REAL AF with Andy Frisella - June 10, 2022


308. Q&AF： Owning Multiple Businesses, Money Within Relationships & Increasing Your Prices

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307. Andy, Tommy Vext & DJ CTI： Mysterious Deaths Among Healthy People, Supreme Court Justice Threatened & Microsoft Executive Resigns Over VR Porn 309. Q&AF： Raising Your Team's Standards, Never Being Satisfied & Quality Vs. Quantity

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In this episode of the Q&A Show, DJ and Andy answer a bunch of questions submitted by you, the listeners. DJ: Q & A: What's the best thing to do with your money? What do you do to keep your money coming in?

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00:00:00.000 What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realists, say goodbye 0.99
00:00:20.700 to the lies, the figness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking 0.99
00:00:24.660 reality. Guys, today we have Q and AF. That's where you submit the Qs and I give you the 0.99
00:00:30.460 AFs. Where do they submit the Qs? Guys, email those questions in to askandy at andyfriscilla.com.
00:00:36.380 And if this is your first time listening, that's DJ. Hey guys. Yeah. Now we have multiple formats
00:00:41.920 on the show. We have Q and AF, which is about what you're about to hear. We also have CTI,
00:00:47.200 which is cruise the internet, which is where we literally cruise the internet, pick apart 0.98
00:00:53.240 the craziest shit that's going on, try to deduce what little truth there is in the actual media 0.95
00:00:59.200 headline, and then point out the problem and the solution. Solution always comes back to 0.99
00:01:05.460 our own personal excellence, which is why we talk about that on the Q and AF. So we have
00:01:09.860 CTI problem, Q and AF solution. Then we have real talk, which is where I come on and I just
00:01:16.140 yell about some shit. All right. And some of you like it and some of you don't. And if you 0.99
00:01:19.700 don't, I don't care. Then we have full length, which is where I bring on my successful friends
00:01:24.540 who have great stories, who have overcome shit, who most of the time make a lot of money. And 0.64
00:01:29.420 if they don't make a lot of money, they made a lot of impact. And we talk about how they
00:01:32.300 did it and how you could do it too. So that's the show. And we do have a fee for the show.
00:01:36.440 And the fee is very simple. Tell somebody. All right. We don't advertise on the show. I've
00:01:41.960 never advertised on the show. I don't want ads for the show. Okay. I work entirely off
00:01:47.400 your word of mouth. So if I do a good job, if the team does a good job, if DJ does a
00:01:53.040 good job, which is very fucking rare, I need you to share the show. Just kidding. 0.51
00:02:00.360 Just kidding. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Oh, really? That's fine. Yeah. You know
00:02:04.900 what they say when it's fine. That's not fine. That's like when that's like when your girl
00:02:10.680 says like, uh, go have fun. Yeah. Well, this would be a great episode. That's fine. Go have fun.
00:02:15.580 Yeah. I selected all these questions. That's an abort mission status.
00:02:21.320 All right. Let's get to the cues. Hey, where do they submit the cues? Did you already say that?
00:02:25.880 Yeah. Tell them again. Email those questions in guys to ask Andy at Andy for selling.
00:02:29.640 Guys. And the questions could be about anything. Okay. For those of you that don't know,
00:02:33.560 I had the number one entrepreneur podcast of all time called the MFCEO project where all we talked
00:02:38.840 about was personal development, kicking ass, making money and winning. And so, uh, I know a few
00:02:45.280 things about it. So you can ask me about anything. Ask me about, ask me about what's going on in the
00:02:50.580 world, but, but ask me about how to grow your business. Ask me about how to build discipline,
00:02:55.120 whatever the fuck you want to know. That's what this is about. So, uh, let's get started. 0.98
00:02:59.240 Let's knock it out, man. Andy, question number one, I currently run a home service cleaning company
00:03:04.360 doing about a hundred thousand dollars per month in revenue. We've grown quickly and I've reinvested
00:03:09.740 everything to date in the past two years in order to grow so quickly. When I listened to other
00:03:14.460 entrepreneurs, they mentioned owning multiple businesses. Is that a path I should consider
00:03:19.520 or should I put all my focus into my current business? That's a great question. So what he's,
00:03:25.540 what you're talking about, what this person's talking about is there is now a culture of
00:03:32.320 what people call serial entrepreneurship. And basically it's where these guys and these girls,
00:03:39.580 they think that they got to have, you know, there's that famous meme that goes around and
00:03:43.380 says the average millionaire has seven streams of income. And, uh, people think that that means they
00:03:49.340 got to start like seven different things at once. Right. But here's the problem. And these people
00:03:54.100 almost always fail because it's easy to be a Jack of all trades and a master of none. That's the
00:04:01.720 entrepreneurship culture right now. So what I would say to anybody out there who is, who feels
00:04:08.040 inadequate because they don't own multiple companies is understand that there are a time,
00:04:13.860 there will be a time and place for you to do so. I own multiple companies, but I didn't own all
00:04:18.620 multiple companies until I had one company that was doing almost $30 million a year. Right. Okay.
