Run Your Own Profitable Handyman Business In 3 Steps

Two of the focuses of my blog are Financial Literacy/Money and Business/Entrepreneurship. There is a lot of power in learning the skill trades. Not only are they profitable skills on an individual level as a singular ‘handyman’, but they can be powerful once harnessed into a business. The following contributed post is entitled, Run Your Own Profitable Handyman Business In 3 Steps.

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If you would like to start up your own small business and you know exactly what you would like to do with it, then that is something that you will want to think about long and hard before taking the necessary steps. One of the small businesses that many people think of turning to when they want to just help people out in their local area is the handyman business. This is where you are essentially a general handyman for the people in your area, and help them out with whatever home problems they might have. It’s a great career choice if you have always thought of yourself as a handy person to have around, and you will find that it is varied enough that it remains interesting, while ensuring that you get plenty of custom. Let’s see how to make it profitable.

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Know How To Market Yourself

First of all you have to make sure that people are actually going to hear about your services, which is not necessarily something that will always come easily. Marketing yourself as a one-person small business means that you want to focus on making yourself the brand image and vice versa. As long as you do that, you will find that you are going to get many interested people wanting your services. It’s a simple matter of advertising yourself in the local paper, on local radio, and simply by talking about your services with as many people as possible too. If you do all that, you are going to find that you are getting many more customers in no time.

Schedule Yourself Properly

It’s important to ensure that you tread the line between having no customers and being far too busy. That means that you need to learn how to properly schedule yourself, which is something that anyone can easily learn – but it does take some patience and practice to do so. One of the best ways to make this easier for yourself is to get hold of some decent handyman software, scheduling software which can help you with every aspect of running your business – from planning out your days and weeks to chasing up invoices and everything in between. By scheduling yourself properly, you show yourself respect and you ensure that you are operating in a profitable manner.

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Define Your Ideal Customers

It’s important to know who your ideal target customers are going to be, as that will inform the way in which you market your services and you will find that you are going to be much more likely to have a lot of them flooding in at any one time. This is likely going to be based on research you have carried out in your local area, and that requires that you have a good understanding of the people that you live and work amongst. That is vital in making yourself a part of the local community in a strong way, and therefore building trust with people as you would hope to.

Author: anwaryusef

Anwar Y. Dunbar is a Regulatory Scientist. Being a naturally curious person, he is also a student of all things. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor’s Degree in General Biology from Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). Prior to starting the Big Words Blog Site, Anwar published and contributed to numerous research articles in competitive scientific journals reporting on his research from graduate school and postdoctoral years. After falling in love with writing, he contributed to the now defunct Examiner.com, and the Edvocate where he regularly wrote about: Education-related stories/topics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Financial Literacy; as well as conducted interviews with notable individuals such as actor and author Hill Harper. Having many influences, one of his most notable heroes is author, intellectual and speaker, Malcolm Gladwell, author of books including Outliers and David and Goliath. Anwar has his hands in many, many activities. In addition to writing, Anwar actively mentors youth, works to spread awareness of STEM careers, serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, serves as Treasurer for the JCSU Washington, DC Alumni Chapter, and is active in the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church. He also tutors in the subjects of biology, chemistry and physics. Along with his multi-talented older brother Amahl Dunbar (designer of the Big Words logos, inventor and a plethora of other things), Anwar is a “Fanboy” and really enjoys Science-Fiction and Superhero movies including but not restricted to Captain America Civil War, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Prometheus. He is a proud native of Buffalo, NY.

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