How to Thrive as a Handyman in 2021

handymanWhether you’re trained as an electrician, a plumber, or a carpenter, this year will have provided you with unforeseen challenges that you’ve found it incredibly difficult to overcome.

There is little doubt that, for handymen, there’s been a shortage in work over the past few months – especially during periods where families were advised to stay home and not mix with the outside world. With the world ‘coming back online’ at much the same time as a winter ‘second wave’ of the virus is imminent, this article offers tips on regaining your success and profitability into next year.

Business Plan

Even if you’re a self-employed contractor working alone, you’re still a business. Your brand is your name, and your particular skill – be that fixing wiring or building tables and cabinets – is your service. All of this can still be computed into business plans that are used by larger businesses – and these plans will help you understand what you need to do to thrive in 2021.

Most of all, you’ll see where you can improve your working life – making jobs more efficient and less time-consuming – so that you can pick up more work, and drive higher profits for yourself.

Upping Your Rates

Many individuals feel it is only fair that handymen are paid more to perform work while there’s a pandemic. As they’re continually exposing themselves to greater risk of contracting the virus, and there’s no way of performing their work from home, they deserve a little extra in the way of renumeration. With this view now relatively widespread, it’s recommended that you up your rates in accordance with the current standard for handymen. You can explain this to your regular customers as extra fees – ones that you are shouldering to keep your business afloat.

Insurance

There’s nothing that takes the wind out of your sails quite so profoundly as a loss of earnings through legal disputes or other moments during which you’re required to part with thousands of your hard-earned dollars. This is the biggest nightmare for carpenters, builders, electricians, and plumbers – but smart insurance coverage by Next Insurance can help you escape the fees associated with mishaps in your business’ lifespan. To protect your firm from all of the disasters that could befall it next year, it’s recommended that you invest in an insurance package tailored to your profession and your risk profile.

COVID Secure

There’s still going to be a huge amount of disruption and difficulty in the coming year – much of it as a result of continuing COVID infections. There’s also the recession – the scale of which we might not have seen for nearly a century. Combined, this makes for a difficult time for contractors and handymen. The advice here is simple: remain as COVID-19-secure a you possibly can, using all the protection recommended by the WHO to work safely and to make your clients feel safe as you work in their homes.

Protect yourself from difficulties in the future, and boost your business and income, with the tips outlined above.

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