00:04:23.760 Right. So then I opened the second company and that second company then helped fulfill and support
00:04:30.340 the first company. It was a vertical of my company. Okay. So if I'm this person, I am dedicating all my
00:04:39.140 time, all my energy, all my resources, everything that they're to say they're doing, they're doing
00:04:44.760 exactly right. And should continue to do it until they are the dominant player in their market space
00:04:50.460 for what they do. Okay. Then when you get there and you're to that place where you have the systems
00:04:57.340 in place, you have the culture in place, you have the employees in place, you have the training in 0.99
00:05:02.660 place and you are straight up able to turn the key and keep the engine running and dominate the fuck 0.95
00:05:08.460 out of everybody else that comes in front of your face. Then you can start looking for little 0.71
00:05:12.680 verticals that go within. I think he said carpet cleaning, just home cleaning. Home cleaning.
00:05:17.060 Yeah. Okay. Now you might want to start a vertical of your own home cleaning products. Right. Okay.
00:05:22.520 Right. Or your own home cleaning materials or something that goes along with that, that will 0.57
00:05:27.580 be a vertical for your business. All right. We're now when business one, the cleaning business has to
00:05:33.720 buy its supplies, it's buying them from you. All right. And you start to scale out and create
00:05:39.100 verticals that way. That is how to properly become a serial entrepreneur. If you look at any of these
00:05:46.220 fucking idiots out there that say, Oh, well, serial entrepreneur notice that any, none of their 1.00
00:05:51.660 businesses dominate, right? Not a single one of their businesses dominates in any regard to anything 1.00
00:05:57.300 they do. Anybody that says serial entrepreneur in their bio, I automatically know they're full of
00:06:01.800 shit. Okay. So that's not a cool thing. It's the culture of entrepreneurship. And you have to 1.00
00:06:07.860 understand that counterculture of what's going on in the trend is usually the way to go.
00:06:11.580 Okay. So build your company, dominate, develop the systems, develop the culture, develop the ability
00:06:19.080 for it to operate and self-sustain and replicate talent, kick the shit out of everybody around you 0.86
00:06:24.700 in your space, then add a vertical. Right. Okay. Right. That's how I would do it. Yeah. 0.74
00:06:31.180 Now, now, now, if you want to do it like everybody else and you want to be mediocre and you want to 0.95
00:06:36.160 fucking run a, you know, eight, two million dollar companies and, and walk around, call yourself a 0.98
00:06:42.040 serial entrepreneur and go on the speaking circuit and fucking say, Oh, this is what it is. And be a 1.00
00:06:47.080 very middle fucking mediocre person in all reality and still be chasing your bills and, and, and be 0.99
00:06:53.480 faking it your whole life. Yeah. Become a serial entrepreneur or dig the fuck in and become the 0.99
00:06:58.460 best at what you do. And then look to vertical off of it. Yeah. See, like the way I look at it, 0.97
00:07:02.960 like, and like, I mean, this is your area of expertise. I just like, I, I, I feel like there's
00:07:08.500 a lot of shit that you learn and like you learned in S2 in those 10 years, right before you even 0.97
00:07:12.420 started the next project that like, have you fucking jumpstarted that you, you wouldn't have 0.99
00:07:16.520 been learning. Listen, bro. And I started all these companies that two or three years into my 0.97
00:07:20.520 business, I'd be completely broke. Yeah. Completely broke now. Yeah. And the, and the other thing is
00:07:27.240 too, and this is worth pointing out, you're correct. The lessons I learned in that first 10
00:07:32.880 years of fucking grinding my balls off are the lessons that make me literally hundreds of millions 1.00
00:07:37.620 of dollars now. Right. Right. So when you learn how to dominate on a small scale, that translates 0.99
00:07:44.760 to big scale. And most people never go through that entire process of totally building out their
00:07:49.960 model. They want to jump, you know, they're, they're a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
00:07:53.640 a little bit of this and a lot of nothing. Yeah. Yeah. That's not what you want to be.
