I'm Todd Miller of Isaiah Industries, manufacturer
Todd Miller:of specialty metal roofing and other building materials.
Todd Miller:Welcome to Construction Disruption, the show that explores what's new,
Todd Miller:what's happening, what's next?
Todd Miller:What's working in the construction and remodeling words worlds.
Todd Miller:Uh, today I am joined by my co-host, our creative director, Ryan Bell.
Todd Miller:Uh, what's the scoop, Ryan.
Ryan Bell:Hey Todd, I've got a joke for you
Todd Miller:Oh, cool.
Todd Miller:I wasn't expecting that.
Ryan Bell:Maybe, maybe more of a riddle.
Ryan Bell:Uh, what is lighter?
Ryan Bell:A gallon of water or a gallon of butane?
Ryan Bell:You should probably be able to get it.
Todd Miller:Well, but butane is a lighter fluid.
Ryan Bell:you go.
Ryan Bell:There you go.
Todd Miller:Oh, that's a good one.
Todd Miller:That's a
Todd Miller:good
Ryan Bell:made me laugh.
Todd Miller:So, as we remind our audience today, once again, we are doing our
Todd Miller:challenge words where each of us here on the show have been, uh, accepted a word
Todd Miller:that we are challenged to work into the conversation as seamlessly as possible.
Todd Miller:So you, the listening audience can be listening for strange things.
Todd Miller:We may.
Todd Miller:We always say a few strange things, but listen for those strange things and at the
Todd Miller:end of the show we will tell you whether or not that was our challenge word.
Todd Miller:So today we're thrilled to welcome Samantha McGuinness to the show.
Todd Miller:Samantha is founder of Enabled Consulting, a company that is
Todd Miller:helping home remodelers drive.
Todd Miller:Positive results by building and optimizing face-to-face
Todd Miller:lead generation departments.
Todd Miller:Her work is rooted in systematized efficiency and performance with
Todd Miller:a focus on home shows, retail locations, events, and RSVP campaigns.
Todd Miller:A 12 year veteran of the home improvement industry, Samantha equips her contractor
Todd Miller:clients with proven frameworks to reduce lead generation costs, increase
Todd Miller:issued appointments, and drive results.
Todd Miller:Samantha is trusted by many top brands featured on national stages and
Todd Miller:leader of the face-to-face marketing network, a results-driven membership
Todd Miller:community for forward-thinking home improvement companies.
Todd Miller:Samantha, welcome to Construction Disruption.
Todd Miller:Truly honored to have you here with us today so we can dig into some great
Todd Miller:topics for the benefit of our audience.
Todd Miller:Samantha McGuinness: Thank you so much, Todd.
Todd Miller:I'm really excited to be here.
Todd Miller:This is such an important conversation right now.
Todd Miller:As everybody knows, lead generation has.
Todd Miller:Changed a lot and face-to-face marketing really continues to deliver the most
Todd Miller:qualified, lowest cost in our industry.
Todd Miller:And not enough contractors are leveraging this lead source.
Todd Miller:So I'm really excited to discuss it with you today.
Todd Miller:I think it's a great topic also because I hear that so often that
Todd Miller:everyone, you know, you ask them, well, how, what's your lead gen look like?
Todd Miller:And it's all about digital strategy and things.
Todd Miller:And so many people have forgotten about the things that perhaps
Todd Miller:grew their businesses, got them to where they are, and now they have.
Todd Miller:Tried to switch direction and they're finding it isn't working.
Todd Miller:So I'm really looking forward to our discussion.
Todd Miller:Um, I know that you personally in your career have some history,
Todd Miller:um, with some very recognized brands in home improvement.
Todd Miller:Tell us a little bit about how you did get started in this industry.
Samantha McGuinness:Thank you.
Samantha McGuinness:Yeah, I, um, I've been in this industry forever.
Samantha McGuinness:I built a landscape construction company back in Toronto.
Samantha McGuinness:A very long time ago in our, you know, we came from really humble beginnings.
Samantha McGuinness:We didn't have a lot of money to put on SEO or you know, pay
Samantha McGuinness:per click and things like that.
Samantha McGuinness:So we did a lot of what's now deemed old school things that worked
Samantha McGuinness:really well, and they still do.
Samantha McGuinness:So we had to get really creative.
Samantha McGuinness:When you don't have a lot of resources and you need results, you have to tap into
Samantha McGuinness:what's up here to produce those results.
Samantha McGuinness:So, driving to different.
Samantha McGuinness:Businesses on commercial accounts and asking them to submit a proposal.
Samantha McGuinness:You know, it was all face-to-face marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:I didn't really know that's what I was doing at the time, but this was when I was
Samantha McGuinness:in college and um, so that's how I pretty much got into the home remodeling space.
Samantha McGuinness:I also built the renewal by Anderson of Greater Toronto's events, home show,
Samantha McGuinness:retail store program from the ground up.
Samantha McGuinness:So when I began working with Renewal by Anderson, there were.
Samantha McGuinness:There was no revenue.
Samantha McGuinness:There were no walls in our office.
