Spectora Spotlight with Kevin Wagstaff

Not Asking Questions is Hearing No - Joe Neese

On episode #82, Kevin talks with Joe Neese of S4 Inspections out of Issaquah, Washington.

Joe tells his story of being an "industry outsider" and using his practical sales background to win over agents. He also talks about differentiation and minding the details that add up to a wonderful client experience.

 

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Do it, Write it Down, or Delegate it! - Tim Wojnar

In episode #81, Kevin talks with Tim Wojnar, a recurring guest about many things:

- How to easily calculate your market share

- Being a visionary vs. an integrator

- How to have the right person in the right seat on your team

- Leveraging your strengths as a leader

- Listening to your emotions 😱

 

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Spectora‘s Product Process for 2022 and Beyond

We have a special, short episode of Spectora Spotlight with James and Megan from our Product team here at Spectora!

We talk about how they are improving the way Spectora thinks about feature requests, bugs, prioritization and process improvements that will keep Spectora on the forefront of the industry in 2022.

 

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First year inspector gets 87% review take rate 🤯

See how a private banker turned home inspector has grown quickly using Instagram and Google Reviews. Phil Dancer is also a champion for our industry - he believes all home inspectors undervalue themselves, a lot.

He is also maniacal about the client experience. He lives and breathes it and his results show.

Don't miss the magical number of reviews he says you need to get to rank higher in Google!

 

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Back by popular demand - James Hooper

James Hooper's show in February of 2021 was a surprise hit, so Kevin got him back for a full hour for a wide ranging talk about innovation, the roller coaster of 2021, and managing his own growth this year. You can find Jame's first episode here: https://spectora.podbean.com/e/worklife-balance-is-bull-james-hooper/ 

 

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Investing in leaders, training and taking care of clients beyond SOPs - Super Inspector - Part 2

This is part 2 of the Super Inspector interview so you can find part 1 here and the video version of part 1 on YouTube here.

In part 2, the Super Inspector leadership team talks about investing 10s of thousands of dollars into their leadership development and other topics including:

• How they grow their agent base
• Training new hires
• Their interview process
• Taking care of clients, not just handing them a report
• Concierge services being the way of the future

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How the largest company in the country keeps growing - Super Inspector - Part 1

You don't get 3,122 5-star Google Reviews by being complacent. Super Inspector is special. They have leadership that understands how to turn a vision into reality, build leaders, listen to customers and they continue to evolve even though they are the largest company in the country.

In part 1 of this amazing episode, Kevin talks with the Super Inspector leadership team about:

• Blake and Angela's origin story
• Evolving the company vision as they grow
• Handling liability and focusing on your customers over everything
• Building leaders
• How they build relationships with customers
• Super's interview process

Part 2 of this episode will drop on Monday!.

Looking for the video version? Find it on YouTube here.

You can visit Super Inspector at their website.

 

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You can‘t work ON your business and IN it at the same time - Chuck Striler

Chuck is a practical straight shooter. It's refreshing how he just seems to do what makes sense to grow his business steadily with great people.

We talk about hiring family and friends, social media, letting go and more!

You can hit Chuck up at his website.

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Being scrappy in a small town - Alicia Leiviska

Alicia doesn't believe in barriers to success. She was a house cleaner. She lives in a tiny town. She has 3 kids. She wasn't part of the good ole boys club. Doesn't matter - she has created a successful business and has plans to keep going. This was such an enjoyable conversation because Alicia knows her stuff. She knows what it takes to succeed and she's doing it.

You can find Alicia at her website

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Mini Episode #2 - Letting go to grow

In this mini episode Kevin talks about the 4 step approach he and other home inspectors take to let goooo to grow!

Leave a comment if you like the short format mini episodes sprinkled in between the regular interviews!

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