Effective and Simple Marketing Ideas to Use in your Remodeling Business with Kyle Hunt of Remodel your Marketing

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Effective and Simple Marketing Ideas to Use in
Your Remodeling Business with Kyle Hunt of
Remodel Your Marketing
Ron: Good Afternoon!
Welcome to the PME360: Powering Business Growth Show, where each session we discuss proven
ways with our industry experts to help your remodeling and small business grow.
Our guests have proven themselves within their niches and are leaders in their space. Listen in as our
experts provide practical tips that you can immediately apply to help empower growth to your small
to mid-sized remodeling business.
I’m your host, Ron Rodi, Jr.
Joining me today is the great Ryan Paul Adams. As the founder and CEO of PME360, Ryan and his
team help power growth online for small to mid-sized businesses, but with focus and emphasis on the
home remodeling space.
PME360 provides effective and affordable software and complete systems that power growth quickly
for businesses. Ryan has developed companies online and offline and has helped generate millions of
revenues for local businesses for the past 8 years.
Entrepreneur, author, founder of PME360 and founder of RyanPaulAdams.com, Ryan Paul Adams.
Ryan, good afternoon!
Ryan: Hey Ron, wow! Nice intro. It’s a lot to live up to there.
Ron: And we are equally as excited to have on with us today, the founder of Remodel Your Marketing,
Kyle Hunt.
Kyle works exclusively with remodelers to implement his proven, practical and effective marketing
and sales systems. It’s easy for business owners to feel stuck, lose their passion for business, to wear
too many hats that simply don’t fit, and to lose sleep simply because they can’t figure out how every
thing done. Sometimes, they can’t figure how to get any thing done.
Kyle has helped remodeling business owners get out of that pain by installing proven marketing and
sales systems into their businesses so they can build a profitable and thriving business that they
deserve. Founder of Remodel Your Marketing, help me welcome today Mr. Kyle Hunt.
Kyle, good afternoon!
Kyle: Good afternoon!
Ron: Really appreciate you jumping into our podcast here. Excited to have you. Can you tell us a little
bit about Remodel Your Marketing and a little bit about yourself?
Kyle: So, 5 or 6 years ago, I said to my wife Sara, “Honey, you’re a stay at home mom, we got one kid
here and another one on the way, it’s a crappy economy we have here in Michigan, and not a lot of

money in the bank to fall back on, but I want to quit this nice job that I have in this remodeling
company and start my own business.”
And of course, what does she say about it?
Ron: “You’re crazy?”
Kyle: Basically it was that. But she warmed up to the idea. Like I said awhile ago, it was 5 or 6 years
ago that I pulled the trigger to start my own business. The reason I did that was I saw a great need out
there in the remodeling world for proven, practical, simple and effective marketing.
The whole e-myth where the business is started by somebody who knows how to do something but
doesn’t necessarily know how to run the business. I think that’s especially the case: don’t know how
to market that business.
I was working for a small remodeling company in Southeast Michigan and had a good success in
improving their sales and marketing, running their showroom. Their bath and kitchen designers can’t
get hold of the financial side and couldn’t understand any of that. And I didn’t look back since.
Ron: Fantastic! At what point did you have that AHA! moment?
Kyle: It was partly I was seeking it. I’ve always been dabbling with businesses on the side. And as my
side business of helping different companies with some marketing, some basic website-related stuff
(not the type of stuff that Ryan does).
I kind of look at it from a life standpoint. My family had started to grow, I have four kids now. I kind of
needed to make a decision of do I want to hang my own shingle out?
That was part of it. I was really wanting to start my own business. When I was just looking around,
getting to know even if it wasn’t remodelers – CPA, financial planners, accounting firms and all kinds
of different business, it was so evident that marketing is something they know as important but they
don’t get to do. It’s very confusing to them.
I actually started as a duct tape marketing coach, a disciple of John Jantsch. When I started my
business, I actually became a duct tape marketing coach and I got a good training from John. I did that
for a few years before officially being Kyle Hunt, Remodeling Your Marketing.
That was the kind of the core for me.
The AHA! moment was I really wrapped my head around what does an effective simple practical
marketing system looked like. I was able to implement it. And there were a lot of businesses which
needed it. And I had a strong desire to be an entrepreneur. So, let’s go.
Ron: I know about what Ryan and I have talked about is leading with sales and marketing and
everything else will fall into place.
A lot of times what we see is that these business owners, particularly, the remodeling space, are really
concerned about their production.
And I know Ryan, you can speak for this. They look pass the fact that OK, it is not you’ll build it and
they’ll come.
It’s really, we’ve got to get these people to come first and then we can go ahead and build it.

