An inside look of Marketing and Sales Training with Gene Slade, Owner of Ninja Sales Training & Marketing.
Sam Wakefield: Alright well welcome back to the Close It Now podcast, Sam Wakefield here and this is your Drive Time University. I hope you are out there crushing it. As we know, as we know, 15 year career, the statistics prove it, the numbers prove it, Charlie Greer always said that a 15 year career as the equivalent of three PhDs, if you use your drive time as education. So that is what we are all about here. Thank you for joining me today. I know you are going to love this episode. It's our next in the series of our, the guests that we're having. I hope you've been enjoying the interviews and this is the new format, I guess it's not new at this point. We're a couple of months into the new format.
So still have the solo podcast released on Monday, interview podcast released on Friday and today will not disappoint. I was so excited to connect to this gentleman. I know you probably saw it in the notes. So Mr. Gene Slade, he is our guest today. Uh, if you've been around the HVAC or trades industries at all, you know, this man doesn't really need much of an introduction.
He is a super tech, a lead ninja. Well, absolutely. His track record is 10. X-ing your service tickets? I mean, who else can say that with the amount of collateral to back it up in the testimonies and the history. So I'm not going to go on and on about this because we want to dive in to the content today.
Gene and I have the opportunity to chat a bit a couple of times, uh, preparing for this podcast and it's a topic that I know that you have all been wanting to, uh, wanting to hear more about. I've been getting a lot of questions about it, which is kind of a teaser into one of our main topics today. But you know, you hear me say a lot of times, if you can tell it, or you can ask it as a question, always ask it as a question. Always use the problem with most people is you're not using enough questions and there's not a single objection. You can't overcome by asking more questions. So that is one of our main topics today. But before we get into all that, Mr. Gene Slade, thank you for being on the podcast today. I'm so excited to hang out with you for this bit
Gene Slade: I'm excited. I'm jacked, man. I'm ready to go. I mean, let's do this. Absolutely. Some people, some stuff let's make some people some money. That's what I'm about, man. I want to help somebody out there more than one people. I want to help everybody we can to make more money, but to work less doing it. And to be able to get home for dinner on time
Sam Wakefield: A hundred percent. That is the, that is a hundred percent our philosophy here. I love how it aligns with, with this podcast. So yeah, let's do it. So before we get into it, let's get, give us a, I know every single time we talk or you speak or you you're on a recording, there is somebody listening that doesn't know who you are. So let's give them a quick history, give them a super nutshell of who you are, why you're here. What got you here and what, you know, kind of, what's your focus.
Gene Slade: Absolutely. So guys, my, I grew up in this business, my father owned his own heating and air conditioning business. Um, you guys heard two chucks in the truck, right?
We were two Genes in a truck. We were the guys that literally we would do two or three air conditioners a day and we were, the beer can cold guys. Right? You grab a hold of the suction line. As soon as it's called the beer camp, roll them up. Get out of that. And, uh, I didn't ever hear of a micron gauge before you kidding me, but I was 11. My father needed some help with his business and so he recruited me and he said, boy, if you want food, you want clothes come to work. So it wasn't really, there wasn't...
