The weekly report on local trades and business
Hometown Trades Journal
Weekly conversations about homes and businesses across America.
Two hosts break down what local companies are seeing on the job: what customers ask, what changes with the season, and what to know before you hire. New episodes every week.
Latest episode
Catering Fayetteville AR: Notice, Prices and How the Food Arrives
Fayetteville, ArkansasTwo hosts cover catering in Fayetteville, AR: the 24-hour notice, what a person costs, how office lunches and events are set up, a Fayetteville office lunch that arrived ahead of the meeting, and how to choose a caterer, with Rx Catering NWA.
What each episode covers
Each episode reports on one local service business, as a third party and in the third person. Three questions run through every one.
What customers ask
The questions customers put to a local company, and how the company answers them.
What changes with the season
How the work, the schedule and the advice shift from one time of year to the next.
What to know before you hire
What to check, what to ask and what to expect before you hire a local company.
Two hosts and a narrator
Dakota
Host
Warm and curious. Dakota sets up what the listener wants to know and asks the plain follow-up question.
Roger
Host
Calm and a little dry. Roger carries the facts and pushes back gently when something sounds too easy.
Nichole
Video narrator
Nichole narrates the show’s videos on YouTube.
That’s the Hometown Trades Journal. New episodes every week. Thanks for listening.