
Snowfighters Institute Podcast
Hosted by Phil · Phil Harwood
5.0from 8 ratings
- 63
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 8
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Snowfighters Institute Podcast
This is the Snowfighters Institute podcast, where you will hear directly from some of the most interesting people in the professional snow and ice management industry – to learn about their successes, to hear about the challenges they faced along the way, and to have their perspective on critical issues facing our industry today. Hosted by Phil Harwood (Phil@GrowTheBench.com). Follow our social media feeds and check out upcoming events at SnowfightersInstitute.com.
- Publisher
- Phil Harwood
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Jun 2020
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 63 episodes have a transcript.

29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Eddy Zakes - Building a Service Partner Network Across 15 States: The Anti-National Subcontracting Company

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
David Bender - Building a Snow Business That Runs Without You: Clean-When-It-Snows Positioning, People-First Operations, and Knowing Your Numbers

25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Eric Gagnon - From Electrician to Snow Professional: Seasonal Contracts, Automated Salt Sales, and Building a Business Rooted in Community
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Eddy Zakes - Building a Service Partner Network Across 15 States: The Anti-National Subcontracting Company
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I want to explore that cultural shift because that's so important today. But just a couple other questions I had here related to the composition of the company. Are you self-performing work or are you doing all of it through service partners? The vast majority is going to be done through service partners. We do see value, especially here in the greater Green Bay area, of doing some self-performing. And so here in our own community, we do limited self-performing. It's not a zero, but in terms of the total scale for our company, it maybe is 2%, 3%, maybe 5% of the work that we do is self-performed, but then the majority is through a strong and I think healthy service partner network, I think, That piece for me is really important as we think about, you know, people know that so many of the sort of national companies that are doing subcontracting have such terrible reputations. […]
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- Eddy Zakes
- David Bender
- Eric Gagnon
- Robert Holmes
- Tabetha Hart
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100
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- Quality
- 27
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 68
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