I grew and sold a home services business with unusually high margins. I’m now a business consultant with a guarantee to my clients that most people consider “absurd”. Always happy to give free advice - AMA

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses weekly profit within 90 days, or I give them their money back. Crazy, yep, but it’s real.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

\- What your business does
\- Approx revenue range
\- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
\- How you currently get customers
\- Your biggest current bottleneck
\- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 8 days ago
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I built and sold a highly profitable home services business and now help service businesses improve profit. AMA.

No course, no e-book, no lead magnet. Just doing this because I enjoy it.

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses profit within 90 days.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

\- What your business does
\- Approx revenue range
\- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
\- How you currently get customers
\- Your biggest current bottleneck
\- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 15 days ago

I grew and sold a home services business with very high margins. AMA about pricing, sales, margins, and profit.

No course, no lead magnet, no e-book. Just genuine rapid fire advice because I enjoy it.

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses profit within 90 days.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

- What your business does
- Approx revenue range
- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
- How you currently get customers
- Your biggest current bottleneck
- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 21 days ago
▲ 2 r/AMA

I built and sold a home services business and now help service businesses improve profit. AMA.

No course, no e-book, no lead magnet. Just doing this because I enjoy it.

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses profit within 90 days.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

- What your business does
- Approx revenue range
- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
- How you currently get customers
- Your biggest current bottleneck
- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 21 days ago

I grew and sold a home services business with very high margins. AMA about pricing, sales, margins, and profit.

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses profit within 90 days.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

- What your business does
- Approx revenue range
- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
- How you currently get customers
- Your biggest current bottleneck
- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 21 days ago

I built and sold a home services business. AMA about pricing, margins, quoting, follow-up and making service businesses more profitable

No course, no e-book, no lead magnet, just free advice because I enjoy it.

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses profit within 90 days.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

- What your business does
- Approx revenue range
- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
- How you currently get customers
- Your biggest current bottleneck
- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 21 days ago

I grew and sold a home-services business. Comment your service business and I’ll give you the first few profit levers I’d look at. AMA style.

Hey everyone,

I work with service-based businesses to find the profit that’s already sitting inside the business, usually through better pricing, margins, offer structure, follow-up, sales process, and operations. Generally my consultancy service doubles a businesses profit within 90 days.

I’m doing a free advice/AMA thread for any service business owners who want a second set of eyes on their business.

Quick background so you know where the advice is coming from:
I studied entrepreneurship and small business, then worked as Head of Business Development for a B2B company serving clients from small businesses through to government departments.

After that, I moved overseas and started a home services business from scratch. I grew it, ran it for 3+ years, built it into an industry leader in service and profitability, reached very high margins, and eventually sold it to a larger competitor.

Since then, I’ve helped service-business owners improve pricing, increase close rates, tighten their offers, fix weak follow-up, and make more profit from the business they already have.

A lot of owners think they need “more leads”, but in my experience, more leads only help once the economics, offer, pricing, and follow-up are already working properly. Otherwise, it usually just creates more noise and more work.

So, if you want advice, comment with:

- What your business does
- Approx revenue range
- Approx profit/margin, if you know it
- How you currently get customers
- Your biggest current bottleneck
- Whether you want to grow, or simply make more profit from the same amount of work

I’ll reply with the first few things I’d look at if it were my business.

Also, none of my advice here will be AI-generated. I’m not going to copy/paste generic ChatGPT answers. I’ll read what you write and give you my actual take based on your situation and my experience.

No pitch, no sale. Happy to keep it public so other people can learn from it too.

Fire away.

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u/nadnerBG — 21 days ago
▲ 3 r/Plastering+1 crossposts

Best way to smooth out these walls before repainting?

The walls need to be batten-free as we require a smooth background for filming/photography.

I’m certainly not an expert so the following is what I believe to be true, happy to be corrected though!

They are (I believe) plywood walls, or similar. The plan was to attach plasterboard over the top, but if there’s a simpler solution we’re hoping to find it. Removing the battens and plastering the gaps sounds great, but you can’t plaster plywood. Is there a solution to smoothing out the gaps if we were to remove the battens? Is woodfiller/epoxy an option?

u/nadnerBG — 3 months ago

More context:
- Mainly focusing on attraction, but a full money model example would be amazing
- We serve small businesses, charging them $3-8k/year depending on what we do for them

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u/nadnerBG — 4 months ago

Like, one that would work in a skin cancer clinic? Different online job ads have a variance of close to $500k so any real experience would be appreciated!

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u/nadnerBG — 4 months ago