Samantha McGuinness:We didn't have anything going on, and they brought me on to build the
Samantha McGuinness:face-to-face marketing department, and within the first three years we had
Samantha McGuinness:generated $10 million in revenue annually.
Samantha McGuinness:At a cost of marketing of sub 9%.
Samantha McGuinness:So it, you know, a lot of what I was able to do was based on the fact that
Samantha McGuinness:we had a really strong network of companies to support me in, um, different
Samantha McGuinness:locations I could visit to learn from.
Samantha McGuinness:And then I got to essentially go back to Canada and build everything how,
Samantha McGuinness:you know, take little bits of what was working from different locations
Samantha McGuinness:and build it how I wanted to build it.
Samantha McGuinness:And.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that's sort of my claim to fame in, in the industry, but now I get to
Samantha McGuinness:teach those companies everything that I built based off tons of mistakes and
Samantha McGuinness:lessons and systems that I, I built as an infrastructure around these departments.
Todd Miller:Well, I think that's really interesting and especially
Todd Miller:coming out of RBA and having been part of, uh, what developed that.
Todd Miller:Um.
Todd Miller:I think it's a fantastic story.
Todd Miller:So I'm kind of curious, I mean we're, we're hearing a lot the last
Todd Miller:several months about the difficulty of lead generation here recently.
Todd Miller:Um, and I'm kind of curious, you know, what are some of the trends
Todd Miller:or things that you're hearing about out there that are really kind
Todd Miller:of upping the ante in terms of.
Todd Miller:The need for contractors to stay on top of their marketing, to stay
Todd Miller:on top of their numbers, to look at face-to-face opportunities.
Todd Miller:What are, what's just some of the scuttlebutt you're hearing out there.
Samantha McGuinness:Scuttle, but my friend is that people are paying
Samantha McGuinness:way too much for leads right now.
Samantha McGuinness:Companies need leads and they need to produce leads at a lower cost.
Samantha McGuinness:And right now there's a lot of, I, I don't like calling this a trend,
Samantha McGuinness:but right now a lot of companies are racing to the bottom when it comes to
Samantha McGuinness:being involved in a bidding war, so to say, for leads, for digital leads.
Samantha McGuinness:And I think a lot of companies are outsourcing their own success by only.
Samantha McGuinness:Outsourcing to third party vendors to provide them with leads.
Samantha McGuinness:And you know, I believe in having a really strong marketing mix.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that companies should do, they should be everywhere that they can be.
Samantha McGuinness:With the exception of maybe a billboard because you can't track it.
Samantha McGuinness:However, you know, your digital marketing and your TV or your radio will
Samantha McGuinness:support your face-to-face marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:And the really great thing about your face-to-face marketing is a homeowner
Samantha McGuinness:is met with an incredible human being who is there to help you, who
Samantha McGuinness:is empathetic and is going to put.
Samantha McGuinness:You know, get you set up with an appointment on the spot as opposed to
Samantha McGuinness:just throwing something out there and hoping that you get a return from it.
Samantha McGuinness:Face-to-face marketing allows you to ensure of that when you
Samantha McGuinness:use the right systems to do it.
Samantha McGuinness:And so, um, you know, obviously I'm gonna be speaking a lot about face-to-face
Samantha McGuinness:marketing today, but a lot of companies are just under utilizing this lead source.
Todd Miller:I love how you said that you talk about face to face.
Todd Miller:Someone's there with this incredible human being and I think that is such a
Todd Miller:great reminder to all of us of, you know, what happens when people interact that.
Todd Miller:Can't happen in other ways.
Todd Miller:Um, well, what are some of the, let's say the key parameters, benchmarks,
Todd Miller:metrics, um, as people develop their marketing mix, what are some of those
Todd Miller:key metrics they should be really watching and paying attention to?
Samantha McGuinness:A really great question because at Enabled we track
Samantha McGuinness:everything you can think of when it comes to specifically marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:We wanna track cost of marketing track, uh, we wanna track
Samantha McGuinness:cost per lead issue, and then.
Samantha McGuinness:We go down deeper as well.
Samantha McGuinness:We track a KPI called days to issued.
Samantha McGuinness:So it's the day from when an appointment is set on to the day
Samantha McGuinness:when the appointment results and it actually issues, whether it, demos,
Samantha McGuinness:it sells, whatever happens to that appointment, whatever the resulting is.
Samantha McGuinness:But that metric is really important, the days to issued metric, because
Samantha McGuinness:what it does is it gives you.
Samantha McGuinness:An idea as to whether or not you need to hire more sales reps, and
Samantha McGuinness:so marketing and sales need to work closely together in that regard.
Samantha McGuinness:We need to make sure that we have enough sales reps. That are doing
Samantha McGuinness:a really great job with the leads that we are providing them with and
Samantha McGuinness:treating the customers really well and giving them a great experience.
Samantha McGuinness:But we also need to make sure that, um, we are managing our capacity properly
Samantha McGuinness:and so we market to produce the most results, but we need to make sure we have
Samantha McGuinness:the sales team who's going to produce revenue from our marketing as well.
Samantha McGuinness:So days to issued is another.
