2547: Topic Showcase: Lessons From Other Industries
The Level 10 Contractor Daily Podcast
Release Date: 08/29/2026
2374: 5 Ways To Motivate Your Employees Besides Paying Them More
The Level 10 Contractor Daily Podcast
In honor of Labor Day, stop losing your best employees! We revisit a popular 5 Ways to Monday YouTube video.Rich reveals 5 proven strategies to motivate your remodeling or home services team without breaking the bank. Learn why growth can outpace culture, the power of random appreciation, and how a $60 cash gift created legendary loyalty. Perfect for contractors struggling with burnout and retention issues.
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2555: Sunday Podcast: Leadership Tips, Part 1
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It’s Sunday; that’s when Rich turns his attention to topics having to do with personal development or spirituality--or sometimes both. Today’s topic is leadership. In the early 2000’s, Rich compiled a list of 101 leadership tips… and called it “101 Leadership Tips.” Then he expanded it to 168 Leadership Tips, but never changed the name. So today he’ll cover the first half of this list--84 tips to be exact, and then next week he’ll cover the other half.
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2554: Topic Showcase: Building Engagement on Facebook
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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 round up a few clips to remind you just how powerful a tool Facebook can be. You’ve heard Rich talk about social media and specifically Facebook on the podcast… about a million times. And for good reason! It’s a really great way to get in front of… well, just about every prospect you could ever hope to sell something to.
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2553: Storytelling Workshop: Helping A Window Company Formulate Their Identity
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A window contractor in Indiana reached out to Rich recently looking for some advice and assistance… he wanted to take the principles of IDENTITY and turn them into ads to run on TV. Rich, of course, jumped at the opportunity to help, and that’s what you’re about to listen to today. Listen and learn as Rich skillfully asks questions, elicits information, and then masterfully turns the raw data into interesting, relevant, and engaging stories. He makes it look soooo easy. This episode is all “roll up your sleeves and get to work” and zero fluff.
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2552: TBT: Understanding the Educational Spectrum
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Today’s podcast is a gem from the archives… and is a must-listen for anyone who is really into the science and art of marketing. Rich covers a topic he calls “the educational spectrum,” which is a way to quantify how ready a prospect is to buy… and then adjusting your messaging to say the right things at the right time. Rich gives example after example after example on this webinar… so you will understand the concept loud and clear… and more importantly, you’ll be able to use it as you create marketing for you company. Remember, this is ThrowBack Thursday… so you will hear...
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2551: Using Insane Frequency To Increase Urgency
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Want to convert more raw leads into appointments? Want to close more of those appointments, and for more money? Want to successfully rehash your sit-no-sales? Then listen up today. Rich is going to share with you some updated thoughts on his Wall Drug philosophy…. Which is essentially “hit them with a million marketing messages as fast as you can.” Wall Drug is like marketing on steroids, and what he’s talking about today is like THAT on steroids. Which is either like a double dose of steroids, or steroids squared, depending on how your math works. Regardless, this is unbelievably...
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2550: AI Will Kill Your Website Long Before It Will Kill Humanity
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AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread, right? Not so fast. Rich wants to talk to you today about the dangers of AI when it comes to marketing… and will do so by comparing AI to, well, sliced bread. Sound weird? Wait until you hear about the mysterious 4-armed roofing installer.
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2549: 5 Ways To Implement Farming Principles Into Your Marketing
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Time to put on your overalls and straw hat, grab a pitchfork and jump in the tractor. Today we are talking about farming! Actually, not the “get up at 5 am to milk the cows” kind of farming… but the “consistently nurture your prospects along with advertising until they finally need what you sell and they automatically call you” kind of farming. Rich is going to tell his world famous Wall Drug story, talk about something he calls “accelerated discontentment,” and once that foundation is built, give you 5 ways to use farming in your marketing.
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2548: Sunday Podcast: It's About Time
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Welcome to our Sunday podcast, and as is our way of doing things, instead of hard-core marketing, Rich is going to share a softer message… this time about families. And I’m gonna tell you, this is good stuff. Rich throws himself under the bus for some of the things he’s done wrong in his life as it relates to families… and tells a really cool story about someone else who threw himself into the ocean--okay, he willingly walked into the ocean… he wasn’t thrown in--to help somebody else’s family.
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2547: Topic Showcase: Lessons From Other Industries
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, we collect the best examples of lessons learned elsewhere.Our podcast is the ONLY daily marketing podcast just for contractors but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn valuable marketing lessons from other industries. In fact, Rich loves to pull outside industry examples to better illustrate his strategic and tactical principles.
info_outlineEvery 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 collect the best examples of lessons learned elsewhere.Our podcast is the ONLY daily marketing podcast just for contractors but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn valuable marketing lessons from other industries. In fact, Rich loves to pull outside industry examples to better illustrate his strategic and tactical principles.