Each one does a single job that's currently either not happening or eating your evenings. You can run one or all five. Most owners start with the first and add the second once they've seen it work.
Your phone rings while your hands are full and it rolls to voicemail. Within seconds, that caller gets a text from your number — sorry I missed you, what do you need, I'll get right back. Almost nobody leaves a voicemail anymore. Nearly everybody answers a text. The job that was about to go to the next name on the search results comes back to you instead.
You do good work and it stays invisible because asking for a review feels awkward and you forget by the time you're back in the truck. After a job closes, a text goes out with the Google link right in it. No clipboard, no QR code taped to the dash, no asking anybody's face to face. Reviews are the thing that decides which of you gets called first next time.
You price the job, send it over, and hear nothing. Was it the number? Did they go with someone else? Are they still thinking? Most of the time they just got busy. The system checks back on day 2, day 7, and day 14 — short, polite, from your number — so you stop carrying a mental list of everybody who hasn't answered yet.
A text the day before and another the morning of. They reply to confirm or push it out. Fewer trucks pulling into empty driveways, fewer holes in the schedule you find out about at 8:05am, fewer hours of your day spent calling people to ask if we're still on.
Somebody had their furnace tuned last October. This September, they get a text. Somebody's due for service at six months — same idea. This is work you already earned once, sitting in a list nobody has time to go through. The system goes through it for you, on a schedule, without anybody having to remember September is coming.
If it isn't on that list, I'd rather tell you no.
I do five things and I do them properly. Custom work sounds flattering right up until it's half-finished and neither of us is happy, so if you ask me for something outside the list I'll either quote it honestly high or point you at somebody better suited. That's not me being difficult — it's the reason the five things above actually work.
Bangor · Brewer · Orono · Old Town · Hampden · Holden · Veazie · Ellsworth · Newport · Waterville — and most places within an hour of them.