Samantha McGuinness:It's a really important KPI we, we track.
Todd Miller:Talking about days two issued.
Todd Miller:Um, what do you think is a good number for that, that someone should be shooting for?
Todd Miller:And I'll just give a quick example.
Todd Miller:Um, I know a company that, a retail company, it's a one salesperson operation.
Todd Miller:They're complaining about hurting for leads, but yet I ask them their
Todd Miller:day and people are waiting a week and a half, two weeks to, to get an
Todd Miller:appointment with this one salesperson.
Todd Miller:And I'm just thinking, that's just too long.
Todd Miller:What are your thoughts on that?
Samantha McGuinness:My thoughts are that people don't have a lot of time right now.
Samantha McGuinness:The attention span on a person is below eight seconds and it's probably
Samantha McGuinness:only going to get lower, and so.
Samantha McGuinness:If you aren't available for an appointment, they're probably going
Samantha McGuinness:to call somebody else, and we need to make sure that we have capacity
Samantha McGuinness:to book opportunity and to help the people that need our services.
Samantha McGuinness:My theory is that if a company has a really great product and is doing a
Samantha McGuinness:really great job, their prospects deserve to meet with them and to buy from them.
Samantha McGuinness:If you're not doing a great job, no problem, but we need to connect
Samantha McGuinness:with the people who need us.
Samantha McGuinness:And you know, a, to answer your question, I think a, a good days to issue it
Samantha McGuinness:is, one, I don't think that it's necessarily always possible, but you
Samantha McGuinness:know, below three is what we aim for.
Todd Miller:Gotcha.
Todd Miller:Very good.
Todd Miller:Well, when your clients first come to you and start working with you, what
Todd Miller:are some of their common frustrations and you know, what's heavy on their
Todd Miller:minds when they first come to you?
Samantha McGuinness:The biggest contributing factor to a company
Samantha McGuinness:working with us is that they need leads.
Samantha McGuinness:Obviously they need leads.
Samantha McGuinness:They're paying too much for the leads that they have or they are doing home shows.
Samantha McGuinness:Here's a a really common situation.
Samantha McGuinness:Companies will be doing home shows, but they're not getting return on it.
Samantha McGuinness:They know that it's possible to get a return, but they don't know how and.
Samantha McGuinness:It just really goes in line with some of the biggest mistakes that I see
Samantha McGuinness:companies makes when they, when they do events and shows, and it's not having
Samantha McGuinness:the right systems to set and qualify an appointment on the spot, as well as just
Samantha McGuinness:who is going to work their shows for them.
Samantha McGuinness:A lot of the time companies take sales reps or call center people and put them
Samantha McGuinness:out into the field, and they're not necessarily trained for what we want
Samantha McGuinness:them to produce in terms of a result.
Todd Miller:know that you talk about the four pillars and they're all P
Todd Miller:words, um, that kind of guide your approach to how you work with clients.
Todd Miller:Positioning, precision, performance, and profit.
Todd Miller:Um, can you kind of reflect on a bit if on each of those or maybe how they
Todd Miller:work together or how you approach that?
Samantha McGuinness:Absolutely.
Samantha McGuinness:So the four Ps at enabled are sort of the filters that we utilize to
Samantha McGuinness:ensure that each of our clients is getting the most elite experience
Samantha McGuinness:in working with us and the.
Samantha McGuinness:First one is positioning.
Samantha McGuinness:It's that we meet prospects where they are through face-to-face connections.
Samantha McGuinness:So whether that's a grocery store, a farmer's market, so many
Samantha McGuinness:food things involved with this.
Samantha McGuinness:Um, chili dogs at the food festivals, um, you know, Costco stores.
Samantha McGuinness:A lot of my clients, we help them build up their Costco program.
Samantha McGuinness:So positioning is all about.
Samantha McGuinness:Being in front of your customer, positioning your company in front of
Samantha McGuinness:your customer through face to face.
Samantha McGuinness:Then the second B is precision.
Samantha McGuinness:That one is geared around executing with accuracy, using data-driven
Samantha McGuinness:award-winning systems, which we deploy into home remodeling companies.
Samantha McGuinness:The fourth is performance, so we deliver unmatched ROI with cost
Samantha McGuinness:effective marketing strategies.
Samantha McGuinness:So we're really not doing events and shows for brand awareness.
Samantha McGuinness:Brand awareness is an extra on top of revenue.
Samantha McGuinness:So if you do an event or a show, using our methodology, you will be producing
Samantha McGuinness:revenue in the week after an event.
Samantha McGuinness:Okay?
Samantha McGuinness:And then profit, you know, it's empowering teams to again achieve the
Samantha McGuinness:peak results, which is through results oriented systems that produce profit.
Todd Miller:You know, one of the things, when I think about lead gen. Um, I always
Todd Miller:think about creativity and, you know, how do you come up with creative ideas to
Todd Miller:generate leads, to work in face-to-face situations, whatever that might be.
Todd Miller:And um, a lot of times I, I feel that we kind of can ignore those creative
Todd Miller:moments 'cause we start to think about everything just as numbers and processing.
