In this episode, we dive into the brutal truth: your marketing stinks because you’re too cheap to play with the big boys. Stop whining about bad leads and start learning how to fix your ad strategy.

🔥 Here’s what we cover:

How to calculate your ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)

Why being burned by a crappy agency is NO excuse to stay stuck

The real reason you don’t scale—you don’t know your numbers

If you're a home service business owner tired of playing small, this episode is your wake-up call.

💥 Guest expert Jacob Salem joins me to help you take control, fix the mistakes, and build a lead-gen machine that prints money. No fluff. Just results.

👇 Watch now and start acting like a real business owner.

📲 Text "Scaling" to 972-877-3585 to get business scaling tips straight to your phone.
🌐 Learn more at https://www.ChadMurray.biz

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Pay or Get Sued: How I Learned Payroll Law the Hard Way 💸⚖️
You don’t know what you don’t know—until you’re in court. In this episode, Chad Murray shares the gut-wrenching story of how a single payroll mistake triggered a lawsuit that nearly wrecked his business. Learn the legal landmines of paying employees (hourly, salary, commission, and performance pay), the truth about overtime law, and how to avoid getting crushed by labor attorneys.

Whether you're a service business owner or just trying to figure out how to compensate your team without breaking the law (or the bank), this is a must-watch. Learn from Chad’s painful (and expensive) lessons so you don’t end up writing fat checks to former employees and legal fees.

✅ What counts as overtime
✅ The truth about commission and performance pay
✅ Legal pay structures that protect YOU
✅ How to avoid whistleblower retaliation
✅ What your attorney won’t tell you unless they specialize in employment law

👉 Want help fixing your payroll and protecting your business? Scan the QR code at the end of this video or visit www.ChadMurray.biz to book a free call.

#PayrollMistakes #ServiceBusinessTips #LaborLaw #SmallBusinessOwner #ChadMurrayBiz

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What happens to your business if you're gone tomorrow?

In this raw and brutally honest episode, Chad Murray shares two moments he nearly died—and the two wildly different outcomes for his business. In 2006, his appendix ruptured… and his business went bankrupt. In 2021, his lungs failed from COVID… but his business hit $100K weeks without him.

This is the tale of building a business that’s dependent on YOU... versus one that runs without you.

💥 The truth is: Most service businesses are one injury, one illness, or one burnout away from total collapse. Chad learned the hard way—and now helps business owners build scalable systems so they never go through what he did.

⚠️ If your business can't operate without you, this video could save your future.

👉 Book a free session
📘 Get the book: Operation Entrepreneur Freedom on Amazon
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This might be the rawest, realest, and most action-packed sales episode we’ve done in a long time.

Chad Murray sits down with entrepreneur, speaker, and “Call The Damn Leads” founder Drewbie Wilson, who breaks down why most businesses are leaving millions on the table—because they simply don’t pick up the phone. From growing up hustling, traveling the country in an RV with his family, and building a brand that’s become a movement, Drewbie brings fire from the trenches.

🔥 You’ll learn:
-𝗪𝗵𝘆 "𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀" 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗻—𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆
-𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 -𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀!
-𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆
-𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟯 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 -𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗮𝗿𝗲
-𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺

Plus, Chad opens up about revamping his own almost $5M company’s sales process and the mindset shifts required to go from chaos to cashflow.

👊 If you want to stop struggling with lazy follow-up, bad hires, and inconsistent sales… this episode is your blueprint to get UNSTUCK and SCALE.

🔗 Learn more about Drewbie

📞 Book a free coaching call with Chad

🙌 If this episode hit home, share it, tag us, and call your damn leads.

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🚀 In this episode of Outside the Business Box, Chad Murray sits down with Bryan Clayton — the founder of GreenPal (the “Uber for Lawn Care”) and former CEO of a $10M landscaping company he scaled and successfully exited.

Bryan shares real, in-the-trenches lessons about:

• How he scaled his landscaping company from a $20 lawn job to over $10 million in annual revenue
• The challenges of transitioning from running crews to running a business
• His biggest mistakes (including a $600K Department of Labor fine 👀)
• Why most service business owners stay stuck in "self-employed land"
• How he landed major commercial clients like McDonald's and Taco Bell
• The brutal reality of building a tech company after selling his service business
• Actionable tips for scaling, cash flow, hiring, sales, and exiting your company

👉 Whether you run a home service business, a painting company, a chimney company, or dream of building tech — Bryan’s story is packed with no-fluff advice you can use today.

💬 Drop a comment: What was your biggest takeaway from Bryan’s story?

🔗 Learn more about GreenPal: https://www.yourgreenpal.com
📚 Check out Chad’s book: Operation Entrepreneurial Freedom on Amazon!
🎯 For business coaching help: Visit https://www.chadmurray.biz

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The Top 20 Dumb Mistakes Business Owners Keep Making 🚨

Welcome to another brutally honest episode of Outside the Business Boxes, where Chad Murray pulls no punches. In this episode titled "The Dumb Episode," Chad breaks down the top 20 dumb things business owners do that sabotage growth, kill profit, and keep them stuck in the hamster wheel of hustle.

From keeping toxic employees to refusing to raise prices or delegate, Chad’s calling it out — because someone needs to. If your business feels like Groundhog Day and you’re not scaling how you want to… you might be doing some of this dumb stuff too.

🎯 Learn:

>Why “doing it all yourself” is the dumbest flex
>How not firing fast enough ruins your culture
>What keeping your prices too low really says about your mindset
>And a whole lot more painful truth bombs

This episode is for the owner who’s ready to stop being dumb… and start running a real business.

👇 Want help scaling?👇
🚀 www.ChadMurray.biz – Coaching for home service businesses
📘 Get Chad’s book: Operation Entrepreneur Freedom on Amazon
🎧 Subscribe for more episodes that challenge, push, and grow you

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Re-Introduction What This Podcast Is About

Small business

Chat with Chad to discuss your business and you want to scale.

Welcome back to the Outside the Business Box Podcast with your host Chad Murray — business coach, speaker, and multi-million dollar service business owner. 🚀

In this episode, Chad dives deep into how he completely reinvented his sales process with a physical, flip-through sales presentation tool — and the results are already changing the game.

💥 From a typical slow April…
➡️ To $133K in sales in one week
➡️ With $24K in a single day just one week later
➡️ And a rep who was almost fired now doing $50K+ weeks

This is real, raw, and practical stuff you can implement right now.

💡 What you'll learn in this episode:

-Why most service business sales tools fall flat

-How a simple visual presentation can skyrocket sales

-How Chad onboarded and trained non-certified reps FAST

-The mindset shift that brought joy and profitability back to his business

-How to build and evolve a living sales document for your team

-Why fun + systems + faith = unstoppable momentum

🔧 Chad breaks down what went wrong, what changed, and what you can do to level up YOUR company — with no fluff, no gimmicks, just the real journey of a business owner putting in the work.

👉 If you're stuck in Groundhog Day and tired of slow months eating your bottom line, this one’s for you.

📺 WATCH the episode on YouTube to SEE the actual sales presentation tool in action!

📞 Want to connect with Chad directly?
Text or call him at 972-877-3585
Or find him on Facebook: ChadMurray.biz
Book a time to chat: https://calendly.com/chad-chadmurray/...

🎯 If you’re ready to work ON your business and finally scale — this is your episode. Let’s go!

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