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Some Contractors Are Booming!

February 17, 2010

How a 2 hour drive south changed my thinking !
I work and play in the Sarasota, Florida area and yes we have stayed busy in our area ,I was hoping for a wave of work once the snow birds arrived.
We did see increases in sales but nothing that made me jump for joy. I personally [...]

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Contractor’s Deadly Mistake

February 9, 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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Contractor Leverage

February 3, 2010

You are the leverage in your company, you and only you!
Think about it for a minute, you must be the driving force to get your company to where it is today. Right? You are the one with the ideas,vision,talent, so you must be strong and healthy. Are you?
I like the word vision because most people [...]

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Contractors Employee Dilemma?

January 24, 2010

How to deal with employees in this economy?
It has been a brutal year for employees in the contracting world. With massive layoffs from manufactures and distributors and with sales slow, owners have no choice but to fire or lay off employees.
As painless as it is they really have no choices or do they? Maybe sometimes [...]

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How One Person [Scott Brown] Can Change Things!

January 21, 2010

Wow, talk about a game changer? Scott Brown has been able to make this happen and in a big way! So, all the contractors out there was this your wake up call?
Do you see now how one person can make a difference? So, look around your company and who is that person? You?
If you watched [...]

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Our Big Box Stores Killing You?

January 16, 2010

How Contractors Can Compete With The Big Box Stores.
Yes, I here about it all the time how businesses are letting the big nationwide super stores take there market share and put some out of business.
This does not need to happen if you take an proactive attitude and do your homework first.
I like to get everyone [...]

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Irresistible Bribery?

January 12, 2010

How contractors can add a little bribery in there advertising for extreme results….
So, I am from the old school and we always used newspapers to generate our leads. But there has always been a little secret that only a few of us old timers used to get the most leads.
BRIBERY!!
Now don’t get your hair up [...]

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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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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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