Todd Miller:And I'll hear so many people say, oh, it's just a numbers game.
Todd Miller:Um.
Todd Miller:Kind of curious, how do you help your clients with that creative process
Todd Miller:when it comes to lead gen? Um, do you find that every company kind of
Todd Miller:has to match their own culture, their own ethos, or whatever it might be?
Todd Miller:Uh.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that a lot.
Samantha McGuinness:Of companies, when they start to do face-to-face marketing, they
Samantha McGuinness:go heavy on gimmicks and they think that that's being creative.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that sometimes we use gimmicks, gimmicks as a cop out,
Samantha McGuinness:and what I mean by that is the, the.
Samantha McGuinness:It's creative that you are at a farmer's market as a window and
Samantha McGuinness:door company, and it's creative that you're curating your own events and
Samantha McGuinness:connecting with the community and, and doing the face-to-face marketing Now.
Samantha McGuinness:A lot of companies think that because they set up a booth and it looks
Samantha McGuinness:really great, and they use creativity in terms of a design that their work
Samantha McGuinness:is done and that's not the case.
Samantha McGuinness:So in fact, when we work with a company, we actually have to undo some
Samantha McGuinness:of this creativity and some of that looks like we don't need to always
Samantha McGuinness:tailor our approach to the show.
Samantha McGuinness:It's tough to scale that if you're doing, I did 300 events a year
Samantha McGuinness:when I was at RBA and it's tough to, if you always need to rely on.
Samantha McGuinness:This thing that you have to bring, if it's a dunk tank, if it's a,
Samantha McGuinness:you know, or whatever it is that you're doing, if it's balloons,
Samantha McGuinness:whatever it is that you're doing.
Samantha McGuinness:If you have to rely on that, your team is going to think that.
Samantha McGuinness:They always need that to set appointments.
Samantha McGuinness:And so when a company starts working with us, we actually remove, we
Samantha McGuinness:ask them to remove phone numbers, websites, QR codes from their branding.
Samantha McGuinness:And I, I would consider that creative.
Samantha McGuinness:It's completely.
Samantha McGuinness:The opposite of what a company or a person's nature is gonna tell
Samantha McGuinness:them to do, you think, put my phone number here, put my website here.
Samantha McGuinness:I want people to contact me later.
Samantha McGuinness:I don't want them to contact you later.
Samantha McGuinness:I want the amazing team who you have spent a lot of time hiring and training
Samantha McGuinness:to set and qualify appointments on the spot because the likelihood of being
Samantha McGuinness:able to get a in a hold of people after the fact, it's very very slim.
Samantha McGuinness:So.
Samantha McGuinness:We, we have certainly leveraged some creative approaches when we need to
Samantha McGuinness:in order to get into a certain show.
Samantha McGuinness:However, the creativity is in your people.
Todd Miller:I love it.
Todd Miller:So if I'm a contractor in Ohio.
Todd Miller:I'm working the wine and cheese show some weekend.
Todd Miller:I don't necessarily have to have everyone in my booth dressed up
Todd Miller:as Brutus Buckeye or anything.
Todd Miller:I take it don't, don't have to do that, apparently.
Todd Miller:Well, I'm kind of curious, what does it look like when you first bring on a
Todd Miller:new client and start working with them?
Todd Miller:How you, you talked earlier a little bit about that positioning and things,
Todd Miller:but how do you get to know them?
Todd Miller:How do you connect with them and learn their business?
Samantha McGuinness:It's a really great question.
Samantha McGuinness:We always start with an audit.
Samantha McGuinness:We need to know who our, the company is, what are their core values as a business?
Samantha McGuinness:Are they doing anything?
Samantha McGuinness:When it comes to charity, we believe in paying it forward.
Samantha McGuinness:At my company, we have different org.
Samantha McGuinness:Organizations we work with like the Humane Society of Broward
Samantha McGuinness:County, and we like working with a company who does contribute to the
Samantha McGuinness:communities that they're working in.
Samantha McGuinness:I think it's really important.
Samantha McGuinness:People like their homeowner, prospects like that as well.
Samantha McGuinness:We also do an audit just in terms of finding out where they
Samantha McGuinness:are with regards to their KPIs.
Samantha McGuinness:You know, their cost per lead, their close rate based issued.
Samantha McGuinness:Again, there are about 15 KPIs that we analyze because each one
Samantha McGuinness:of our clients and the members of our face-to-face marketing network,
Samantha McGuinness:we do an A one, I do a one-on-one or quarterly KPI review with them.
Samantha McGuinness:So we set benchmarks with where we wanna be every single quarter, and
Samantha McGuinness:then we check in every single quarter and we go through all of those KPIs.
Samantha McGuinness:So those KPIs play a really important part in how we coach.
Samantha McGuinness:What we're focused on.
Samantha McGuinness:And then we work with them on optimizing their scheduling, budgeting.
Samantha McGuinness:We roll out our methodology to actually qualify and set appointments on the spot.
Samantha McGuinness:And depending on where they are, it's going to kind of
Samantha McGuinness:guide how we will guide them.