And having that sales process is ultra important. I know we’re going to talk a little bit about that Kyle.
Looking at your website remodelyourmarketing.com, I know that you guys solve marketing and sales
problems for remodelers.
Take us through some sales problems that you see and how remodelyourmarketing.com can help and
how you can help as well.
Kyle: What I see so often is that remodelers being so focused on the production side and quite
frankly, it’s good.
They need to be focused on the production side and delivering a great service. The core even before
we get into the sales process, fine tune our marketing.
Marketing and sales get a whole lot easier if you are giving your client a remarkable experience. A lot
of times, it gets overlooked. Some times, I look at remodeling companies, “Man! We’ve tried this,
we’ve tried that. We’ve done this, we’ve done that. Nothing seems to be working!”
And when I dig into the service that they’re providing, do they show up on time? Does the price they
quoted is exactly what it is at the end of the project? Are they getting things done on schedule, and
on budget? Are they friendly? Are they fun to work with?
Remodeling is a different animal. We are invading these people’s personal space, their sanctuary,
their homes.
At the core of a good and effective remodeling business is giving that client a remarkable experience.
It gets a little easier on the sales and marketing side if that’s happening.
It’s the first thing you need to look at as a remodeling business owner is “Am I giving a remarkable
experience?”
And I don’t know if you guys see that and talk about that a lot. But that’s a huge focus of what I’m
talking about, even before I talk about websites and sales techniques – that’s got to be there.
Ron: And I know that Ryan’s talked about it a lot, that often, homeowners are pretty much scared to
death, right? To hire a remodeling contractor because they heard so many awful horror stories or
experiences. So can you put that notion aside and can you deliver a great product and a great
experience?
Not only that, can you position yourself as a provider of that awesome experience, as a leader in your
market space, can you leverage that expertise?
And I know Ryan, on RyanPaulAdams.com, we’ve talked a lot about that and how that goes hand in
hand.
Ryan: A couple of things I’ve learned early on, I was obsessed with what Kyle was saying about really
providing just this crazy, awesome experience for the client. Because you’re right, it’s invasive. You’re
going into a home, you’re ripping it apart.
There are a lot of things that if you don’t understand the mentality of the client in providing a great
experience, you’re going to fail.
But the mistake that I made is I got too wrapped up in getting that right and I completely ignored
really the only purpose of the business, which is marketing and innovation.

And the great Peter Drucker quote, I’m like hung up on it right now, because everything that I do now
moving forward, and everything I’m looking at with the businesses I’m helping out, I’m looking at that
quote.
It goes, “Because it’s purpose is to create customers, the business has two and only two functions:
marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results, all the rest are costs.”
So getting that mentality into the remodeling industry has been a challenge because traditionally,
remodelers are technicians. And that’s how they got started. They really want to focus on the
production and then they never quite get out of that mode because it’s so heavily focused.
And I’m not saying you can ignore that because you can’t. But you really can’t build a business out of
it. You’ve probably come into the same idea.
Kyle: For years, I think the downturn from 2008 or 2009 – or whenever it started, for years and years,
a lot of remodelers and some of those listening to this probably just survived fine-and-dandy, thank-
you-very-much with referrals from clients.
I think what we’ve seen, as we continue in this downturn and as we continue in this cycle is that, that
alone will not sustain your business. We need new avenues and ways to generate business. And
here’s where the marketing comes along.
So that base of that customer experience being so pivotal. In the next stage, what is marketing? I
mean the definition of marketing if I ask each of you, if I ask five other marketing experts, five
remodelers even, I bet I’ll have 10 to 12 different definitions.
The way I define it is simply like this. And this a John Jantsch definition of duct tape marketing:
Getting someone who has a need to know, like and trust you.
I’ve never seen anything more appropriate for a definition. I’ve never seen anything more simple for a
definition.
It’s all about building trust. So that starts right on the first phone call. We need to, we’re talking
about our sales process, if you are pulling out a blank sheet of paper the new call comes in, you’re not
doing it right.
“Kyle, I’ve been doing this for years. I’ll ask the questions. I’ll get the info I need.”
But, did you get their email address so you can send them a follow up email that has the cost versus
value report that has what they could expect on their first meeting document, that links them to your
website in your homepage.
“Oh no! I forgot the email address.”
Kyle: Ok! So we need a system. It could just be a simple project discovery sheet that asks a lot of
those questions, that you’re going to do consistently.
This marketing system and this sales system. It starts on the initial phone call. Every part of your
marketing needs to be systematic or else it’s not going to get done. That’s a huge part of that too.
Ryan: Say that one more time so it sticks in the minds of everybody.
Kyle: Which part of it? It was all brilliant.

