 So we're gonna talk about see people always ask what is your day like Tom owning a business and we'll start with Corey's here Because you guys are going to do a camera job over at a company way down in luna pier Yeah, it's not an hour. Well you drive slow. He actually does. He's not he doesn't speed at all You're Steve first. Yeah, so we're loading up the truck for that job We're gonna do a video because we're gonna now that the summer is here We're gonna have Corey clean his truck out and we'll do We'll do a video right now with things may fall a little bit if you open this door But we'll do a video of what's in our truck someone asked about all the cabling equipment and everything else I would love to go down there and film it but like Corey said, it's about a 45 minute drive And I actually have a lot of other work to do So other things that I do when I come in well, I was actually already here I just am greeting I usually get here early and then I greet all these guys here And I complain when you're late, I generally post a meme If you could start here at 10 a.m. That would be great or whatever time you're supposed to be here Cory was here on time today. So well, I was here early. So I don't have to say anything about that Marv is over there Marv are talking about what it's like to work here in a typical day This is not a typical day. Oh Marvin has his badge on I was I was at a chamber event this morning with puppies There was puppies. Yeah, that's the important part to think about here big big white fluffy guy It was some kind of poodle something. He's so cute his name was brand I want to something And this is what reason we like the chamber sometimes they have a vet where puppies are the steve's going hold on. I don't hate by the way We're installing, you know, we had gotten this and I had made some tweets about this what we got We bought a bunch of Cameras from you. I mean we got all together. We bought like 50 of them in the last week or so But this particular plus 14 and 29 and yeah, so we bought quite a few of them And that's what's going in for the dynamic job and in the studio I haven't been able to do videos last few days because we've been so busy I did an interview this morning. That's gonna be part of a new podcast. It's coming up I can't tell you the details. You won't find out for another week and then I'll be promoting it Then you'll find out. So we have these projects in here These are the next batch of them getting programmed for another one. We sold this table has been covered last night How many speakers did you have set up in here? 16 plus another eight. We were like Yeah, we were like 24 speakers. So all the speakers were in here And if you want the speakers are for that big job that we talked about the project called revved up fun Um that project that I done a couple videos on we're on the man lifts There's we're also doing all the speakers because if you can pull the cable for cat Uh cat network cable you can go ahead and pull all the speaker where at the same time So we did matter of fact we were doing the amplifiers and everything We're already got rack mounted amps. So this that project is actually going a little bit beyond the scope of what you may expect from Normal it but it's something else that we do So coordinating all that project and then finding out that the speaker was damaged. Good news is For four but the best news is the client changed the scope You know as we've talked about that happens and we don't need them so we can send them back So it doesn't even matter so that's there But this is also inhibiting me from doing some of the videos because I can't do much with this table right now I've been trying to eat I made some food and it's getting cold because all these other things keep popping up And the other problem we have is let me go over here Is all these boxes are everywhere now all this is staging for projects and All these are the mounts racks and everything that we stage here. We set everything up We build like the if you've seen my little photo from the Uh video we call the spider unified camera setup We stage everything set it up build it break it back down and do it that we Once we go in and mount them we never worry about will they work everything's been pretested preconfigured And to the point of even labeled ahead of time of where it goes with naming and everything That makes it really simple. Uh mara's been doing a sales thing and that's kind of why we're busy So he goes out and does all the sales and confirms that Somewhere in between a couple things got missed. I won't lie that happens And we're missing these little uh knob adapters So we got to sort that out. Those are things that sometimes roll uphill of oops. I forgot something So that's been going on. Uh the other things I did was we ported over our phone number We're gonna talk about that on vlog Thursday because now the full Thing is set up and my favorite part of the day though is the fact that the back doors open Because we've been letting the breeze flow through and it also goes back to what I was eating It turns out when you cook cabbage, uh the staff gets upset because they're like tom you're eating healthy But it stinks. So they thought that there was a sewer leak. Is that what that was? Is it? Yes, that was cabbage. It was still residual. I was like what is going on in here? That's terrible. Yeah, so this is kind of what a day looks like. I get up a lot I don't always get a chance to do my computer. I run around do this to the interview I got more phone calls to make us interrupts I come in and interrupt them a lot because I come out of my office and it's usually because I go Hey, did this get done that get done did this get done Uh, there's something to be said as much as I am a techie guy For still that human interaction level of aggravating Marvin. I mean, I could just send him a