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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Online or Bust?

December 29, 2009

I look around on the web all the time. For me it’s my education time. I learn a little here and there and then test my own Ideas to see how they work.
Contractors need to make a major push to learn everything they can with  marketing their company online. When you look at the cost of [...]

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Get ready

December 27, 2009

…to turbocharge business!!

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Contractor’s Bailout?

December 25, 2009

How to survive this market without a bailout!
Hello, it’s the first of the year and we have a new president so how come the phone is not ringing? Where is all the customers at? Contractor’s all over the country are asking how do we navigate this market? Yes, 2008 was the wake up call but [...]

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Contractor Product Mix

December 23, 2009

How contractors can add new products for maximum profit!
I see a lot of contractors sell only one product or offer one type of service. I must ask myself is this a wise choice?
So, I went on the hunt to find out the good and bad of making this choice. I started out with my partner Josh [...]

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Branding!

December 21, 2009

This is the one thing that can set your contracting company apart from everyone else. Branding is where you can make the real money.
Now let’s think about this for a minute. Look around your town and think about the other contractors that you compete with everyday. What sets you apart from them? If you are [...]

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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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