Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

AL Levi:SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Al Levi is a frequent speaker, media guest, thought leader, and subject matter expert on the following topics:

The Plumbing, Heating, Cooling, and Electrical Industry (PHCE) The Trades/Blue-Collar Businesses Business Ownership Entrepreneurism Solopreneurism Business Sustainability Business Best Practices Life Balance Overcoming Business Challenges Management Best Practices Business and Management Efficiency Systemizing and Automating Your Business Business Organization Tips Personal Organization Tips Employee Leadership Employee Motivation Incentivizing Employees Financial Planning How to Retire Early How to Start a New Career at Age 48 Teaching and Mentoring Business Owners New Business Development Franchise Ownership Franchise Development The Power of Operating Manuals in Business The Power of Documentation in Business Teaching Workshops Being a Successful Media Guest Being a Long-Term Columnist Being a Successful Public Speaker Al Levi’s Signature Business Methodology, The 7-Power Concept

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Al Levi: BIO

Al Levi: Short Bio

Author and serial entrepreneur Al Levi is the creator of The 7-Power Contractor, a system business leaders can implement to run their contracting businesses with less stress and more success. Visit 7PowerContractor.com. Word Count: 32 Words

Al Levi: Longer Bio

Author. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Al Levi created his signature program, The 7-Power Contractor, to systemize his family's 3rd-generation Long Island plumbing, heating and cooling contracting business and retire at age 48. Today he shares this proven, life-changing program with contractors worldwide through his book, his workshops, his industry magazine columns, his blog, and his speaking events. To learn more, please visit https://7powercontractor.com.

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Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Al Levi: MEDIA July 2017HomeTalk Media with Michael King “The Cajun Contractor”https://soundclou d.com/hometalkmedia/7-power-contractor-ht-gcn-06032017-hr3-sg345

Blue Collar Proud Show with Carter Harkins and Taylor Hill, Episode 82https://bcpshow.com/082/

June 2017WMAP Radio Interviewhttps://29hyt2437j494eq6imj5usf2-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/al-levi-free.mp3

Escape 9 to 5 Grind podcast with Ali Salman, Episode 159https://xoomly.com/podcast/rapid-growth/al-levi-help-contracting-businesses-run-with-less-stress-and-more-success/

May 2017Business Insanity Talk Radio with Barry Moltz, WIND Radio, Chicagohttp://barrymoltz.com/2017/05/429-small-business-radio-show/

April 2017Strongpreneur Nation with Tom Reber, Episode 99https://www.7powercontractor.com/re-engineering-contracting-business/

March 2017REHAU Academy On Air Podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCFVxbe3jA&t=1407s

FitSmallBusiness.com — Expert Quotehttp://fitsmallbusiness.com/small-business-debt-relief/

February 2017FitSmallBusiness.com — Expert Quotehttp://fitsmallbusiness.com/construction-marketing-ideas/

The Site Shed Podcasthttps://www.thesiteshed.com/blog/when-is-the-right-time-to-expand/

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Carol Roth Business Blog — Expert Quotehttp://www.carolroth.com/blog/entrepreneurship-quotes/

January 2017Invoiceberry.com — Expert Quotehttp://blog.invoiceberry.com/2017/01/15-innovative-ideas-get-business-off-ground-expert-tips/January 2017

Contractors Secret Weapon Podcasthttp://contractorssecretweapon.com/run-your-contracting-business-with-less-stress-more-success-with-al-levi-157/

December 2016FAST COMPANY magazine — Expert Quotehttps://www.fastcompany.com/3066455/work-smart/4-real-life-ways-people-shut-down-interruptions-for-good

September 2016Pipeline to Profitability Podcasthttp://serviceprofessionals.com.au/blog/pipeline-to-profitability-episode-21-sales-part-2-with-al-levi

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Al Levi: AUTHOR“The 7-Power Contractor”

In 2016, Al Levi authored The 7-Power Contractor book to help leaders of service contracting companies worldwide learn his proven methods to run their businesses with “Less Stress and More Success.” Book blurb below:

Spending most of your time at work putting out fires? Frustrated with employees who don’t do the job properly? Tired of your phone blowing up with questions and crises whenever you try to get away? In The 7-Power Contractor, former contractor and contracting business expert Al Levi lays out seven simple business powers that hundreds of owners have applied successfully to run their businesses with less stress and more success. In these pages, you will learn about the seven power concepts—Planning and Leadership, Operating, Financial, Staffing, Selling, Marketing, and Sales Coaching—you can use to run your business better. You’ll also hear from other contractors about how their application of these concepts faithfully and consistently over time empowered them to transform their businesses and their lives forever. If you’re ready to create a business you can run with less stress and more success, this book is for you.

