Do you like working with your hands? Caleb Ingraham used his construction skills to start a $25K/month handyman business, and he’s sharing his advice on how to become a handyman in this interview.

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Caleb started off as a remodeling carpenter, but he quickly realized there was a huge unmet demand for handyman services. This led him to start a handyman business, North Seattle Handyman. Five years in, he’s consistently booked up for 6 weeks out with jobs and is in the process of scaling his business to meet this high demand.

Today, we’ll hear Caleb’s advice for how to start a handyman business from scratch. We’ll find out his handyman startup pricing, how he spent his initial investment, and what a new entrepreneur should budget for starting a handyman business. One secret of Caleb’s success is his ability to quickly grow a customer base. We’ll learn how he built his early marketing funnel and what advertising strategies were most productive for landing handyman jobs when he was first starting out.

Thanks to that early marketing success, Caleb is facing a different challenge: he has more work than he can do alone. We’ll see what systems he’s building now to improve his job scheduling, and how he’s hired reliable workers to help him scale his business. We’ll also hear what his next goals are for North Seattle Handyman and how the processes he’s working on now will help him reach them.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:53 Meeting Caleb
2:38 Average Monthly Revenue
3:50 Van Set Up
5:14 Monthly Overhead
6:46 Skills To Be A Handyman
8:40 When It’s a Good Time To Become a Handyman
9:34 Resources That Helped in the First 2 Years of Business
11:29 Importance of a Website
12:56 Marketing and Advertising
14:11 Effective Marketing Funnel
14:45 Average Customers Served and Average Invoice
15:53 Build Out of the Van
17:03 Initial Investment
17:40 Equipment Needed
18:33 Supplies Used as a Handyman
19:28 Process of Scheduling Customers
20:31 Employees
21:46 Are Some Tools Used More Than Others?
22:45 How He Got a $100 Hourly Rate
24:02 Pros and Cons Running This Business Out Of His Home
24:45 Insurance
26:04 Blitz
27:45 Estimating a Job Correctly
28:30 What Caleb is Doing To Scale
29:25 What Is The Demand For Handymen?
30:48 Workload
31:56 Hiring Employees
32:47 Challenging Things as a Handyman
34:14 Types of Jobs a Handyman Does
36:50 Advice To Fellow Entrepreneurs

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