Dan Perry: Handyman | Small Business Owner
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Learn how to start or grow a handyman business
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed operator conversations turn handyman jobs into practical lessons about pricing, scheduling, hiring, sales, and service selection.
Dan Perry treats handyman work as an operating business, moving from jobs on the calendar to the decisions that keep the calendar full. Solo guidance and detailed interviews cover quoting, daily administration, pricing, hiring, sales, and the choice between independent ownership…
A queue of 150 inquiries meets an empty calendar; your toolbelt won't solve this one.
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Hard choices, not easy ones, drive the growth message here.
Dan Perry makes a clear case that business growth rarely comes from the comfortable route. He frames the appeal of a handyman business built without sacrifice, then turns it down by showing that hard calls, uncertainty, and tradeoffs are part of anything built to last.
A blunt pricing lesson built from five unprofitable handyman jobs.
Dan Perry frames pricing as the real trap in a handyman business, with more than $50,000 lost in his first year as a pro. He uses five of his least profitable jobs to show how those mistakes played out, then lands on the central lesson: a customer's sense that a job looks easy…
Spring prep for home-service businesses that pairs local visibility with tighter pricing.
Dan Perry treats spring as the spark, but the steadier point is readiness: a small handyman business can use the first warm weeks to get ahead of the calls that come with home-service demand.
A grounded argument for lowering expectations and judging business by the long game.
Dan Perry makes a plainspoken case for low expectations as a way to avoid constant frustration while building and growing a business. He ties mindset to better judgment, more enjoyment, and a greater tolerance for uncertainty, then uses Morgan Housel's stock-market example to…
A grounded sales-and-hiring walkthrough for growing a service business.
Dan Perry's conversation with Tommy Mello, founder and CEO of A1 Garage Doors, centers home-service growth on sales language, hiring discipline, and job-site habits.
A practical case for why credibility helps win customers, support pricing, and build loyalty.
The episode treats credibility as a practical asset for a handyman business: it helps bring in new customers, supports sales, makes higher prices easier to defend, and can build loyalty over time.
A practical look at staying small, focused, and workable in handyman services.
This episode stays on the handyman business model: keep the jobs small, stay inside the handyman lane, and do not drift into work that pulls in heavier licensing or general contractor territory.
A grounded hiring conversation for trades owners who need better people and a cleaner screen.
Rick McFadden and Dan Perry focus on a hard truth in the handyman business: hiring is not just about skill, but about finding someone who can work with customers and still do the basics well. McFadden's story gives the advice some weight, too.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
The host discusses managing expectations by sharing personal experiences of job dissatisfaction and how reading 'The 4-Hour Workweek' inspired a shift away from a conventional 9-to-5 life.
So why do people fail?
Host Dan Perry interviews Evaristo Gomez, who started his handyman business A Pleasant Handyman Service about a year ago.
Dan Perry opens with a question that has been on his mind for a while: does it make sense to hire employees and scale a handyman business, or is it better to stay solo?
Host Dan Perry argues that maintaining low expectations is a crucial strategy for entrepreneurial success and personal happiness.
Dan Perry interviews Bryan Clayton, who built a Tennessee landscaping company to more than $10 million in annual revenue and later co-founded GreenPal.
Dan Perry explains on The Handyman Startup Podcast how estimating a project can move earnings from $50 per hour or less to $200 per hour or more.
Easy growth sounds fishy for a reason.
Dan Perry talks with Rick McFadden, the owner and founder of Enhance Property Maintenance in Colorado.
Dan Perry talks with Pat Lund about aging-in-place services and why the niche matters.
Dan Perry talks with Will Lingard, a UK handyman who has been running Surly Hills Handyman and other local service businesses for about nine years.
Dan Perry walks through five of his least profitable handyman jobs.
Dan Perry opens by saying he is switching things up with an interview and that this one was really good.
Dan Perry zeroes in on credibility as a major force in sales.
Dan Perry sits down with Tommy Mello for a practical look at growing a home-service business.
Dan Perry uses TV mounting as a simple example for thinking more clearly about a home service business.
Dan Perry shares four simple strategies to prepare for the busy season in a handyman business: investing in CRM software, setting up a Google Business Profile, dialing in pricing, and preparing service promotion answers to boost profits and professionalism.