00:07:58.700 And also by the way, when you do have that one business that generates and is dominating, 0.88
00:08:03.700 now you have a cashflow system to finance the other fucking business, right? You don't need 0.97
00:08:07.380 no capital. Yes. You're financing the new vertical off of the purchases of the existing fucking
00:08:13.280 company that you made. This is the whole secret guys. Like if you don't do it this way, 0.99
00:08:18.020 then you're going to get beat by people that do. It's just reality. You know, these people who are
00:08:22.760 like, Oh, I, I own a, I own a, this company. And then, you know, I own a shoe company. And then
00:08:27.860 I also own a, a fuck concrete company. And then I also own a motorcycle company. None of the shit
00:08:32.280 goes together. Those people get fucking beat. Right. Cause dude, you're competing against people 1.00
00:08:36.940 who are dedicating all of their energy into that one thing. Right. Like if I own three different
00:08:42.620 things and, and you own one thing and you're putting all your energy into that one thing.
00:08:48.000 Yeah. I got a hundred percent in. Yeah. And I've got 33.333% because I got three things going.
00:08:54.100 Right. How much better than you do I have to be to actually win? Right. To give my 33% and beat
00:09:00.340 your 100%. That's an egotistical, arrogant fucking miscalculation that you will lose a hundred percent 1.00
00:09:07.100 of the time. Because dude, every other human out there, no matter how good you are or how smart you 0.99
00:09:12.200 are, how fucking you think you are, they're, they're not far behind you. And you have to remember that. 0.95
00:09:18.460 That's fucking real, man. Yeah. That's real. Andy, question number two, 0.99
00:09:22.500 Andy, my girlfriend and I are getting ready to move in together next month and we're discussing
00:09:27.660 money and bills. What would you recommend being the best way to handle finances as a couple?
00:09:33.480 I know that money is a major reason why relationships fail. I think it depends. I think
00:09:40.020 there's lots of ways to do money. Lots of people do it different ways. You know, unfortunately in the
00:09:46.060 system that we're in, if you're not making a whole lot of money, you, you kind of need two 0.97
00:09:49.680 incomes to fucking provide. Um, I don't believe it should be that way. I'm working to build my 0.93
00:09:55.400 companies so that families don't have that. Um, it's one of my main initiatives over the next two
00:10:01.240 or three years is to create a new, a new model that doesn't have to require both parties to work
00:10:10.920 for them to survive. Right. Right. Um, because I think that's, what's hurting the fucking culture
00:10:16.960 as a whole. And I think if we want to sit here and bitch about the culture, we need to be the 0.99
00:10:20.900 solution as well. I mean, think about it. You got both parents working, you got kids in the
00:10:24.360 situation now who's raising the kids. That's right. And it's different, man. It's different for
00:10:27.840 everybody, you know, like how I would manage money and how you would manage money are two 0.99
00:10:31.240 different fucking things. Um, so I've never, I've never been someone who, uh, like, I don't 0.93
00:10:44.040 know. I, I, my, my goal has always been like, make as much money as I fucking can and build
00:10:49.300 as much as I can and then worry about how to manage it later. Um, so I think getting in
00:10:56.260 an offensive mindset about making money is the first step that you should probably both
00:10:59.880 do. Um, because when we talk about budgeting and we talk about living as a couple, you know,
00:11:07.280 most of those conversations are defensive in nature. It's like, how are we going to save?
