Episode 222: "What I've Learned" with Eric Knight of Orenda and the Rule Your Pool Podcast
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Episode Summary:\\xa0
Today, we sit down with Eric Knight, a sales and marketing leader for Orenda, a company which offers a line of eco-friendly water treatments. Orenda also provides free industry-leading tools to pool professionals such as The Orenda Calculator\\u2122, and educational resources like Orenda Academy\\u2122 and the Rule Your Pool Podcast.\\xa0
Listen in as Eric discusses what he has learned from hosting the \\u201cRule Your Pool\\u2019 podcast and the importance of approaching water treatment from water\\u2019s point of view. In other words, the practitioner will always get more insight by asking, \\u201cWhat does water want?\\u201d rather than mindlessly dumping your run-of-the mill chemicals just because that is the unfortunate norm in the industry.\\xa0
He also talks about what separates \\u201cgood\\u201d pool companies from \\u201cgreat\\u201d ones. It\\u2019s not about skill nor intelligence. Rather, truly great companies have a culture which respects and obeys physics instead of trying to fight it\\u2014by accepting that they can\\u2019t defeat water. This is a company which embraces the reality of problem pools being the norm, and encourages its technicians to speak up about them, all so as to be able to standardize their approach to pool chemistry.\\xa0
Here\\u2019s a Glimpse of What You\\u2019ll Learn:\\xa0
- 04:50 - About the Rule Your Pool Podcast\\xa0
- 11:36 - Using Orenda\\u2019s learning resources\\xa0
- 17:01 - How Orenda looks at water differently\\xa0
- 23:04 - Why to view LSI first, range chemistry second\\xa0
- 28:28 - What separates \\u201cgood\\u201d from \\u201cgreat\\u201d\\xa0
- 33:03 - Getting the