Choose by the problem, not by the service name. If you are busy but not earning enough, start with pricing. If you have room in the calendar but the phone is quiet, start with getting found. If you are working every evening, look at scheduling. If you are turning work away, it is time to plan a first hire. If the house is bursting, look at leaving home. Each service below says who it suits and what you walk away with.
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Pricing and profit review
Rates that pay for the hours nobody sees: driving, quoting, admin and the evenings.
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Getting found without a storefront
Be easy to find and easy to trust when your address is a house you want to keep private.
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Scheduling and capacity planning
A week that holds more paid work and still ends when the family sits down for dinner.
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Solo-to-first-hire planning
Know when the numbers can carry a second person, and what to hand over first.
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The leave-home decision
A clear, costed answer to whether it is time for a shop, unit or office.
Pricing and profit review
For owners who are busy, tired and still not putting enough money aside. We calculate your true cost per hour, including the unpaid time a home business hides so well, and turn it into rates, minimum charges and travel fees you can explain to customers without apologising.
You leave with a price sheet, a script for telling existing customers about a change, and a simple monthly check so prices never drift again. Details are on the pricing and profit page.
Getting found without a storefront
For owners whose work is good but whose phone is too quiet. With no sign and no shop window, your business exists only where people look: map results, search, neighbourhood groups and the recommendations of past customers.
We set those up so the business looks established and trustworthy while your home address stays private where that is allowed. See getting found.
Scheduling and capacity planning
For owners who are booked solid yet feel they are always catching up. Home-based work leaks time in ways a shop does not: driving across town twice in a day, answering messages at the dinner table, and quoting jobs that never book.
We design a weekly pattern with area days, admin blocks and quoting rules, and pick tools that fit a one- or two-person operation. See scheduling and capacity.
Solo-to-first-hire planning
For owners who are turning down work or burning out. The first hire is the most expensive decision most home businesses make, and the most often rushed.
We test the numbers, decide whether you need a helper, a subcontractor or an admin person first, and list the questions to take to the CRA, your provincial workers' compensation board and an accountant. See first hire.
The leave-home decision
For owners who have run out of garage, driveway, spare room or patience. Moving out can lift capacity and credibility, or it can saddle a healthy business with rent it cannot carry.
We cost the move, compare options such as a shared unit or storage locker, and set clear trigger points so the decision is made on numbers. See leaving home.
How the services fit together
Most growth paths follow the same order: price, then demand, then time, then people, then space. Fixing them out of order is the commonest mistake we see. A first hire on underpriced work loses money twice. A move to a unit before demand is steady turns rent into stress.
| If this sounds like you | Start with |
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| Busy, but the bank balance doesn't show it | Pricing and profit |
| Free time in the week and a quiet phone | Getting found |
| Full week, constant catch-up, late nights | Scheduling and capacity |
| Turning down work every week | First hire |
| No room for equipment, stock or clients | Leaving home |
How engagements are priced
Every service can be bought as an hourly session, a fixed-price project or part of a monthly retainer. Hourly consulting runs $175 to $350, projects $3,500 to $25,000 and retainers $2,500 to $12,000 a month, all in Canadian dollars plus GST/HST at your province's rate. The pricing page shows which format suits which service, and the free 30-minute first call is where we work out the smallest option that answers your question.
Want to read before you talk? The guides cover pricing, the first hire and the move out of the house in depth.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need all five services?
Almost never. Most owners have one bottleneck that blocks everything else. We find it first, fix it, and only then talk about the next one.
Which service do people usually start with?
Pricing, more often than anything else. When rates are too low, every other fix just makes you busier without making you better off.
Do you do the work or just advise?
Both, depending on the engagement. An hourly session is advice; a project or retainer can include building your listings, templates and schedules with you. The scope is confirmed in writing before we start.
Can you help with zoning or licensing for my home business?
No. Those rules belong to your municipality and vary widely across Canada. We will flag the questions to ask your city, but the answers have to come from them.