Morning everyone! I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks now and decided recently to completely switch gears in regard to who my target market is and what direction I want to take my business. For that reason I'm going to completely shut down this Skool community and start up a new one down the road in a different coaching niche. Appreciate you guys being here and I wish the best for all of you!! Rachel

In case you've missed it, Skool has a built in system to gamify communities to encourage participation. When you post or comment and someone else likes your post or comment you get a point. Members points are shown next to their avatar, right now we're all 1's so pretty level playing field. As you gain points you get on leaderboards for the group, there are three leaderboards, a 7 day, a 30 day and all time. Starting today I'm adding some fun and incentive to get you guys posting with weekly and monthly prizes. We will use both the 7 day leaderboard and the 30 day. I've attached a screen grab and you can see the leaderboard right inside the group under the Leaderboard menu. 💰For anyone who wins the 7 day challenge the prize is a $20 Amazon gift card. This is a one time thing, once you win the gift card you can win again but the prize will go to the next person on the board. 👩‍🔬 For the person who wins the 30 day challenge they will get a full business audit which includes an interview, audit of your legal setups, CRM system, books, marketing basics and people management. Of course after the audit is completed I'll give you my recommendations. Again, this prize is only available to you one time. 7️⃣ Day Challenge will run from Friday - Friday - it starts Friday mornings and ends the following week at the end of the day on Thursday. The first challenge starts tomorrow July 26th! 3️⃣0️⃣ Day Challenge will run from the 1st of every month until the end of the month to keep it simple. Questions? Let me know here 👇 PS - if you know anyone who runs a small business in home services or trades and they would benefit from this group, please send them our way! https://www.skool.com/homeproarizona/about

Have you ever made a big mistake and created an awkward situation with your customer? In other words something went sideways and although they may not be angry they expect resolution? Or have you ever done a job for a customer and they are outright angry at the outcome? These steps will get you out of a sticky situation and if you do it right you'll turn them into a customer for life! https://www.skool.com/homeproarizona/classroom/37ad3a7e?md=fabcc17f91ae4743a2f97dc1b2f8c3ef

It's real quiet in here so I thought I'd start a dog sharing post. This boy is one of my dogs, Cooper is his name and he's a big doofus, sometimes a pain in the butt, and the love of my life. 💗 ****Also a reminder to please take advantage of my offer of a 1 on 1 onboarding call with each of you. I'm here to support and coach you guys to help you start or grow your businesses!****

Hi all! I wanted to share this because we're going through it right now. 😅 My husband and I moved to AZ from WA State a little over two years ago. He started his handyman business in San Tan Valley in July of 2022 and we were able to get him to work full time within a couple of weeks. He has a website and all of the marketing tools you need of course but to get him started we signed up for Yelp ads to the tune of $600 per month. Although that is crazy expensive it worked for us and we continued to pay for ads for I'd say six months, each month we'd dial it down until he didn't need to advertise any longer. BUT we recently moved north up to Paulden and we're trying to go about this differently and not give Yelp anymore of our money. So far we have put up yard signs in Prescott....he's only been able to find good spots for three signs and he's gotten two calls so far after a week. Not terrible! I asked our pest control guy in San Tan how he advertises and he told me the only thing that has ever worked for him was signs so we thought we'd give it a try. He also researched property managers in our area and went to seven of them the past two days, introduced himself and gave them his contact, insurance, W9, web and socials. So far three or four of them have send him vendor packets to get on their vendor list. Lastly we are advertising in the local AZ Values publication that goes out monthly. It was $225 for a 1/4 page ad for I believe three cities around us, a hell of a lot cheaper than Yelp. :) It comes out next week so we're hoping for some good activity from that. I'll let you know how it goes as we continue to try to build his business and please comment if you have any tips or ideas!