From the monthly archives:

May 2010

How to Market A Contractor’s Website [video]

May 31, 2010

Learn about contractor marketing as Pete Ericson reviews a contractor’s website based in Sarasota, Florida. Learn a few tricks on how to get your website found at the top of Google search results, how to make your website easy to navigate, and how to make it easy for your customers to contact you. Any contractor’s [...]

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Contractor Business & Marketing

May 29, 2010

Are You A Contractor Maven In Your Niche?
It’s a new world out there when it comes time to find “leads for contractors” and now more then ever you must dig deep to find quality clients.
But how do you go about setting yourself apart from the other “home improvement contractors?”
First, I would start off with a [...]

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Contractor Marketing

May 27, 2010

Marketing your construction company does not have to be hard to do as long as you put a plan together and a budget. After years of trail and error marketing I finally figured it out the hard way. The main thing I want to teach you is that you do not need to spend a [...]

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Private – For Your Eyes Only!

May 24, 2010

I don’t know about you, but there’s something unsettling about all the information that’s available online. We do our banking, bill-paying, and purchasing online, all using account #’s, PINS, and personal information that is, well, personal. Talk about trusting the system.
Even this blog is just open to all who want to see it and read [...]

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Construction Marketing Consultant Website Review

May 22, 2010

This video explores the low trust factor and navigation difficulty that this website has. Watch the video to learn how to improve the website ‘trust’ factor as well as reorganize the website navigation to make it easier to find the rich content that the site has to offer.

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Contractor Leads

May 20, 2010

Are finding good quality leads like finding a needle in a hay stack?
This has always been a sore subject in the past and mainly because a lot of contractors get mad when there lead company sells the lead to many contractors.
To me it’s the lazy way out of getting contractor leads.
I can only believe [...]

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Florida For Sale? Half Price!

May 18, 2010

If your looking to retire in Florida or make up that 401K loss then now is the time to buy!
Real estate right now anywhere in Florida is selling for half price on foreclosures. If the bank owns it then now would be a great time to embarrass your real estate broker with an offer.
On the [...]

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Contractor’s Deadly Mistake

May 14, 2010

After talking to contractor’s all over the the country this year, I found one word that they all seamed to use and for the ones that used it, I noticed they all were in trouble because of the economy.
The word is assume ! See they all assumed that business would come back around because it [...]

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Business is Booming Around Here!

May 12, 2010

Contractors business is in high mode right now!
Did someone turn on the light at the end of this tunnel? Wow our business here in Florida was poking along this season then all of a sudden the phones blew up with leads.
We are making sales and last month and this month so far are reaching new [...]

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Contractor Video Secrets

May 10, 2010

Learn How to Make Video’s Easy!
This has got to be my best investment yet when it comes to adding to my marketing tools. The Flip camera is so easy to use and then download onto your site is a breeze.
The video of me on our new blog was done using the Flip camera. For contractors [...]

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