What Do You Do When You're Working With a Struggling Contractor?
Hey everyone — curious if anyone's run into this situation and how you've handled it. We work with a lot of subs across different trades, and every once in a while you end up working alongside someone where you can just tell they're going through a rough patch. Maybe their organization is off, communication is slipping, little mistakes are starting to add up — nothing catastrophic, but enough that you're watching it more closely than you'd like. The tricky part is when you're already halfway through a job together. It's not like you can just swap them out easily at that point, and honestly, you don't necessarily want to — everyone hits hard stretches in their business, and a little grace goes a long way in this industry. But you also have a client to protect and a job to deliver. So how do you walk that line? Do you have a conversation with them directly? Tighten up the oversight? Just manage around it and chalk it up to a lesson learned for next time? Would love to hear how others have handled this — no judgment either way, just genuinely curious what's worked (or hasn't).You down with PPE? Yeah, you know me!
Google AI explains it as "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) refers to any clothing or equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards in the workplace and protect the wearer's health and safety. PPE is considered the last line of defense when other controls cannot eliminate or reduce the hazard adequately." I've always viewed personal protective equipment (PPE) as my primary shield for staying safe and healthy on the job. With machinery that can spin at speeds up to 10,000 RPM, it’s essential to prioritize my protection. What about you? What PPE do you typically use in your work? For me, I rely on: Ear protection: Since most of our tools operate at high decibel levels, it’s crucial to safeguard my hearing. I personally prefer foam earplugs over earmuffs for comfort. Eye protection: When handling equipment like line trimmers, mowers, chainsaws, and blowers, debris can go flying everywhere. I want to ensure my eyes stay safe from any potential hazards. Safety boots: I opt for high-rise boots with steel or composite toes and plates to protect my feet. Long pants: These are important for shielding my legs from rocks and other materials that can become projectiles. Sun hat: Keeping my head and shoulders covered helps shield me from the sun's rays while I work. Remember, taking these precautions not only keeps us safe but also helps us enjoy our work without worry! One more important type of PPE—at least in my view—is knowledge! It’s really vital to have as many staff members trained in First Aid as possible.
What’s holding most service businesses back
I’ve been thinking about this lately, what’s actually holding most service businesses back? Is it: • Lack of leads • Poor systems • Weak pricing • Or the owner not stepping into the business role Because I’ve seen companies busy all day… but still stuck. Curious what do you think is the real bottleneck?
Suggestions for Jobber
Below is some suggestions I have for Jobber to improve use. This is reviewing the two past years of my company and the complications they have using it. Anymore? Keep it going! Create a filter in clients to separate residential and commercial. Display icon in clients for residential and commercial. Prompt you if a duplicate client is being created. Identical names especially for companies shouldn't be allowed. Option to turn off archived search results when using the search bar. Create a collect payment button for invoices instead of having to click edit invoice to collect payment. Under save invoice options add selection save invoice and mark as sent. Create an edit mode for products and services and for visits. You would click the button allowing you to change the text in the columns and toggle taxable or non taxable. when edit mode is turned off it will save any changes. You can also do a select box so you can deactivate or delete multiple at a time. For visits, dates should be an option in the edit mode. Length of visits should be an option in one off or recurring. Shouldn't just default to all day. Quotes have a bulk archive, this should be added to jobs and requests and for the quotes there should be options such as bulk archive, bulk approve. When converting quotes to a job there should be selection boxes to select which line items you want to convert. And once line items are converted and someone tries to do it again maybe a popup saying this has already been converted to job #______ are you sure you want to proceed? In Manage teams, allow you to create a password for your technician. Sometimes techs are in the field having issues and don't have time to verify and change a password. Administrators should have this option.
Physical Advertising
Hey everybody, my name is Daniel. I’m currently looking to expand and grow my business. I have done paid Marketing on Meta and Google with some success, but I’m also wondering for anyone who’s in the contracting and remodeling space if they ever do door hangers, mailers flyers and yard signs and what kind of return they see on those I’ve had some people tell me they see great return but not in the same industry as me if you do any of these and you do remodeling, I would love to hear your input