00:11:11.320 How are we going to live? How are we going to conserve money here and here and here? And
00:11:16.040 the conversation of how are we going to make more money gets left off the table. Right. Okay. And
00:11:20.500 you have to think about that in terms of like, you know, quantum realities and universal realities
00:11:25.000 is like, what do you tell in the universe? If your mindset is always, I gotta, I gotta
00:11:28.880 scrounge and save. You're saying that money is hard to come by. And if you get on an offensive
00:11:33.160 mindset and say, Hey, I want to make fucking most money I fucking can. Now you're in a 0.98
00:11:36.760 situation where, you know, money will come to you more, more freely. Yeah. So I think,
00:11:41.240 you know, when you have the conversation of household management, it should also be along
00:11:46.200 with the conversation of increasing the household income. Yeah. Um, so that's the first thing
00:11:50.640 I would say. Second thing I would say is there are many different systems, none of which
00:11:54.240 I'm an expert at, to be completely honest. I can tell you how we do it. Um, Emily makes
00:11:59.640 a lot of money on her own. I make a lot of money on my own. And then we have a house account 0.98
00:12:03.820 and because I make more money than Emily, I fund the house account and, and, and we pay 0.69
00:12:08.840 ever all the shit out of the house account and that's how it goes. Yeah. And it's that simple. 0.70
00:12:12.620 It's that simple. Like, I don't, I don't argue. I don't fuck like, dude, I don't, I don't,
00:12:18.040 my biggest pet peeve and all of you guys know this because you know me like in person, 0.99
00:12:21.840 but like, I hate conversations about personal finance. Like if I go to dinner with you,
00:12:28.180 I'm paying the fucking bill and you're not going to argue with me about it. And if you 1.00
00:12:31.720 do, I just won't go to dinner with you again. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm
00:12:34.480 not, I don't like petty, I don't like petty discussions. I'm not going to fucking, like 0.98
00:12:38.800 I had this person ask me, um, this girl DM me, uh, that, that is part of our company. 0.97
00:12:47.080 And she was like, Hey, I got a question for you. And this is, I don't know if this is normal
00:12:50.880 or not. And if this is normal, you motherfucking dudes need to grow the fuck up. But she, she 1.00
00:12:56.160 said she was, she's dating this dude who, um, basically would ask her to Venmo him 50% of
00:13:09.320 everything that they did. So like, if he went to the store and got detergent for 15 bucks,
00:13:14.800 he would ask for eight bucks. Yeah. To Venmo. And like, this is like every, and she's like, 0.99
00:13:20.520 is this, is this normal? And she was asking genuinely. And I'm like, well, fuck, I don't
00:13:25.040 know. Maybe it's normal for these dudes nowadays, but I can tell you this, I never did that shit. 1.00
00:13:29.400 Like, bro, that's some weak ass shit. Like be a fucking man, take care of your career, 1.00
00:13:35.020 be the fucking earner, you know? Like, and you could sit there and say, Oh, well, it's not my job 1.00
00:13:39.700 to earn 50%. No, it's your job to earn 150% you dumb motherfucker. So, um, you know, I, I, 1.00
00:13:47.060 I personally think men are pussies. I think they, I think they totally underestimate their 1.00
00:13:51.380 fucking earning potential. I think we've lost the ability to go out and hunt and kill and 1.00
00:13:55.580 fucking make money. And, and I think it should be celebrated. And I think if you ask your chick 0.99
00:14:00.080 to fucking Venmo you for a half of a detergent, she's probably gonna be fucking another dude 1.00
00:14:05.180 next week. Just being real. Yeah. So, um, do you think that, like that had to be relaxed 1.00
00:14:10.880 though, because of like the push for feminism and it's like, it's a thing, right? For sure, 1.00
00:14:16.000 dude. And men started fucking buying into it. And so they relax their standards and they're 0.99
00:14:19.600 like, Oh yeah, well we're equal. You know, like it's to the point now where like, dude,
00:14:23.940 these dudes walking out of restaurants, some dude fucking disrespects your chick. And the dude's 1.00
00:14:28.180 like, well, it's LA. You might as well take care of it. Like, bro, this is not, this is
00:14:34.440 not how society set up. We're the fucking providers. We're the hunters. We're the 0.99
00:14:39.220 motherfucking protectors. We're the killers. And we need to get back to that. And that's 1.00
00:14:43.160 reality. So how I would manage the household is if I were the man, which I am, I would fucking 0.99
00:14:49.600 make the most money and I would take care of the motherfucking shit. That's what I would 1.00
00:14:52.680 do. And I would let my fucking girlfriend or wife fucking keep all her money, do whatever 1.00
00:14:56.340 you want with it. Yeah. That's fucking real, man. I mean, would you also say too, I mean, 1.00
00:15:02.160 we're going to the next question, but like, it is still important to make sure that you
00:15:05.520 do have some like sense of like being financially responsible, especially when you're starting
00:15:09.600 off. A hundred percent. Yeah. Dude, listen, a hundred percent. I don't want people to hear
00:15:14.520 that. I'm like, all right, cool. There's many different ways to do this. Like some, in some
00:15:19.300 relationships, you know, like for example, like when Emily and I, when Emily and I first
00:15:24.400 started, we first got together, she didn't make that much money. Right. You know, and 0.90
00:15:28.940 I comparatively, I didn't really either, but I still paid all the shit. You see what I'm 0.99
00:15:34.440 saying? Like, it was just, it's just what the fuck I was brought up to believe and do. 0.99
00:15:39.360 Right. And, uh, you know, when you're, when you're, when your finances need to be put together, 0.95
00:15:47.300 that's fine. But like, I think, you know, a big problem in culture now is that people want
00:15:52.600 to nitpick in the household about whose responsibility is what, when in reality, the whole responsibility
00:15:58.140 is to run the household. Right. So like, you know, I see these people put, put like, I
00:16:03.620 see this, I saw this meme the other day. I want a relationship where we both cook and
00:16:07.700 we both clean and we both earn and we both this and we both that that's some weak ass 1.00
00:16:12.460 shit. That's some weak ass shit. Right. Because now you're tit for tatting inside the household. 1.00
00:16:16.900 You know what the reality is? It all matters. So I don't fucking cook shit at my house.
