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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.What does your Q3 and Q4 Planning Look Like?
Here we are, second half of the year! I think we all started the year with the best intentions. Maybe you're on track, maybe you've let yourself get busy and not work ON the business. I'm curious, what things are you going to focus on in the second half of the year to stay on track or get back on track? For me we've been on a little bit of a whirlwind. I've had a lot of turnover so I'm trying to get a few more really good technicians to expand our capacity. Amazingly enough we've done more revenue with less people. I'm also trying to optimize our phone call intake process/ people. My secondary goal is to optimize our project management system through click up. We've started using the program for admin tasks and some on the job stuff but I'd really like to get that dialed in so next year we can focus on optimizing systems, not creating whole new ones. What are you working on to move the needle for the back half of the year?What things have you implemented to Buy Back Your Time?
I love the book by Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time, but its hard to begin the process of implementation. Some things I've done to buy back my time are: Hire a bookkeeper Hire a PT admin. Some things I'd love to implement to buy back my time, is truly hire someone who can estimate my jobs. Estimation companies are terrible, we've tried so many and each electrical job is truly different in every way that it takes time to price out jobs.What’s hardest to keep under control as your business grows?
As your business grows, whether you’re solo or leading a team, what’s been the hardest thing to keep on track? Have you built a system for it yet, or are you still figuring it out? In this episode of Masters of Home Service, ryaantuttle and WiringByron covers: Why getting busier without systems creates more chaos The importance of locking in cash flow, business plans, and org charts before growth Simple processes (like estimating and invoicing) that make scaling easier Want to put these tips into action? Download our free business scaling readiness checklist. Never miss an episode of Masters of Home Service. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Looking to scale, need advice
Hello, I am just seeking advice, I am a one man crew (with 1-2 helpers when available) for Lawn care, Parging & Snow removal (all insured). I am getting a large quantity of calls, bookings & deposits. But how can a sole proprietor scale up from me, to a crew of 5 and pay $25 an hour and be able to keep them working for months, or years to come? I cant see the "vision" of how to achieve that, sure I can get more clients. But its definitely tough with the massive undercuts of prices. Just some friendly advice will do, thanks all! MattJobber Summit is BACK for its 5th year! 🎉
Registration is open for Jobber Summit, the ultimate professional development event for home service pros on March 5, 2025! 👉 Claim your spot now! Here’s what you can expect: Proven advice from industry leaders Build connections with live networking Attend when it works best for you All online and completely free 👉 Claim your spot now! What are you most excited about for Jobber Summit!?Im 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.
