110 | Classroom to Call Center: Angie Snow on Training CSRs & Building a Sellable Business
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Show Information
Episode Number: 110
Date: October 13, 2025
Duration: 35:02
Host Contact Information
Host: Justin Deese
Website: JustinDeese.com
Contact: [email protected]
Guest Contact Information
Guest: Angie Snow
Company: ServiceTitan (Industry Advisor); Co-founder, Snow Business Coaching
Guest Website: ServiceTitan.com | (YouTube) ServiceTitan channel for CSR training
Gift to listeners: Save on the CSR Academy Live (Oct 16–17, Utah) with code FRIEND at CSRAcademy.com
Summary
Angie Snow shares the real story behind her 2007 leap into HVAC, growing a husband-and-wife shop with four techs into a valuable, sellable company—then moving into coaching and her role as an Industry Advisor at ServiceTitan. We dig into the playbook: peer groups (Service Nation), hiring targeted coaches, embracing data (and why switching to ServiceTitan was a revenue inflection point), branding for exit, and implementing relentlessly. Angie also breaks down today’s hot topics—voice agents, AI-assisted dispatching, and practical ways owners can upskill CSRs and dispatchers to boost booking rates and revenue without losing the human touch.
Takeaways
- Implementation beats information: There’s no silver bullet—do the work you learn at events and from mentors.
- Invest in data: Moving to robust reporting changed decisions and growth trajectory.
- Train the front line: CSRs/dispatchers are the first impression; equip them and turnover drops while booking rate rises.
- Brand for the future: Build an asset that’s transferable (not personality-dependent) to maximize exit value.
- Adopt AI as a tool: AI can supercharge routing, reporting, and call support—freeing humans for higher-value work.
- Find your people: Best-practice groups and coaches accelerate every phase of growth.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome + why Angie’s story matters
02:35 Angie’s start in the trades & early realities of ownership
06:39 Building teams: service, install, maintenance—plus early mistakes
09:33 Mentors, Alliance groups, and hiring specialty coaches
14:21 Implementation > information (how to actually execute)
15:29 Pivot to coaching; launching Snow Business Coaching
19:20 Selling the company & life after exit
22:41 Data as rocket fuel: reporting, reviews, and why they switched software
25:49 Servant leadership & the ServiceTitan IPO moment
26:31 CSR/Dispatcher community: monthly Lunch & Learns + free resources
33:00 AI in the trades: dispatching, voice agents, and practical adoption
34:08 CSR Academy Live (Oct 16–17): what attendees will learn
34:48 Final advice: stay on the edge of innovation
Keywords
#FreedomBlueprintPodcast #JustinDeese #AngieSnow #HomeService #HVAC #Plumbing #Electrical #GarageDoor #ServiceTitan #CSRTraining #Dispatcher #CallCenter #BookingRate #BusinessGrowth #WomenInHVAC #AI #VoiceAgents #Implementation #ServiceNation #Pantheon #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Branding #ExitPlanning #Reviews #DataDrivenTrades
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