Guides for growing your company

Start a company, find work or run a crew.

Start a company

Start your own pool monitoring business
Guidance for starting a pool monitoring company: what the work is, the company steps to take first, hiring monitors, and why pool rules differ from place to place.
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Start your own lifeguarding business
Guidance for starting a lifeguarding company: lifeguard certification, how pool staffing rules vary, hiring young guards, and the company steps to take first.
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Start your own porter company
Guidance for starting a porter company: what porter service is, the company steps to take first, hiring a crew, and the insurance and credentials communities ask about.
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How a porter company works
Guidance on how a porter company is organized: the scope it sells, the schedule, the crew, the records, and the paperwork behind it.
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How to find work on HOAcrew
The steps from a first application to a community choosing your proposal, in the order they happen.
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Writing proposals that get read
Guidance on writing a proposal for a community association: what to include, the documents to have ready, and what the community does with it.
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Finding new customers
Guidance for a pool, lifeguard or porter company on finding community association customers: who hires, where to start, and what to have ready.
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Emailing customers: the basics
The federal CAN-SPAM basics for a small company writing to prospective customers, cited to the FTC, plus guidance on writing a short, useful message.
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How your crew uses the app
What a vendor’s employees do on a workday, and what to settle on paper before adding anyone to a company.
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Pool cleaning: what you need to offer it
What community pool cleaning involves, the credentials and insurance vendors commonly line up, and how each item fits the VendoRFP setup checklist, with sources.
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Pool monitoring: what you need to offer it
What a pool monitor does and how it differs from a lifeguard, the insurance and documents vendors line up, and how each item fits the VendoRFP setup checklist, with sources.
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Lifeguarding: what you need to offer it
What a lifeguard does and how it differs from a pool monitor, the certificates and insurance vendors line up, and how each item fits the VendoRFP setup checklist, with sources.
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Porter services: what you need to offer them
What a community porter does and how it differs from janitorial and handyman work, the insurance and documents vendors line up, and how each item fits the VendoRFP setup checklist.
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