From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Marketing Mistakes

January 26, 2009

Which of These 3 Marketing Mistakes Are You Making?
1. Wasting Money on Yellow Pages
2. You are not Marketing Online
3. Not Working Your Existing Client Base
So let’s start with number 1 first. If you are spending any money on Yellow Pages then you should no you are tossing your dollars in the trash. Everybody will tell [...]

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Contractors Blog?

January 22, 2009

How contractors can blog there way to more profits!
I must say that writing on your blog can be at times some what boring, because you just do not see much traffic and you wonder to yourself if anyone even cares what you are writing.
Well I have written over 70 post articles and I finally realized [...]

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What’s the diffrence between buying and selling?

January 19, 2009

How a relationship starts with either a contractor or homeowner can depend a lot on who initiates it.

 
 
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately on the way people are trying to generate sales. And saw another post on a blog and thought i would elaborate on it.
 I’m seeing a lot more guys out [...]

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Contractor’s Profit Pillars

January 11, 2009

How to easily build profit pillars in your contracting business!
I see so many contractors miss the opportunity to make more money because they walk around with blinders on or have this idea that this is all I no and all I can do attitude. Horse dodo.
I like to think of profit pillars as a diving [...]

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Contractor Goals 2009

January 11, 2009

How to set achievable goals for 2009!
Yes, it’s a relief that 2008 is over with and we hope we are off that wild ride for awhile. I don’t no about you but in my 25 years in the business I have never seen it like this ever. I had to pull all my bag a [...]

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When is Good Enough OK? Never!

January 4, 2009

How a salesman fixes a good enough attitude with an installer.
I personally feel that with the market as it is today, we should be doing the best work we can. Client’s are harder to close and they demand not only a good price but they expect perfect work.
So when a salesman is out there selling [...]

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Contractorblab.com Coming Soon

January 4, 2009

Hey what happened to contractorblab.com?
Hi it’s Glen and Josh and we have had everyone asking what happened to contractorblab.com. So let me give you all a run down and let you know where we are as of today.
First off we are close to launching the member site. The experts we hired advised us to [...]

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