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Can't Stop the Growth
How Is AI Revolutionizing The Home Service Industry? | AI Trade Talk with ZyraTalk | Brad Scruggs | Jennifer Bagley
What if your HVAC or plumbing website could instantly change based on what a homeowner is searching for? Or your schedule could sync with live promotions to boost bookings when you're light? Jennifer Bagley of CI Web Group joins AI Trade Talk to break down the next frontier in home service growth: AI-optimized websites, AI search, and smart automation that drives real results. If you're still not using AI to drive leads and streamline operations, this episode is your wake-up call. Hosted by Brad Scruggs of Zyratalk and powered by Can’t Stop the...
2025-07-17
46 min
Can't Stop the Growth
What Home Service PE Firms Want: A CFO’s Guide to Getting Top Dollar with Paul Maskill
What’s it really take to run a profitable home service business? 💸 On this episode of AI Trade Talk, Brad sits down with Paul Maskill—fractional CFO and master of blue-collar biz strategy—to dig into the financial truths most owners miss. From pricing mistakes and misunderstood metrics to the surge of PE acquisitions and the magic of recurring revenue, Paul shares clear, actionable advice that’ll have you rethinking how you run your business. Whether you’re looking to grow or sell, this convo is packed with insight you don’t want to miss! 🚀...
2025-06-19
38 min
Can't Stop the Growth
AI Trade Talk: Smarter Ads, Faster Bookings, and Data That Deliver with Katie Donovan
AI Trade Talk is the newest series on Can’t Stop the Growth, created for home service business owners who want to lead at the edge of innovation. Hosted by Brad Scruggs, founder of ZyraTalk, this series highlights the tools, trends, and transformations that are reshaping how HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies grow. The series kicks off with industry powerhouse Katie Donovan, CEO of Camp Digital. and host of the Around the CAMPfire series. In this episode, Katie breaks down how AI and data-driven digital marketing are changing the game—from smarter ad strategies and real-time call boar...
2025-05-01
40 min
Can't Stop the Growth
CSTG 209: This AI Tool Will Fill Your Board (Without Hiring More CSRs) With Brad Scruggs
Stop missing the calls that fill your board. In this episode of Can’t Stop the Growth, Chad Peterman is joined by Brad Scruggs, President and CMO of ZyraTalk, to talk about a simple but powerful idea: when you stop missing calls, you stop losing jobs. Brad breaks down how HVAC and plumbing businesses are using AI-powered customer service representatives (CSRs) to capture more leads, reduce missed calls, and grow without hiring more people. Whether it’s after-hours coverage, overflow, or lead aggregator response times—AI is helping high-growth companies optimize their call centers and maximize every opport...
2025-04-22
37 min
Born For The Trades: A Home Service Podcast
Transforming Customer Service: How ZyraTalk is Revolutionizing the Home Service Industry with AI
In this episode of Born For The Trades, our host, Mandeep, talks with Brad, the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of ZyraTalk, a leader in AI and automation solutions for the home service industry. For over a decade, ZyraTalk has been transforming how businesses handle customer interactions by automating phone conversations, helping businesses avoid missed calls, and converting them into booked jobs and revenue.Brad explains that businesses often miss a significant percentage of phone calls, sometimes up to 30-40%, due to factors like staff limitations or after-hours inquiries. ZyraTalk solves this problem by automating these missed...
2024-11-27
28 min
Freedom Blueprint for Home Services | HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Leadership, Business Growth
49 | AI in Action: How Modern Technology is Revolutionizing Plumbing and HVAC| with Guest Brad Scruggs with ZyraTalk
Episode Number: 49Date: August 26, 2024Duration: 33:28Host: Justin DeeseWebsite: JustinDeese.comContact: Justin@JustinDeese.comGuest: Brad ScruggsWebsite: ZyraTalk.comSummaryIn this exciting episode of the Freedom Blueprint Podcast, host Justin Deese chats with Brad Scruggs about the transformative power of AI in the home service industry. They explore how AI is revolutionizing business operations by automating tasks, increasing efficiency, and capturing missed calls to enhance revenue. Listen in to discover practical AI applicat...