Ryan: Exactly. It’s all brilliant! It’s all about creating that system like what you said, even having that
one piece of paper for everything that you’re going to do, that’s going along this line. It needs to be
written down and it needs to be consistent.
Because the goal is, as the business owner, you shouldn’t be the one doing all this forever.
Kyle: Everybody desires that. Very few remodelers that I talk to, when I say, “Do you want to be more
systematic and consistent with what you’re doing?”
They’d say, “Absolutely!”
Whether it’s the production side, the marketing side, whatever the case is.
But where they get caught up is actually at implementing that.
That’s a huge thing I’m always talking about. We could talk on this, specifically on ideas. We could
probably come up with 50 wham-bam, sweet marketing ideas for the remodeling business but that’s
not very helpful for the average remodeler.
Something I’m always talking about, I think for the average remodeler who’s listening to this – you
don’t lack marketing ideas. From the remodeling magazines (Remodeling Advantage, Professional
This), 18 different Linkd-in groups, Remodeler Show in Chicago and I’m going to speak in IBS in
January.
There are all kinds of people you can talk to. If you got my email address, if you got Ryan’s email
address, there are all kinds of different ideas flying through.
We do not lack ideas. What we lack is prioritizing, figuring out what’s most important. Making sure
that we’re not working on something that’s not going to produce when there’s something even more
important sitting in front of you.
And secondly, implementing it. I see so often a dozen half-implemented ideas versus one fully
implemented idea. And the one idea just kicks, blows the other ones out the water.
Making sure that whatever idea, whatever you feel is the best, whatever you know is the best, you
need to focus on. Seeing it through completion.
That’s what separates the top 10% of remodelers I see out there, that I work with, that I get to know
from the bottom 90%. They get things done.
The encouraging thing is, there’s no silver bullet, there’s no a magic marketing ball. It’s about running
a successful remodeling business. It’s about doing a lot of little things right.
Ryan: Beautiful! You got it.
Ron: What we run to a lot is that the intention is often there. But a lot of times, these guys can’t – I
mean, the industry as a whole, the business owners as a whole, it’s hard to get out of the way.
Because you get so caught up. Maybe I’m going to turn this into a question, Kyle and Ryan, what is the
answer to:
“Look, I just don’t have the time to put this together.”

Kyle: Here’s my question to answer your question, “How much time don’t you have?
You know when somebody says I don’t have the time to do this, I don’t have the time to do that –
well, how much time do you have?
Because I think the bigger problem is and I see this consistently is, if a remodeler says, I don’t have
enough time, here’s 8 hours – totally uninterrupted!
Come into this imaginary world with me for a second, 8 hours of uninterrupted time. You focus on
your marketing and sales efforts. What are you going to do? The answer that usually comes back is
“I’ve never really thought about that. I don’t know what I should do first. I don’t know what’s most
important.”
Everybody’s so overwhelmed with ideas and things they perceived and maybe they need to do that
they just reverts to that “I just don’t have any time.”
And the reason they’ve got no time is that they’re overwhelmed. They can either find the time, they
can hire an intern to help them, they can hire somebody like myself, they can hire somebody like
Ryan.
There are all kinds of solutions to this perceived time issue.
Ron: I think often the answer is what is the cost of not doing it. If you continue to do it the way you’ve
been doing it, if you continue not to make time, what is the cost of not doing it? What is the cost of
doing it the wrong way?
Kyle: Ryan, what are your thoughts on it?
Ryan: I think there are just so many great resources out there to help small businesses get marketing
done. And get it done properly, more effectively than what you can do.
Even hiring one person. Because a lot of these things that need to get done in marketing are typically
pretty specialized.
And yeah, you can get good at a couple of them. But you can never be great at all of them. So
building that core team around very specific roles. So if you’re going to go out and try to do this, my
advice is to really look at, okay a web designer is not also a marketer or a direct mail person isn’t also
going to specialize in social media.
So whatever you are trying to implement for a tactic, your really have to look at building a team of
specialists that can do certain things.
I just find that when you do that, the results are magnified even more.
Kyle: No doubt. And frankly, before you get into the tactical side, you know – what should I do, should
I be advertize here or in Google ad or this website, this and that, make sure that you can answer these
questions to me very clearly,
Who is in your done proposal for, haven’t signed bucket?
Who are the people you’ve done proposal for in the last 6 months that haven’t signed with you. Can
you very quickly and easily tell me who those people are? And if so, who should you be following up
with?