Samantha McGuinness:But we pretty much help them with everything when it comes to compensation.
Samantha McGuinness:How do they train?
Samantha McGuinness:How do they retain their team?
Samantha McGuinness:You know, the, the biggest cost when it comes to face-to-face
Samantha McGuinness:marketing is actually your payroll.
Samantha McGuinness:It's not going to be your booth cost.
Samantha McGuinness:And so we really wanna make sure that we are enhancing a culture by creation.
Samantha McGuinness:We need to do things to make sure that the culture is top tier.
Samantha McGuinness:Otherwise, you will spin your wheels with high turnover.
Todd Miller:Makes a lot of sense.
Todd Miller:Um, I'm kind of curious, is your typical client doing most everything in-house
Todd Miller:or are they using a lot of outside consultants already for, to help 'em
Todd Miller:with lead gen and, and marketing?
Todd Miller:Um, or is it kind of a mixed bag amongst your clients?
Samantha McGuinness:It's definitely a more of a mixed bag.
Samantha McGuinness:So a lot of our clients are doing all types of different marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:We have, we actually have a client who doesn't do any, uh, aggregators
Samantha McGuinness:or anything like that, which is rare.
Samantha McGuinness:Most, most companies are, I, you know, five years ago this wasn't the case
Samantha McGuinness:though, so it's really interesting how things have changed so much.
Samantha McGuinness:But there, it's pretty much a, a mixed bag I would say.
Samantha McGuinness:Most of our clients are at least on doing social media marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:They are doing TV or radio or both.
Samantha McGuinness:And then of course, all of the digital marketing as well.
Todd Miller:Speaking of your clients, can you tell us one memorable success
Todd Miller:story where you've really helped a remodeling company grow and expand?
Samantha McGuinness:All of my clients are my favorite clients.
Samantha McGuinness:One of my favorite clients, they're called, they're called
Samantha McGuinness:Lifestyle Home Solutions.
Samantha McGuinness:They're actually a jacuzzi dealer out of Canada, and they are an incredible
Samantha McGuinness:company with incredible people.
Samantha McGuinness:They hired me.
Samantha McGuinness:Some years ago and um, because they had a Costco partnership and they originally
Samantha McGuinness:had outsourced the onsite staff at the Costco stores to a third party company.
Samantha McGuinness:And when they began working with me, they were doing 15 Costco road shows a year.
Samantha McGuinness:And now they're doing, we help them scale to over 30 roadshows per month.
Samantha McGuinness:So they, they've since expanded into several other markets and now they're
Samantha McGuinness:able to control their field marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:Which has played a huge role in that.
Samantha McGuinness:One of the biggest compliments that I get when I work with a company is
Samantha McGuinness:that our systems that enabled, that are strictly focused on events, home
Samantha McGuinness:shows, retail stores are benefiting their company in all areas and helping
Samantha McGuinness:their company scale in all areas.
Samantha McGuinness:So they'll take.
Samantha McGuinness:Our budgeting tools or our interview questions or you know, our SOPs and
Samantha McGuinness:all these things, and they'll deploy them into other departments like the
Samantha McGuinness:sales team, the call center team, and even, you know, install and operations.
Samantha McGuinness:And I consider that a huge blessing to be able to bless them in this way
Samantha McGuinness:beyond what they've even hired us to do.
Todd Miller:Any fun trends you're seeing out there in terms
Todd Miller:of face-to-face marketing today?
Todd Miller:Something that someone might say, gee.
Todd Miller:Was, I never thought of that or never heard of that before.
Samantha McGuinness:Post 2020, people want human connection
Samantha McGuinness:and some people go to events just to take content to go and post on
Samantha McGuinness:their social media, and I think that that really grit gives the.
Samantha McGuinness:Vendors at events, home shows and retail stores a cool opportunity to
Samantha McGuinness:be noticed in different ways without having to go, Hey, I'm on social media,
Samantha McGuinness:or, you know, they can just be at the event in a show and they're in the, the
Samantha McGuinness:crossfire, so to say, and so you might end up being promoted just by fluke.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that that's, that's really cool.
Samantha McGuinness:You know, another interesting thing is that being authentic
Samantha McGuinness:is coming back in style and.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that people want more of that, more than they ever have being, you
Samantha McGuinness:know, 20 20, 20 21, even into 2022.
Samantha McGuinness:People were really isolated and some still are.
Samantha McGuinness:And I think that, you know, just craving that human connection
Samantha McGuinness:and an authentic experience.
Samantha McGuinness:You know, with, when we're discussing things like ai, there's deep fake that,
Samantha McGuinness:you know, I know Gary V was saying in X amount of years, you're not even
Samantha McGuinness:gonna be able to tell if it's a human you're speaking to online or not.
Samantha McGuinness:And I think that something that's really cool to, it's weird that it's a trend,
Samantha McGuinness:but just authenticity in general is.
Samantha McGuinness:Is coming back in style and I think that's awesome.
Samantha McGuinness:And I think that the value of human connection is only going to skyrocket.
Samantha McGuinness:So I'm bullish on, on real human connection, and I think that
Samantha McGuinness:homeowners want that as well.