What Is The 7-Power Contractor Method? This proven, Al Levi-created method advises small-business contracting owners on the following 7 Powers:

1. Planning Power2. Operating Power3. Financial Power4. Staffing Power

5. Selling Power6. Marketing Power7. Sales Coach Power

Plus the Bonus Section: Leadership Power

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

10 Questions for Producers and Interviewers:

1. How did you manage to retire early? What’s your secret?

Al Levi: When I was about 45, I set a goal to retire from my family’s plumbing, heating and cooling business before I was 50. When I told my dad what my plan was, and that I was giving three years notice, he asked me which one of my brothers I was fighting with this week! I assured him I was serious and that I would do it in a way that would make the business better, not worse.

To achieve this, I knew I needed to change the business so that it could run without me. I hired a professional writer who specialized in the industry to the tune of over $150,000 in today’s money and invested hundreds of hours documenting the essentials of how to do every job in every department of my family’s small business. The result was a set of operating manuals that covered about 80 percent of what was required to run the business from day-to-day. Not only did the manuals enable the business to run without me, we also recaptured our investment within two years, and I was able to retire at 48 —with a clear conscience.

2. What did you do after you retired?

Al Levi: I bought a house in Scottsdale Arizona overlooking a golf course! I then set a goal to help other contractors regain power over their business like I did, by teaching them about planning, operating, financials, staffing, marketing, sales and sales coaching. I began writing a column for Plumbing and Mechanical magazine, and giving some workshops and soon I was consulting for a number of small service contracting businesses. My mantra is “Run Your Contracting Business With Less Stress and More Success.” Over the past 15 years I’ve taught dozens of contractors how to use my 7-Power approach to transform their businesses. Now there are small business owners throughout the U.S. and Canada who can finally take a family vacation and not be on call 24/7, 365 days a year. This has been life changing for them.

3. When you do consulting, do you find there are common issues in small businesses or contracting businesses?

Al Levi: I do. There are knowledge hoarders, who fear for their job security if teach others how to do their jobs. Once you remove that fear, they share the information—which needs to get documented in an operating manual—and everyone wins. I advise contracting businesses to have a training center and teach everyone their consistent approach to handling service calls, from the initial phone call to the repair to sales.

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

I recently wrote a blog titled “Call Backs: They’re Déjà Vu All Over Again” which deals with the frustration of service call backs. There’s nothing worse for morale—for the customer and for the service tech. Call-backs mean your business isn’t making money on new service calls because you’re back to fixing an old problem. For one of the companies I mentored, they reduced their call backs by more than 90% just by training their technicians right the first time. When everyone is on the same page, everyone wins—the contractor and the customer.

10 Questions for Producers and Interviewers:

4. What made you decide to write your new book, The 7-Power Contractor?

Al Levi: Until science fiction catches up with today’s world, there’s only one of me to go around. I felt called to help more small businesses out there. I decided to distill my advice into seven easy-to-remember tenants, and The 7-Power Contractor book is the end result.

5. What kind of feedback have you gotten from your readers?

Al Levi: I’ve gotten feedback from many readers who are outside of the contracting world. They’ve implemented my advice to great success, and that’s been a nice surprise. I didn’t expect photography studios and freelance designers to be reading my book, so it’s surpassed contractors, which was my primary audience. My message is simple. I’m just teaching people to have less stress and more success in their business and personal lives. Planning and consistency are the keys.