message So good at it. It's not near the satisfaction I'm coming over here and saying Marvin let's talk about that project So that's all right. I'm sure I do my fair amount of annoying tom as well with hey, remember how you were supposed to do that thing You didn't do that thing. We're not going to talk about that thing that tom probably didn't do Yeah, so now because I'm losing steve and cori to that onsite job. It's going to be me Kyle and marve here We got another guy come in any afternoon. So help sort this out. Oh, oh no, you know, we have another guy Most of the time we have another guy most of the time. I don't keep track of these things These guys because I I have to put layers in between or everything if I get involved in everything I'm an anti micromanager. So I was like that's why I didn't even know that guy was not coming in today I don't even do the payroll here by case anyone's wondering. I don't because I would screw it up I really love like two weeks ago What do I pay you? I don't know. Let me find out I had to ask that because I didn't I don't look I outsource all my accounting and I set the rates So I'm like, I think you need to raise because he's been doing really good with all this web work and everything Which is what he's doing right now. And uh, so I say you need to raise But I don't know how much I pay you and I and I feel like calling my accountant. So I just asked him No, he gets a raise People think too seriously about business. I mean, we are a Functioning working normally less chaotic company who's been in business for 15 years. We're doing well Finances are pretty good. And uh, but there's still things like people. I loved it. I think the most real Business talk I've seen sometimes has been from, uh, Sir Richard Branson read his books by the way if you haven't very entertaining and uh, light hard to look at business But related to that one of the things he said was he always gets mixed up at the difference between net and gross profits He said that in an interview and I'm gonna start laughing. He's like, but I'm serious I'm dyslexic and he's joking around about it too. He says it makes for interesting board meetings And that's one of those things that being a business owner isn't about like, oh Do you know exactly how many dollars and pennies right in your bank account each little detail? Those are actually not the details that matters much It matters that I make sure everyone has stuff to do make sure there's processes that are documented everyone's supposed to follow Um, and that's kind of how the mix-up happened Someone was out of parts on something and that's when I have to as a business owner stop and look at the process going Okay, they were out a red mark was made in an order sheet for the job But somehow the next step didn't happen Usually it does but apparently everyone's out of them and this is actually part of what happened with some of the unified cameras If you don't know, uh, they're in demand. We actually have people calling us for them We don't sell them directly but they wanted to buy our inventory because So many places were out of stock on a couple of different things unified makes some great stuff We really like their product and I think other people seem to like it as well Which is why it's so didn't man So I just wanted to give you a little walk through because I was like just This is all the stuff that kind of goes on sometimes It's not always chaos, but in the morning getting all the jobs ready making sure everything and it's just me Making sure the big picture stuff. I don't want to know the details. I want to know big picture What day is that job getting delivered? Is there anything else we need to change about it? Make sure you know processes were followed and then I look at it as a process not as a well someone in order part No, what process can we put in place to make that park it ordered? That's the Business process thinking that you do But that's a lot of what my job is here because I do some of the sales But marvin does a lot more of the sales to me. So he's going to the networking events He's going to that but if you are the salesperson and not the geek I'm much more the geek than the sales guy Then you would be the one as a business owner, which is frequently true They're the ones that may go to the sales meetings all depends on process But marvin once again has a process That I gave him to follow in terms of you know get the sales get the clients An enlightening moment for the business owner is when I asked kyle and steve yesterday. I'm like That plumbing company where'd they come from? It seems like oh, yeah, they're onboarded managed and everything I'm like cool. I met them on facebook. They said we'd like to have managed services I passed it off to the team and then just showed up in a dashboard like they're onboarded There have been envoys they're got recurring invoices like everything's done And I did nothing more than call that person and like they said they want managed services That's process though. That's what that's the important thing to focus on as a business owner Processes and look for gaps in those processes or if things keep rolling up to you That's when you know there's a gap and you have to rethink the process again To make it work But that's what I wanted to share with you that is a little bit of my day and a little bit of the chaos That I have this isn't a morning It kind of calms down and trends down on the afternoon I did manage because I got here so early today. A lot of times my day starts here at the office at about 6 30 am Yeah, I got a few other things done But the uh, I'll get a video done or something like that But then this is this is what everyone gets here. So I just grabbed the camera I'm I'll share with you guys a little bit of actually what goes on. All right. 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