2024-08-26
33 min
Blue Collar Prosperity
How to Leverage AI to Reduce Missed Calls with Brad Scruggs
Brad is one of the founders at ZyraTalk. They've been in the automation and AI space for nearly 10 years now. They got their start by automating chat on home service business websites and work with over 5,000 customers. Last year they rolled out an AI voice product that many businesses call their AI CSR to handle overflow and afterhours calls. Some even use the AI as their first line of defense. They're approaching over 1,000 customers using their AI CSR and are handling 10s of thousands of calls per week. In today's interview, we focus on: How AI...
2024-08-26
21 min
Sales Players
Bootstrapping a Startup & Scaling Sales with AI with Brad Scruggs of ZyraTalk
Brad Scruggs is the CMO of Zyratalk, a startup that helps businesses improve their customer experience and increase online leads by opening up additional channels of communication. SPONSORS: • Leadfeeder (Turn Page Views into Pipeline) - https://leadfeeder.partnerlinks.io/rsscjriylqgb - SP fans use this link for an extended, 21-day free trial • Surfe (LinkedIn Prospecting Streamlined) - https://www.surfe.com/?kfl_ln=jesse-woodbury EPISODE LINKS: • Connect with Brad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-scruggs-38a5abb1/ • Check out ZyraTalk: https://www.zyratalk.com/ CONNECT WITH JESSE: • Linkedin...
2024-02-21
42 min
ROI Podcast™ — the #1 Entrepreneurial Business meets Comedy podcast hosted by Law Smith + Eric Readinger
How To Get A Computer To Do Your Work For You w/ Andrew Mayer
Andrew Mayer is the Head Of Partnerships at Zyra Talk, an AI website chat plugin for small, local B2C service businesses’ lead generation + bonus points for Zyra’s superior value added differentiators of sales enablement and bespoke onboarding. ZyraTalk.com Episode sponsored by SQUARESPACE create a customizable website or online store with an all-in-one solution from Squarespace. Choose a website template and start your free trial today. https://squarespacecircleus.pxf.io/sweatequity How To Become Our BFFs: 1. Subscribe to the pod! 2. Rate the show 5 ⭐ and write a short review! 3. Share this show!
2022-07-20
36 min
BlueCollar.CEO
Nurturing Lifetime Customers With Bradley Scruggs, Chief Marketing Officer at ZyraTalk
BlueCollar.CEO –Bradley Scruggs is one of the Founders and the Chief Marketing Officer at ZyraTalk, a conversational marketing platform that helps local businesses win and retain customers. They guide companies through the process of improving their customers' experience and increasing online leads by opening up additional communication channels.Bradley has created various playbooks to assist ZyraTalk's customers in automating the entire customer relationship through automated chat, automated reputation management, and the automated post-sale relationship. He is also the CMO and Co-founder of Great Pros, a platform that allows homeowners to connect wit...
2021-12-28
28 min
The 1SEO Podcast
Bradley Scruggs, ZyraTalk | The Lion’s Den Podcast
Is your business leveraging conversational marketing to win and retain customers? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Lion’s Den with Brad Scruggs, Chief Marketing Officer for ZyraTalk, a platform that is helping businesses across every vertical generate more qualified leads and dramatically increase customer engagement on all communication channels.#LFG it’s time to win the local level! #DigitalLion #LionsDen #DigitalMarketing #1SEO #ZyraTalk #AI #MarketingAutomation #BusinessGrowth #CustomerService #OnlineReviews #CustomerExperienceWatch the full episode...
2021-09-30
18 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Brian Abernethy - Co Founder, CEO - Service Direct
Brian is a Co Founder at Service Direct, a marketing and lead generation platform for home service businesses. We discuss: - What's your role? - What does your company do? - What is the company’s marketing strategy? - What are the marketing channels you’re using today? - What metrics do you watch the closest? - Who are your direct reports? - What regular “rhythms” do you have as a leader? - What are the biggest marketing challenges you have?
2020-10-29
00 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
How to go from service-based to software company with Lindsay Halsen, Co-Founder of Pathfinder SEO
Lindsay pulls back the curtain on how pathfinder SEO went from marketing agency to software platform with a small team of 4. We talked about the best tools, the best marketing channels, and how Lindsay and her team think about customer acquisition. It was a fascinating conversation that you'll get a lot of value from.
