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Mike Crow is a Marketing and Business Expert who has built and managed multiple 7-figure businesses, including two 7-figure inspection firms.

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Hi, this is Mike Crowe, and I run home inspection business.

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In fact, I've run a couple of home inspection businesses.

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You know, true joy for me, though, has been helping literally

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thousands of home inspectors build really solid home inspection business as well.

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We can help a single man operation be able to do over three hundred

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thousand dollars a year,

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maybe all the way up

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to 400 thousand dollars a year as a single inspector operation.

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Even better for me is the 80 plus companies that we have helped

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be able to build million dollar home inspection businesses.

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I would like to help you be able to do the same thing.

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A lot of the time, we want something to be perfect before we launch it.

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This can hold you back from moving forward in your business.

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In this coaching call clip, Mike explains

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why you shouldn't wait until it's perfect and what he does instead.

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Guys, I teach what I call the 95 percent rule, and you need to know,

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ninety five percent of the people you're surrounded with have.

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But the other five percent don't.

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Oh, guys, this has got to be way too much fun.

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But the truth is, though, that

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ninety five percent of people want to keep you safe.

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Want to protect you. Want to tell you why it won't work.

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Want to tell you what you need to do before you do that.

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And it is one of the things that we talked

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about on the call and response, part of the coaching group call as well.

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And is the fact that everybody wants to try to put

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the perfect thing in place instead of build what they can.

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Now, and this is something Gene taught on this morning.

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Build what you can now and then add on to it.

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And my greatest example of that really comes from amusement parks.

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And I don't know, I go to a lot of amusement

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parks, and I don't think most of you probably look at it the same way I do

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. Animal Kingdom, when it first opened up at Disney, was

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was very sparse, very

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unaccommodating, and a lot of ways was very hot.

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But they knew it would grow into different things.

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And now the trees are huge and there's lots of shade.

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And they've added nighttime programs and they've added Pandora,

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which is the land from Avatar movie.

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And then they've added this and they've added that.

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And so, you know, it's just amazing what, you know, they can take and grow with.

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The very first time I really saw this happen was when they talked

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about Disneyland and how Disneyland

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was so unready, ready to be opened up.

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A couple of weird things happened.

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One was that the asphalt was so soft

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that ladies' hills, the lady's high heels, and they went and high heels,

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by the way, sunk into the asphalt , OK, and got stuck.

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OK, can you imagine that lady's high heels getting stuck in the asphalt?

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They would put benches out in the benches, would literally slip into the asphalt.

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OK, because they weren't they weren't really ready yet. OK.

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And they they had not put out enough grass in front of Walt Disney World.

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So Disney had them go out and put little signs labeling the weeds, OK,

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that, you know, so people would go, oh, that's what oh, that's what the. Oh, okay.

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And it looked intentional when I did my very first three days of secrets revealed.

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When I did my very first three days of secret revealed,

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I only taught Big Bang marketing. That was it.

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And then the next year, I added on to it.

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I had it on the root and the root notebook and what that looked like.

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And I had it on other speakers. And then every year,

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every year, three days, scriptable, it got bigger and better.

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And every year we took something from the previous year

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and moved it forward every year thereafter.

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OK, so the year we did the we did Star Wars, by the way, we had these

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big blue banners that came down, you know, and they said, be successful on them.

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Dot, dot, dot. All right.

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And we use those every year after that.

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So the question is the thought is that during your process

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of growing what you're growing, it's not going to be perfect at first.

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There's going to be all kinds of gaps and holes and and bridges

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that you have to take care of and build and and fill in.

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And, you know, it's kind of funny.

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My dad bought 50 acres up in Oklahoma.

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Oh, I don't know, 30 years ago, 20 years ago. I don't know.

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Is a long time ago.

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And there's two parts, the land.

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And there was a creek that ran through the land and my dad was gone.

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You know, we used to have to walk all the way around this pond up here.

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We had to walk all the way around to get from one side to the other.

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And my dad said I would really love to have a road that goes right here across.

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And and they used to.

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And at first they put up this to buy six.

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Can you imagine a two by six, right.

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And it was you can you can you walk out of two by six?

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It was like it was like it was like walking on barrels that, you know, Walt

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Disney World or Six Flags or something , you know, the bridge going up and down.

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And my dad bought a tractor at one point, and I loved writing the tractor.

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It was just it was relaxing the noise. I couldn't hear anybody else.

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Nobody else was interrupting me. I could just think.

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And and I said, well, I can take some dirt.

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I can make your pond bigger up here.

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And he told me he wanted the pond bigger.

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I could make the pond bigger up here and take that dirt and put it down here

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and we could build a road across this creek.

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And he laid a couple of big old pipes down so the water would still go through.

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And all day. That's all I did all day.

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Just go get dirt, put dirt, get dirt, put dirt.

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And towards the end of the day, I drove across with the tractor.

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Cos it was like, hallelujah. OK.

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But that's the way it works with all of our businesses.

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Nothing's ever perfect now.

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Now, I went up there Friday, last Friday, I think it was with

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my dad, not last Friday, the Friday before. Anyway.

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And as we were over there, he drove across that with his pickup

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truck, because now he's made it even bigger, even better.

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And even, you know, more solid and done some other things as well.

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The thing is and Jim talked about this this morning.

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The thing is, guys,

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that when we start something, it's never perfect in the beginning.

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And the part of my part of my program, part of my

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mission, my values, is that I continually improve on everything.

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I continually improve on everything, you know.

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I think, Ricky, I think you've seen the building up here.

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Jeff, you've seen it in multiple times.

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The first time we did this building,

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the first off, it was a disaster and then we made it better.

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But every every year

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we improve like three, four, five, six things on this building.

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OK, this year, I'm just going to I'm just going to share

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I planted bluebonnets out front.

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And by the way, when I say I planted bluebonnets,

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I hired someone to plant blueberries out front. OK.

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And Wednesday night, I have someone coming to plant more flowers out front

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because the bluebonnets are gone because they're they're like,

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you know , they're like six weeks and then they're in and out.

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And so but, you know, there's that.

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I went into Susan's sewing room

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and I looked at the blinds and I went, oh, God, these blinds are terrible.

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And so I, I pulled all the blinds down and I put up nice, beautiful,

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beautiful. Enough blinds there. OK.

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So the question I want you to think about and this is going to be the question

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we're going to run around the table today.

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This is going to be the question we're running around. I got Jeff's attention.

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OK. What's the one thing that you're building right now?

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That isn't perfect.

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But it's worth building because we need it in our business in the future.