Great news!!! We finally have another fully free retreat sponsored by ERGO NEXT and hosted by me!  This time I’ll be hosting YOU and cooking for up to 60 of y’all at Bonham State Park just Northeast of Dallas / Fort Worth Texas, April 16-19.  We’ll have 4 days (3 nights) together to network, share stories, and talk about business strategy.  You’ll be amazed at how much value you’ll go home with.  It’s 4 days of drinking from a firehose, in a good way.  All you need to bring is bedding (blanket, pillow, bedsheet) plus basic toiletries and whatever else you would normally bring for any weekend trip out of town. RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!

As always the lodging and meals are fully paid for by the sponsor, which this time is ERGO NEXT Insurance!  Again! ERGO NEXT has done so much to support our community that I don’t know where to start thanking them. This is the 4th weekend retreat that they’ve so generously sponsored for us.  Lets all do our part to thank them and to encourage them to continue their support of our community by going to their website HERE and getting a free quote for your business.

It’s Spring time and that means the snow is melting to reveal the winter damages and folks are getting active again!  This time of year, and moving into the early summer, is one of the best times to start socking away money for those slower summer heat periods and the slower holidays.  Right now is the perfect time to start putting together some new ad campaigns to make sure you hit the ground running.  Here is an example of an ad you could build with AI below:

Whether you’re using Google Ads, Facebook, sending out mass emails with Jobbers marketing suite, or you’re personally visiting 1,000 homes to hang door hangers, now is the time to get started.  This is also a great time to put together those onboarding packages for the larger clients so that you’re not scrambling when it’s time to hit the ground running.

For assistance generating ad copy with an AI if you’re not super comfortable with AI yet my advice is not to use a “perfect” prompt. Instead, just talk to your AI. Explain your business model, your goals, or if you really want to maximize it’s abilities you can ask it to interview you about your business. Upload your logo and screenshots of your website and any other visuals that you would like it to consider, and then simply ask it to be creative and iterate multiple times.

If you’re unsure what you’re legally allowed to do in your city (most pros still don’t fully know), you’re not alone.  Can you do electrical or plumbing? If so, what’s the billing threshold? Hell… how does your regulatory authority even define “electrical” or “plumbing”? The worst part is that even if you’re trying to be legal, most big cities in the country do random stings to catch you bidding jobs you’re not legally allowed to do and the fines can be hefty.  If you don’t get caught offering to do work that you’re not legal to do, they’ll get you on breaking the advertising regulations.

To make sure that you are legal to do the work you’re offering you can go to https://bulletproofhandyman.com right there on the home page and use the free “What Can A Handyman Do” tool I built to get a report for your city, county, and state.  The report covers almost everything you’ve ever wanted to know about invoice thresholds, specialty trades licenses required, permits, state and local business licensing, LLC filing fees, special exceptions, and a whole host of other questions you never thought to ask.  It will also give you the phone numbers and website links to exactly where to go to verify the information yourself. 

It’s not designed to be legal advice, and it isn’t designed for you to just read and then go with whatever it says, but it will get you 90+% of the way there. The last few steps for you will just be to click the links (provided) and call the numbers (provided) to verify the information.

Running a service business gets a whole lot easier when your CRM isn’t fighting you.

In this live webinar, I’m walking you through the exact workflow I run inside Jobber—from the first call to the final invoice. New work orders, assigning, scheduling, documenting, quoting, invoicing… the whole chain. The way a real handyman business uses it every day.

We’ll keep it practical, not theoretical. I’ll show you why each step matters, where most guys waste time, and how to set Jobber up so it feels like an assistant instead of another job. You can sign up and reserve your spot for the webinar HERE

There’s also a Q&A built in—bring your Jobber questions, automation ideas, integrations, or workflow issues. If you don’t have Jobber yet, start a free trial here and grab my discount (20% off for the first 6 months)

You’ll walk away with:

If you want your CRM to stop being a pain point, this is worth your time. It’ll save you hours and prevent a lot of expensive “almost right” systems.

Webinar Signup Link HERE

The spring rush is about to kick off! Now is the best time (and maybe the only time for the next few months) to really go through your tools, inventory, processes, and systems.  Pull everything out of the truck, the shed, the toolboxes and plastic totes. Get it all together and do a thorough inventory.  Hint: Take pictures while you do it for insurance purposes as well as for feeding to an AI later for your initial inventory.  This is also a great time to build some kits. Just purchase some organizational bins from Home Depot and start organizing your parts and consumables into sink kits, door kits, etc…

“Can you come by and give me an estimate?” sounds simple… until it turns into an unpaid half-day. Drive time, diagnosing, writing it up, explaining it, following up—repeat that a few times and you’re busy, but your bank account doesn’t match the effort.

So here’s the better way.

Instead of a free on-site estimate, offer a Video Range Estimate:

You get clarity fast. You don’t waste hours chasing “maybe” jobs. Everybody wins.

The estimator turns that quick video into a structured report that helps you price smarter and move faster. Your report includes:

And right now it’s free while I’m fine-tuning it. It won’t stay free forever, so use it while it’s available.

Find The Estimator Tool HERE

Film it like this:

No narration needed—simple is fine.

That’s the whole play. Fast, fair, and it keeps the spring rush from turning into chaos.

Estimator tool (free for now): HERE

Alright guys — it’s done. The masterclass is finally published, republished, and fine tuned and published again. It’s live. And as I’m typing this, we’re already past 370 enrollments.

That tells me exactly what I thought: a bunch of you aren’t sitting around looking for motivation… you want a real plan. You want to stop guessing, stop “kind of” starting, and actually get this thing moving.

And that’s what this whole setup is for.

You already know how to work.

This is the business stuff that decides whether you make money or you stay broke while being exhausted:
pricing, workflow, clients, and systems.

The masterclass is the roadmap to getting up and running. The tools are what keep you from lying to yourself on the math.

1) Startup Budget Builder
If you don’t know what it costs to start and run this business, you’re flying blind. This lays it out so you can stop surprise-paying for everything like it’s an emergency.
HERE

2) Overhead + Hourly Rate Calculator
This is the backbone. If you don’t know your overhead and your real hourly number, then your pricing is basically a vibe. And vibes don’t pay bills.
HERE

3) Rate Book Builder
This is how you stop pricing every job from scratch like it’s your first day on earth. Build your common jobs into a rate book so quoting gets fast, consistent, and profitable.
HERE

4) Tools Hub (all the other stuff)
Legal/licensing lookup, estimator tool, templates, checklists — all the little systems that keep you from reinventing the wheel and wasting your life.
HERE

If you’ve been stuck in “I’m almost ready”… this is the bridge.

Masterclass + tools = you having a plan, having the math, and having the structure to start your handyman business now.

And Finally… I can’t thank ERGO NEXT Insurance enough for their continued sponsorship of this channel and our live in-person events. They also happen to be the sponsor of this newsletter too, and we can’t do this without them. Please go show them we appreciate them by getting a free quote HERE