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Eco Grizzly, Full-Service Chimney Pros - Featured ExpertHello Thumbtack! This community has been awesome to us so far and as a Platinum Pro, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Moshe T., owner of Eco Grizzly in Canoga Park, specializing in full-service fireplace and chimney services. We a… -
New Top ProAs a recently added top pro, I’m interested in knowing if you offer car decals or JPG badges for websites to support marketing. I mention that I use Angie’s List, and they provide car decals.
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Community impact — Career VillageAt the end of the year last year, we hosted our 3rd annual Thumbtack Giveback event. It's always my very favorite time of year, watching our Community come together to select a non profit to receive a grant from Thumbtack. In that s… -
Would love to!Interested in becoming a featured pro!
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My customer's feedback about ThumbtackI just had a conversation with a prospective customer asking if he had seen my reply to his inquiry in Thumbtack and his response was no, and that he wasn't likely to because he never wanted to have to log into [Thumbtack] ever agai…
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LeadsI haven't been getting leads for almost a week now. I don't know what the problem is please
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Refund RequestYesterday in the middle of the snowstorm that effected my area, I had to search for snowplow services. It was essential to have our driveway cleared for our disabled son who has home services in the morning. We paid on-line throug…
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Thumbtack must be doing badly = You can't reach anyoneThis is all I can figure out. Why can't you reach anyone? I tried to call, chat and nothing goes through or works and can't reach anyone. This is really not a good situation for customers so all I can figure is they are doing badly.
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End of year CommuniTEA session (December 21)OK team — last week in our CommuniTEA session we talked about doing something fun and different for our last session of the year. @soonerkimmy had the great idea of doing a showcase, where each of you can share 5-10 minutes about wh…
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Giveback event — Winner!We’re excited to announce that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is once again the recipient of this year’s annual Giveback event grant. They’ll receive $10,000 from Thumbtack to help them advance cures, and means of prevention,…
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Thumbtack does not care about the prosThumbtack does not care about the pros anymore it changed in 2020 when they took away the unread refund that protected us pros from bad leads they need to take phone numbers off the beauty of thumbtack use to be the customer got to …
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Featured ProI would be honored to become one of the featured pros. i have been performing magic and balloons for 23 years.
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Thumbtack Giveback — get your votes in!Today’s your last day to get your votes in for this year’s annual Thumbtack Giveback event. Check out your top 5 nominated nonprofits here and be sure to vote by midnight tonight. The winner will be announced tomorrow.
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Thumbtack Giveback — How we can give back to our communities.In the continued spirit of this year’s annual Thumbtack Giveback, we wanted to highlight another pro from our Community — and we wanted to share some ways that we can all give back, together. Our winning non-profit last year was St.…
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I’m interested in the Expert ProHey there my name is Katie Robinson and owner of Kdssociety. I’ve been apart of the thumbtack platform since 2015 and my makeup business has grown so much because of this platform. I would love to help others in advancing there busi…
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Thumbtack Giveback — Who’s your pick?Our annual Thumbtack Giveback event is in full swing. It’s wonderful to see all the different nonprofits Thumbtack pros like you nominated to receive a $10,000 grant from Thumbtack. We’ve narrowed the selection down to these 5 nonpr…
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Thumbtack Giveback — Pros who are good at giving back.In the spirit of our Thumbtack Giveback event, we wanted to highlight some pros from our Community who are good at giving back — to their local communities and to their fellow Thumbtack pros. @busyb Beth Blacker, a Thumbtack Top Pr…
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Pro Pride Month FeaturesAs a lesbian in tech and the leader of our ProudTacks ERG (LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group), I am super excited for upcoming Pride month. As part of Pride month here at Thumbtack we would love to feature some of our pros who are me…
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Annual Thumbtack Giveback Event — Help Thumbtack give back on Giving Tuesday.Each year, we come together to celebrate your accomplishments and honor the significant contributions you’ve given to your communities — and we want to help you support the causes you care about. We’re inviting you to join us in a w…
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New instant booking feesWelcome to the new Angie’s/home advisor you guys are going to drive us away! Just got an instant booking for a broken sprinkler head cost was over $70!! He just wanted me to give him a ball park on how much it would cost to fix. I i… -
Thumbtack AlgorithmFor over four years, Eco Grizzly Chimneys has diligently served our customers, consistently providing top-notch service in chimney repair, inspection, and sweeping. With 151 successful hires and an impressive 50 positive reviews on …
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A case for a better client inquiry flow (for a muralist)Hey Thumbtack, I am going to be speaking about my industry (Muralist) on ways that Thumbtack could improve things for both the user AND the pro. I decided to try out the user flow from the consumer side and see how it worked. What … -
Pro Membership and BoardHi. I’d love to be onboard as a Pro again. I was a part of the thumbtack mentorship program and events in the past.
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Being more competitive?I get these notices that I’m not being too competitive in my pricing on some things. I’ve always been a fair price with the cost of a vehicle used for work. Truck payment, gas, insurance and upkeep. I shouldn’t have to lower my pric…
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Being an expertI would absolutely love to become an expert on Thumbtack. Just let me know what I need to do. I am literally at 4.5 in only need the 4.7 to be platinum status. I have all the reviews they’re all amazing and I have plenty of projects…
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no leads for close to a monthI have seen many posts like this, but I will add mine. recently I had a stretch where I got no leads for about a month. then i got 3 leads in a day ( two of which were not very good) and then again nothing for a few weeks. I have …
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Keys to SuccessA key to success is to never let the money take priority over your clients and the level of service you provide. Customer relationships are a necessity for a successful business -
Tips for pros part 2My advice for my fellow pros not sure if this has been stated but I wanted to touchup on some helpful tips that help me to this day……start off with smaller budgets until you understand the thumbtack platform comfortably and how it w… -
Add us to the Feature pleaseWe would love to be featured Affordable Lawn care 703 LLC Thanks
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How I started on Thumb-stackI was inspired from my own talent, i come from a heavy background of I.T and technology, as well as electrical and security. It was too much skills I had under my belt, and I told myself what there’s no other platform than thumbtac…
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