PondPros ToolBox

Train Your Team. Build Better. Run Smarter.

Member training resources and business support for pond professionals. The directory helps homeowners find you. The ToolBox helps you train your team, improve your work, run a tighter business, and get found online.

In development. The first tools are live and free to use today.

One of twelve areas

Available today, free

The online presence tools are the first part of the ToolBox to go live, built with Break The Image. Free to use whether or not you are a PondPros member.

Free web audit

We read your website, check how you show up in search, look at your reviews, listings and social profiles, pull your real keyword and backlink data, and hand you an ordered list of what to fix.

About two minutes. No sales call.

Run the audit

Project profile builder

Turn a finished job into a page that ranks, with the HTML ready to paste and alt text written for every photo slot.

Uses your real site and keyword data, so it starts from an audit.

Start with an audit

Missing page builder

Build the service and location pages you do not have yet, from the terms people are actually searching in your area.

Uses your real site and keyword data, so it starts from an audit.

Start with an audit

What gets built next is up to you

Here is what is being considered. Pick the ones you would actually use. Nothing here is available yet apart from the online presence tools above.

0 of 5 picked

Use it now

Only if you want to hear when it is ready.

In planning

Built around the job, not the job title

Training paths being planned. None of these exist yet.

Helper and apprentice

Planned

Show up useful on day one and stay safe on site.

Installer

Planned

Build to a standard that does not come back as a callback.

Service technician

Planned

Diagnose water, equipment and leaks without guessing.

Crew leader

Planned

Run a crew, a schedule and a site without the owner on it.

Designer and estimator

Planned

Design something buildable and price it so it makes money.

Project manager

Planned

Keep multiple jobs, subs and deliveries from colliding.

Sales consultant

Planned

Sell the right build without discounting to win it.

Owner and manager

Planned

Read the numbers and build a company that runs without you.

Proposed, not yet available

One membership, one login

The goal is for a single annual PondPros membership to include the directory listing and contractor profile, ToolBox access, owner manager and employee training accounts, technical and business courses, field calculators and forms, product specifications, live education and recorded seminars, the private PondPros Facebook group, industry networking and mentoring, and directory connected training achievements.

Course completed, skill verified, and company verified will mean three different things, and profiles will say exactly which one applies.

Pricing and membership levels have not been set. Nothing on this page is for sale.

Where this is going

Four stages, in order. No dates promised.

  1. Stage one

    Planning with the admin team

    Deciding scope and priorities, which is what the voting above feeds into.

  2. Stage two

    Inventory and platform

    Take stock of the training material that already exists and choose the platform to deliver it on.

  3. Stage three

    Build the first pieces

    Accounts, the first learning paths, and the priority calculators.

  4. Stage four

    Pilot, then open it up

    Run it with a small group of contractors, fix what needs fixing, then open it to members.

Who is building this

Break The Image

PondPros ToolBox is a Pond Professionals Alliance project. The online presence tools and guides are built and maintained by Break The Image, who work with pond contractors across the country.

If you would rather have the website and search work done than do it yourself, they can help — or email jeff@breaktheimage.com.