
Tommy Mello shares his journey of transforming a college side hustle into a $200M home service business using data-driven strategies.
Tommy Mello took a college side hustle painting garage doors and turned it into A1 Garage—a home service behemoth on track to generate over $260 million in revenue this year. But he didn't do it by acting like a traditional tradesman. He did it by running his blue-collar business with the data-driven precision of a Silicon Valley tech giant. In this episode, Tommy sits down with Ryan Atkinson to reveal the aggressive scaling playbook that took him from a broke college kid driving a salvage-title truck to leading a company marching toward a $1.4 billion valuation. Tommy breaks down his obsession with marketing and data, including the exact four KPIs he uses to buy, fix, and scale any service business on the planet. Whether you want to dominate your local market or expand across 22 states, Tommy shares exactly how to build a bulletproof brand, why you should give equity to your technicians, and the networking secret that allowed him to walk into $100M+ shops and copy their exact blueprints for success. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: The 4 Golden KPIs: The exact four metrics (Booking Rate, Door Conversion Rate, Average Ticket, and Cost Per Acquisition) Tommy uses to guarantee…
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