Ryan Bell:I promise.
Ryan Bell:I was just gonna ask you how important you thought authenticity was in, in
Ryan Bell:coming out in this creative stuff.
Ryan Bell:And I feel the same way about ai, and I think as humans,
Ryan Bell:we're gonna get tired of it.
Ryan Bell:It's gonna be so obvious and we're gonna be so, uh.
Ryan Bell:Tired of it, and we're just drawn to connection with each other.
Ryan Bell:So you read my mind and I didn't even get to ask the the question,
Todd Miller:Isn't that crazy though, to imagine that here we are
Todd Miller:thinking we may have to prove to someone that we're real in order to
Todd Miller:be authentic.
Todd Miller:Uh, it's just crazy.
Todd Miller:Well, I'm kind of curious, um, why do you see the home improvement industry as
Todd Miller:being something that's, you know, really a good opportunity for entrepreneurs?
Todd Miller:You've been in the industry a long time, and I'm just kind of curious, what,
Todd Miller:what do you like about this industry?
Samantha McGuinness:The home improvement industry, to me, it gives people a
Samantha McGuinness:direct line between effort and outcome.
Samantha McGuinness:And my favorite part about this industry is that it's transparent.
Samantha McGuinness:So if you are really great, people will know.
Samantha McGuinness:And if you are not good at all, people will know that.
Samantha McGuinness:And.
Samantha McGuinness:I think that that's just, it's extremely important.
Samantha McGuinness:There's a lot of industries where you can kind of fake the funk and
Samantha McGuinness:home remodeling isn't one of them.
Samantha McGuinness:Not to mention the valuation element.
Samantha McGuinness:So there's a lot of revenue to be made in home remodeling.
Samantha McGuinness:Um, I read that I think by 2037, the remodeling space is supposed to
Samantha McGuinness:generate over $7 billion in revenue.
Samantha McGuinness:And so.
Samantha McGuinness:You know, the other thing is just there's many things that we can leverage tech from
Samantha McGuinness:and you know, we can u utilize AI for, but as of right now, installing windows
Samantha McGuinness:in a roof and a bathroom remodel and these sort of things we need people for.
Samantha McGuinness:And so I'm super bullish on the home remodeling industry for that reason.
Todd Miller:I love it.
Todd Miller:And the impact I always tell people, you know, you're not
Todd Miller:just changing someone's home.
Todd Miller:You're changing.
Todd Miller:Their life in a lot of situations.
Todd Miller:And I know my wife and myself, you know, we measure those times.
Todd Miller:We did major projects to our home.
Todd Miller:Those have become the benchmarks that we consider everything else, uh, you know,
Todd Miller:along the timeline of our life together.
Todd Miller:So big impact for sure.
Todd Miller:Well, Samantha, it's been a real privilege to have you, uh, with us here today.
Todd Miller:Thank you so much.
Todd Miller:Is there anything we haven't covered, uh, today that you definitely
Todd Miller:wanted to share with our audience here on Construction Disruption?
Samantha McGuinness:Absolutely just that.
Samantha McGuinness:I think in general, face-to-face is not old school.
Samantha McGuinness:Yes, it worked 20 years ago and it works now, and it's the
Samantha McGuinness:future proof channel again.
Samantha McGuinness:The, uh.
Samantha McGuinness:Authentic connection with human beings, it really matters.
Samantha McGuinness:And the value of that is only going to increase, not in just building
Samantha McGuinness:up your brand, your company's reputation, but doing the right thing
Samantha McGuinness:by people and producing revenue.
Samantha McGuinness:So it's a win-win for everybody.
Samantha McGuinness:And I'd also just like to add too, that if companies.
Samantha McGuinness:Aren't controlling their leads, then they're not able
Samantha McGuinness:to control their business.
Samantha McGuinness:And being able to create your own opportunities is
Samantha McGuinness:a, an incredible blessing.
Samantha McGuinness:And doing it the right way will benefit your prospects and your company as well.
Samantha McGuinness:So if companies need our services, we're certainly happy to help to do that.
Todd Miller:It's been a great time together and we're gonna get your contact
Todd Miller:information here in just a moment.
Todd Miller:We'll put it in the show notes as well.
Todd Miller:But before we close out, I have to ask if you're willing to participate in
Todd Miller:something we call rapid fire questions.
Todd Miller:So these are just five kind of random questions we're gonna throw
Todd Miller:at you and you can just give your response you up to the challenge.
Samantha McGuinness:I'm up for it.
Samantha McGuinness:Let's do it.
Todd Miller:Awesome.
Todd Miller:Ryan, you wanna ask the first one?
Ryan Bell:I would love to.
Ryan Bell:Question number one, what's a product or service you've
Ryan Bell:acquired uh, recently that's kind of been a game changer for you?
Samantha McGuinness:My Alexa, this is old school.
Samantha McGuinness:I should have done this a long time ago.
Samantha McGuinness:And the reason why is I read a book recently on the hidden messages of water.
