A PUBLICATION FROM TRADEFIX · EST. 2026
The Field
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Writing for the shop owners, dispatchers, and techs actually running the business. Dispatch, billing, memberships, growth — no vendor fluff, no listicles.
VOL. 01 · 6 ISSUES PUBLISHED
Why ServiceTitan isn't built for your shop.
It is a great product. It is also the wrong product for 85% of the trade shops in this country — and the math is not close.
The real cost of unbilled jobs.
An unbilled job is not just unpaid money. It is also the most expensive hour on the truck — the one that didn't get turned into an invoice.
How to quote a job in under 5 minutes (and still win it).
Speed-to-quote is the single strongest predictor of estimate close rate. Faster quotes close. Slower quotes die. Here is how the best shops build them in five.
The case for memberships: how trades build predictable revenue.
Every trade shop that has sold for a 4×+ multiple in the last five years had one thing in common. It was not the brand. It was the recurring revenue line.
What separates the $500K shops from the $5M shops.
It is rarely price. It is almost never the quality of the work. It is, almost every time, the systems running quietly behind the trucks.
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