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5 Summer Safety Tips for Contractors

May 31, 2024
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The peak of summer can be a tough time for contractors who spend a lot of time outdoors. According to OSHA, thousands of workers become sick from the heat each year. Make sure you and your team are keeping cool with these summer safety reminders. Stay hydrated. Water and sports drinks are great options to […]

Who Should You Offer Financing To?

May 24, 2024
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Finding financing options doesn’t have to be hard. Foundation Finance offers approvals for customers with a wide range of credit profiles and FICOs as low as 550.

When to Accept a Discounted Bid.

May 16, 2024
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Without discount programs, many customers would not qualify for financing…which means fewer sales can be closed. And fewer sales mean lower profits.

How to Prequalify Your Customers for Financing

May 3, 2024
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It takes years of hard work to build a strong credit score and unfortunately, it doesn’t take much to knock the score down. Learn how our customer prequalification process can help.

The ACH Bonus Advantage—Are You Using It?

April 26, 2024
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Are you offering an ACH payment option to your customers? If you’re not, you’re literally losing money on your deals. Simple Convenience with a Beneficial Bonus. Your customers are familiar with automatic payments. In fact, many prefer how auto pay makes it easy to avoid a missing or late payment and potentially strengthen their credit […]

3 Steps to Close Sales with Financing

April 19, 2024
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Learn how to use financing as a tool to spread the project cost out so your customer can afford the upgrades they really want.

Grow Your Business This Spring!

April 12, 2024
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Make sure you’re prepared to close sales and keep your jobs running on schedule with a bit of extra prep this spring.

3 Ways to Make Home Improvement More Affordable

April 2, 2024
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Surrendering savings or adding to credit card debt isn’t a choice many people would be excited about. However, there are options that you can offer to make home improvement projects more affordable.

5 Topics to Engage Your Customers in Q2

March 22, 2024
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Building and maintaining an active online presence is an important part of growing a home improvement business, but with a limited number of hours in a day, it isn’t always something you can pour a lot of time into. With that in mind, we’ve put together some topics that may interest your potential customers. Use […]

3 Questions to Get More Customers

March 15, 2024
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There is no shortage of ways to find new customers. Word of mouth, flyers, phone books are some options to connect with new customers. However, there are roughly 8.5 billion Google searches per day. That makes it clear: finding new customers largely comes down to your online presence. Building and maintaining this presence requires consistent […]

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