$1K Home Depot Giftcard Giveaway 🔥🛠️
Have you registered for Jobber Now to get an exclusive first look at Jobber's newest features on September 25th? ✨👀 All registrants have a chance to win a $1,000 gift card to The Home Depot! 🧰 DOUBLE your chances of winning by commenting below to tell us about your business's biggest WIN so far this year! You'll receive an extra entry into our draw for this gift card. 🙌 Terms & ConditionsHow do you stay motivated as an entrepreneur when facing constant rejection?
Hello everyone, I’m reaching out to my fellow entrepreneurs. I am a serial entrepreneur with multiple businesses, but I have a strong passion for serving in real estate and traditional home-related services. People often contact me for down payment assistance, closing cost help, home improvements, foreclosure prevention, rental assistance, debt relief, or support for first-time homebuyers. I connect people with the resources they need to maintain and sustain homeownership, promote housing stability, and ensure safe housing. Recently, I decided to form a nonprofit with my amazing team because I’ve mostly been referring people to resources, but I want to become a direct resource myself. If you’re a new entrepreneur or a seasoned one like me, you know that starting or working on something often involves a lot of rejection. Today, I’m just reaching out to see how everyone stays motivated. My motivation has always been my community and service. I want to hear from my fellow entrepreneurs: how do you stay motivated? I’d love to hear different perspectives in the comments.Meet the 2025 Jobber Grants recipients!
It’s time to celebrate home service! 🎉 We're thrilled to highlight this year’s Jobber Grants recipients and recognize the incredible dedication of the entire home service community. Head to jobber.com/grants to read about this incredible group of home service pros! This year, we were blown away by the thousands of applications we received from across the U.S. and Canada. Each story shared reflects the passion, grit, and entrepreneurial spirit that powers home service businesses. You can follow along on Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and TikTok and help spread the word about all the great work local home service businesses do every day. Congratulations to our 15 recipients for 2025! 👏How do you stay focused on one business when you keep getting new ideas?
Hey everyone, My name is Robbie, and I've been building Monarch Landscaping in Ontario, Canada, for the past 3 years (still feels like we're in the baby stages lol). Today we have 7 employees, solid systems in place, and for the first time, I'm primarily focused on sales, strategy, and putting out the occasional fire rather than being involved in every part of the day-to-day operations. Over the last 3 years, I've had to slowly let go of several other ventures to fully commit to Monarch. At one point, I was running a pressure washing startup, a marketing consulting business, a small marketing agency serving trades businesses, a YouTube channel, and constantly working on new ideas. Over the past year, I've intentionally let most of those things fizzle out so I could put my full attention into Monarch, and honestly, it's been one of the best decisions I've made. The challenge is that I still get a new business idea almost every day—especially when things slow down. One day it's a new division for Monarch. The next day it's a bin rental business. Then it's software, marketing, AI, or some completely different opportunity. I've noticed these thoughts usually show up when I feel like I'm not moving fast enough or when the business isn't yet where I want it to be. Some questions: - How do you stay focused on one thing? - How do you know when a new opportunity is a distraction versus a legitimate next step? - Have any of you struggled with "entrepreneurial ADHD," and if so, how did you overcome it? Looking forward to hearing your experiences. Robbie Monarch LandscapingIm New to jobber but i made the cut for the 2 round of the grant!!!
As the title says, I made it to the second stage of the grant process. I’m excited for the opportunity and hopeful about making it through to the final round. To get to this point, I focused on building a clear vision for what I want to achieve and then developed a detailed business plan to support it. I took the time to work through future opportunities and challenges, equipment costs, hiring needs, startup expenses, overhead, working capital, and the different directions the business could take. My goal was to fully understand the potential of the business and create a solid foundation for growth. It took a lot of time and effort, but I believe the process has given me greater clarity and a stronger competitive edge. Overall, it has absolutely been worth it.Community Spotlight: Built by People Like You!
This community works because members show up, ask questions, share their experience and expertise, and take the time to help someone else move forward. This month, we want to recognize a few members who helped keep conversations thoughtful, practical, and grounded in real experience! Shoutout to: PestFreeCanada​ — for consistently showing up with thoughtful questions and generous replies. From pricing and hiring to AI tools and operations, their posts invite real discussion, and their replies are grounded in hands-on experience as a growing owner-operator. D_LHerbier — for jumping in headfirst and contributing practical, experience-based answers across integrations, invoicing, and workflows. Clear, actionable, and rooted in lessons learned from running a long-standing service business are invaluable. jonmaegaard — for actively encouraging others. A great example of how replying to threads can move conversations forward for everyone. ThatHandymanVan — for raising the bar on depth and detail. Whether breaking down job costing, scaling systems, or pricing strategy, their posts consistently add clarity and long-term thinking. The kind that helps other owners level up. Whether it’s starting a post or replying to a thread, these contributions matter more than you might realize. 🙌
Real Talk: The Ups and Downs of Running a Business
Let’s start a real conversation — no filters, no fluff. What’s it really been like running your business? I’m talking about the mistakes that taught you lessons, the wins that made it all feel worth it, the burnout you didn’t expect, and the goals that keep you going even on the tough days. Whether you’re just starting or deep in the game, your story can inspire someone else (and maybe theirs will help you too). Drop your honest take below 👇 Let’s build something real — together.Built in Edmonton: our first local Edmonton event
Jobber is investing in putting real people on the ground in cities across North America who are focused on building a community of service pros and creating something genuinely useful in each city - hosting events, collecting feedback and supporting local business owners. I'm your local Edmonton Jobber gal and this week we had our first big Jobber event here in the city - Built in Edmonton, a networking happy hour for service pros at Fox Burger rooftop. Great food, drinks on us, prizes, a networking game and some amazing community building. Congrats to Ryan Hauer from Hauer Power Electrical who won the free year of Jobber giveaway contest! Huge thank you to everyone who came out - tickets went fast, the energy was electric and valuable connections were made. If you missed it, there will be more local events happening in Edmonton and other cities! Full photo album here.
