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by Ryan Johnson
Welcome to The Window Cleaning Millionaire — the podcast built for service business owners who refuse to stay small. I’m Ryan, and I took my window cleaning business from zero to over $1 million/year in just three years. Now I’m pulling back the curtain and sharing everything I’ve learned — the wins, the losses, and the exact strategies that actually work in the real world. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re ready to scale past six and seven figures, this show is your go-to resource for:✅ Real strategies that drive growth✅ Real stories from the trenches✅ Real results without the fluffNo theory. No hype. Just straight talk for service business owners who want freedom, profits, and a life they love. Let’s grow your business and build something you’re proud of.
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- Aug 12, 202628 min
7 Mistakes Killing Your Leads — And the 1-Minute Rule That Fixes Them
Ryan breaks down what actually happens after someone clicks on your ad — and why he thinks most home service owners are obsessing over the wrong part of their marketing entirely...What you'll learn in today's episode - Why advertisement itself is the least important part of turning a lead into a paying customer...- The "foot in the door" offer strategy behind acquiring over 7,000 customers — and why he's not afraid to lose money on it upfront...- A specific automated text that quietly won back a $1,200 job from a customer who had gone cold...- The Elite Three-Tier Pricing Framework that changes both average ticket and close rate...- The most common mistakes He sees business owners make with their leads — including one almost nobody wants to admit to...- What a full customer journey looks like from a $147 ad all the way up to years of repeat revenue...--Check out my YouTube here : https://www.youtube.com/@ryanthewindowcleaner/videos
- Aug 8, 202639 min
Why your indecisiveness is killing your future, Ft Joshua Latimer
Ryan shares a replay of his interview on the War Plan Podcast — the origin story behind his window cleaning company, the wall he hit at seven figures, and how it turned into a coaching business helping hundreds of other home service owners...What you'll learn in today's episode - The single webinar and one piece of simple math that made him move his entire family across the state within a week...- Going from $250K to $700K in a single year — and the painful reason it happened so fast...- A silly dispute that cost both sides tens of thousands for no real reason...- The unexpected service that turned out to matter more to his bottom line than the window cleaning business itself...- A coaching client who jumped from $9K to $140K in the same month one year apart...- The "stuck at $500K for three years" story, and the two changes that got a client to $750K the very next year...- Why sitting on the fence is killing your future...
- Jul 23, 202633 min
Christmas Light Secrets Part One
Ryan pulls back the curtain on how he built his Christmas light division from scratch and turned it into a $600K/year season.... This is part one of a two-part breakdown......What you'll learn in this episode - Why Christmas lights are the most emotional, highest-urgency service he's ever sold — and how that changes the entire sales approach...- The exact ownership model he uses for every light he installs, and the one thing he says he will "never, ever, ever" do for a customer...- The four-season numbers: how a modest first year turned into a $600K season — and where most of that growth actually came from...- The small line-item costs that almost every competitor forgets to charge for — and how much money that mistake quietly costs them...- A kitchen-table sales technique built entirely around staying silent at exactly the right moment...- A customer dispute that escalated all the way to a visit from the police — and the deposit rule it permanently changed...
- Jul 23, 202639 min
Christmas Light Secrets Part 2
Ryan closes out the two-part Christmas lights series with the operational side: what to buy, how to install it efficiently, how to pay and manage crews, and the math behind scaling a season into a six-figure profit machine. If you haven't heard Part 1 yet, start there first...What you'll learn in this episode- The exact bulb spacing and wire specs he refuses to budge on, down to the inch — and the "cheaper" version everyone should still avoid...- One specific wiring mistake he says can genuinely burn a house down, and the rule he drills into every crew to prevent it...- A game breaking system for organizing takedowns across 500+ houses without ever losing track of whose lights are whose...- The real math behind scaling a single crew from a $3K day to a $14K day, and what that does to a season's total revenue...- A three-stage roadmap from a $100K first season to $500K+, and exactly what changes at each stage...
