From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Contractors Here’s The Bottom Line!

February 19, 2009

Yes, I know you get overloaded with ways to run your contracting business from the all important guru’s.
They have all the latest ways to do this or that or buy this software to make this run faster.
Your advertising person has all the greatest ideas also if you run this ad the phone will blow up.
Yada-Yada-Yada [...]

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Landscaping website review

February 16, 2009

DBlandscaping.biz is located in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire in the town of Sunapee. They are a design/build landscaping firm that prefers larger high end projects. Their website has 2 major issues:

It is near impossible to find in Google and thus is invisible
The design does not compel the visitor to act or contact [...]

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Contractors Net Marketing

February 16, 2009

How to Market your Contractor Business Effectively on the Net?

It is true that the construction industry is undergoing a sharp downturn and home mortgage and building credit schemes had been severely affected. While the housing finance programs had changed a lot, there is no need to conclude that they had totally dried up. [...]

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Contractors Online Success

February 16, 2009

Possibilities for Online Success in Contractor Business

The year 2008 had been a very bad year for the housing market and the construction industry. Nearly 1 million jobs were lost during the year and home building plunged by 60%. Several banks faced severe funds crises and credit markets became extremely tight. Housing market refinance [...]

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Supplier Makes Contractor Look Good!

February 12, 2009

Why now is the best time to make supplier contractor connection!
Yes, I know this post will be a hot topic. Why do I no this? Because I wrote a post some time back about suppliers and I was rambling with Google analytics today and found that was the most read post for me.
So you all [...]

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Roofing Contractor Website Design Review

February 11, 2009

Home Restorations roofing company does alot of things right but ulimately falls short in the final push to get a customer to do something on the website. Watch this video to see how a website that gets decent Google traffic fails to lead the potential client to take the next step with the company, and [...]

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How Contractors Build Trust

February 10, 2009

How this five letter word built this country strong!
With the world in such a tailspin how do we bring back any normalcy to our country?
From the federal government to our bankers to our financial advisers just who can your trust nowadays?
Just look at A-Rod and Phelps our sports hero’s and even they have let us [...]

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Contractors, All Eyes Are On You!

February 10, 2009

How do your clients see you?
Have you ever put yourself in your clients shoes?
Yes, we spend a lot of time working on closing jobs and going back and forth with your client. Some our easy to work with and some are clients from hell. But have you really stopped to think what the clients think [...]

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A Contractors Journey

February 9, 2009

How contractors can make it with this economy!
First off let me tell you that this will be a different kind of post for me. It’s time that I speak my mind openly about some things that I have been reading on some of the forums out there. If you are a contractor then this post [...]

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Contractors and Customers?

February 3, 2009

How to turn customers into clients!
I was at a marketing seminar one time in California for a week learning how to do some extraordinary marketing and one of the features was a class on clients.
The first thing the speaker ask me if I knew the difference between a customer and a client? DUH.
Well do not [...]

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