A short YouTube talk by Mike Andes explaining why home-service businesses should simplify and standardize their service offerings. He argues that focusing on core competencies and reducing the variety of services reduces on-site waste, lowers training needs, cuts material overages, and enables bulk-purchase discounts—improving efficiency and cost control.
Simplifying your services in your home service business, a lot of times people talk about simplifying services. I don't mean you have to do just basic, small little jobs. Even if you're doing massive projects, you can standardize what you're doing and in doing so, reduce the waste on job sites, reduce the amount of training for your crew, reduce the amount of overages that you have to purchase, and be able to get discounts on buying more of the same materials. There's so many positive things about simplifying your services. Reducing the amount of services that you offer and focusing on your core competencies.
