys tell me an interesting story about where you guys were recently and the American dream I think the show was called and they said well we just got done with Kentucky fried chicken and KFC now and they open a new store every 11 hours and so my brain started just it went into a new phase of thinking where I was like what would the systems need to be you would have to have a blueprint for this building you'd have to have a leasing you know understanding how to buy the property the site plan the recruiting I mean all in 11 hours how robust that could be and then be able to get the marketing to keep that place slammed it's just absolutely phenomenal when you figure out you look at McDonald's or KFC or subway what they do and how they work their model I was watching something by ray crock about how he figured out you know you probably watched the movie with that came out but the founder figured out that that owning the property where the money's at and how do you grow with the franchise model works and it's never been my cup of tea but it works out well when it's in confined space I think restaurants are a lot easier than home service because we actually we've got people from East Coast to West Coast we gotta drive we gotta book the there's a lot more capacity planning bad city planning at KFC is do I have enough chicken you know and oil not exactly yeah no you're right and the franchise system is actually a great example of one that has to be perfect because the people who often buy a franchise are not necessarily entrepreneurial and they often you know buy a job so they have to plug themselves into a system that is foolproof systems you know people always ask there's that that that show called the prophet and it's Marcus Lemonis says people product process and people ask me which ones my favorite and I would say process because the process picks the people I mean you're right process to ride along forms the checks and balances the background checks the drug tests the driving record tests I mean it makes it simple you know we've got formulas that we know this how many people we need to interview to get the right person and it always changes over the course of 1/4 because we get better and better at putting materials out there that attract eight players but any players find work they're talking to people like gas stations they're asking for

