Most contractors lose market share slowly enough that they don't notice. 

Greg Rowland noticed.

When the suppliers in his market started installing siding themselves, the scope he had built a company around started shrinking. He didn't fight it on price. Instead, he added the services his customers needed. Roofing, then windows and doors, and turned GR Exteriors into a turnkey business that covers the full exterior. Along the way, he also started a manufacturing company because he got tired of waiting on gable vents.

Greg is the owner of three companies in the Atlanta market: GR Exteriors, SAM LLC (Synergistic Architectural Manufacturing), and co-owner of HarLand Windows & Doors along with Jonathan Harvey. 

We talk about the five minute conversation he had in 2005 that carried his company through the Great Recession, why diversification between multifamily and single family work is a survival strategy and not a growth strategy, the one rule he uses across all three businesses to build trust, and the moment he realized that spending $345 a year on marketing was the same as complaining you never win a lottery you never entered.

What's inside:

✅ Why turnkey is where construction is going

✅ The Warren Buffett rule Greg leans on in a downturn: be fearful when everyone else is brave, and brave when everyone else is fearful

✅ How waiting on gable vents, brackets, and columns turned into SAM LLC and a customer list that includes Builders FirstSource

✅ What ACRE is: a stainable synthetic wood product made from rice hulls, and why builders want the benefit of PVC with the option to stain

✅ Why Atlanta moved away from vinyl siding to fiber cement even though vinyl still leads nationally

✅ Why Greg treats service as a quality issue instead of a department

✅ Why this industry still hires personality and job site judgment over degrees

✅ Marketing for contractors: why a man who never chased business and never turned it away finally decided to buy the ticket

✅ How reputation building has changed, and what old school service plus digital visibility looks like together

Featuring:

Greg Rowland, Owner and General Manager, GR Exteriors, SAM LLC and Co-owner of HarLand Windows & Doors

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