In small rural areas... How do you keep your prices reasonable?
In small rural areas, given the rising cost of everything else, how do we keep our prices reasonable without hurting our own pockets buying equipment, products etc.? The income in the area is below average, which makes it **bleep** would be consumers needing services.What percentage of revenue did you spend on marketing in 2025, and what's your 2026 target?
We try to keep our marketing spend in the 5–7% range. I’m curious where others landed for 2025 and what you’re targeting for 2026. For growing service businesses, what marketing percentage actually drove healthy growth in 2025, and what level of spend has proven sustainable for you year over year?What Are the Best Practices for Expanding Painting Service Contracts?
I have a painting service contract for our customers. It has worked out well for the last year but we haven't signed up a lot of customers. I think we have 15 customers on service contracts right now. I really want to vamp this up but I am hoping to get insight from other businesses on best practices for service contracts. I'm also trying to figure out if I should just sell as many as I can and then hire a full time person to service those clients, or keep slowly adding them until I can hire someone full-time to do it. I have been hesitant to go after this super hard because I don't want to be in a position where I can't get to our service contract clients for too long.Looking to collaborate with Junk removal, landscape or cleaning companies.
Hello Jobber world, I am a small Canadian owned and operated pest control company operating in Toronto, Ontario. I am putting this message out to try to get in touch with a small commercial cleaning, landscape and junk removal company to share some work. Also open to creative ideas also, pressure washing comapnies, HVAC, construction, lawn care...anything we can do as small business owners to share the work. My business model is a full service pest control company, and all three of these services are going to be offered to my customers due to the importance of each. I plan to do most of it myself at the beginning, but would like to have some other local Canadian owned small business owners to share work leads. I do not want to work with a large operation to outsource work because I am a huge believer in owner/operated businesses, hence why I (and likely yourself) started my own business I would love to hear from anyone reading this and you can email me anytime at pestfreecanada@gmail.com
Launching This Summer Looking for Tips on Hosting a Free Service Day for Veterans & Seniors
We’re getting ready to launch AquaDogs Pressure Washing this summer, and we want to kick things off with a free service day for veterans and seniors in our town. For those of you who’ve done community-focused events or local givebacks. How did you promote it, stay organized, and still make it financially sustainable in those early days? Would love any lessons learned!
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