- Jul 13, 202619 min
If Your Business Can't Survive a Week Without You, You Don't Have Freedom
Episode Summary One of Ryan Johnson's coaching clients is doing $50,000 months. He has plenty of money saved. He has never taken his family on a real vacation — and when Ryan pushed him to book one, he felt guilty. That conversation is the seed of this episode. Ryan digs into the strange psychology of successful business owners who can make the money but can't let themselves enjoy it: the childhood money stress, the sense that you're always one bad month from losing it all, the belief that stepping away is somehow lazy. His counter is blunt — if your business can't survive a week without you, you don't have freedom, you have a job that owns you. He shares his own trips (a San Antonio water park with his brother, a $10K cruise in Europe), why trips with your spouse matter as much as trips with your kids, and a practical checklist for knowing when you've genuinely earned it. Not a tactical growth episode. But as Ryan argues, taking the trip will grow your business — and it'll give your family the life you're working for.
- Jun 16, 202619 min
58: The Hardest Things to Remove From Your Life Aren't the Bad Things
Episode Summary Sometimes the hardest things to remove from your life aren't bad things at all. In this honest and personal solo episode, Ryan opens up about one of the most difficult decisions he's made recently: walking away from coaching high school basketball after three seasons as varsity assistant — a role he genuinely loved, that gave him purpose outside business, and that had become a core part of his identity.Ryan breaks down what being spread too thin actually looked like in his life: two seven-figure businesses, three kids, a wife, a coaching role, content creation, travel, and a gym habit that quietly slipped. He talks about what's changed since stepping away — the lake trips in June that were never possible before, the pool games with his wife after the kids go to bed, the margin he didn't know he was missing. And he ends with seven questions worth sitting with honestly. Not everything that's good still belongs on your calendar.
- May 18, 202648 min
57: From Prison to $27M: Dave Carroll's Story Is Unlike Anything You'll Hear on This Show
Episode SummaryWhat do you do when you get out of prison at 25 with no work history, no business experience, and a job at a window cleaning company you're terrible at? If you're Dave Carroll, you start your own company six months later and spend the next 16 years building one of the most interesting entrepreneurial stories in the home service space.Dave is the founder of Dope Marketing — a direct mail and data company that went from $2M to $27M in revenue in four years — and he still owns 100% of Lion Share Maintenance, the window cleaning company he started right out of a halfway house. Ryan sits down with Dave for a wide-ranging conversation covering his past, why he hasn't sold Lion Share despite not touching it in seven years, the science of direct mail targeting, the 52 Weeks of Dope strategy, and why the key to getting off the truck is understanding exactly where you contribute at a high level — and where you don't.
- Apr 30, 202619 min
56: Ryan Is Back... Here's Everything That's Changed in the Last Seven Weeks
Episode SummaryAfter a seven-week break, Ryan is back, and he's bringing the kind of honest, unfiltered life update that reminds you why this podcast feels different from most. A successful live event at WarPlan Studios with Josh Latimer. A European cruise with his wife and best friends. A move into a dream home minutes from his shop. And a complete rethinking of his daily schedule that has quietly changed everything.This episode isn't a tactics drop, it's a real conversation about what sustainable success actually looks like when you're building a business and a life at the same time. Ryan talks through the staffing reset happening at Reach Window Cleaning, why he ditched the 4am alarm for midday workouts, what playing ping pong with his wife every night has done for their marriage, and what's coming next. The podcast is back, and Ryan is fired up.
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About The Window Cleaning Millionaire
Welcome to The Window Cleaning Millionaire — the podcast built for service business owners who refuse to stay small. I’m Ryan, and I took my window cleaning business from zero to over $1 million/year in just three years. Now I’m pulling back the curtain and sharing everything I’ve learned — the wins, the losses, and the exact strategies that actually work in the real world. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re ready to scale past six and seven figures, this show is your go-to resource for:✅ Real strategies that drive growth✅ Real stories from the trenches✅ Real results without the fluffNo theory. No hype. Just straight talk for service business owners who want freedom, profits, and a life they love. Let’s grow your business and build something you’re proud of.
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