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January 2018 Newsletter

Welcome New Members, Renewed Members & Lifetime Members.

Member News, and Updates

Feature Article

How to Decide What Services to Offer

Being a handyman professional is more than just being skilled with your hands and eager to perform services in your customers' homes. There are more skills you need to be a good handyman - the kind that people want to hire. To own a successful handyman business, look at these ways to evaluate your skills and decide which services you should offer.

List your skills.

This step is simple - make a list of the skills and things you're good at, from installing ceiling fans to changing air filters. Even if it's a simple task, jot it down. People are willing to pay to have those tasks completed.

List the skills you want to learn.

Think about what services you'd like to provide and learn how to provide them. The more specialized you become, the more money you can charge. Google and Youtube are two sources you can go to. Simple services like installing shelves is another great niche. Make sure you specialize in something you are interested in so you are more motivated to learn new skills.

Do some research.

See what other handymen are offering by checking their websites. Look at Craigslist and note what services people are asking for so you know what is in demand. Check your state's contractors board so you know if you need special licensing to offer services too.

It's essential to know what you want to offer your customers. The better you understand what you offer, the easier it is to run a smooth and efficient business. Maybe 2018 will be a breakthrough year for you offering more services.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Kicking off 2018 with a bang!

ACHP partners with Fluidmaster! Each month Fluidmaster will feature a popular item exclusive to ACHP members. Check out our ACHP-Fluidmaster webpage, select your favorite place to shop and Save. Get it online and beef up your inventory for 2018!
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ACHP partners with Lowes. Exclusive ACHP Member Benefits. Save on all your purchases at Lowes.

See ACHP-Lowes Flyer here

Application tutorial

Fluidmaster 502 - PERFORMAX® ADJUSTABLE 2 inch FLAPPER

With significantly more 5 star reviews on retailers like Home Depot and Lowe's than other comparable brands of flappers, the Fluidmaster 502 Adjustable Toilet Flapper has become the gold standard of all flappers. The 502 Flapper will fit most toilets with 2 inch flush valves, and the easy to read adjustable dial can control the amount of water that will be flushed, resulting in an optimal flush for any "water - savings" make or model toilet it is installed in.

Unlike other brands of flappers, the arms of the Fluidmaster 502 Flapper keeps its rigidity over time thus ensuring a tight seal and consistent flush. Also, the easy install mounting brackets makes this flapper a very quick and easy install. The 502 flapper is a "must carry" product for all your toilet repair jobs.

To find out more about this product and where you can buy it (including contractor packs), please click on this link:

https://www.fluidmaster.com/502-flapper-achp/

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ACHP Members Training Videos

The ACHP Sharpening Project - "Iron sharpens iron"

Have you ever video recorded your home improvements and repair skills? Would you like to? If so, ACHP has a video "how to links" in the Members Area that could use more member videos. It helps others visualize correct practices and allows you to give back to our craft; "give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime". Please pass your skills along to preserve what others passed to you.
To participate, please send a link to your YouTube, Vimeo, etc video here.

INSURANCE REMINDER! Everyone, especially LIFETIME MEMBERS purchasing or renewing an ACHP Insurance policy MUST use their member id (5 digits only)! No exceptions! Your Member ID is located on you ACHP Member Certificate (bottom right corner). If you have any questions regarding your ID contact us immediately. See example image below:

Purchase or Renew your insurance policy here

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ACHP Insurance Program Contact Info

Need a question answered about insurance? Want to speak to someone about your quote? Contact Lockton at 888-230-3438.

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Please check your ACHP Listing!

Many customers visit our site daily looking for a handyman. Unfortunately, some of our ACHP members have not created or submitted a listing to the directory and are losing out on good revenue. Please log in to your ACHP account and click on "create a listing", fill in the info, then click " continue/submit" then the " submit" button on the next page to activate your listing. Please note clicking the "save" link will not submit your listing to the directory, you must click "submit". ACHP does not nor is not a referral based company. However, ACHP allows you as a member, to use our directory listing to advertise your services.

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MORE REVENUE FOR YOU! Garage Gator announces: "all ACHP Members are now eligible to install their products". In the past all ACHP Members were required to take and pass the Garage Gator installation exam, this is no longer required. All members listings are used for Garage Gator installation opportunities. ACHP will keep the exam in place for those who wish to learn prior to installing the systems. Below are the links to the necessary forms. Questions? Garage Gator can be contacted at: sales@garagegator.com or 352-742-0702

Want to Sell Garage Gator Products to your customers?

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CBG - Community Buying Group
We've added new benefits from Dell, Citrix Podio, UpCounsel, House Flipping Spreadsheet and more. Unfortunately, Lowes is no longer participating in the Community Buying Group.