Can you tell me how many leads you’ve generated this year? Your closing percentage? Which leads
have you generated are you closing at the best percentage? How many leads you did generate from
your website?
You guys have heard this a thousand times, everybody listening to me have heard this a thousand
times. I would say probably about 5% of remodelers can actually produce that info for me.
But as we all know, 63% of all statistics are made up.
Ryan: Yeah, it’s true.
Kyle: It gets down to the fundamentals. Every marketing dollar that we spend needs to be
accountable.
Unless you have a million bucks.
Ron: And we’re spending money to drive leads to our websites. We’re spending money on
advertising. We’re spending money on marketing, we’re spending on trade shows. The leads you that
have, you’re paying for those.
So you can go out, develop a process to close more of them, to nurture them more appropriately, to
pay more attention to your process, to have a better follow-up mechanism, to be able to go into that
bucket of proposals that you thought were dead.
Listen, 3 phone calls and 3 emails don’t work anymore. Do you have a system to send out a clean,
professional looking folder?
“Thank you for allowing us to bid on the restructure or whatever it is of your home. This is a little bit
more about our company.”
I think having a consistent process there rather than saying, “We’ve got a lead. They don’t want to do
it, so on to the next one.”
That one call close is dead. That’s not there.
But hey if you can do that, then I want to hire you.
Ryan: One of the things that absolutely blows me away with, most businesses do this or are guilty of
this is that you’ll take the time to do that consultation and then you’ll invest a week into doing an
estimate – a free estimate for them without asking for anything which to me is insane but a lot of
people still do it.
And the one phone call or one email is all that you’re going to put into it to follow up. That’s insanity!
That’s crazy!
I couldn’t eat. I can’t even imagine putting that much effort into something and I did it for years. And I
completely looked back and just wanted to kick myself in the face.
Ron: Well, that’s because everyone gets caught up in I have got to get the proposal and I’ve got an
opportunity for business when you’re not kind of seeing the forest through the trees.
So take the 6 hours that you worked on the estimate, cut that in half and take those hours to put
together a nice piece of literature or collateral that you can send out or do other productive things
that can follow up on that prospect.

