2126: Here's What Real Liberty Looks Like
The Level 10 Contractor Daily Podcast
Release Date: 07/04/2025
The Level 10 Contractor Daily Podcast
Every Saturday, we showcase a topic important to you by rounding up the greatest highlights and clips from Level 10 Contractor’s ENTIRE podcast run. This week, let’s focus on what Rich calls your Inside Reality, especially as it relates to your Outside Perception. He will define these terms in greater detail in the clips, but to put it simply here: your inside reality is how great your company actually is–all the things you do differently and why you are superior to the competitors in your industry–while the outside perception is how prospects and customers perceive your company from...
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Rich teaches contractors how to uncover what truly sets their business apart in part 2 of the Identity series. Using real examples — from 172 hardwood dowel rods to six nails per shingle — he walks through the Five Pillars of Identity and the Trust Pyramid, showing how to dig past platitudes and build a compelling, specific case that wins customers before the sales call even starts.
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Today's episode is an old ·Monopolize Your Marketplace· webinar Rich did where he goes through some of the most important concepts found in an outstanding book called ·The Plain English Approach to Business Writing· by Edward P. Bailey
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I know today’s podcast title might sound like some kind of MMA or heavyweight fight… but for good reason! Rich is going to walk you step by step through the TV buy he made on behalf of one of his new clients in Sacramento… Hence, Smackdown in Sac-Town! Last week on episode 222 he showed you how he took the radio buy from $628,000 down to just $350,000… AND got better schedules AND added 2 new stations just for fun… Today he’s going to go station by station and talk about how he took a bloated buy that was about 85% body fat and…. For less money… created a lean, mean, TV...
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Today’s podcast is for all you roofers out there… and hey, even if you’re not a roofer, listen to this anyway because the concept Rich is going to discuss is pretty darn cool. He’s going to borrow the strategy of club memberships that is pretty common in the HVAC world, and bring it over into the world of roofers. Why would he do such a thing? Well… in talking to one of his clients, he realized that if executed properly, a roofer could promise a client that they would NEVER have to pay for a major roof repair or replacement again, EVER… which if you think about it, is a pretty...
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It’s Monday… which means we’re ready to rock and roll with a brand new installment of our 5 Ways to Monday series… and today, we’re talking about hyper local marketing. The idea here is to double and triple down on marketing for a relatively small, potentially lucrative geographic area.
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Welcome to another Sunday edition of the Level 10 Contractor Daily Podcast; As usual, today’s Sunday podcast is going to focus on topics in the realm of self improvement and spirituality. Now you might be wondering about the title today… about God loving the druggies. RIch is going to tell you a story about a guy named Zak who thought that God was looking out for him… but as it turns out, God was actually using him to look out for somebody else.
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Every Saturday, we showcase a topic important to you by rounding up the greatest highlights and clips from Level 10 Contractor’s ENTIRE podcast run. This week, we take you step by step through what Facebook is, what it does, and different ways you can use it. Rich calls it the Swiss Army Knife of social media. Let’s make sure you use every tool it offers.
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Rich explains "identity" — the art of communicating what makes your business genuinely different. Using memorable stories about a hidden taco stand and a hotel showerhead, he shows contractors how to replace empty platitudes with specific, vivid language that resonates with customers. This is part one of a three-part series on building marketing that actually works.
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Rich is going to talk about a topic that’s near and dear to his heart… but that hasn’t really gotten much air time on this podcast. And that topic is INNOVATION. RIch has come up with about 15 or 20 different what he calls Innovation Formulas…. Which are practical ways to get your brain started thinking in different directions that it’s used to going. Today’s episode is the most fundamental, foundational innovation formula of all, and it’s called The Magic Wand. Basically, if you could put a magic wand in your customer’s hand, and she could change anything she wanted to about...
info_outlineHappy 4th of July--it’s Independence Day, and Rich has a special message for you today called “Here's What Liberty Looks Like.” It’s his unique twist on freedom--and the privileges & responsibilities that come with it. He’s going to tell the follow-up story to last year’s Thanksgiving message... where he told you about Kariuki, the Kenyan Uber driver, who excitedly exclaimed, “Every American has already won the lottery, and they don’t even know it!” But when Kariuki started sending money back to his parents in Kenya, he quickly discovered what happens if things are simply handed to you. Take these lessons into your day to day contractor operations.