The Home Depot Foundation just dropped $10 million into skilled trades training. That includes a new $1 million partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, aimed at introducing kids and teens in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Houston to careers in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC.

Here’s the thing: in home services, your reputation isn’t your logo, your trucks, or even your radio jingle. It’s your reviews. Google and Yelp own that story.

Maybe a roofer, landscaper, painter, plumber, whatever...Your days are spent elbow deep in real work, not tangled in dashboards, apps, or searching for marketing tips.

You can’t run a great service business with a mediocre fleet. And yet, most companies treat fleet like an afterthought.

Trane just flipped its BrainBox AI buy into a launchpad for autonomous HVAC built to move fast, cut energy, kill emissions, and make every other “smart building” look outdated

If you’re running an HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or roofing business in 2025, you’re in one of the most competitive land grabs in home services history.

Nuve Home might be the most important thing to happen to HVAC customer retention since the service agreement. Not because it’s a sexy new gadget. But because it’s a plain and simple business move.

Let’s be clear, this isn’t bad news. It’s the opportunity of the year. Ace Hardware just dropped a survey that 87% of millennial homeowners have repairs they haven’t finished, and 84% are still putting them off.

Chances are you’ve used a Snap-On wrench, installed a Trane unit, or ordered parts from Ferguson. But did you know a lot of these companies are publicly traded?

This thing isn’t a marketing agency. It’s a platform. Built specifically for contractors. Made to plug into your workflow and do one thing really well: turn word of mouth into money.

E-DEN just dropped a mobile app designed for techs, not sales reps, that instantly generates a Good-Better-Best quote based on real-time pricing and local equipment availability.

Roto-Rooter’s growth just hit the brakes. Q1 2025 revenue crept up just 1.8%, while EBITDA fell 2.4% and margins compressed by over 100 bps. When one of the most recognized plumbing brand in the country starts slipping, it’s not just their problem it’s a signal for the entire industry.

If you’re trying to grow a business, whether you’ve got 3 trucks or 300, there are five things you need to get obsessed with.

When Gerry Finney sold his HVAC and plumbing business, he wasn’t ready to ride off into retirement. Instead, he did something most former contractors don’t and ran toward the chaos.

This is one of the most debated topics in the home service world: should you pay techs hourly, or move to performance pay?

Hiring in construction is stuck in the past—and it's costing contractors time, money, and projects. Propel People, a new mobile-first hiring platform built for the construction industry, is flipping the script with AI-powered tools designed for the field, not the office.