Skimmer Blog

Five blunt lessons on running a profitable pool service company: hold your pricing, protect your operating model, and let the wrong customers walk away.

Private equity, rising competition, and staffing churn are reshaping pool service. Ten insights on where the industry is heading and how to stay independent.

Connect with Skimmer at pool and spa trade shows across the US.

From 12 customers to 1,300 pools a month. Five lessons on spending to grow, hiring to fill gaps, buying routes, and getting customers onto autopay.

With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 500 Percent, This Marks Skimmer’s 3rd Time on the List

Skimmer now integrates with LaMotte Spin Touch photometers, so water test results go straight from the device into the customer's service record.

We chatted with Cool Pool People's Todd Gustafson about the biggest lessons he's learned while building the business.

Ten growth tips for pool pros: swap lead vendors for paid search and SEO, learn what a customer is really worth, and decide whether to build or buy a route.

Pool owners hire for expertise, convenience, and time savings, not the lowest bid. How to sell on value instead of price and stop the race to the bottom.

Where to find pool technicians, what to look for in an interview, and how to onboard and keep them. A hiring playbook from an operator who's done it at scale.

This blog post is a summary of a Between Two Stops episode co-hosted by Niki Acosta and accounting expert Sharon Burch.

Skimmer's public API lets enterprise customers connect Skimmer to the rest of their tech stack and build workflows around their own operations.