Ryan: Or doing something that’s even more innovative, like Kyle we’ve seen a post of you, of a kick
ball. Perfect! I don’t know if that strategy worked.
Kyle: Yeah it works.
Ryan: Sending something 3-dimensional is a little bit more in your face and it just shows them that
you care, that you are innovative. Grab their attention. And just sending something as a letter, send
something bigger, send something more.
Kyle: So, I’ll hit on something that relates to the sales process that you’re touching on.
The first one is qualifying. You are qualifying a lead. If we talk about having a system – phone call, to
be asking questions, I see a direct correlation between people that say, “I’m always competing on
price, I’m always competing on price.”
That’s all they care about and when I ask the question, “How long do you spend on the initial phone
call with a prospect?”
I usually hear, “A couple of minutes. I get their info, set an appointment and we’re good to go.”
There’s a direct correlation with that. And I hear a lot of remodelers who say, “I don’t compete on
price. I find my clients. I work with my ideal clients.”
And I ask them how much time they spend on the initial phone call and they’d say 20 to 30 minutes.
The first thing I say is, “What? What are you doing in 20 to 30 minutes?”
And sometimes I get a remodeler and I say, “You’re not allowed to hang up the phone until it’s been
at least 10 minutes. Just to try to force them to think of things to talk about. But there are all kinds of
things to talk about especially if you set the expectation that hey do you have 10 to 15 minutes? I
really want to get to know you and your project.”
Get into things like asking them what they’re looking to invest in the project. You can do that. It’s
okay to do that. It’s not for your benefit so you can spend up to the penny but it’s to help them
understand if they’re in the ballpark.
Help them. Educate them on budget. So there’s a whole lot about qualifying that we need to be doing
during our sales process. That’s not necessarily too innovative but it’s rarely done.
Secondly, you hit on doing estimates for free. It’s such a divided subject in our industry – this whole
idea of doing some type of a retainer. Whether it’s a designer retainer or just a fee for all the energy,
time and effort we put into a putting a proposal together.
You don’t have the time to chase leads that are not going to turn into clients. Your most valuable
asset as a remodeling business owner is your time.
And like what you said, if you are spending time, if you are wasting 6 hours chasing a bid, these are 6
hours you’re not getting back.
You can! There’s a lot of your peers, the top 10% in our industry do this in some form or fashion.
There are a lot of ways to skin it.
Charge some type of a designer retainer. Get them to get some type of skin in the game – even if it’s a
$100. I don’t care what it is.

I have some clients charging $2000 and other clients charge $200 for it. Just try some type of
designer retainer.
And then, thirdly, that you’ve mentioned Ryan is lumpy mails.
What I call it is sending something in the mail to interrupt. The example you’ve given is sending a ball
in the mail.
And the ball says, “Had a ball!”
It’s one of the kick balls that kids play with. And in that case, the prospect had a couple of kids.
Literally, it’s get mailed. Just sitting out there, the address and everything. And the stamp put in the
outside of it.
It that doesn’t make them chuckle, if it doesn’t make them think that these guys have a sense of
humor and carries a good message too, then that’s not your client anyway, if somebody’s not going to
have a little fun in that.
It’s okay to have a little fun in your marketing.
Ryan: It doesn’t have to be so serious for sure.
Ron: That’s very true.
And one of the things you’re going back to Kyle is that first step, that qualifier.
It’s spending 20 to 30 minutes to really, it’s not that you’re talking about your business, you’re talking
about your prospect. What it is they want?
Get into the emotional reasons behind it. You’re redoing the kitchen and it’s okay to ask, “Hey what’s
going on that’s caused you to do this?”
Maybe it’s the wife that doesn’t like the kitchen. Maybe they’re getting ready to sell their house.
There are always reasons behind it. And that conversation is not about the business owner, it’s about
the prospect. And you really have to state that.
As you’ve mentioned, “Do you have 15 minutes, we’d really like to go through. We really want to find
out more about what it is you’re looking to do. Can you tell me a little bit more why it is you want to
do what you want to do?”
Kyle: It’s not rocket science. It’s actually very practical. But at the same time, it takes practice.
A lot of times, the reason that remodelers do not ask about what people are looking to invest in the
project, whether you call it target investment or whatever. The reason they don’t bring that up is,
Ron: They’re scared.
Kyle: Exactly!
They’re scared about it. They’re afraid.
Just do a little bit of practice. I don’t call it role playing as everybody hates role playing.
I call it batting practice. Even the best hitter in the game, and his name is what?