We also have meaningful conversations going with 10 major national suppliers at different stages that we hope will lead to exciting news.

Community Buying Group is still a hassle-free way for you to attract and retain members and customers as a turnkey benefits program. Once they join your organization, and you get them to register with CBG at no cost to them, we take on all of the communication and customer service responsibilities related to their benefits.

Don't forget to sign up to the ACHP-Community Buying Group below. It's free to all ACHP Members.

ACHP-Community Buyers Group

Join the many ACHP Members who have signed up and are saving! Through the ACHP Partnership with Community Buying Group the program offers tremendous savings with Sears, Sunbelt, Sherwin Williams, and many other of your favorite places to shop. Click here to go to the ACHP-CBG Landing sign-up page.

This member discount program is FREE and provided by ACHP for its member. Please take advantage of it and save LOTS!

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Cool Tool

Fluidmaster 502 Adjustable Toilet Flapper

Eazy Peezy Lemon Squeezy

ADT Referral Program

ACHP Members receive $200 for each referred and installed ADT system. It's as easy as printing a flyer, staple your business card to it, hand it to all your customers, and collect $200 for each installed system you refer. Easy money! Log into your account for more info and to print the handout flyer.

Are You Leaving Money On The Table?

LEARN THE BEST WAY TO PRICE YOUR SERVICES SO YOU GET MORE JOBS, KEEP MORE CUSTOMERS, AND MAKE MORE MONEY.

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Get our Affordable Handyman Insurance Policy

Need Insurance? Click on your country flag below.

Check Out Our Updated Blog Content

Every week, we are adding new blog posts that are consumer-friendly that cover a wide range of home improvement topics to draw in more traffic from search engines. Our goal is to bring consumers to the ACHP site, who will then have an opportunity to use our Handyman Professional directory to find their next hire. Click here to visit the blog.

Have a topic you'd like us to cover on the blog? Email the idea to ACHP communications advisor at service@handymanassociation.org

Exclusive Member Resources and Opportunities

All ACHP Members are now eligible to install Garage Gator

Garage Gator and ACHP have a program for those who wish to add a new skillset and more revenue to their business. Log in to your ACHP account ("My Account"), click on the Gator icon.

Garage Gator serves US and Canada

Garage Gator Installation for ACHP Members

Promo1America - Promotional Branding Consultants

Promo1America is happy to partner with the members of the Association of Certified Handyman Professionals and offer a significant discount on promotional items. They offer a tremendously broad range of categories and products with your logo on! Please feel free to browse their website www.promo1america.com or call/speak to your rep Mary Ellen Walsh at 1-877-703-9460 ext 6505.

Please be sure to:

Say you are an ACHP Member
Speak to Mary Ellen

"Any products prices that you see on the website will be discounted per order"

Office Depot/Office Max Member Discount - Free shipping on orders over $50, and a coupon for 15% off your first online order!

The Association of Certified Handyman Professionals (ACHP) is excited to announce an additional 15% off on first-time online purchases for the Office Depot/OfficeMax Discount Program to help you save money on office supplies. You can take advantage of discounts of up to 80% off thousands of preferred products. Plus, FREE next-day shipping on online orders of $50 or more along with an additional 15% off first time online buyers. You can save online or in-stores today.

Be sure to print out your free Store Purchasing Card on our Office Depot/OfficeMax website before going into your local Office Depot/OfficeMax store to ensure you receive your savings - they'll even laminate it for you for free.

You can order online by going to http://achp.ctcshares.com and use coupon code 61112117 to take advantage of this additional 15% offer.

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Are your Customers Able to Find You?

Our search requests continue to increase significantly. The new search engine installed in August was indeed what the doctor ordered. This means more and more folks are browsing our directory listings. However, many of you have not updated your listing in a while. In some cases, customers are having difficulties reaching you because of outdated information in your listing. How do we know this? Some of them are calling ACHP. Makes us wonder how many customers are reluctant to go the extra mile thus contacting someone else with a working or displayed phone number, etc.

To fix this problem:

Ensure you have access, if not contact us immediately.
Click on "My Directory Listings" then "Edit". Ensure your information is up to date.
Enter a city, state, zip code in the display map. If not, the search engine will not be able to find you by zip code search.

Ensure your email and phone number is correct, etc. Add more unique keywords.

My Lifter

ACHP teams up with myLifter. 10% off on all products for ACHP members. Show your customers, they will love this. Easy installation. Click the link under the logo to see how it works. Get the Promo code by logging into your "My Account" area

More Member Resources. Log in to access!

Check out The ACHP Store!

Items such as ACHP shirts, hats, decals, and more.

ACHP Member Referral Program. Refer new members and earn. To Read more about the program, login to My Account and click on the ACHP Member Referral Program icon at the bottom of the page.