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Working at Larson Keeney Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight oh five thirteen ten wib Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the music always puts a smile on my face
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: One, it's a great jam.
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  Speaker 2: It's also great because we know we're gonna be hearing
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  Speaker 2: from our good friend Andrew Larson from Larson Kini Home
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  Speaker 2: Services Online Lars and Kini Home Services dot Com telephone
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  Speaker 2: number six oh eight.
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  Speaker 1: Five three five forty three forty three. That's six oh
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  Speaker 1: eight five three five forty three forty three. In Joining
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  Speaker 1: us this.
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  Speaker 2: Morning from Larsen Keenie Home Services is mister Andrew Larson.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew, how are you doing this week?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: We got rain this weekend and my pond back up
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  Speaker 4: and that makes me happy.
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  Speaker 1: I had the same problem.
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  Speaker 2: I had dry crunchy like literally like a couple of
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  Speaker 2: feet around the edges. It just was dry, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my goodness, and now rain and actually.
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  Speaker 3: That's the little things in life. We got like three inches.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting that.
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  Speaker 1: That is.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to hear, great to see and of yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know our gardens and everything are going to love
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  Speaker 2: this as well.
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  Speaker 1: And Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about something a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: this week, and something that's really important, which is careers
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  Speaker 2: at Larson Kini Home Services. And we talk about all
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  Speaker 2: the great benefits for homeowners, we talk about the professionalism
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  Speaker 2: of the team at Larsonkini Home Services, and we haven't
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  Speaker 2: really talked about kind of the other side of that
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  Speaker 2: is finding those people that really make this all go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about working at Larsonkini Home Services and some
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  Speaker 2: of the opportunities that you have for folks.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew, Yeah, you know, it was funny.
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  Speaker 4: I've said this before, but you usually text me an
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  Speaker 4: hour before in the morning, seven am. I'm downstairs, I'm
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  Speaker 4: lifting weights. It's like, what do you want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about today? And sometimes I've already got a planned and
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  Speaker 4: today I was like, man, you know, I mean what
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  Speaker 4: I really want.
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  Speaker 3: To talk about is people. We need people.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we have Look, we have an amazing culture
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  Speaker 4: of people coming on and learning a skill and learning
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  Speaker 4: a trade and sticking around for a long time and
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  Speaker 4: honestly turning a career into it. And I know a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people might not think, well, gutter installer, insulation
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  Speaker 4: technician a career. Well, yeah, I mean that's what we've
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  Speaker 4: tried to turn this into. It's not just like a
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go install some gutters and do some
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  Speaker 4: insulation over there at Larson for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, make fifteen bucks an hour.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what this is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is a career and I've
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  Speaker 4: never talked about it on the radio show before.
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  Speaker 3: But we're growing.
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  Speaker 4: We're growing so fast, and we've got now you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just Larson, it's Larson KINI. So we have
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  Speaker 4: opportunities for people all over the state. So I'm not
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  Speaker 4: exactly sure what the what the distance that this show
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  Speaker 4: goes out to. I'm sure you can tell us right
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  Speaker 4: how far is it go?
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  Speaker 2: I Dane County and the adjacent counties as well. Now
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  Speaker 2: Andrew will tell you we did receive an audio file
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  Speaker 2: and email from is It Finland last week, so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, how is it possible? Oh there's I could.
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  Speaker 2: I'll send you an email with the next am radio
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  Speaker 2: signal skip what they call it, so if you get
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  Speaker 2: a good bounce, you will be picked up. Like I
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  Speaker 2: there are times when I'm up in Spooner thirteen ten
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  Speaker 2: comes in clear as day in Spooner as well.
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  Speaker 3: So that's crazy, is it? Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, listen, what I was going to say, is
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how far this goes, but if you know, people,
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  Speaker 4: let us know. We've got opportunities in the Wassaw Stevens
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  Speaker 4: Point area. We'll just call it the north Woods, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll say Tomahawk and North. Our office in the Appleton,
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  Speaker 4: Nina area Milwaukee, actually Pewaukee specifically is where our office
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  Speaker 4: is located. And of course here in Arlington, which is
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  Speaker 4: the Madison area. We also have a little office over
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  Speaker 4: in Rochester, Minnesota. So so we're growing, and specifically we
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  Speaker 4: are looking in the Apple area. We are looking for
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  Speaker 4: gutter technicians. We are looking for roofing project managers. Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 4: We're looking for sales reps, roofing project managers. Madison. We're
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  Speaker 4: looking for a roofing project manager, insulation technicians, and gutter installers.
