If you need work this week: today, 30 names on paper and 10 announcement texts (play 3). Tonight, join 2 Facebook groups in your town and answer the first thread asking for your trade (play 7). On Friday, one text to every open quote older than 3 days (play 14).
→ The plays, one per page
Tap one. Each page is a complete play with the script to copy. At the end, “Next play”.
- 1The base decides everything
- 2Your Google profile: we build it, you feed it
- 3Your first 20 jobs are already in your phone
- 4Every job is a free ad
- 5The customers who already paid you: year two lives in your phone
- 6Church, school and your WhatsApp groups
- 7Facebook groups: win the thread
- 8Nextdoor: get the neighbor to say your name
- 9The people who hand out jobs all day
- 10Partner trades: trade customers, do not buy them
- 11When you want to pay for customers
- 12Pay with presence, not with ads
- 13Earn $97 a month for referring us
- 14The full weekly rhythm
Just starting? Your first week, day by day →
Read the whole guide on one page
Sources
Sources (every number comes from one of these)
- Jobber 2026 Home Service Trends Report (1,050 owners, Dec 2025) and Recent Homebuyer Report (800 homeowners, May 2026), getjobber.com
- BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (1,002 adults) and Consumer Search Behavior 2026 series (1,227 adults), brightlocal.com
- Roofing Contractor surveys 2025 and 2026 (with ROOFLE and myCLEARopinion), roofingcontractor.com
- CallRail, missed call survey (1,000 consumers, Sept 2025) · Invoca Buyer Conversion Report (60M+ calls, 2025) · MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Study (15,000+ leads)
- Housecall Pro Customer Service Report (1,040 homeowners, Oct 2025) · LocalIQ Home Services Benchmarks (3,211 campaigns) · SearchLight Digital, LSA benchmark (888 contractors, Feb 2026)
- Pew Research Center (5,022 adults, 2025) · Schmitt, Skiera and Van den Bulte, Journal of Marketing (~10,000 customers)
- Nextdoor: Q2 2026 investor reports, Home Maintenance Report (1,500 adults) and Neighborhood Faves rules · Meta commerce and spam policies · Buy Nothing Project rules
- Valve+Meter, Speed to Lead (466 companies, secret shopper) · CFPB (RESPA) · NAR · ASHI code of ethics · State adjuster rules
- Sherwin-Williams STIR (designers) · NetVendor and Lula (vendor compliance) · ACHR News (sponsorships) · Youth league rate sheets (Derby LL, Drexel Hill LL) · Schapiro Group study (2,000 adults) · BNI data (self-reported, and labeled that way) · Mike Holt forums
- Sign and flyer costs: A.G.E. Graphics, SignsDirect, DTD, PipelineOn, ThinkFlyers · USPS mailbox rule
- Sterling Sky, controlled Google profile tests (2025-2026) · Nextdoor, 2026 Fave Awards vote and self-promotion rules of August 19, 2026 · CFPB, RESPA (what counts as a settlement service) · Trade Ally programs at Puget Sound Energy, Consumers Energy and Focus on Energy (2026) · FCC/TCPA and carrier rules for A2P 10DLC (2025)
- Jobber 2026 (repeat customers 59%, answer within 1 hour 55% vs 20%) · BrightLocal 2026 (74% only read reviews from the last 3 months; 89% expect an owner reply) · Invoca 2026 (48% of calls unanswered, 70M calls) · Google review policy (no incentives)
- Real threads on r/sweatystartup, r/Contractor, r/smallbusiness, r/localseo, r/Thumbtack, ContractorTalk, Mike Holt, LawnSite and X (Aug 2026)
Made by Slate Systems, August 2026. Numbers we could not verify in their original source were left out on purpose, including several famous ones.