  3. Jun 19 ·  Video

    Marcus Sheridan of ’They Ask, You Answer’ Joins Jim Klauck on Bring On Success

    Marcus Sheridan from Impact, a digital marketing agency helping small businesses gain exposure and credibility through strategic content marketing, joins Jim Klauck on this episode of Bring On Success. Marcus wrote the book They Ask You Answer : They Ask You Answer. This book has changed the lives of many business owners.  On this episode, Marcus tells his story of how he and his partners almost lost their swimming pool business due the recession back in 2008. In this episode you will learn how adding content through, blogs, audio, and video will not only bring your company credibility but will also help to rank on search engines such as Google. To contact Marcus you can email him- marcus@marcussheridan.com or schedule and appointment - https://www.impactplus.com/services/schedule-now Enjoy! Podcast Episode Transcription:   Welcome to the bring on success program everybody I am Jim Klauck I have a great guest today he's an author he's a speaker he's an entrepreneur he's a business owner and last but not least besides a fisherman he is a husband and father Marcus Sheridan welcome to the program it's real to be here Jim we're gonna have a good day we are going to have a great day a fantastic day I'm living the dream I know you are we had a chance to connect a few weeks ago in Orlando and it was a pleasure meeting you there yeah yeah great time in Orlando and you know it's that time of year getting around and speaking to a lot of different audiences and you know my favorites are the blue collar ones I've done a bunch of those uh so far this year so it's great it's great to see some of the movements out there too it's crazy just last week I was with um um a group of blue collar folks and they said so let's talk about Ai and I was like I never thought in 2023 I was going to be talking about AI with blue collar but it's what's up that's what's happening man so a lot of things happen in this world right now actually when you spoke at the soft wash a palooza conference somebody had brought up chat GPT yeah and I'm like oh all right Marcus catch the ball and run with it and you did great I mean because that's the big thing now I mean everyone's trying this thing out right and you know I've heard that maybe Google's going to have to really catch up I've even heard rumors are going to go out of business but they probably won't well they've been working on something uh for a while and they've they actually have a system uh it's it's in some beta and they've got some testers out there already I mean you know what what happened though is is Google's trying to be a little bit more conservative in terms of launch Chat GPT comes out first to Market really with something aggressive like like well chat GPT and and then suddenly   you know there's more boardroom meetings happening at Google over the last 60 days than there have been over the last   like five years right but that's but that's what we see in the history of   businesses again and again and again oftentimes we don't move until we're forced to move   by our competition and the great ones and not that Google isn't great as a   business I mean whatever you want to say about them I mean they their their results speak for themselves right in   terms of the impact they've had on on the world and on our lives and you know their verb for Pete's sake right but   thing about it is that if you can be proactive as a business and not wait for   your competitors to do this that whatever the thing might be you know I was I was uh just and I know we're   jumping ahead here but I was had this uh a couple uh roofers come to me a roofing 2:40 conference the other day and they said Marcus we heard you like three years ago and we put a pricing calculator on our   website which they were one of the first in the entire Roofing industry to put a pricing calculator on their website uh 2:51 and most people listen to this right now would say there's no way a roofer could put a pricing calculator on the website and of course they did it and they're 2:56 killing it because of it now what happens though is they do it and then two others do it and then four others do   it and then it becomes the norm in the space and it gets to the point where if you don't have one well you're not in   the game just like there's a lot of people that resisted even a website right in 2000 and of course today you   you you would never think about a business without a website and we're getting that way with a lot of these other elements of let's call it the the 3:23 buyer's Journey like calculators for example yeah you know what's interesting is you brought up something right now 3:29 that I talk about all the time if you go back and I started my business check a 3:35 pro back into 2005. back in 05 there were home service companies that were just getting a website and if you go 3:41 back prior to that everyone had to get a fax machine at some point they had to get an email they had to get a website 3:49 social media and now podcasting and videos are huge and it's it's just 3:56 amazing and if someone doesn't do video if they're not doing podcasting and that 4:02 type of thing if they're not educating their customer then they are way behind and this is a 4:08 great segue to they ask you answer your book why don't you give us a little history of what 4:15 happened back in 2008-ish with your swimming pool company river pools yeah 4:20 so I started a swimming pool company in in 2001 out of college with a couple buddies and things were going okay for 4:27 us we were fighting to grow it but then 2008 2009 we've got the crash and we 4:33 legitimately were going out of business I talked to a few different Consultants they all said I should file bankruptcy 4:40 but the problem was as you know Jim and many of your listeners know business was tied to my houses and so my home or my 4:48 business partner's homes and so I lost my home if we would have lost the business and we said we've got to figure 4:54 out a way how to how to save our our company and that's when I started and by 5:00 the way that's the beauty of pain and suffering it forces us to do things that otherwise we wouldn't do right it's 5:05 always when we're in The Valleys of life right to that we find some of the greatest Innovations and ideas and we'd 5:13 pull it out of us sorry to interrupt you but yes yeah when I mean when you're down on the ground getting your teeth 5:19 kicked in you realize is that I am way greater than I thought I was and when 5:24 things were good and you're riding the great economy wave and you're like oh this is easy you really don't appreciate 5:30 what you can do when you've been beaten up like what happened to you guys in 08. yeah it's that ntl phenomena nothing to 5:37 lose right and so when you got nothing to lose suddenly the world is your oyster and so I started to read about 5:44 the internet and because I had recognized how I was changing how I was starting to use the internet for 5:49 everything and how I was starting to vet company so much more and become more and more informed as a buyer right so as I 5:57 was researching online and seeing all these fancy phrases like inbound marketing and content marketing and social media blogging whatnot what I 6:04 heard in my simple pool guy mine was you know Marcus if you just obsess over your customers questions worries 6:11 fears issues concerns and you're willing to address those on your website through 6:18 text through video through audio right then you just might save your business so I said well shoot if there's one 6:24 thing I can do is I can obsess over those questions worries Furious issues concerns I can address those on our website that's what I'm going to do 6:30 we're going to become the best teachers in the world when it comes to in our case fiberglass swimming pools and so 6:35 over the next two years every single night literally every single night I'd sit there and write an article or 6:42 produce a video on my website after everybody in my house had gone to bed and uh addressing a question a worry a 6:49 fear and we became the most traffic swimming pool builder website in the world 6:55 and it saved the business and I saw that it was working so well that I started to write about what I and what we were 7:02 doing as a company and eventually that would become a book called they ask you answer and they ask you answer it's now been read a couple 7:08 hundred thousand times around the world and it's been embraced by a lot a lot of businesses a ton in the Home Services 7:13 space it does extremely well because if you look at it anything that involves 7:19 heavy decision making and research um 7:25 and especially works well when you sell in the home 7:31 they ask you answer it's just a home run for this and so they ask you answer has 7:37 been embraced by lots of people uh within different Home Improvement home services and uh it's very very 7:45 exciting it's very cool to see and I'm getting crazy case studies almost every day now from people around the world 7:50 I'll tell you what's really amazing about this and correct me if I'm wrong but you're the Pioneer in this so when 7:58 you were desperate back in 08 and I've I've read your book four times 8:04 I'm a big fan right I I mean I I'm telling you we have adopted your system 8:10 um and and we basically subscribe to it if you will for for our clients and it you know it just makes sense so back in 8:17 2008 here you are you're you're scratching and clawing at anything you 8:23 did not know your investment at three o'clock in the morning by writing articles and blogging and and recording 8:29 videos was going to pay off did you I didn't know but I knew that was the 8:35 only real in my mind option

