How to Scale a Roofing Company From $3M to $10M

At $3M the owner still touches everything. At $10M that is impossible. The jump is mostly about building a company that sells and installs without you in every job.

Step 1: Do the maths

Work back from the goal. With example numbers: $10M a year at a $15,000 average job is about 667 jobs, or roughly 13 a week. At a 33% close rate that is about 40 inspections held every week.

Your real job size and close rate will differ. The method is what matters. See how many leads a roofing company needs.

Step 2: Build a sales team

Forty inspections a week needs several reps. If each can run around ten to twelve, you need four, plus someone managing them. The owner cannot be the top closer forever.

Step 3: Separate setting from selling

Closers should be at kitchen tables. Someone else, in-house or outside, fills the calendar. More in appointment setting: in-house vs outsourced.

Step 4: Make demand steady

Referrals alone will not carry you to $10M, and they rise and fall. Add sources you can turn up and down:

• Paid advertising
• Booked inspection programs
• Partnerships with agents, property managers and insurance agents
• A real follow-up system for old quotes

Do not depend on one source. If any single channel is more than half your sales, you are exposed.

Step 5: Match production to sales

Selling 13 roofs a week helps only if crews can install them. Add crews, a production manager and material planning in step with sales, or your reviews will pay the price.

Step 6: Run on numbers

Weekly review of requests, inspections, close rate, job size and cost per job. See 7 numbers to track weekly.

What usually breaks

• Cash flow. Growth eats cash, especially with insurance work.
• The owner as bottleneck. Every decision waits for one person.
• Quality. New crews, more callbacks.
• Hiring too late. Reps and managers need months to be good.

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