

Robin Scherer
856 posts

@RobinRoofs
27 y/o entrepreneur. Built a 30+ million dollar retail roofing company in 4 years. https://t.co/eYHgyqqxeE Sharing my thoughts and journey on business and more







































Can you build an 8 figure roofing business in 3 years from scratch like Chris suggested? Good amount of people jumping on this post with tons of reasons why this “can’t be done”. I built a 30M roofing business in less then 4 years so I know he is being extremely realistic here. Key in roofing right now is to turn away from the traditional insurance play and focus first and foremost on building a retail model and brand on social, in communities, at events, in networking groups. Brand and relationship focused retail roofing is not as much the adverse effect of slower storm and economic seasons like this year. Other thing is a diversified approach to the roofing business, guys who just do shingles are going to have a tougher time in this current market then if you build a reputation for installing metal, tile, specialty products with excellence. Heck, my brother-in-law who sells for us just sold a six figure residential copper metal roof the other week. The owner was getting quotes from the top couple retail brands in the area. They don’t go to just anyone when they get quotes on these kind of projects, they go to folks they are highly recommended to or who have an incredible local brand. Me and my sales manager just fired off a million dollar quote, they called us because of our brand in the community. Also retail commercial flat roofing which makes up 40% of our revenue is not a market nearly as impacted by storms. Commercial buildings owners want good roofs on their properties and over their tenants and that doesn’t change. Beyond that just business basics, good marketing, sales, ops processes, taking GREAT care of your installers. Most businesses in roofing do not take good enough care of their installers so they are not able to attract and retain the best talent on an install level. In this current labor market, great quality and talented labor is one of the number one constraints so figuring out how to build relationships and take care of the blue collar workforce is paramount. TLDR: It is very doable in 3 years to build to 10M in roofing if you have a great work ethic and understanding of business. One of the first pre requisites to doing so however, is an extremely positive, high responsibility and “can do” attitude. Which may sound cliché…. but many of the commentators here simply don’t seem to have it which is likely a large part of why they don’t have as much success.



If I were starting at zero with less than $10,000 in the bank, here is how I’d build a $10M biz in 36 months. Create a roofing biz from zero. Step 1: door knock neighborhoods effected by storms Step 2: close first sale (insurance claim eligible) Step 3: recruit one high quality sub contractor Step 4: complete job and collect revenue Step 5: rinse and repeat step 1 + 2; reinvest in marketing, more door knocking lead gen, more sales reps, referral programs.. Why is this feasible? Low / no capital required Only need a hungry + strong sales aptitude individual High gross margin