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  Speaker 4: And we're always looking for great salespeople. So now when
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  Speaker 4: I talk about the production part of this again, like
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  Speaker 4: I said, this isn't just a at least this.
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  Speaker 3: Is why I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want people to look at as like oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go, you know, make a few bucks
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  Speaker 4: and move on. We like people to stay. And this
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  Speaker 4: is why I tell people all the time. I don't
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  Speaker 4: care what your experience is makes no difference to me.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing that matters to me and has always listen.
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  Speaker 4: We've got tons of people that have come in and
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  Speaker 4: worked for us with all the experience in the world,
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  Speaker 4: ran their own company, did this, did that, And what
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  Speaker 4: we find is, listen, after almost twenty years of doing this,
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  Speaker 4: we know what works and we know what doesn't work.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't have any experience, that's okay with us,
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  Speaker 4: because we will train you exactly how we need to
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  Speaker 4: train you and let you know exactly what you need
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  Speaker 4: to know. We do paid training, We provide tools, we
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  Speaker 4: provide work vehicles, all of that stuff with very very
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  Speaker 4: competitive starting wages, usually ranging from about twenty eight to
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  Speaker 4: thirty three dollars an hour, which you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 4: not too shabby. I think that's actually fantastic. But what
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  Speaker 4: I also do like to say is that's a starting
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  Speaker 4: hourly pay for us. Most of our jobs are paid
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  Speaker 4: on a percentage of the job, which is hard for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people to wrap their heads around.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll just throw these numbers out there.
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  Speaker 4: Our average roofing project managers are making between eighty and
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year. So if
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  Speaker 4: you think you if you have a if you think
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  Speaker 4: you can now I'm not going to say it's not
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  Speaker 4: hard work. I'm not going to say you don't got
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  Speaker 4: to get up early in the morning and every once
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  Speaker 4: in a while you got.
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  Speaker 3: To work late nights.
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  Speaker 4: But you're you're managing a roofing job site, so you're
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  Speaker 4: not actually even roofing.
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  Speaker 3: We have professional roofers.
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  Speaker 4: You are just there to talk with the homeowner, make
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  Speaker 4: sure the job is clean and tidy, make sure the
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  Speaker 4: roofers have everything they need, make sure the job is
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  Speaker 4: clean and everybody's working safely.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you do.
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  Speaker 4: And you can make eighty two hundred and thirty thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars a year doing so, and you don't even work
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  Speaker 4: full time in the winter. So it's a really good job.
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  Speaker 4: It's a really good paying job, and it's a career.
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  Speaker 4: As far as gutter technicians look, it's the same type
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  Speaker 4: of thing. It's not easy work. It's hard work. There's ladders,
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  Speaker 4: there's planks, there's long days. But I mean, listen, some
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  Speaker 4: of the days are short, and some of those short days,
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  Speaker 4: our guys are averaging seventy one seventy five two hundred
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  Speaker 4: dollars an hour.
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  Speaker 3: That's because they're paid on commissions.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're somebody who's look, we've hired accountants, people
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  Speaker 4: that have been sitting behind desks, and I've asked him
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  Speaker 4: interviewing him, said so you're an accountant, yep, what makes
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  Speaker 4: you want to come install gutter shutter? Because if I
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  Speaker 4: sit behind a desk and stare at a computer for
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  Speaker 4: eight hours a day for another week, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I'm losing a little bit of my life minute by minute.
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  Speaker 4: I want to work with my hands. I want self gratification.
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  Speaker 4: I want quit gratification for making someone's house look nice.
