
How to Lead a Trades Business Without Knowing the Trade
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Industry-agnostic Trip Biesanz brought his sales skills to a glass fabrication & install business doing $3m in revenue.
Topics in Trip’s interview:
- Being a franchisee for 7 years
- Networking through MBBI and XPX
- Working with Calder Capital to find a business
- Narrowing down his search to construction
- Value he saw in long-term employees
- Managing cashflow in construction
- Relying on his team in an unfamiliar trades business
- Competitive nature of construction
- Highs and lows of running a business
- Franchising compared to owning an independent shop
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