As Mike Agugliaro puts it, there are a lot of consultants in the HVAC trade, but there aren’t many who are doing it while concurrently running their own contracting businesses. “There are a lot of people trying to help people, but there aren’t a lot of people trying to help people who just did it last week,” said Agugliaro, one of a few contractors who run businesses and offer business skills to others through coaching and consulting.
Agugliaro, president of Gold Medal Service, East Brunswick, New Jersey, started up ServiceKey in 2013 using the methods he used to take Gold Medal from a two-person operation performing only electrical work to a $23 million — and growing — business that added HVAC, plumbing, drain and sewer work, and generators to the mix.