Ryan Robinson 🏠🔨

Lately I’ve been thinking about using this Twitter thing more for my businesses and seeing where it leads me. I’ll kick it off with an intro of where we are at this point: - Started 3 Businesses over the past 5 years with one of my best friends that I met in college - Both of us were average students that learned how to pass classes rather than learn information and graduated with Economics degrees - We both got W2 jobs immediately until landing in roofing sales roles (1099) - Started up our first Company, North Tarrant Christmas Lights, 5 years ago and have grown it to 180k/yr Biz - Started up our main Company, Upright Roofing and Construction, 2.5 years ago and have done 3m the first two years but we are expecting to hit 5m this year. - Started Outright Paintless Dent Repair this year, which hasn’t taken off like we’ve hoped but have done about 15k thus far.

@BalconesRoofing Should be disco since its barrel tile huh?

A two-hour roof inspection yesterday on 217 Bella Riva Drive on Lake Travis. Not sure what happened here but this property was absolutely insane – inside & out. Check out the listing: zillow.com/homedetails/21…

@ianncushing Roof

Roofing is super slept on when it comes to cold email lead gen If you own a roofing co and want to see how we are generating commercial roofing leads, comment "roof" and I will show you

@Ry__Rob Just drop this request into Claude itself.

I’m looking for some Claude help I’m super interested in the power of AI and play with it a decent amount but feel like my projects ask too much of it but see people do much cooler things. I’m looking to link Claude to my inbound invoices email, save the PDF, sort it to a mail folder, and then the tricky part is - I’d like it to scan the document for totals owed, input into my CRM system job folder based on address and then enter as a payment. Acculynx is the CRM for reference

Moar plz

@pestctrlguy @CollinJHumphrey It cost 25k to do, marked it up 40%

Texas Retail: 50% due when materials are dropped 50% due on completion, final job walk Sometimes 100% on completion if small, non complex Insurance: We do deductible + First insurance check day of install (might change to deductible due at contract signing) Final insurance check due when received from insurance, called depreciation check

Not sure if this applies in California but: What is the operating cash flow on a single $20k roofing job? Does the client pay you a deposit? When do they make final payment? When do you buy materials? When do you pay the sub? When do you pay sales commission to the rep who brought the deal?

If you are a roofer, please comment below I have a question for you

@Ry__Rob BROOOOO

Happy Monday 😅

Woke up today a WINNER

@dylthorn @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew What do you feel the value of that used equipment is? Do you reuse it on new build installs? You guys not in Texas (everything is cheaper in Texas, like they say), what is your average net margin every year?

@Ry__Rob @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew Yeah all those things have def happened to me lol, on the other hand I now own like 100k bulbs, 50 wreaths, 50 boxes of mini lights and a bunch of cool stuff

Agree it’s not the best model for everyone. Provide a good service at a “decent” rate and they’ll return at ~90% Granted, most houses we do aren’t the ones your nephew could do solo. What is nice, is I can dispatch sub contracted crews without having a central hub to bring materials from. And I’ve never had a customer successfully say that “they thought they had more lights last year” or wrong color or we messed up their lights during the offseason because they’ve had them

@Ian_Allis0n @Ry__Rob @rampulla_andrew Horrible business model In my opinion customer gets their nephew to install the lights for half the price you have zero leverage. Every year I get 100+ calls of people who were sold the lights and want a cheaper price.