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War stories on this desk

Hand-picked public posts. Account on the card. Not a timeline.

customers
A customer came to me after sleeping on an Amazon mattress. For months straight, her back had been hurting and she couldn't get the quality sleep she needed. She knew she wanted to upgrade to a King, but she also didn't want to spend thousands of dollars to do it. We talked through what she was sleeping on, what wasn't working, and what she actually needed. Got her taken care of with a King mattress for UNDER $1,000.

2026-08-22 · on this paper

Amazon mattress → back pain → King under $1,000. Floor tape, not an influencer thread.

customers
A customer reached out to me after being quoted $11,399 for what they wanted. We went through the mattress guy questioning and were able to put together an option that fit their needs for $4,439 TOTAL. They also got two pillows which wasn’t included in their first deal Their quote: $11,399 My price: $4,439 Money saved: $6,960

2026-08-21 · on this paper

Customer math on the floor — $11,399 quoted vs $4,439. Learn from others.

customers
People ask how I compete with giant furniture stores, Mattress Firm, Ashley Furniture and every online mattress company imaginable Simple They sell whatever mattresses they want I sell whatever mattress you need They listen to respond I hear to resolve I know what’s inside the mattress I know which components matter I know where companies cut corners I know when you’re overpaying I know when you’re underbuying And I’m perfectly comfortable telling you not to buy from me That’s led to truly helping a lot of people!

2026-08-19 · on this paper

Customer war story from a standing-six clip voice. Trust vs big-box and Amazon.

capital allocation
Only move into another trade or market when you can answer a few important questions: > Can we predictably generate enough leads to support the existing operation? > Do we know our CAC and acceptable acquisition cost by channel? > Is our current market actually saturated, or have we stopped finding ways to grow within it? > Do we have the people and systems to handle more demand without the owner becoming the bottleneck? > Can our marketing operation support another set of campaigns, budgets and performance targets?

2026-08-19 · on this paper

How you grow — CAC, people, owner-as-bottleneck. Answers, not a feed.

growth
We hit $3.5M and assumed we’d outgrown our market. So we: - Opened a satellite location. It flopped. - Added plumbing. Lost $300K in year one. - Spent $200K on billboards. Was the market the problem? Nope. Our marketing engine was. Expansion multiplies whatever you haven’t fixed.

2026-08-18 · on this paper

Shop-floor war story — expansion multiplied a broken marketing engine. Anti-algorithm: the miss, not the dunk.

Watch

Pointers with the account

YouTube/podcast URLs. We do not host the file.

PUBLIC POINTER · desk Watch

Jack Carr — everybody quits day one

@TheHVACJack · Jack Carr · youtube

On the very first day of ownership, all the technicians quit.

House-sport war story. Techs walk day one. Account on the card. Pointer to public YouTube — no ingest.

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Owned & Operated — sales system that doubled average ticket

@WilsonCompanies · John Wilson · youtube

Close rates, average ticket, and the system behind both.

Employees + customers + growth on the shop floor. Wilson + Carr. Public YouTube pointer.

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Owned & Operated — the home-services desk

@WilsonCompanies · John Wilson · youtube

Standing analog show. Channel home so you can see the account and binge public episodes. Not a scrape.

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Scott Duncan — the 7-year collapse of an SBA acquisition

youtube

Brutal ups and downs — and personal depression — during his ownership of a doomed tool & die business.

Full autopsy of a failed SBA deal — employee theft, forced Covid shutdown, aggressive creditors, Chapter 7, personal depression. The cautionary counterweight every desk needs. Pointer to public YouTube — no ingest.

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