Oct 16, 2026 · 13 min · 8 segments
If you’re starting a home services business or you’re early in one and can’t tell what actually matters from what just feels like it matters, this is the video for you. Chad Peterman, CEO of Peterman…
Here's the list of things new owners burn months on that don't move anything in the early stage.
Perfecting the logo and the truck wrap before you have enough trucks to matter.
Design is important, but design decisions made at one truck don't need to be agonized over.
Get something clean, get it in the market, and refine it when it's worth refining.
Every hour you spend watching what the guy down the street is doing is an hour you're not spending on your own operation.
At the early stage, you don't have the volume to make competitive intelligence actionable anyway.
A lot of new owners buy enterprise level software because they're building for the future.
Often the right move is to understand whether the busyness is durable before you add the overhead.
I would say the two or three things that when I look back I spent a lot of time on were things that I wasn't skilled at.
However, because I wasn't the right expert in the room, it took me far too long, and usually I ended up shelving the project anyway because I could never figure it out.
What I know now is hiring the right people, maybe at a little slower pace, is a heck of a lot better than hiring someone who isn't a fit for your organization.
Here's the list of things new owners burn months on that don't move anything in the early stage.
Perfecting the logo and the truck wrap before you have enough trucks to matter.
Design is important, but design decisions made at one truck don't need to be agonized over.
Get something clean, get it in the market, and refine it when it's worth refining.
Every hour you spend watching what the guy down the street is doing is an hour you're not spending on your own operation.
At the early stage, you don't have the volume to make competitive intelligence actionable anyway.
A lot of new owners buy enterprise level software because they're building for the future.
Often the right move is to understand whether the busyness is durable before you add the overhead.
I would say the two or three things that when I look back I spent a lot of time on were things that I wasn't skilled at.
However, because I wasn't the right expert in the room, it took me far too long, and usually I ended up shelving the project anyway because I could never figure it out.
What I know now is hiring the right people, maybe at a little slower pace, is a heck of a lot better than hiring someone who isn't a fit for your organization.
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