{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Successful Contractor Podcast","title":"\"I Was Done.\" How a Burned-Out Electrician Built a $5M Company in 3 Years","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3328,"description":"- Book a free Discovery Call to see how we can help you hit your goals and beyond: https://bit.ly/3TvGiNW or call us at: (214)-453-1591- Grab our FREE resource: The Foundation Series, Real strategies to build a business that runs (and grows) without chaos: https://bit.ly/3Yqzow5- CertainPath Members: For more information on Sean Mitchell’s RevenueAscent Program, log into your member-exclusive HUB website: https://hub.mycertainpath.com/hub/resources/make-execution-consistent-with-the-revenueascent-program-featuring-sean-mitchell----------------------------------------------------------------He started his electrical company as an apprentice in 2003. No business plan. No connections. Just desperation and a willingness to do anything to eat. Two decades later, Brevik Tharaldsen had seven trucks, but he was still doing everything—bidding, invoicing, running calls—and it was destroying him.Then a kids’ wrestling coach changed everything. That coach turned out to be a general manager for another home service company. A year later, Rob joined Norske Electric as GM—and the first thing they did was sign up for CertainPath and ServiceTitan. On the same day. Everything Brevik knew in 20 years went out the window.In this episode of The Successful Contractor, Brevik Tharaldsen of Norske Electric in the greater Minneapolis area shares how he went from $2 million to targeting $5 million in just three years—while nearly doubling his bottom line from 12-14% to a consistent 25-26%.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:•      How Brevik started his electrical company as an apprentice in 2003—handing out flyers and taking any job he could get•      Why a kids’ wrestling coach turned out to be the most important hire he ever made•      How launching CertainPath and ServiceTitan on the same day forced a total business rewrite—“Sleepless nights with two laptops doing data entry”•      The mission shift from “customers first” to “employees first”—and why great electricians matter more than...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WCyJ3ptH0xXEDqC4S1LIZ73tPiK25vJcQICelfBZHPQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MzJh/ZGUzYzE3OTNiM2Nj/YTllNDRjYmY2NWIy/NjY2OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}