Samantha McGuinness:I don't know if you guys have read it, but this man did a study on water and he spoke
Samantha McGuinness:kind words to the water, froze it and analyzed it under a microscope, and he.
Samantha McGuinness:Shows pictures of the water that was spoken, kind words to that had negative
Samantha McGuinness:words, even pictured on the water.
Samantha McGuinness:So he would write something not nice, and he, uh, taped it
Samantha McGuinness:to a water, the water glass.
Samantha McGuinness:And he took pictures and studied this water over time, and he studied
Samantha McGuinness:how water responded to, you know.
Samantha McGuinness:Really harsh, like heavy metal music or classical music like Beethoven
Samantha McGuinness:and Mozart and things like that.
Samantha McGuinness:And the water that had the kind words and the beautiful
Samantha McGuinness:classical music is beautiful.
Samantha McGuinness:Like the, it was like gorgeous, almost snowflake by design.
Samantha McGuinness:Whereas the water who didn't have nice words, who had really harsh
Samantha McGuinness:sounds, um, was looking kind of scary.
Samantha McGuinness:And so in my home now, we have classical music constantly, and I just feel
Samantha McGuinness:like I'm vibrating at another level.
Todd Miller:That is amazing.
Ryan Bell:I've heard of that with like plants before, but not water.
Todd Miller:I need to know more about that.
Todd Miller:So, second question, maybe it's what you just talked about.
Todd Miller:What's a must read book that you recommend to business leaders?
Samantha McGuinness:Oh my gosh.
Samantha McGuinness:I read, I probably finish four books a month.
Samantha McGuinness:I read a lot, and at a certain point, all of the books merge into one.
Samantha McGuinness:I understand.
Samantha McGuinness:A book that's really important to me.
Samantha McGuinness:It's called Outwitting the Devil.
Samantha McGuinness:I think it's Napoleon Hill, if I'm not mistaken.
Samantha McGuinness:It's a really great book because you know, in our minds we can control a lot.
Samantha McGuinness:We can control if we're in heaven or hell in our minds.
Samantha McGuinness:And to me that book was really impactful in that way because I
Samantha McGuinness:think you can be your worst critic and you can change your life in a,
Samantha McGuinness:in a negative way or a positive way.
Samantha McGuinness:And that book is a really, a really great testament to that.
Ryan Bell:I just added that one to my list.
Todd Miller:Very neat.
Todd Miller:I need to check that out too.
Ryan Bell:Question number three, are you a dog or cat person?
Samantha McGuinness:Oh my gosh.
Samantha McGuinness:I am such a dog.
Samantha McGuinness:I have two dogs and I love them.
Samantha McGuinness:Their names are Oliver and Olivia and they're brother and sister and they're
Samantha McGuinness:the most amazing part of my day.
Samantha McGuinness:I know I sound like a freak.
Samantha McGuinness:I love them so much.
Samantha McGuinness:We actually, um.
Samantha McGuinness:When I moved to Miami, I began going to the Humane Society just
Samantha McGuinness:to volunteer and do certain things.
Samantha McGuinness:And, um, I realized there's so many dogs there that they're all
Samantha McGuinness:perfect and they have no home.
Samantha McGuinness:And it's like, and when you go and you see them, they all
Samantha McGuinness:just perfect, amazing animals.
Samantha McGuinness:So now at our face-to-face marketing network, every time a
Samantha McGuinness:new company joins us, we actually sponsor a dog in their honor.
Samantha McGuinness:So we have a partnership with the Broward County Humane Society, but now we have
Samantha McGuinness:decided that any, whichever county our client's in, we will form a partnership
Samantha McGuinness:with that Humane Society and sponsor a dog in their market because the Humane Society
Samantha McGuinness:is really great at marketing as well.
Samantha McGuinness:So we like to to do little things like that because I'm definitely a dog person.
Samantha McGuinness:To answer your question clearly,
Ryan Bell:I have to ask a follow up question.
Ryan Bell:What kind of dogs are they?
Samantha McGuinness:cockapoos.
Ryan Bell:Cockapoos?
Ryan Bell:Oh my, my parents used to have a cockapoo.
Samantha McGuinness:Ugh.
Samantha McGuinness:Best ever.
Todd Miller:Very neat.
Todd Miller:Okay, next to last question, what is your favorite meal?
Samantha McGuinness:I ha I love food too much to answer this question.
Samantha McGuinness:It's, it's going to be, um, really ripe mango or crab legs.
Samantha McGuinness:Clam linguini.
Samantha McGuinness:Oh my gosh.
Samantha McGuinness:I love food, guys.
Samantha McGuinness:This is just, yeah, I love food.
Samantha McGuinness:I think, I think I would say a really ripe mango or crab legs.
Samantha McGuinness:There is a tie there.
Todd Miller:Uh, very cool.
Todd Miller:Good answer.
Ryan Bell:Okay.
Ryan Bell:Last question here at the.
Ryan Bell:End of your days, what do you hope to be remembered for?
Samantha McGuinness:Oh my gosh, this is a very important question.
Samantha McGuinness:Um, I think just somebody who lived for God and not for the world.
Ryan Bell:Amen.
Ryan Bell:Yep.
