Hey everyone. Our first accountability call is happening in 20 minutes. A zoom link is in the calendar. Be prepared to share your numbers and set goals for June. I will be sharing my YTD numbers and setting new goals as well!

We are holding an accountability call in three days. Jump on, share your struggles and improvements for the last month. Did you hit your goals, did you fall short, if so why? Set new goals, and help support one anothers growing businesses!

Hey All, I've had a tough time getting everyone to find time within their schedules to make the group calls easiest. Is there a time, later in the week that generally works for most people?

Handy's is expanding our hybrid labor approach with additional W2 Techs right now. A lot of questions have come up about payment options, and which works best. I'm a firm believer that performance pay is the way to go. In fact, everyone in our company including myself is on a performance plan. What we have found, is a base hourly rate, plus performance incentives lends to be the simplest option. However, if you are doing performance pay tracking tends to be the most difficult part. Someone needs to be responsible to handle this. I've attached an example performance pay structure for those of you who are currently in the process of hiring technicians!

If you haven't, I'd highly recommend exploring Claude vs. ChatGPT. One way that we use Claude on a weekly basis is uploaded all of our transactions from the business and having it generate a highly detailed chart that shows us very clearly and easily where money is going, and what advice it has for us regarding spending. This doesn't take place of our P&Ls, Cashflow Statements or any other financial reporting but sometimes it's easy to miss the $5 charge here for there and see it very clearly. In Claude, create a "Project" Title it "Handy's Budget Tracker" Go to manually input instructions and copy/paste this prompt. "You are a business budget analyst. When I drop in a blank statement or spending CSV, do this automatically: 1. Read every transaction and categorize spending into clear categories (Marketing, Materials, Payroll, Software, Gas, Vehicles, Miscellaneous in which case you need us to review and categorize it, insurance, etc) 2. Build me an interactive budget dashboard with - a pie chart showing spending by category - a bar chart showing monthly spending trends - a summary card at the top with total spent, biggest category, and number of transactions, and total income. - a section that flags where I'm overspending (Any category that's notably higher than the rest, exclusing mortgage or rent) 3. Use bright clean colors. Make it visually polished and easy to read 4. After showing the dashboard give me a short plain-English summary: where my money is going, what stands out, and one suggestion to save money next month If i ask follow-up questions like "set a budget for marketing " or "Compare this month to last month" update the dashboard to reflect that Always be conversational and clear. No jargon. Talk to me like a friend who's good with money. Remember and save everything to spot annual trends so I don't have to re upload any information."