2020-10-15
00 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Why the Traditional Agency Model is No Longer Enough with Mauricio Cardenal, Founder of Roofing Marketing Pros
In this interview Mauricio Cardenal, founder of roofingmarketingpros.com shares 1) Why the traditional digital agency that focuses on leads is no longer enough. 2) How he would choose his target market today if he was starting from scratch. And 3) What one marketing channel he sees holding the biggest opportunity for the next years.
2020-09-24
25 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Building an Outbound Sales Team with Chris Dreyer - Founder and CEO of rankings.io
Chris Dreyer, Founder and CEO of rankings.io joins shares how he built a leading marketing agency that specifically caters to personal injury law firms. Our favorite takeaways are: How Chris decided to niche down his services and his audience, how rankings.io is building their outbound sales team, and what tools and approaches are helping Chris and his team hire the right people as they grow.
2020-09-18
21 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Marc Brookland - CEO and Founder of SEO Locale
Marc is the CEO and Founder of SEO Locale, a leading marketing agency in Pennsylvania. They have gone from a handful of clients to serving 100+ clients in just 4 years. In this episode you'll learn 3 major things: 1) How to use partnerships and existing relationships to scale your agency, 2) How Marc sees the role of voice in the evolution of marketing, 3) The one approach that has helped Marc and his team keep clients two to three times longer than most agencies.
2020-09-09
21 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Frank Olivo - Founder and Director at SagaPixel
Frank is the founder and CEO of SagPixel, an agency in the Philadelphia area. Frank has focused his agency to cater specifically to subject matter experts, in a variety of industries. You'll learn 3 major things from this conversation: 1. How to scale your agency without compromising quality, 2. Why outbound sales could break a business as it grows, and 3. What all of Google's algorithm updates since 2018 have in common.
2020-09-09
17 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Rob Rosasco, Founder of Sundown Legal Marketing
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Cook, interviews Rob Rosasco - Founder of Sundown Legal Marketing. Rob shares how he sees legal marketing changing, why he has a different approach to website traffic, and how he sees video impacting the industry.
2020-09-01
26 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Chris Lonergan, President at Footbridge Media
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Cook, interviews Chris Lonergan - President at Footbridge Media. Chris shares how he sees hyperlocal business marketing shifting, what it’s going to take for SMBs to keep up with changing consumer expectations, and the one advantage he believes small businesses can leverage against larger competitors.
2020-08-17
20 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Ryan Redding, CEO of DP Marketing Services
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Cook, interviews Ryan Redding, CEO of DP Marketing Services. Ryan shares what KPIs he pays attention to when working with clients, how he’s putting clients first and google second, and what his research shows about why local businesses succeed or fail.
2020-08-16
26 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Ben Landers, CEO of Blue Corona
Our CRO, Jeff Cook, interviews Ben Landers, CEO and President at Blue Corona. Ben built one of the nation's leading marketing agencies in the professional services space. In this interview, he shares how he transformed a simple business idea into an industry-leading agency, and what trends he sees shaping the future of SMB marketing.
2020-08-16
33 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Lance Bachman, CEO and President of 1SEO.com
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Cook, interviews Lance Bachman, CEO and founder of the 1SEO Marketing Agency. Lance shares how he built a culture that puts his clients first, what marketing trends he is looking out for, and how he thinks about supporting his clients during uncertain times.
2020-08-13
21 min
The SMB Marketing Agency Show
Trailer
Welcome to the SMB Marketing Agency Podcast! We're interviewing SMB marketers who are rising above the noise and leading change. Dive in and enjoy!
2020-08-13
00 min
The 1SEO Podcast
Brad Scruggs, ZyraTalk | The Lion's Den Podcast
I welcome Brad Scruggs of ZyraTalk, a nationally leading website #chatbot service that 1SEO Digital Agency is proud to partner with, to talk about scaling a business at such a young age and what motivates Brad & his team to keep pushing themselves and the industry to new heights. Does your website utilize a chatbot? By 2024, chatbots will generate over $8 Billion in revenue savings and help improve customer service no matter the industry - It’s a no-brainer! Contact my team if you need help getting started with website chat.Keep Up With The Li...
2020-07-23
04 min