Ron: Miguel Cabrera.
Kyle: Thank you!
Yes, Miguel Cabrera is the best hitter in baseball.
Even Miguel takes batting practice everyday. So who are we as salespeople, as business owners to
think that we don’t need to practice?
With a little bit of practice you can get really good at that initial conversation. It will feel a little bit
more comfortable with you. That’s what growth looks like. That’s what becoming a better business
owner, a better sales person looks like.
And it does take some work but it’s not earth shattering stuff.
My wife likes to kid around with me and I remember quite specifically. It was a while ago that she did
this. She was asking me how my day was because she was being nice. And I told her that I was dealing
with this client or that client.
And her response was, “Man you just do really practical, really simple, common sense type stuff.”
And some people might say it’s kind of rude of her to say that buy hey it’s what I do. Because, that’s
what this stuff is – it’s common sense, it’s practical. You’ve heard the ideas before. It’s about
implementing them. It’s about prioritizing what ones to do first.
Ryan: I have a question. Do you find that you can help people who don’t have a burning desire to
succeed?
Do you feel like you can still give them the tools and they can still be successful if they don’t have that
fire in their belly?
Kyle: It’s tougher, right? I practice what I preach as well. Similar to remodeling business owners
where you started out, you probably took pretty much anything and everything that came along and
as you mature as a business owner, you start to be selective of the type of clients you’re talking to.
Usually, at this point for me anyway and specifically for my business, those people don’t call me.
In the first place, if they’re calling me, they have some type of desire to fix something.
At the same time, if they’re calling me and say, “I need you to fix this. I don’t have the time to fix it
but I need you to fix it.”
It won’t work wither because if you’re not invested in learning this and working alongside it, and
trying to improve yourself, it’s tough.
It’s definitely tough if you don’t have that burning desire to get this stuff done.
Ryan: Yeah, I think you hit it on the head, too. These business owners really have to get good at
delegating versus abdicating. Really, two different things.
I think a lot of business owners don’t understand that core difference.

Ron: I think there’s a huge resistance to change – within certain industries especially those who have
been around 25 to 35 years or longer. There’s definitely that resistance to change.
But I think, those who are listening to this realize that it’s really not that complex like you’ve
mentioned Kyle. It’s not that, you are not moving mountains here. It’s practical like what you said. I
like that.
Kyle: That’s encouraging, right? It’s encouraging to know that. And that’s a fact.
I mean Ryan, the stuff that you guys do when you get into the search engine optimization and some
of the more technologically-focused and complex stuff. Yeah, that’s getting complex.
But that’s where, when you talk about delegating versus trying to do it by yourself. There are things
you delegate and there are things you can handle in-house.
You’re talking about delegating and this morning I was talking to one of my clients up here in
Michigan. The lady that runs the business, she has 2 to 3 other people and she’s a go, go, go.
She’s like, “Oh yeah! I’ll do that. I’ll do that. I’ll do that.”
And about the third time she said “I’ll do that”, I said, “I don’t want you doing any of the things you
said you want to be doing. We are delegating that to Jen. We are delegating that to Roger. We are
delegating that to Carol. You are not going to do any of those. I don’t want you to do any of those.”
But as entrepreneurs, so often we want to do, do, do – when all you need to have is a team around
you. There is a lot of things, as practical as it is, the reason a lot of this isn’t done is because we don’t
know how to delegate or we don’t have the right help or legitimately, there is a time reason.
Ryan: Lay the direction. What we should be doing is taking more time as a business owner to then
find, okay this isn’t my role. This isn’t my job to do this.
Let me lay the strategy or jot down a few things about what I want done. And we should be looking
for people – outsourcers, employees, other people to get this stuff done and managing the process
versus doing everything.
I just find a lot of remodeling businesses to get so caught up with I have to do this, I have to do that.
You don’t! You really don’t!
I mean, we’re here. Great people like you out there who can help and there are a lot of resources out
there that can help.
Ron: Kyle, tell us. It sounds like you are a pretty motivated person. It’s enjoyable having a
conversation with you. You are uplifting. You are definitely enthusiastic. It sounds like you really want
your clients to succeed. What is it that gets you going every day?
Kyle: I like what I do. And I think you are hearing that. What you’re hearing is pretty authentic. If I
wasn’t enjoying what I do, I’d probably not be talking nearly as passionately about it.
And I got four kids and a stay at home wife – that gets me up and going every morning, to make sure
I’m producing and taking care of things.
But from the client’s standpoint, when I’m in my right frame of mind and thinking about my business,
I think as a business owner, we worry about a revenue every month.