  4. Jun 19 ·  Video

    Work On Your Business, Not In It — Michael E. Gerber Explains Why

    Are you running a business, or do you just own a job? In this powerhouse episode of Bring On Success, host Jim Klauck sits down with the legendary Michael E. Gerber, the world’s #1 small business guru and author of the groundbreaking book, The E-Myth. If you are an entrepreneur feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and stuck in the daily grind, this episode is your blueprint for freedom. Michael breaks down the core E-Myth philosophy, explaining exactly why most small businesses fail: because the owner is trapped working in their business rather than on it. Using real-world examples—from the franchise perfection of McDonald’s to the incredible scaling story of home services titan Ken Goodrich—Gerber demonstrates how creating repeatable, turnkey systems for sales, management, and operations is the ultimate key to growth. Additionally, Michael introduces Gerberworks, his massive new initiative set to transform the world of business coaching and entrepreneurship on a global scale. Whether you want to scale your operations, build a replicable system, or finally transition from doing the tactical work to designing a true enterprise, this episode delivers the practical advice and motivation you need to make it happen. 📞 Connect with Michael E. Gerber Ready to take the next step and transform your business? You can reach Michael’s team directly at: 📧 Email: michael@michaelegerber.com #Hashtags #BringOnSuccess #EMyth #MichaelEGerber #JimKlauck #BusinessSystems #Entrepreneurship #SmallBusinessSuccess #ScaleYourBusiness #WorkOnYourBusiness #Gerberworks #BusinessCoaching #FranchiseModel #TurnkeyBusiness

  5. 05/01/2025 ·  Video

    Tom Decker, Author of ”When Can You Do It?” A Process For In-Home Sales

    Tom Decker, author of "When Can You Do It?", a sales process for home service professionals joins Jim Klauck on this episode of Bring On Success. Tom wrote the book - When Can You Dot It: When Can You Do It?. Get It On Amazon Here! By following Tom's "When Can You Do It?" Sales Process you will learn and understand how to WOW your customers, how to make them see that you are offering is superior to anything your competition may have. You will se you ticket average, your closing rate, your commissions, and your bottom line increase exponentially. Being the best in-home salesperson in your company is within your grasp. You just need the right process. When Can You Do It? is that process.   To contact Tom Decker you can email him- tom@theatticdepot.com   Enjoy the show!

  6. 11/20/2024 ·  Video

    Bringham Dickinson - Mastering Customer Experience: From Spartan Races to Service Excellence

    Join Brigham Dickinson, the powerhouse behind Power Selling Pros, as he shares insights on how to transform customer service in the home service industry. Discover how his passion for Spartan Races ties into his philosophy of helping business owners enhance their customer interactions and boost sales. Brigham discusses the importance of well-trained Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and technicians, emphasizing the need for creating 'wow' experiences for customers. Learn about the unique training programs at Power Selling Pros that guarantee an 85% closing ratio, ensuring that contractors are the preferred choice for homeowners. Dive into real-world examples and strategies to overcome common challenges faced by service professionals. From handling difficult calls to fostering relationships with customers, Brigham reveals how soft skills can make a significant impact on service revenue. Explore the role of AI in the customer service landscape and why human connection remains crucial. Whether you're a small business owner or part of a large organization, this episode offers valuable lessons on elevating your customer experience and standing out in a competitive market.

  7. 05/27/2023 ·  Video

    Kevin Knebl Discusses ’The Law Of Success’ With Jim Klauck

    Kevin Knebl is an International Speaker, Author, Trainer and Joie de Vivre Coach whose clients include small, medium and Fortune 500 companies. He's an in-demand, leading authority on Social Selling, Relationship Marketing, LinkedIn and Twitter with a healthy dose of Personal Development and Humor blended in for good measure for conferences, conventions, company trainings, and many other events. Kevin is the coauthor of The Social Media Sales Revolution: The New Rules for Finding Customers, Building Relationships, and Closing More Sales Through Online Networking (McGraw-Hill). Kevin is also a contributing author of Learn Marketing with Social Media in Seven Days (Wiley). Reach out to Kevin -  Kevin Knebl.   Enjoy the show!

  8. 05/10/2023 ·  Video

    Learn How Celebrity Branding Can Set Your Service Apart From Your Competition - Guest, Zack Viscomi

    Zack Viscomi from The Celebrity Branding® Agency, a multi-media, Marketing, PR, and Branding Agency that is dedicated to Celebrity Branding® entrepreneurs and professionals as experts in their fields of business marketing, joins Jim Klauck on this episode of Bring On Success. In this episode you will learn how positioning yourself as an expert in your field sets you apart from your competitors. In today's world, your prospects and customers have many choices of providers.  They are also educating themselves more and more online by listening to podcasts and watching videos. To learn more about how to be an expert in your space contact Zack!  You can email him- zack@celebritybrandingagency.com  or to learn more about how Zack can help you become an expert - https://celebritybrandingagency.com Enjoy the program!   Jim Klauck's Contact: jim@theradiopitchman.com www.JimKlauck.com www.TheRadioPitchman.com

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