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Irrigation Insights PodcastBoosting Morale and ProfitsJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Please go to our website to submit any questions you have and we'll answer them on the show! Video version available on YouTube.2025-07-1236 minIrrigation Insights PodcastWhat Every Irrigation Pro Needs to Know For 2025In this episode we go over the Residential Service Report by Service Titan that dives into the biggest challenges for residential contractors this year. We also talk about what these companies are doing to stay ahead and over come these challenges.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune...2025-07-0354 minIrrigation Insights PodcastHave Faith, Implement Changes NowSolo episode with Jacob today. I'm answering big questions from the facebook group and trying to give some motivational advice to the young companies out there.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation b...2025-06-2156 minIrrigation Insights PodcastKnowing When To Scale and How BigJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Please go to our website to submit any questions you have and we'll answer them on the show! Video version available on YouTube.2025-06-1347 minIrrigation Insights PodcastLove Your Customers, Even When It's HardToday we sit down with our first technician ever, Michael. He's been with us since the beginning and seen the company grow from one beat up truck to where we are today.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and ac...2025-05-3151 minIrrigation Insights PodcastAnswering Questions from the GroupJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Please go to our website to submit any questions you have and we'll answer them on the show! Video version available on YouTube.2025-05-2340 minIrrigation Insights Podcast5 Traps that Keep You Under 10 MillionListen close as we go through the 5 traps that keep you under 10 million per year. We also go through some Facebook questions.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next l...2025-05-1752 minIrrigation Insights PodcastAvoiding Operational Mistakes that Cost YouToday we go through another business owners operations. We see some flaws and some improvements that can be made. Some of these are mistakes we've made and some we've managed to avoid.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and a...2025-05-0956 minIrrigation Insights PodcastOperations and Painful LessonsJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Please go to our website to submit any questions you have and we'll answer them on the show! Video version available on YouTube.2025-05-031h 31Irrigation Insights PodcastHow Company Culture Effects Growth - From a Tech PerspectiveToday one of our technicians Ethan Klingemann joins us to talk about his experience working for other irrigation companies. We compare how culture and leadership can have an effect on a technicians outlook and how they view their future at your company. Get an insight from the technician perspective so you can make the right decisions when choosing to grow.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking t...2025-04-1849 minIrrigation Insights PodcastOvercoming the Same Spring Rush ProblemsEvery year we face the same problems during spring startups. Tightly packed schedule with low flexibility, low average tickets barely paying bills, and low conversions on sales. Today we talk about some ways to overcome these problems. Please submit any questions online or Facebook, we’ll be happy to answer them on the show.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical adv...2025-04-1358 minIrrigation Insights PodcastTraining New Technicians QuicklyToday we brought on our head of training, Ryan Willet to talk about our training process.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Please go to ou...2025-04-051h 11Irrigation Insights PodcastAre You Ready for the Spring Rush?Spring is here in DFW, we're booked out and steadily growing. Make sure you're charging correctly for where you want to be, not where you are.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation bu...2025-03-2152 minIrrigation Insights PodcastExamples of A Great CSR Paying for Themselves Many Times OverToday we answer some questions that were submitted. Keep them coming in! We talk about the difference between not having a dedicated CSR, having an average one, and having a great one. CSRs are revenue generating employees, even though they aren't in the field.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive i...2025-03-1249 minIrrigation Insights PodcastGrowth Comes from Processes & Systems, Not Working MoreThis is a continuation of our series talking about our path from where we started to where we are now. We've learned a lot along the way, still have a lot to learn. This is information that was passed to us, and we want to pass it on to others. We talk about how we went from losing money each year to making a profit and scaling quickly in 5 years. These are actionable steps we took to grow, and you can take also.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they di...2025-03-0553 minIrrigation Insights PodcastFrom Losing Money to Making Millions in IrrigationThis is an episode you won't want to miss. We talk about how we went from losing money each year to making a profit and scaling quickly in 5 years. These are actionable steps we took to grow, and you can take also.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the ir...2025-02-2655 minIrrigation Insights PodcastThriving in Commercial Irrigation with Tom GlennToday we're joined by Tom Glenn who manages a large commercial landscape and irrigation company Creekside Lawn and Landscape in Minnesota. He also runs the Irrigation & Sprinkler System Tech Talk Facebook group. We talk about the similarities and differences between commercial and residential irrigation, and what it takes to be successful.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world...2025-02-191h 35Irrigation Insights PodcastCalgary Irrigation Conference Insights to Boost Your BusinessI just got back from Calgary, AB where I got to sit down with irrigators who survive in possibly only of the shortest seasons in North America. I share what I learned while there and the messages we tried to get across.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry...2025-02-131h 00Irrigation Insights Podcast10X Returns Using Chiirp with Ryan & JustinToday the founder of Chiirp, Ryan, and his VP of sales and partnerships, Justin, join us on the show. In this action packed episode we talk about nurturing your clients, changing your mindset, how to approach seasonality of business, standing out from your competitors.