Like, do I have enough for this, enough for that. When I’m clicking, I’m not really worried about that.
When I’m focused and thinking about my clients, I’m always clicked up when I see a remodeling
company that used to do it this way, we worked on it, they implemented this.
And they pick up the phone or they send me an email, “Kyle, I did this and here’s what happened.”
The excitement is there. And I feed off that.
So it’s the little victories like that.
I have a new client in California or SoCal as what they call it. I think we’ve met for only a month and
he was somebody who is a perfect ideal client for me – from a size stand point and what he needed
done.
And we’ve been working on steadily improving his sales process, his approach, getting some systems
in place.
His wife was actually walking by and he talked about her a couple of times and I said, “Come here.
Come here.”
She started talking about how she’s seen a big difference in my client over the last month. And she
really likes what he’s doing. He seems so much more focused. He seems so much more energetic.
And he really seems to have a clear direction of where he is taking his business, whereas before he
was just trying everything. He was frustrated, he was stressed because he was overwhelmed with
what he needed to do.
And that, when you get down to the nitty-gritty of it, when I’m able to change the way that a husband
and wife interact if ever I’m going to go that far, to change the stress level, the clarity the business
owner has about his business. That he feels in control of his business. That’s probably the Taj Mahal
of happiness for my work and what I’m doing.
Ron: That’s awesome!
Kyle: That’s deep!
Ryan: You are improving more than just the business. You’re improving lives. We believe in the same
thing.
Kyle: It sounds so cliché right?
Ryan: it does. But it’s true. And if you didn’t believe that, you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing.
Same here, we believe that.
Ron: I’ve got impressive, outstanding, remarkable, notable, superior, distinguished.
I think distinguished is the new adjective that we’re going to use.
Ryan: The distinguished Kyle Hunt.
Kyle: My two-day stubble and my need for a haircut don’t make me look distinguished now.

Ron: Kyle, we really appreciate you coming on. Is there anything else you want to add today for some
of the people who are listening in? Any other advice that we haven’t talked about that you want to
get across?
Kyle: If I were to just repeat some of the key things, marketing – it’s simply this:
Getting anyone who has a need to know, like and trust you
.
If you are overwhelmed with ideas, pick one. Just pick one marketing thing that you’ve been wanting
to do or one sales improvement and figure out what your next step is for that.
What would be, if you wanted to implement this?
You’ve got to figure out the 18 steps or the 5 steps or how many steps that you need to get it done.
But what is the first step that you need to take – and do that.
When you make one little improvement or a little progress that starts to build, that starts to motivate
you and you see one little success and it gives you energy to go after the next.
I’d do that and I’m looking at this quote earlier. I have this quote on my desk, it’s from Jim Rohn, the
personality development guy.
He said, the best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is “Wherever you are, be
there.”
And I knew that all the time. I’m always hopping to this, hopping to that.
But it’s very true when we’re thinking about our business, about our client interactions, when we’re
thinking about our marketing or sales or whatever it is, our personal relations or anything.
Wherever you are, be there!
That’s a good business and a good marketing advice, too.
Ron: I’ve got to take that. I’ve got to listen to that personally. I have to apply that on the weekend.
Kyle: As silly as it sounds, the first time that hit me, was when I was with Piper who’s our first girl (we
have a boy, girl, boy, girl). She’s five now.
I was sitting there, giving her a bath and she’s talking to me and I was totally oblivious to the fact that
she was talking to me. My mind was thinking about work. My mind was thinking about this, my mind
was thinking about that.
And on that night, I read that quote and I was convicted! For some reason that really sit in my mind.
This was my 2-year old daughter and she’s asking me questions, “Daddy, Daddy this. Daddy, Daddy
that.”
And I’m not even in the room. I think it happens a lot of times when we’re working with clients, when
we’re working with our employees, when we’re working with our spouses, whatever the case is.
That really hits home. The best advice I came across with on the subject of concentration is
“Wherever you are, be there.”

That’s the parting shot.
Ron: The power of engagement. Kyle, how can folks get a hold of you?
Kyle: My website is remodelyourmarketing.com. My email is kyle@remodelyourmarketing.com. My
office line is (810) 225-9036. If you go on to a remodeling magazine, you’ll probably see some
blogposts and you’ll see me here and there.
But go to my website and grab a few of the free resources that I have. And that will put you on my
email list. I won’t bug you too much but I send a lot of tips and info.
It would be a good place to go and get more info.
Ron: There are some great templates on it as well.
Ryan, do you have any parting gifts?
Ryan: I’d just like to say I definitely recommend getting into Kyle’s site, reading his stuff, getting his
free resources and the emails he’s sent are awesome!
I read them every time he sends them out. It’s good stuff there!
Ron: Fantastic! Kyle and Ryan, thank you for joining us on the PME360 Powering Business Growth
Show. We look forward to future endeavors and conversations.
Kyle: Thanks for having me.
Ryan: Thank you, Kyle.

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