00:16:23.480 But Emily's also a fucking world-class chef. Okay. So I let her handle that shit. Exactly. Right. 1.00
00:16:28.560 I'm good at fucking making a whole bunch of money. So I handle that shit. Right. So I handle what I'm 1.00
00:16:33.440 good at. She handles what she's good at. And we fucking work the house and that's how it works. 1.00
00:16:36.960 Yeah. Like I don't ever, we're never like, Oh, you took the trash down today and you take it down 0.98
00:16:42.560 fucking next week. Like that's not how the, how it works. It's a T it's a total collaborative team
00:16:47.620 effort to run the fucking household. Yeah. And it's not a, you did this. I did that. Or, you know, 1.00
00:16:54.500 I made all the money. So you do this. Like that's not, that's not how it works. And if you run it like
00:16:59.660 that, it'll destroy your relationship. I know that for sure. Yeah. That's awesome. You know, I think
00:17:04.260 both people should contribute where they can contribute. If you're not able to contribute financially,
00:17:08.900 you should be contributing, take care of the fucking house. Make sure that the house is 0.99
00:17:13.020 fucking clean. When whoever, when the, when whoever comes home is earning the shit, you know, like 0.99
00:17:17.700 fucking do your part. I mean, I think it's that simple. Just do your fucking part. Yeah. You know, 1.00
00:17:23.540 and take pride in it. It's real. It's real, man. Guys, our third and final question for me, dude,
00:17:30.880 by the way, that goes both ways. There's a lot of trash women out there that expect the men to come in 1.00
00:17:35.940 and pay all their shit because you've got a vagina. All right. Now, like, come on, 1.00
00:17:39.040 anybody. Preach now. All right. Yeah. Like, uh, listen, listen, lady, you ain't the fucking 0.99
00:17:43.400 how to, you ain't the only hot chick out there. You ain't the only chick with a vagina. You ain't 1.00
00:17:47.580 the only chick with all the shit that you think that everybody wants. It ain't made of gold. 1.00
00:17:51.220 Yeah. All right. So maybe you should be working on bringing some quality shit to the table too,
00:17:54.940 other than just your fucking ass or just your titties or just your fucking looks. That's real. 1.00
00:17:59.140 It's the truth. That's fucking real. Dude, I saw some shit. It was a while ago, 0.99
00:18:02.120 but they were talking about like, it was a group, like it might've been a podcast, bro. 0.99
00:18:05.860 But these fucking girls are like, Oh, you guys know, you know, we got to have the three sixes. 1.00
00:18:10.560 Right. And I'm like, what the fuck are the three sixes? Like, are these, like, what is it? And it's 1.00
00:18:13.880 like, Oh, well the three sixes are, you got to be at least six feet tall as a guy, have at least a 0.99
00:18:18.760 six inch penis to make over six or make over six figures. Those are the three sixes that really 0.99
00:18:23.560 that these young girls are now. Yeah. She got three sixes. She's fucking six feet wide. 1.00
00:18:28.140 She can, you can roll her, you can roll her 66 feet and she's going to fucking send you to hell 1.00
00:18:35.940 with that third six. Like bro, like dude, it's always these ugly fucking contribute. Nothing 1.00
00:18:43.260 fucking troll women who say that shit. Yeah. Oh, I got to have, you know, you know what those 1.00
00:18:49.300 women end up as the fucking cat lady with 47 cats. That's right. Same name. That's right. Oh, 1.00
00:18:55.620 you know what? I couldn't date this guy because he wasn't funny enough or, you know, he, uh,
00:19:00.620 he, I don't know. He, uh, was five 11 and three quarters. Like the fuck are you doing? Yeah.
