New contractor, getting work.
I have been in the framing industry for over 20 years before opening and starting my own contracting buisness. Although I know how to build a house with ease and quality, I still find it hard to get new contracts with builders and how to line up several months of work. I tend to "rush" through my projects with ease, never sacrificing quality, and be done well before my next project. I ask to get fillers from my current builders and can never be accommodated. So I sit for weeks in between waiting. I cant sustain that as a new company, and beyond that I just wanna go to work everyday, sitting at home is death. How do you successful framing contractors line up work? It it just a matter of who you know and not what you know?
New Member Building a Veteran-Owned Commercial Cleaning Business
Hello everyone, My name is Brian Che, and I’m excited to join this community. I’m the Managing Member of Alliance Contracting & Logistics, LLC, a veteran-owned small business based in Charlotte, North Carolina. We focus on commercial cleaning, janitorial services, facility support, logistics, and supply solutions for public agencies, institutions, and commercial clients. I’m building this business with the same values I learned through military service: discipline, accountability, attention to detail, teamwork, and reliable execution. One thing I’m currently working on is improving how we find consistent commercial cleaning opportunities, price jobs properly, build strong subcontractor partnerships, and deliver dependable service from day one. I’m looking forward to learning from other business owners in this community. For those already established in commercial cleaning or facility services, what is one piece of advice you wish you had known when you were first getting started?Roll call! Meet & introduce yourself to other Service-based Skilled Trade pros
If you’ve ever thought, “How are other businesses like mine handling this?” you’re in the right place! This space is for Service-Based Skilled Trades pros to connect, compare notes, and talk shop with others who understand the day-to-day realities of running your type of business. 👋 Introduce Yourself Drop a comment and tell us: Your name Business name Industry Years in business Location (City/State/Province) Let us know if you’re joining us for LIVE networking on March 17 (more details below) The more context you share, the better connections you’ll make. 🙌 Pro tip: Search your city or state in the forum to easily find other pros in your area. 📅 Want to connect LIVE? We’re running a pilot to host virtual weekly LIVE Industry Networking starting on March 17, running until April 7. If you’d be interested in joining for the first or following sessions (don’t need to commit to all but you're welcome to join!), make sure to let us know in the comments. 🤝 Culture of this space Think of this forum board like a room full of peers who understand your world. Share what’s working. Ask real questions. Talk through challenges. The goal is to power your success and raise the standard of home service industries together. 💬 Looking for conversation starters? This space works best when conversations are industry-specific and experience-based. You might jump in with something like: “How are other [your industry] pros pricing this service right now?” “Is anyone else seeing this shift in their market?” “What’s been working for you when it comes to ____?” 🤔 Why are industries grouped together? We’ve intentionally clustered similar industries to keep conversations active and relevant. These groupings reflect shared business models, operational challenges, and pricing conversations so you can learn from peers who “get it,” even if they’re not in your exact trade. If your question applies to all home service businesses, feel free to post in our broader forum boards. Pro tip: Check out the industry tags to get even more specific Looking forward to seeing this space come to life. 🚀Roll Call! Meet & introduce yourself to other Construction and Home Improvement pros
If you’ve ever thought, “How are other businesses like mine handling this?” you’re in the right place! This space is for Construction and Home Improvement pros to connect, compare notes, and talk shop with others who understand the day-to-day realities of running your type of business. 👋 Introduce Yourself Drop a comment and tell us: Your name Business name Industry Years in business Location (City/State/Province) Let us know if you’re joining us for LIVE networking on March 17 (more details below) The more context you share, the better connections you’ll make. 🙌 Pro tip: Search your city or state in the forum to easily find other pros in your area. 📅 Want to connect LIVE? We’re running a pilot to host virtual weekly LIVE Industry Networking starting on March 17, running until April 7. If you’d be interested in joining for the first or following sessions (don’t need to commit to all but you're welcome to join!), make sure to let us know in the comments. 🤝 Culture of this space Think of this forum board like a room full of peers who understand your world. Share what’s working. Ask real questions. Talk through challenges. The goal is to power your success and raise the standard of home service industries together. 💬 Looking for conversation starters? This space works best when conversations are industry-specific and experience-based. You might jump in with something like: “How are other [industry] pros pricing this service right now?” “Is anyone else seeing this shift in their market?” “What’s been working for you when it comes to ____?" 🤔 Why are industries grouped together? We’ve intentionally clustered similar industries to keep conversations active and relevant. These groupings reflect shared business models, operational challenges, and pricing conversations so you can learn from peers who “get it,” even if they’re not in your exact trade. If your question applies to all home service businesses, feel free to post in our broader forum boards. Pro tip: Check out the industry tags to get even more specific Looking forward to seeing this space come to life. 🚀Roll call! Meet & introduce yourself to other Green & Exterior Service pros
