Review generation and reputation for a handyman business
This is the highest-return item on the list for most handyman businesses, and the numbers say why. The median listing here has 3 reviews. 71.7% have fewer than ten and 25.6% have none. Getting to 25 puts you ahead of 86.5% of the field, and 25 reviews is one year of asking properly.
You have an advantage no other trade has. You are standing there when the customer sees the finished work. The shelf is up, the door closes, the patch is invisible. Asking out loud at that moment, phone already open to the review page, converts far better than a text three days later. The text is the backup, not the plan.
The mistake is asking everyone at once and then going quiet for six months. Velocity matters more than the total. Two weeks in, working looks like four to eight new reviews, a written ask you use on every job, and a reply under every review you already have.