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Complete startup business plans for the home-services trades — a 13-chapter plan you read and fill in, with worksheets, a licensing table for your state, and a 90-day launch runway. PDF ebook on Etsy, paperback on Amazon, free companion kit here.

40 workbooksGoogle Sheets + ExcelOne-time purchase
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Water Treatment Business Startup Plan & Workbook

You already know what a resin bed does. You can set a metered valve in your sleep. What you do not have is a company — a name on a truck, a price you can defend, a phone that rings on its own, and a bank balance that survives February. This workbook is the business half of the trade.

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Standby Generator Installation Business Startup Plan & Workbook

You can set a generator on a pad, run the gas, land the conductors in a transfer switch and make it start on a power cut. That is the part you already know. This book is the other half — the half that decides whether you own a company in a year or go back to somebody else's truck.

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Smoke and Mold Remediation Business Startup Plan & Workbook

You already know how to build containment, run a scrubber and find the leak behind the drywall. What nobody taught you is how to price it, license it, insure it, sell it and collect on it. This workbook is that missing half — written for the tech who is ready to put his own name on the truck.

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Business Plans

Siding Business Startup Plan & Workbook

You already know how to hang a wall. Nobody ever showed you how to run the company that hangs it. This is that part, written for the installer who has the trade and not the business — the crew member, the weekend guy, the one who just got handed a layoff slip.

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Business Plans

Roofing Business Startup Plan & Workbook

You already know how to roof. That was never the problem. The problem is the entity, the insurance, the price you pull out of the air in a driveway, and the month the truck payment beats the deposits.

Educational estimates only. These calculators and workbooks do the arithmetic on the figures you enter; they are general-purpose tools, not financial, investment, tax, legal, lending, insurance or construction advice, and no result is a quote, an offer, or a guarantee of any outcome. Results depend entirely on your inputs and assumptions.