If you’ve ever thought, “How are other businesses like mine handling this?” you’re in the right place! This space is for Green & Exterior Service pros to connect, compare notes, and talk shop with others who understand the day-to-day realities of running your type of business. 👋 Introduce Yourself Drop a comment and tell us: Your name Business name Industry Years in business Location (City/State/Province) Let us know if you’re joining us for LIVE networking on March 17 (more details below) The more context you share, the better connections you’ll make. 🙌 Pro tip: Search your city or state in the forum to easily find other pros in your area. 📅 Want to connect LIVE? We’re running a pilot to host virtual weekly LIVE Industry Networking starting on March 17, running until April 7. If you’d be interested in joining for the first or following sessions (don’t need to commit to all but you're welcome to join!), make sure to let us know in the comments. 🤝 Culture of this space Think of this forum board like a room full of peers who understand your world. Share what’s working. Ask real questions. Talk through challenges. The goal is to power your success and raise the standard of home service industries together. 💬 Looking for conversation starters? This space works best when conversations are industry-specific and experience-based. You might jump in with something like: “How are other [industry] pros pricing this service right now?” “Is anyone else seeing this shift in their market?” “What’s been working for you when it comes to ____?" 🤔 Why are industries grouped together? We’ve intentionally clustered similar industries to keep conversations active and relevant. These groupings reflect shared business models, operational challenges, and pricing conversations so you can learn from peers who “get it,” even if they’re not in your exact trade. If your question applies to all home service businesses, feel free to post in our broader forum boards. Pro tip: Check out the industry tags to get even more specific Looking forward to seeing this space come to life. 🚀
How to grow a business while hiring reliable employees and managing life as a parent?
I'm a 26 year old entrepreneur, I've owned and operated my residential cleaning company for almost 5 years now. I have learned a lot over the past couple of years and feel like I'm heading in a good direction, but I need to keep steering the company down the right path to true growth. I am a new mom, and will be adopting 2 more children. After having my daughter, I began to let my dream fade, as I didn't have enough fire to keep my dream going and thriving. As we begin to expand more, how do I juggle the rollercoaster of life and trying to stay on the same mindset of having and setting that goals when it feels like things are not really going in the direction I had hoped a year ago? Finding consistent workers who are reliable and willing to work have been somewhat of a struggle, due to the group of people we hire. Most are moms who have children to take care of and it affects their work life a lot, I'm even finding myself in that position. I have always been a more hands on owner who is physically doing the work and solo cleaned in the beginning, so handing over what felt like my "baby" was a hard adjustment, I felt that I micro-managed and it really shot me in the foot. I have a good team of cleaners at the moment, but am needing to hire more reliable cleaners, as well as, book more work. I am afraid of booking work and not having cleaners available. Should I just go for it? Given where I am in life now, I have to be able to focus on the business parts of things rather than the actual work.
UAS services
For those not familiar with the acronym "UAS", it stands for Unmanned Areial Systems, otherwise known as drone platforms. These systems and the services that they can provide are still so new that most grant offerings don't even have a category for them. However, UAS services are diverse and make activities such as roof inspections, land surveys and real estate property imaging, just to name a few, much more efficient and time and cost effective. Imaging, across the entire spectrum of light is a huge industry and the applications for airborne platforms, from model drones (less than 249 gms) to high orbit satellites are truly endless. This is the area the uasaviator.com wants to explore, providing services to individuals and small businesses in an effort to bring these technologies, with all of their advantages, to rural communities. We are interested in hearing from others that are either attempting to create a niche for themselves and from those who are already involved. uasaviator.com - Fly with purpose!
Small Property Damage Restoration Company Needing Some Serious Guidance!!!
Hello Everyone, my name is Jonathan and i own a small property damage restoration company in Live Oak, FL. We service a big radius including Gainesville, Ocala, The Villages and much more. Right now its just me as I've been in the industry for 18 years i work better myself but as i get more jobs on each end of my radius of service i will need to hire someone and get a van and get them helping me with these jobs. What's hard right now is i started this business a year an a half ago with nothing, no capital, no loan, just starting a job collecting a deposit and then collecting the rest at the end, and if you know the restoration industry then you know these companies don't survive off of word of mouth. many people will say word of mouth is best but if you think about it, when your home floods normally you call your insurance company or you go to google to hurry and find a company to come out and normally the top 3 companies will be the ones getting picked. So i will need SEO Marketing so that my google business page and website pop up first on google and its very very expensive I've seen 5000-8000 to get started and 2000-3000 monthly to keep you at the top and it does work I've seen it!! but as a company that literally survives off each job and doesn't get that many jobs monthly to begin with its very very hard to get up there with these big companies!!! What really bums me out is after 18 years and working with many many different companies i have a plan to implement all the good traits about these companies I've worked for to create the ultimate restoration company that is there for the community and help the customers and not my pockets like these other companies do!! Basically i need help with funding, i am currently working on my business credit i have many tradelines right now to help me build it cause my personal credit is not good enough to get a loan or any kind of funding! Does anyone know how to get Grants, Funding, Loan, Anything to help me with some working capital??
