#10: Moving Into His In-Laws Basement To Save His Business, Creating A Team With Core Values, & How a College Dropout Co-Founded An Innovative Roofing Company w/ Mark McShurley

The Innovative Founder

How do you deal with serious business problems? We all have our own ways of coping with stress. Sometimes, we either do well during stressful situations turning the tides around, or flop and fade from the business industry. In this episode, we are joined by Mark McShurley, the Co-owner of Roofsimple. Mark discusses the significance of building credibility inside your company and how he was able to save his business when the situation was not in his favor.

For more information on Mark, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mcshurley/.

Key Takeaways:

• [07:18] Mark was a college dropout and his journey toward the sales industry
• [10:54] At the start of Mark’s entrepreneurship career, he had difficulties and experienced how hard having a business feels.
• [24:32] Mark believes that everything becomes simpler when you trust people, and when people speaks the truth.
• [26:29] If Mark wants to build a roofing company, it shouldn’t be like any other company. It could be done better and different.
• [32:20] Mark valued having one person per day and per job, and while reviews are critical, he did not place all of his concentration and attention on them.
• [26:10] Roofsimple covers everything linked to roofs, from roof repair to insurance claims on roofs; Roofsimple got it all.
• [45:58] The 3 core values of Roofsimple are family first, caring for your people, and always doing the right thing.
• [52:51] Mark’s Day in comparison to other business owners