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@toddsaunders Office is currently in Kenilworth and Bridgewater. I’m in!

I want to get the most AI pilled folks in NJ for a meetup in Westfield. I have no idea how to source or find these people so please X do your thing!

@jeremyjudkins_ What’s your favorite so far?

I’ve owned five Teslas, yet I never received an invitation to order the Signature Model S/X Plaid. I have to admit, I’m quite offended. I don’t actually want to buy one, but it would’ve been nice to feel appreciated enough to at least be offered the opportunity.

@pestctrlguy What software do you use to track the doors you knock?

after we've knocked knocked every door in every neighborhood in town.. We start again. Sometimes we knock the same hood several times in one summer. We for sure knock the same houses year after year. Watch us grow our customers in one neighborhood every year from 2023-2026. People move in all the time. Their financial situation changes. They start seeing more bugs. They see our trucks and trust us. Their neighbor speaks highly of us. There are a ton of reasons why a home may say no one year and say yes the next time we knock. With time, more organic calls come from these neighborhoods. People move out and transfer their service to their new home across town. Door to door gets the ball rolling and then the business starts to grow itself.

@irentdumpsters Check out fresh books. Super simple to setup and use. You can setup templates and also charge reoccurring for maintenance contracts.

SMB BROS What is the best software in the home service space to send contracts with? Needs to be mobile friendly for my boomer dad. He got two leads today from people asking for a maintenance plan on his Generac business.

@tannerdripjobs Got one setup. It’s huge for speed to lead!

As of yesterday I’m 100% bullish on AI scheduling agents for home service

@SamTheCarpetMan @ToddLlewellyn I’ve been playing with Claude cowork! It is wild!

@teddy_slack @ToddLlewellyn One day for sure! My son programmed a Jarvis! LOL

Bold Prediction: In a day where AI agents are becoming more and more popular… the home service businesses that use real people are going to be far superior to those relying heavily on AI for communication with customers.

@FurqanR Just installed an AI agent who instantly responds to new leads via text and can book right into my calendar for a price presentation meeting. Gives the client the option for virtual or in person and also books in person meetings for repairs.

A guy running a roofing company in Texas is one of our heaviest Nebula users. Barely uses a computer beyond email. He built agents to handle inbound leads, route jobs to crews and follow up with customers. Told me he did almost 2x the jobs last month. Best part was he did all this from his phone.

This was a masterpiece AD!

@irentdumpsters 😂. I’m flying on the 3rd. Was starting to worry about all the doom and gloom online. Thanks for update!

Just took me 3 minutes to get through TSA in Fort Lauderdale All you Internet doomers make me sick

@irentdumpsters Check out wave accounting. They have a free option!

Landed my dad a $645 job today RIGHT OFF OUR GOOGLE BUSINESS PROFILE About to vibe code and invoicing app for him lol

@spwfeijen Make

The most dangerous phase of a business is when things are going well. Success makes you careless. I learned this the hard way in 2009. My second home service business had just crossed seven figures in the first 12 months. Everything was working. The phone was ringing, the crew was busy, money was coming in. And that's exactly when I made the mistake. Instead of doubling down on what was working, I got distracted by opportunity. I opened a completely different business in a completely different industry. New market, new customers, new problems I had never dealt with before. I told myself it was smart diversification. It wasn't. It was just ego dressed up as strategy. Because while I was busy learning a brand new business from scratch, my main thing stopped getting my attention. The business that had taken off, the one that was already proven, the one I actually knew how to run, started drifting. I should have just focused on my main thing and scaled it. Instead I split my time, split my energy, and split my focus at the exact moment when going all in would have compounded everything. Here's what I know now. When your business is winning, that is not the time to go exploring. That is the time to pour fuel on the fire in front of you. The biggest threat to a growing business is rarely competition or the economy. Most of the time it's the guy in the mirror chasing the next thing before he finished the first one.

I thought diversification made me safer. It actually made me fragile. Too many moving parts. Too many unknowns. One problem in one area started a domino effect.

Before you add a new service, ask yourself: 1. Does this increase margin? 2. Do we already dominate our current service? 3. Can our systems handle the complexity? If the answer isn’t yes to all three… Don’t do it.

@hvacseo Always! Then your start tripping over $100 bills to make pennies!

@teddy_slack It’s the deceiving low hanging fruit that ends up being 500 feet high once you go start reaching for it

Every new service line adds: New tools New training New risk New operational chaos Contractors underestimate this every time.

@SamTheCarpetMan Look at the market structure though. We're making higher lows and higher highs in 26 compared to 22. I think we go up from here. Only time will tell.

Bitcoin in 2022 vs 2026

At one point I had: Multiple companies Multiple crews Multiple industries And somehow… Less profit than when I was smaller. Scale without discipline is just bigger chaos.

One reason I started a roofing company this time with one core service: Residential asphalt roofing. No siding. No windows. No ten service lines. Focus first. Expansion later. Here's what most people miss about that decision. It's not just about focus. A specialized, one-service business is dramatically easier to scale. Your hiring is simple. Your training is simple. Your systems, your SOPs, your quality control all get refined around one thing until you're genuinely excellent at it. You're not splitting attention across five different trades, five different crews, five different customer problems. But the second benefit is the one nobody talks about. The exit. When you build a multi-service business and eventually sell or step back, you're often locked out. Non-competes cover everything you built. You signed away roofing and siding and gutters and windows. When you build a specialized business, you sell that one thing. Everything else is still yours. Exit residential roofing. Walk straight into commercial roofing. Or siding. Or windows. Or a completely different market altogether. You didn't give it away because you never built it in the first place. That's the play. Build one thing exceptionally well. Scale it. Exit clean. Then use it as the door to the next one. Specialization isn't a limitation. It's a strategy.