The most useless thing an owner can do is watch the competition. There’s more than enough work to go around. Point that attention inward instead. Every company, including ours, has things breaking daily. The one who wins isn’t the one watching everyone else. It’s the one obsessed with fixing their own house.
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solve the problems that you have in your own house. We don't really worry about our competition because frankly, we have enough problems to solve under our own roof. Are your systems operating at peak efficiency? You have all of the internal operations dialed in for the current service that you offer. I have never seen a perfect home services company. There's always stuff to work on. Even at our size with as many things that we have going on, we still have things that break on a daily basis. Don't worry about your competition. One, there's plenty of work out there for everyone to do and the better that you do that work, the more customers you're going to get and the bigger your business is going to grow.
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