Thinking Of Building Your Own Software? Here’s What It Takes

If you’re ambitious and always looking for an opportunity, you might have thought about building a software product to ‘fill a gap’ in your business.

You hear this story on podcasts or youtube videos… maybe from a friend. Some contractors out there got frustrated with a lack of software in their business and decided to do something about it.

They decided to build it themselves.

And then became a bazillionaire.

But is it really that easy?

To find out, we invited Tanner Mullen of Dripjobs to share the realities of building a software company while still running a painting business.

If you’d like to learn more about the SaaS building process, managing multiple companies, and how to sell your software, listen to this episode.

Highlights from this episode:

• How to train your team to manage the client so you free up your time for other things
• How to manage your calendar when you’re running 2 businesses and a family
• The process of designing a CRM with programmers when nothing else seems to fit your business model
• Tactics that work to gain the sales advantage when pitching a SAS product from a successful salesman turned contractor
• What a ‘Unique Mechanism’ is, and why most contractors are not using it to their advantage
• What Tanner wishes he knew when he started both of his businesses