Stop Letting Marketing Companies Rob You Blind

Stop Letting Marketing Companies Rob You Blind

June 22, 2026 · 1h 5m · Episode 1136

About this episode

Tom Reber and Josh Osborne discuss the pitfalls contractors face with marketing agencies and the importance of ownership and resilience in business.

Join us in Colorado: https://go.thecontractorfight.com/forge Contractors don’t just get screwed by bad marketing agencies. They get screwed because they hand over money, stop asking questions, ignore their numbers, and hope some “expert” is going to save their business. In this episode, Tom Reber sits down with Josh Osborne for a raw conversation about contractor marketing, business ownership, resilience, and why so many contractors keep getting bled dry by people who don’t understand the trades. Josh is Tom’s partner at No Excuses Media , and together they break down what contractors need to stop doing if they want their marketing to actually work. They talk about the mistakes contractors make when hiring marketing help, why your message matters more than your tactics, and why no lead source in the world can fix weak leadership and a victim mindset. Tom and Josh also dig into Josh’s backstory...getting given up for adoption at 12, building a multi-million-dollar business, suffering a heart attack at 28, losing everything, and rebuilding his life and business from the ground up. This one is about marketing, but it’s also about ownership. About getting punched in the face and…

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