Business development kit
Free tools, templates, and trade pricing guides grouped by the job you are trying to do — price work correctly, sell it in writing, deliver with documentation, get paid, and show up where homeowners search. No account required for the current kit.
Price it
Most underpriced jobs trace back to the same mistake: quoting from wage instead of loaded labor, or from loaded labor without overhead recovery. The kit starts with shop rate, labor burden, and job pricing calculators that force those layers visible before you write a number on an estimate.
Trade pricing guides (plumber, electrician, HVAC, roofer) walk through rate build-up, regional benchmarks, worked examples, and the mistakes that silently erase margin. Each guide links to the homeowner cost page for the same work so you and your customer are reading from aligned ranges.
Use markup and margin tools when a bookkeeper says “twenty percent” and you need to know whether that is on cost or on sell price — confusing the two underprices every job by several points.
Sell it
An estimate that is only a single number invites the customer to compare you on price alone. Templates for estimates, proposals, and scopes of work give you clause libraries, required fields, and PDF export so scope, exclusions, validity dates, and change-order language are on the page before work starts.
“Should I take this job?” is the go/no-go check against your margin floor when dispatch is busy and it is tempting to say yes to everything.
Proposals are structured to sell the plan — problem, approach, timeline, tiered options — not just the bottom line. That is especially useful on replacements and remodels where good/better/best framing changes average ticket without discounting.
Deliver it
After the sale, documentation protects you on callbacks and collections. The service report generator produces a branded PDF the customer can keep — what was done, what was found, what was recommended next.
Field calculators and the code reference hub are for the truck: wire size, superheat and subcooling, concrete volume, refrigerant PT charts, and similar math with stated assumptions. They are planning aids, not substitutes for the adopted code in your jurisdiction.
Delivering cleanly reduces dispute calls and makes invoice line items match what the customer already saw in writing.
Get paid and get found
Cash flow tools — estimated tax set-aside for 1099 income, invoice templates, job profitability checks — sit beside the selling tools because pricing wrong and getting paid late are the same problem seen from two angles.
Getting found is not pay-to-play here. Schema markup generator helps your site speak LocalBusiness JSON-LD to search engines; the GBP audit checklist scores your Google Business Profile against a consistent rubric. Embed calculators let you put customer-facing estimators on your own site where allowed.
None of this requires claiming a directory profile, though claiming helps when homeowners click through from guides or Ask a Pro answers.
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- Pricing guide: plumber
- Pricing guide: electrician
- Pricing guide: hvac contractor
- Pricing guide: roofer
- Pricing guide: general contractor
- Pricing guide: painter
- Pricing guide: flooring installer
- Pricing guide: landscaper
- Pricing guide: carpenter
- Pricing guide: concrete contractor
- Template: estimate
- Template: invoice
- Template: proposal
- Template: scope of work
- Template: change order
- Template: payment schedule
- Template: service agreement
- Template: maintenance plan
- Template: workmanship warranty
- Template: job completion checklist
- Template: review request
- Template: estimate follow up
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