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  Speaker 4: I said, perfect, That's fantastic, because what we really want
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  Speaker 4: is somebody who wants to make a career out of
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  Speaker 4: working for us. As well as the most important key,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what you know. I care about your attitude,
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  Speaker 4: and I care about the effort that you're willing to
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  Speaker 4: put forth, because if you've got a great attitude and
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  Speaker 4: you put forth the effort, you will be highly successful
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  Speaker 4: in pretty much anything you do, and especially in our company,
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  Speaker 4: and guys with great attitudes and put forth a lot
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  Speaker 4: of effort.
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  Speaker 3: End up making a lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: And I know this because they come to work and say, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I just bought this brand new eighty thousand dollars truck.
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  Speaker 3: Hey I just bought a new house.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's the fantastic part changing someone's life. And that's
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  Speaker 4: the way I look at it. So if you're sitting
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  Speaker 4: out there and you're hearing this and you're looking for
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  Speaker 4: a new opportunity, the pay is great, the culture and
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  Speaker 4: the company is even better.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have sales reps.
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  Speaker 4: That come in and they've come from other industries of sales,
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  Speaker 4: or they've come from the same industry of sales, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll ask them after a few months, what's the difference
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  Speaker 4: between Larson Kini and the place you used to work
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  Speaker 4: and the last three sales reps? I got the exact
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  Speaker 4: same answer. These were at different times, and these people
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  Speaker 4: didn't know each other, and their answers were you guys
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  Speaker 4: care about your customers. Well, it makes it pretty easy
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  Speaker 4: to sell something when you know that the owners of
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  Speaker 4: the company, all they want to do is put on
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  Speaker 4: a fantastic product, have it be a great experience, have
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  Speaker 4: the homeowners be super happy, and if there is an issue,
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  Speaker 4: we go back, we take care of it. We sell
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  Speaker 4: with integrity, we install with and we service to a fault.
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  Speaker 4: And when I mean service to a fault, sometimes we
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  Speaker 4: service things.
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  Speaker 3: For free that aren't our fault and we shouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we take care
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that our guys and gals in the
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  Speaker 4: production field, in the sales field, and in the office
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  Speaker 4: take a lot of pride in knowing that we'll go
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  Speaker 4: out and help basically no matter what, just like we
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  Speaker 4: were last week. I think we tarped fifty roofs in
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  Speaker 4: the Appleton, Nina area. A lot of them we didn't
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  Speaker 4: charge anything for. We just went out and took care
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  Speaker 4: of it because that's what needed to be done. So
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  Speaker 4: if that's the type of company that you want to
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  Speaker 4: work for, a company you can take pride and who
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  Speaker 4: you work for and what you do, all while making
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  Speaker 4: a really good paycheck.
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  Speaker 3: When we pay weekly. By the way, Oh, people.
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  Speaker 4: Really really like that every week paycheck. You know what,
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  Speaker 4: Look us up, hit us up online, reach out to us.
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  Speaker 4: We are always always, I mean right now, we're really
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  Speaker 4: really looking for some great people.
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  Speaker 2: So it's talk about it's really the attitude and the
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  Speaker 2: right person. If you are that type of person, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you've got a got a kiddo or a grand kid
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  Speaker 2: as well that's maybe looking for a career and has
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  Speaker 2: that drive that if they're great people people, they're definitely
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  Speaker 2: looking for them at Larson Service. The other thing, too,
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  Speaker 2: is there's something to be said for going home each
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  Speaker 2: night and feeling good about the work that you've done,
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  Speaker 2: and that's one of the other great rewards about working
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  Speaker 2: at Larson Kini Home Services. You definitely want to make
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  Speaker 2: that call today if you are that person looking looking
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  Speaker 2: for a great opportunity to start a great career with
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  Speaker 2: Larson Kinie Home Services. Helf for number six so eight
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  Speaker 2: five three five forty three forty three. That's five three,
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  Speaker 2: five forty three forty three. Learn more online Larson Kiniehomeservices
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  Speaker 2: dot com and also find them on Facebook and social
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  Speaker 2: media as well. Andrew, it's always great chatting with you.
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  Speaker 2: You enjoy this absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Dan. We'll do it all again real soon.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good to see you next week, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Larson Larsen Home Services Kevin Ham comes your way next
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  Speaker 2: here on thirteen ten.
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