Todd Miller:Great answer.
Todd Miller:Good answer.
Samantha McGuinness:Thank you.
Todd Miller:Well, you're, well, you're, you're well on your path to that.
Todd Miller:Um, Samantha Tate, thank you so much for, uh, making a difference
Todd Miller:out there in our industry and making a difference in the world.
Todd Miller:Um, thanks for what you're doing to help build a lot of remodeling
Todd Miller:companies to thrive and go grow prosperously into the future.
Todd Miller:Um, if folks wanna learn more about you or about enabled consulting, uh, what
Todd Miller:are the best ways for them to do that?
Samantha McGuinness:The best ways are to visit our membership page, which
Samantha McGuinness:is face-to-face marketing network.com.
Samantha McGuinness:That's a very long domain name.
Samantha McGuinness:I know we also have an in-person intensive on October 9th in Miami
Samantha McGuinness:where I will be coaching all day long.
Samantha McGuinness:We have a couple other companies who will be there as well, but it's all geared
Samantha McGuinness:towards coaching, helping companies either refine or roll out their home
Samantha McGuinness:show events, retail store program.
Samantha McGuinness:We're giving you the sauce on that day to.
Samantha McGuinness:Sign up for that, you'll go to ftf training.com and it'll be a game
Samantha McGuinness:changing day in Miami together.
Todd Miller:And what was the URL for?
Todd Miller:The face?
Todd Miller:It was, you said there were a couple hyphens in there.
Todd Miller:Face-to-face marketing.
Samantha McGuinness:There are no hyphens, okay, so it's just
Samantha McGuinness:face-to-face marketing network.com.
Todd Miller:Okay.
Samantha McGuinness:And that's our membership.
Samantha McGuinness:So with that membership, we have a network of companies.
Samantha McGuinness:We coach them twice a month at minimum.
Samantha McGuinness:We have three tiers to that.
Samantha McGuinness:Some have one-on-one coaching, but it's a network of companies
Samantha McGuinness:to just deploy our systems.
Samantha McGuinness:There's an online learning system.
Samantha McGuinness:It's extremely valuable to help support managers who are in these positions.
Todd Miller:Very cool.
Todd Miller:Well, we have a URL for roofing for homeowners associations.com.
Todd Miller:Now I'm gonna have to count letters to see whose is longer, 'cause
Todd Miller:they gotta be pretty similar there.
Todd Miller:Good stuff.
Todd Miller:Well.
Todd Miller:Thank you again so much, uh, for being with us today, Samantha.
Todd Miller:This has been great.
Samantha McGuinness:Thank you so much for having me.
Samantha McGuinness:It's been awesome.
Todd Miller:I'm pleased to say we were all successful at
Todd Miller:working in our challenge words.
Todd Miller:Samantha, you got yours in first and your word was,
Samantha McGuinness:My word was corn dog, and I made sure I got it in first
Samantha McGuinness:because I was gonna forget otherwise.
Todd Miller:or maybe chili dog.
Todd Miller:Corn dog would be good.
Todd Miller:Well, I think we've done corn dog
Todd Miller:before, haven't we?
Todd Miller:Ryan?
Todd Miller:We have.
Samantha McGuinness:Did I take a corn dog or you had chili?
Samantha McGuinness:Chili dog?
Todd Miller:you you did it right?
Todd Miller:You had Chili dog.
Todd Miller:Perfect.
Todd Miller:And, uh, Ryan, your word was,
Ryan Bell:Authenticity.
Todd Miller:which, uh, got said numerous times during this episode,
Todd Miller:and my word was Buckeye, which I figured out a way to work in.
Todd Miller:I didn't even have to make it plural, so
Ryan Bell:What was the other word you said?
Ryan Bell:Scuttlebutt.
Todd Miller:scuttle.
Todd Miller:But I think everyone
Todd Miller:probably thought that was the word, didn't
Ryan Bell:sure.
Ryan Bell:Yeah.
Ryan Bell:I had to, I had to think like, wait, that wasn't one of the words, was it?
Ryan Bell:Because it caught me off guard.
Todd Miller:That's just the way, the weird way Miller talks.
Todd Miller:That's all I could say.
Samantha McGuinness:Yeah, I've never used that word before until today,
Samantha McGuinness:so thank you for that experience.
Todd Miller:Thank you to our audience for tuning into this very special episode
Todd Miller:of Construction Disruption with Samantha McGuinness of Enabled Consulting.
Todd Miller:Please watch for future episodes of our show.
Todd Miller:We always have great guests just like Samantha.
Todd Miller:Please leave a review or give us a. Thumbs up, whatever works best.
Todd Miller:But until the next time we're together, keep on disrupting, keep on challenging,
Todd Miller:uh, keep on looking for better ways of doing things, and don't forget to have a
Todd Miller:positive impact on everyone you encounter.
Todd Miller:Make them smile, encourage them.
Todd Miller:Powerful, yet simple things we can do to change the world.
Todd Miller:So God bless and take care.
Todd Miller:This is Isaiah Industries signing off until the next episode
Todd Miller:of Construction Disruption.