From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Contractor Blog Steps Out Of Sandbox!

December 31, 2009

After 9 long months contractor blog gets major boost!
If anyone out there writes a blog then you no how at times you wonder is anyone listening?
I have wrote 99% of our posts and I have stared at this screen many of time with a blank screen just thinking what to write.
I don’t write just to [...]

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Shining Star Salesman Wins For Contractor!

December 29, 2009

How one salesman makes a difference.
Have you ever seen how one person can single handily outsell all the others?
For some of us you sit and wonder what the hell does this guy or gal have that I don’t?
Is it better sales skills? Better training? Better closing techniques? Maybe they are just more organized? But do [...]

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Get ready

December 27, 2009

…to turbocharge business!!

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Forum or Membership?

December 19, 2009

This week has been a busy week, especially if you are keeping up with the housing market, which reaches out and effects all of us. It never ceases to amaze me how we get ourselves into these messes. But the part that hurts the most is all the money the banks have made off all of [...]

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Contractors Online Marketing

December 17, 2009

How to make online Marketing for contractor sales roar in 2009
I don’t think most contractors clearly understand the power of online marketing. Most are still stuck in the rut of marketing in let say the yellow pages. Believe this dinosaur is dead they just have not covered it up yet.
Let’s think about it, when was the [...]

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Employees or Work Horses?

December 15, 2009

This post may piss off some contractors but hey we all can’t be nice all the time and sometimes things just need to be brought out in the open and talked about.
Now I know you either have employees or subcontractors working for you, but to me they are still people. Yes, real living and breathing [...]

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S&T Part 3 The Magic

December 11, 2009

How contractors can use strategy and tactics to there benefit!
Look at your current business operations. I will bet money your contracting business is being run tactically- meaning all you have driving your business is a commitment to “advertise” or throw a sign up outside your business or send out a few flyer’s. This not a [...]

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Favorite time of year.

December 7, 2009

The winter is my favorite time of year. Not because i like the snow, cold, darkness or lack of work. Actually now that I think about it I really hate winter. But it gives me time to sit back and look back on the past year.
When we are so busy in the summertime i never have [...]

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Contractor Leads

December 5, 2009

How Contractors Can Generate Leads The Easy Way!
Let’s face it we all need leads to run our contractor business. But is there a way other then using the dreaded lead service. You know the one that sell you the lead but then sells it 20 more times to other contractors in your area.
Now I will [...]

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Have Consumers Lost There Mind?

December 3, 2009

Customers must think they are buying a car, not home improvements from a contractor.
Yes, I understand things are a little different right now with the economy the way it is right now. But when the guys and gals out there selling everyday come back to the office telling me that the last appointment they were [...]

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