What I did with Home Depot! Check this out. #homedepot #shorts #businesstips #content #advice

3 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue (by Mark Evans DM) recounting an 11-year practice of tightly controlling contractor purchases at Home Depot/Lowe's to prevent unnecessary charges (e.g., snacks, personal tools). The speaker describes micromanaging contractors—requiring calls and approval before orders—and reflects that obsessing over petty charges distracted from production. Central point: opportunities exist, but people fail to change their conversations and management approach.

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I did this for 11 years. I used to call Home Depot when my project guy, I wouldn't give him my credit card, and I wouldn't set up a file at that Home Depot or Lowe's, wherever. And I'd make sure they had to call me because I was micromanaging contractors. They had to call me, and I had to approve the IO to get the order out the door. And my first questions were always, hey, Nancy, how you doing? Do they have any monster energy drinks? And do they have any beef jerky in their bag? Because I'm not paying for it. And, oh, by the way, do they have any tools? Cause they're only there to pick up material. Only. Well, they have a flashlight. That's $12. They have two bags of beef jerky, $7.50 a piece. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now I'm fighting about that stuff. Now, my production is not about producing results for what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm fighting the contractor. And I was feeding the wrong thing. This is a true story, guys. This is real. Your problem is not that these opportunities don't exist. It's. Your problem is you're not changing. You're not changing your conversations.