Acquiring a solar company & scaling it up

▶ 0:00Simon here from Raj Energy. Nice to see you again Simon. How have you found the event today? Yeah, it's been a really good event I think. I think you've brought some really interesting speakers. I always like to get out of the office and think about things from a different perspective, and you've helped me think about my business, think about lots of things that I could do tomorrow, which is one of the things that you've sold it on, so that's really good.

▶ 0:24So now I've found it a really sort of great day for me personally, and hopefully things that will make a difference in my business. Fantastic, and I think one of the things is obviously we've been working together a long time, so the risk was that you just hear loads of stuff that we've been telling you anyway. Did you learn anything new? Did you have a talk that you found most valuable, the stuff that you hadn't necessarily heard before? I think because I'm particularly focused on sort of sales and sort of sales strategies, so bringing people in that think about that differently, like Kieran and David who did the mindset thing. So I think both of those I found really good, really good talks and again things that I can go, well I could just do that tomorrow, I can talk to

▶ 1:15customers, I can use that and yeah, good quality people coming in. So lots of stuff I have heard before, obviously, but as well lots of things that are new and interesting. Yeah, there's always messages that we like to have at home and you're probably going to hear as long as you work with us, but hopefully some new stuff as well. And plans for next year, do you have specific milestones that you want to hit or just scale in general? What's sort of the goals?

▶ 1:45Yeah, I mean I'm still, I'm not consistently at eight installs a month, that's where I want to get to because that's the sort of, that's the magic point for both Rudge Energy and Green Energy Electrical and I'm quite close in both and I know I can get there and as soon as I get there I can push on and look to 12 to 16. So yeah, I've got, I know what I want to do and with your help, I'm sure we'll get there.

▶ 2:10Yes, absolutely. For context, we've worked with Rudge Energy for quite some time, but Green Energy Electrical is a new project. It's been a little bit of a slow start, obviously we've launched it back end of the year, which doesn't help, it's a bit of an uphill battle, but hopefully we'll build momentum on that and then we can reach that goal for both businesses ideally. Yeah, I think so, it's all achievable and the quality of leads remains high and Gustaf, who was here with Solar Sherpa, his quality leads are good. So it's just about me and the team being able to sell them, that is the, and obviously install them. Yeah, no pressure, no pressure. Thanks very much for coming Simon, really appreciate it. Yeah, no worries. Cheers, Joe.