6. Can You Tell Us About Your “Build Your Operating Manuals” Program?

Al Levi: I’m on a mission! I want to help at least 30 non-competing contracting business owners throughout the U.S. and Canada to build their operating manuals this year. I want for them to achieve the financial success and freedom they dreamt of when they first went into business. To participate in my program, they need to be at $1 million per year in earnings, or it’s unlikely they will have the freedom to leave their business for a few days to meet me in Phoenix and learn how to build their operating manuals. I encourage them to bring other members of their company with them, if they can. After they spend their time with me, they go home and deploy the manuals, and I provide them with aftercare coaching to ensure a smooth transition.

7. What is Your Top 5 List Advice?

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Al Levi: I advise that everyone create a Master To Do List. Once everything is written down, distill it to a Top 30 List, and from that, pick your Top 5 items and work on graduating them to your “Done List.” Put those 5 tasks on your calendar or somewhere you can’t ignore them until you’ve successfully completed them. The sense of accomplishment in seeing your growing “Done List” will spur you on to get more done. If you find there are items on the Top 30 list that you just never get done, it may be time to stop burdening yourself with those tasks. They’re not a real priority.

8. What Are You Most Proud Of?

Al Levi: I’m most proud of my family, but in a business sense, I’m proud of a Pennsylvania company who took my 7-Power Contractor advice. They deployed my operating manuals and became wildly successful. They impressed me so much I ended up investing in them with my business partner, Ellen Rohr. That company is Zoom Drain Company, and now they offer franchising opportunities. They are living proof my advice works.

9. What single piece of Al Levi advice would help anyone, regardless of their job?

Al Levi: I always say, “Plan or be planned for.” I put everything on my Outlook calendar – my personal and business events. Many people keep two separate calendars, but that’s when double-booking mistakes happen. Every night before I go to bed, I check tomorrow’s calendar to be ready for it. When I do an online meeting, I log on five minutes early to pre-empt any technology glitches. If I have a meeting in a place I’ve never been before, I’ll drive there the night before so I know the route and the building and where I’m likely to get snarled in traffic. I’ll set two alarms so I don’t miss appointments or wake-up calls. The redundancy of a belt and suspenders can prevent a lot of stress in your life.

10. When people think of Al Levi, what do you want them to remember?

Al Levi: I’m the guy to help you achieve less stress and more success.

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Backgrounder:Al Levi’s “Build Your Operating Manuals” (BYOM) Program

Contracting Business Under Control…or a Daily Fire Drill?Imagine…vacationing without worrying about your business…

Your gut is telling you there must be a better way to run your company…and that better way is operating manuals. They will change your life. And they will certainly restore your free time.

Al Levi’s exclusive Build Your Operating Manuals (BYOM) program will free you to…

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Work on the business without being bogged down in micromanaging your staff Take vacations—even during the “busy season” at work Change your life for the better

Imagine…running a smoother, more profitable business, powered by effective operating manuals.

Good news—now you can!

As a BYOM Program participant, you will receive Al Levi’s proprietary operating manual templates. He will be your trail guide, helping you customize these templates to fit your business and get your employees’ buy-in, which makes all the difference.

You will join Al Levi on November 15-16, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona, for his BYOM Workshop where you will…

Be one of just 10 non-competing plumbing/heating/cooling/electrical companies to learn directly from me

Spend two days customizing your operating manuals so you can immediately roll them out to your employees

Improve your business in a life-changing way with a potential return on investment that no new truck or piece of equipment could ever equal

Al Levi invites YOU to be one of those 10 companies.

All you have to do is click here to register for your complimentary 30-minute phone call with Al Levi to verify if you will benefit from BYOM.

REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE 30-MINUTE PHONE CALL WITH AL LEVI

Unsure? Well, don’t take my word for it. Here’s what one of Al Levi’s “graduates” says about the impact of my Build Your Operating Manuals approach on his business.

Al Levi: Author. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Founder, The 7-Power Contractor®

Mantra: “Run Your Contracting Business with Less Stress and More Success.”

Columnist: Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Reeves Journal, theNEWS

Feel like your business is running you instead of you running your business?Al Levi’s BYOM Program automates much of your business—for a fraction of what you’d invest in a new truck or some specialty equipment—freeing you up to plan ahead, take time off, be more profitable, or even retire like he did at age 48!