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the...2025-02-051h 01Irrigation Insights PodcastGetting the Most from Automation and AI for Your Irrigation BusinessToday we answer guest questions submitted online that can be implemented immediately. Work on these few things and start to grow right away. These aren't gimmicks but proven methods. We also go over how other companies are implementing AI and automation to streamline their processes.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in...2025-01-3059 minIrrigation Insights PodcastLabor Shortages Hurting Your Business?Sorry for the audio, we struggled to get it right after an hour of tweaking. We are clearly not sound guys or professional producers. This week we're talking about taking your recruiting strategies to the next level. Without a solid team, you'll be going nowhere fast.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive i...2025-01-2543 minIrrigation Insights PodcastFinding the Bottleneck in Your Irrigation BusinessToday we breakdown a study and flowchart on how home service business are getting more leads with and without paid ads. We'll go over the step by step work flow to build up to paid ads. Do each of these items and you'll be sure to get more leads.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to...2025-01-1551 minIrrigation Insights PodcastOptimizing For Free LeadsToday we breakdown a study and flowchart on how home service business are getting more leads with and without paid ads. We'll go over the step by step work flow to build up to paid ads. Do each of these items and you'll be sure to get more leads.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to...2025-01-011h 09Irrigation Insights PodcastA Roadmap For Commercial ContractorsToday we take a deep dive into Service Titans 2024 commercial contractor report "Seeking Profitable Growth" for commercial contractors. See how it applies to you as a commercial irrigator and how you compare to other commercial contractors. Over 1000 commercial contractors were surveyed when making this report.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in...2024-12-2548 minIrrigation Insights PodcastSimple Solutions to Price ObjectionsJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Our podcast be found on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, or anywhere else you get podcasts! Please go to our website to submit any...2024-12-181h 06Irrigation Insights PodcastEasy Cash Flow Fixes For Your Irrigation BusinessJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
Our podcast be found on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, or anywhere else you get podcasts! Please go to our website to submit any...2024-12-111h 22Irrigation Insights PodcastHow to Charge Correctly and Honestly in Today's MarketToday we talk about the pro's to switching over to flat rate pricing instead of hourly. Also, how to build and implement your flat rate price book correctly and honestly. This change is critical to the growth and scalability of your business.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry...2024-12-041h 01Irrigation Insights PodcastPriorities for 1000 Exterior Trades ContractorsToday we look at Service Titans 2024 Exterior Service Contractor Report for 2024. Over 1000 exterior contractors were surveyed to see what is driving their growth. We talk about what is most important to the contractors and customers for future success.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert...2024-11-271h 15Irrigation Insights PodcastTalking Shop with Whale Done IrrigationToday Robert Gould from Whale Done Irrigation in DFW, Tx joins us. We talk about a variety of topics like the effects of proper branding, setting yourself apart, sales, and memberships.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to...2024-11-201h 45Irrigation Insights PodcastWhat Does Your Brand Say About You?Today we're talking about the first steps to branding your business correctly. Your brand is your image and has a message/ story to tell. What story does your brand tell to your customers and potential employees?
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, tr...2024-11-131h 01Irrigation Insights PodcastBonus Episode with Lone Star IrrigationEnjoy this behind the scenes bonus clip with Garrett Bremer while we wait for Ben Kannenberg to join us. This is a little add on to the other episode with Lone Star Irrigation we just released so be sure to check that episode out. Sorry for the barking dogs, we didn't know the conversation was being recorded.
2024-11-0614 minIrrigation Insights PodcastUnlocking Efficiency with Lone Star IrrigationIn this engaging episode of the Irrigation Insights Podcast, hosts Jacob and Ben dive deep into the nuances of running a successful irrigation business. Despite some audio challenges, the conversation is rich with insights as they welcome Garrett Bremer and Ben Kannenberg from Lone Star Irrigation & UpSurge.
Explore the benefits and challenges of various business models, including the service advisor approach and the use of field management software like Service Titan. The guests share their experiences with optimizing technician efficiency, sales strategies, and the importance of reading customer needs to maximize service outcomes.
The discussion...2024-11-061h 36Irrigation Insights PodcastFirst Steps to MarketingIn this episode we talk about whether or not spending money on marketing is right for you. It's not necessarily about whether it's right, but about is it the right time. Learn what are some free and cheap ways to get leads as well as some SEO tips.
Join hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help...2024-10-301h 09Irrigation Insights PodcastBuild to SellJoin hosts Jacob and Ben, two seasoned irrigation business operators, as they dive into the daily struggles and strategies of running and scaling a successful residential irrigation business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, this podcast offers practical advice, industry tips, and real-world experiences to help you thrive in the irrigation industry. Tune in for expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and actionable steps to take your irrigation business to the next level!
In this episode we talk about the importance of building a sellable business, even if you don't plan to sell. Why having a business that h...2024-10-241h 12