00:19:09.600 But, but then men are expected to look at some 400 pound chick on the fucking cover of sports 1.00
00:19:15.600 illustrated and say, she's hot. Right. Right. And then they get fucking Jordan Peterson. 1.00
00:19:20.320 They got fucking blasted when he did. Yeah. Well he blasts them back. Yeah. I mean, Hey, 1.00
00:19:24.620 so, Hey man, brother. Hey, listen, it's, it's, it's the double standard, bro. It's out
00:19:32.180 there, man. Oh yeah. Fucking dude's got to be earning this. It's six foot and six pack
00:19:36.960 and fucking 600 grand and this and that and this bitch. Look at you. Right. Right. Look 1.00
00:19:42.180 at you. Like dude, we, these women walk around acting like they're Queens when they're fucking 1.00
00:19:48.100 you're, you're queen of the dumpster. Like what are you bringing to the table? Yeah. Yeah. 1.00
00:19:55.520 It's standards on both sides. That's it. And it's a big cultural problem. So while I may
00:20:00.100 attack the men more personally, because it's irritating to me that you guys are that fucking 1.00
00:20:04.240 weak. Um, the women are just as bad. Yeah. Cause I mean, dude, what's that quote? It says 1.00
00:20:09.080 like, you know, you, you, you are, listen, dude, you, you are what you attract or something.
00:20:13.180 Everybody that's it. If everybody became the kind of person that they wanted to attract,
00:20:19.520 then you would live a fucking that life. But the problem is we live in this world of entitlement 0.77
00:20:26.260 where people who are not of quality feel entitled to people who are of quality. And if people who are
00:20:33.160 of quality do not appreciate the people who are not a quality, you're some sort of fucking bigot 0.99
00:20:38.720 or this or that. I'm sorry, bitch. I put a lot of work into me. Yeah. It's the way it is. 1.00
00:20:45.460 Yeah. I'm not like, I'm not settling for your fucking dumpy bullshit. Right. You're one shower 1.00
00:20:52.800 once a week, fucking posting your ass and your tits all over the internet, fucking not earning 1.00
00:20:58.480 shit, not contributing shit, not doing shit other than how you like, dude, this is insane shit. 1.00
00:21:03.620 It's common sense. Listen, it is. It's the truth. Yeah. What you are is what you'll get. And so if 1.00
00:21:09.100 you're not happy with what the fuck you're getting, become what it is that you want and you will get 0.99
00:21:13.600 that. That's the truth. Fucking real. It's real. Guys, Andy, our third and final question. You're just 1.00
00:21:19.480 mad because you're barely six foot, huh? I'm 6'1", baby. Yeah. 6'1". Well, then what's that
00:21:24.260 mean? Like 6'4"? You're like 6'2". 6'3 in the boots. All right. Yeah. You're higher for another
00:21:31.220 day. Yeah. There you go. Andy, question number three for you. Andy, I own a small landscaping
00:21:38.180 company here in St. Louis. Fuel has always been a major expense, but the recent rise in cost is
00:21:44.300 affecting my overall margin. Most of my competitors have raised their prices. Yes. But I,
00:21:49.480 have not increased my prices because I don't want to add the cost increase my customers already
00:21:53.860 experiencing everywhere else. Is eating these costs myself the right thing to do or if I should
00:22:00.020 temporarily increase my prices? Yes. Okay. 100%. Okay. Listen, dude, people understand what's
00:22:05.620 happening. They understand. And, and while I would, here's how I would approach that if I was that
00:22:11.680 person, I would raise the prices, the minimum amount that you needed to operate your business the
00:22:17.500 right way. Right. Um, and I would address it in like maybe a letter or in person with your
00:22:22.740 customers and say, Hey, listen, we, I I'm, I'm raising at the minimum of what I got to raise it.
