Neel Parekh
@NeelBParekh
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CEO of @MaidThis Franchise | Helping aspiring entrepreneurs build a fully automated home service business | Former private equity dude, recovering digital nomad
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Joined September 2011
I just gave an 8-minute TEDx-style talk in front of a 250 person audience. I successfully "exited the matrix" and traveled for 7 years....but eventually came to one epiphany about life by the end of the journey. Here's my story:
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This is cool to see. Note, If the home-services companies that @NeelBParekh and I own were both on here together our average would make home services #1. Not like I have the world's first home services hackathon starting in January or nothing though...
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5 same-day cleaning calls today. If I could always have one cleaner guaranteed on standby for same-day bookings, we'd make so much. Charge a $100 same-day fee, people will happily pay it.
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Black Friday promo weâre running automatically for all franchisees: $199 for $300 cleaning credit gift card. Only to leads and churned customers. If they redeem it all, amazing. Lower margin but reactivates leads. Historically, only 70% of gift cards get redeemedâŚ.
If you own a cleaning company and youâre not running a Black Friday / holiday special to your past clients⌠youâre leaving a stupid amount of money on the table. You should be: â Emailing every past customer â Texting every past customer â Especially targeting your big homes /
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Allen is the man One of most generous dudes Iâve met
Hello If you or a family member wish to be home for Thanksgiving But can't afford the plane ticket And it's available tonight-Thursday And is bookable using my points and miles I will get it for you Send me a DM with the airports (will delete this if it becomes too much)
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Atlas: âI was sitting across from Anthony Fauci in August of 2020, and he looked at me and said, âOne of the biggest problems is the American public is not afraid enough.â This was the task force⌠itâs a completely unethical way to do public health.â
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âDonât let your business or your day job turn into your personal curiosity playgroundâ Well said
Curiosity is perhaps the most powerful human emotion. Craving variety is the symptom, not the cause. Many entrepreneurs also have an ADD streak in them which feeds the curiosity and variety seeking. Channeled appropriately, this is a superpower. But as Neel cautions, governance
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What I've recently realized: Most entrepreneurs crave variety. Its their personality type. The problem: these people try to get that variety fix in through their career. New businesses, more products, etc etc When in reality, working on the same consistent things almost always
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If you had access to ChatGPT 10 years ago, but no one else did..... How would you use it to make the max amount of money?
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Whenever I've picked vendors to work with bc I like their "domain expertise" for my niche, but I didn't particularly like them.... It didn't work out. Friendly reminder that the best part of business ownership is that you get to choose who you work with.
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"Just-right timing" for fungicide applications can backfire. Agronomist Tim Dahl shares tips for getting the most out of your fungicide in 2026. đŹ
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I'll take the other side of this, and hopefully my opinion holds weight because I am probably the most franchise-critical of all the franchisors on this app. Let me establish first - I think most businesses should not franchise. Unless you have a proprietary lead gen system,
The franchise sales pitch promised freedom. 18 months later, I was $300K in debt and my wife was asking for a divorce. I received a DM from a friend who wrote the below. He asked me to post it on his behalf, anonymously. Below is an unedited look inside franchising,
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Franchising Isnât the Problem. Bad Businesses Are. (And Most of Them Shouldnât Exist.) I read this long essay last night from someone who bought a home service franchise, ended up $300K in debt, almost lost his marriage, and is now in litigation. My heart sank. I got pretty
The franchise sales pitch promised freedom. 18 months later, I was $300K in debt and my wife was asking for a divorce. I received a DM from a friend who wrote the below. He asked me to post it on his behalf, anonymously. Below is an unedited look inside franchising,
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I have an Apple Note called "Next Actions: Decisions to Make". And I just keep any open decisions that I want to think about there, to review weekly. Has helped declutter these tired open loops. Am I doing this Getting Thangs Dank thing right @MatznerJon?
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Cardone promoting a âHome Service Acceleratorâ. Weâve reached the top of the cycle boys
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From her comfortable life in America, Sophie plunges into India's colorful slums in 'Children Who Dance in the Rain.' Her transformative journey uncovers magic, gratitude, and empathy. Your purchase writes new stories -- 25% of proceeds directly aid underprivileged children.
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Alright so I've been thinking about this lately... The "hire slow, fire fast, only A-players" advice is mostly VC-backed startup shit. They're playing with someone else's money. What's better is.... The Moneyball Method for SMBs Everyone's out here trying to build their
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I host an internal podcast for our franchisees, where we talk about the inside scoop of whats going on. This particular episode I'm sharing publicly. Productivity-Based Mindset: does it actually give you better results? I compare my time in Rwanda vs life back in the US
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I don't believe in the "manager the manager" model. Never seen it work. I wouldn't bet on a business succeeding where the entrepreneur starts/funds it and then hands it to an "operator" to run. No such thing as passive income in business.
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Correlation between LSA spend and organic SEO rankings? Last week I noticed that when we were pumping LSA and spending A LOT, we got more organic leads from GMB as well. Never noticed this before, don't think it was related historically. Will track if its a one-off week.
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Twitter beef officially started with HVAC Jack âď¸ I think Jack is flat-out wrong. For new entrepreneurs: start a biz or acquire one, which is better? - There's survivor bias / hindsight bias in place for a lot of already successful entrepreneurs. If you run a successful
I will take the opposite position here. @NeelBParekh start some Twitter beef for views? But seriosuly I break it down to the needed skill to run a business. On start up you need: trade/labor skill, marketing skill, and business accumine. On acquisition you need: maybe
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I firmly believe that 90% of first time entrepreneurs should be starting a business from scratch rather than acquiring a business.
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Pro tip for when you attend conferences: Try to end most conversations with, "What are you looking for here?" and "Is there something I can keep my eyes and ears open for you?" I started doing this at the end of Main Street Summit and it became fun helping people connect.
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