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What Does “Identify Your Customer” Actually Mean?
This is where I got confused, when business advice says things like “create your customer avatar.”
Because if your work covers a wide range of job types, it’s hard to even know what that means.
Which customer are you supposed to identify?
The customer calling for drywall repair?
The customer buying a pergola?
The commercial customer needing ongoing maintenance?
The homeowner with a random punch list?
Those are completely different jobs with completely different buying behaviors.
So when you try to create one “ideal customer,” everything starts becoming vague and generic.
That’s usually the real issue.
Not that you can’t identify your customer.
It’s that the business itself is too broad to produce a clear customer pattern.
The work determines the customer more than people realize.
A customer spending $15,000-$20,000 on an outdoor structure behaves very differently than someone calling around trying to get a ceiling fan installed cheap.
Different expectations.
Different urgency.
Different communication.
Different decision making.
Different budgets.
The service itself filters the customer.
That’s why narrowing your services down starts making customer identification easier.
Once the work becomes more repeatable, patterns start showing up:
• the same types of questions
• the same expectations
• the same objections
• the same scheduling patterns
• the same profit margins
• the same types of customers
That’s when systems start becoming possible too.
Because now you’re not trying to build processes around completely unrelated work.
A lot of handyman businesses struggle with systems because every job moves the business in a different direction.
Every estimate feels custom.
Every conversation starts from zero.
Every customer has different expectations.
That makes it hard to standardize anything.
Customer avatars make a lot more sense once the business consistently solves the same category of problems.
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What Does “Identify Your Customer” Actually Mean?
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