Ben Alexander shares his journey from running a $35 million HVAC division to starting and growing Hank's Handyman Services. He discusses the challenges of pricing, scheduling, and scaling a handyman business, emphasizing the importance of understanding material costs and profit margins.

Takeaways

• Pricing complexity in the handyman industry
• Scheduling challenges and strategies for managing job requests
• The impact of material costs and profit margins on business growth Tier levels for technicians
• Creating a career path
• Challenges of hiring and training in the handyman industry
• Importance of systematized training
• Difficulty of sourcing skilled labor in the handyman space Systematizing the business is crucial for growth and scalability.
• Avoid shiny object syndrome and focus on core business operations before expanding into new areas of service.
• The sweet spot for growth is around 10-15 trucks, and a revenue range of 3-5 million is manageable and sustainable.

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The conversation delves into the significance of answering the phone for business owners, addressing the pain of unanswered calls, dealing with spam calls, the value of answering the phone, training and benefits of AI receptionist, mental space and anxiety relief, flexibility and customization of phone answering, and encouragement to answer the phone.

Takeaways

• Importance of answering the phone for business success
• The mental space and anxiety relief provided by AI receptionist services

Hosted by Jason Call and Coby McManaman of Handyman Marketing Pros

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In this episode, Jason Call and Coby McManaman break down what to do before the slow season hits and what to do once it does. Coby ran his own remodeling crew in Michigan before coming over to the marketing side, so a lot of this is what he actually did to keep work on the books from Thanksgiving through the new year.

What we get into:

→ Why late August and early September is the window, not November
→ Christmas light setup and teardown, and when adding a service is a red flag instead of a smart play
→ Working your ghosted estimates from the last six to twelve months
→ Email and text campaigns to your database, framed around the holidays instead of around you needing work
→ Personal outreach to your best clients without sounding like you are begging for work
→ Realtor and property manager punch lists on vacant houses before the first of the year
→ Booking your big projects backwards so you can pull clients forward instead of pushing them out
→ Using the slow time to fix your estimate process, your customer experience, and your job costing

Hosted by Jason Call and Coby McManaman of Handyman Marketing Pros

👉 Schedule a free, no-pressure strategy call: https://go.handymanmarketingpros.com
👉 Grab the free 3-in-1 Handyman Playbook Bundle: https://go.handymanmarketingpros.com/playbooks
👉 Join the Home Hero Business Owner Community: facebook.com/groups/homeherocommunity

New episodes of the Home Hero Podcast every week. If you got value from this one, subscribe and leave a review. It helps more home service pros find the show.