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Best Apps for Handymen to Manage Jobs and Customers
Managing jobs out of a notebook or your head works fine when you have three clients. At ten or twenty, things fall through the cracks - a customer who...
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From Side Jobs to Full-Time: Growing a Handyman Business
Most handymen start the same way - a few jobs on weekends, word-of-mouth from neighbors, gradually more calls than they expected. At some point the...
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How Contractors Can Manage Multiple Jobs at Once
Running two or three jobs simultaneously is where solo contractors start dropping things. A missed follow-up, a scheduling conflict, a customer who...
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How Handymen Use Apps to Replace Phone Tag and Paperwork
If you're scheduling jobs by phone, writing invoices by hand, and keeping customer notes in a notebook, you're spending hours every week on tasks that...
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How Solo Contractors Compete with Big Companies
Going up against large companies with marketing budgets, branded trucks, and call centers feels like a mismatch. But solo contractors win work from big...
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How to Build a 5-Star Reputation as a Contractor
Your reputation is your most durable business asset. It's also the one thing you can't buy, fake, or shortcut. Contractors who consistently earn 5-star...
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How to Get More Handyman Leads Without Paying for Ads
Most handymen who struggle to find work are not doing bad work - they're just invisible. Getting handyman leads without paid ads requires consistency...
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How to Price Handyman Jobs Without Undercutting Yourself
Pricing is where most new handymen lose money. They guess low to win jobs, then discover the job took longer than expected and they made $12 an hour....
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How to Turn One-Time Customers Into Repeat Clients as a Contractor
Getting a new customer is the hard part. Getting them back should be easier - but most contractors leave this entirely to chance. Here's how to turn a...
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How to Write a Job Estimate That Wins Without Being the Cheapest
Most contractors think winning estimates means being the lowest price. In practice, homeowners choose estimates based on clarity, specificity, and...
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