WHY THESE BOOKS

The trades taught me business the hard way. Every job came with the same pressures every company faces: customers to keep, cash to manage, people to lead, and mistakes that cost real money. The industry changes. The problems don't. A restaurant owner, an agency founder, and a contractor all lose money the same way: by paying for the same lesson twice. My books turn what I learned in the field into systems any business can run, with no theory and no hype. Just the hard-earned knowledge that keeps a company standing when things go sideways, and helps it grow when they don't.

COMING NOVEMBER 2026

IN THE WORKS

Failing to Fail

Calls, Conversion, Profit

How Great Businesses Turn Setbacks into Systems

Turn every setback into a system.

TimmyBoy's playbook for the Trades Designed for small shops.

More from the field is on the way.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Written by someone who's lived it.

Tim Sjobeck has spent more than 30 years in the trades. He built a Sacramento plumbing and HVAC company named Best of the Best nine years in a row, then sold it in 2021. As a ServiceTitan Program Facilitator, he trains contractors on the systems behind a well-run shop. He founded Advancing the Trades to give that knowledge back to the industry that raised him.

Bring the Books to Your Team

Every book becomes a working session. Tim's workshops take the systems off the page and into your shop, built around your team's real problems, not a lecture.