00:22:28.700 This is what it has to be. And you have a real conversation and most people will fucking 0.97
00:22:33.460 understand because they see what's going on in the world. And here's the reason I say you have to do 0.93
00:22:37.640 it because at the end of the day, running a business comes down to math. And if you, and I've made this
00:22:42.520 mistake before where I haven't adjusted and it's ended up costing me to the point where it almost
00:22:48.560 put me out of business. So like, you don't want to, you don't want your good heart to put you out
00:22:53.860 of business because you're trying to do, you have to do what the fuck you got to do when it comes to 0.99
00:22:58.280 that. Yeah. So like you got employees, you might have a family. So like, I would not, you do not 0.98
00:23:03.900 use this as an opportunity to gouge because when things get better, people will remember that
00:23:08.680 use it as an opportunity. And by the way, I've been through two other times like this,
00:23:13.640 uh, where, where we're in a recession, which by the way, we're in one right now. Um,
00:23:21.140 if you do it in good faith and you do the right thing, those customers will be there when this is
00:23:24.860 over. And not only will they be there when this is over, they will say, fuck dude, you know what? 0.99
00:23:29.020 That guy really took care of me during that time. I know it was hard on him. And I think what you'll 0.99
00:23:32.260 find too, is if you're honest with people, some of those people that you're nervous about raising the
00:23:36.260 price on might even actually pay you more because I know a lot of people that do that. I fucking do 0.93
00:23:41.480 that. Yeah. Cause you did the right thing. Yeah. Yeah. I do that shit. Like, like when people bill 1.00
00:23:45.380 me and I know that they're struggling and, and I know it's because of things going on, like I'll,
00:23:50.700 maybe I'll throw in a few extra bucks. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I think that has a lot to say
00:23:55.140 too about necessities. Right. Cause like, you know, you look at gas, like everybody's complaining that
00:23:58.520 gas is more, you know, getting high, but yeah. And by the way, I will, I still paying for gas.
00:24:02.340 Well, hold on. And if you are someone who's doing well, it is an obligation to take care of the
00:24:07.500 people who take care of you. That's real. So when they're having a hard time and you're
00:24:11.100 the people who come and, you know, take care of whatever it is that you're having people take
00:24:15.160 care of, you know, dude, and you can afford to help them do. Remember it's fucking hard as shit 0.99
00:24:19.400 right now. So, so, you know, think about that. Be generous. You know, I think it's important for the 0.99
00:24:24.740 people who have been fortunate to be generous in times like this. For sure. Would you also, I mean,
00:24:28.440 like, can you just stress to the importance of like, like how important is having that type of
00:24:33.460 relationship with your customers? Like, is that like, I'm sure it's going to make the conversation
00:24:37.740 easier to deal with. Right. But like, if you're just this faceless company moving around and you
00:24:41.360 have no real relationship with your customers, how likely are they to take that fucking that, 0.96
00:24:45.700 that, that pay or a cost increase? It depends on how you present it. Yeah. I think it's all how you 0.97
00:24:51.000 present it. You know what I'm saying? Like if I had a big company, um, like I do and we have to
00:24:56.820 have a price increase. We generally, I generally write a little message and send it out. And if
00:25:01.880 they have problems or questions, they, they, they call or we have a conversation. Um, but I think
00:25:08.560 just you have to do what's right. You cannot gouge and you have to play for the long haul. And you
00:25:15.520 have to understand that, that, um, you know, bear and bull markets and economies and recessions and
00:25:21.420 growth periods and all these things, these are all cyclical things. And a lot of people make
00:25:26.060 mistakes in business because when things are rough like this, they see an opportunity. Right. And,
00:25:33.340 and, um, and, and when things get good again, people forget about those people. So it's all
00:25:39.220 about doing the right thing. I think it's, I think, you know, you should be treating your customers as
00:25:45.820 if you're going to have your customers for the next 20 years. That's how you should be treating them.
00:25:49.640 That's real. Yeah, that's real. Well, guys, Andy, that's three. Let's go pay the fee. Yep. Guys,
00:25:56.140 if you got some benefit out of the show, if you enjoyed the show, if you thought it was, uh,
00:25:59.580 worthy of sharing, please share the show. Okay. Uh, the only way the message gets out about the
00:26:03.740 shows if you guys share it. So I appreciate it if you would.
00:26:06.100 Yeah. Went from sleeping on the floor. Now my jewelry box froze. Fuck a bowl. Fuck a stove.
00:26:12.300 Counted millions in the cold. Bad bitch. Booty swole. Got her on bankroll. Can't fold. That's a no. 1.00
00:26:18.940 Headshot. Case closed.