Business Tips for Busy Home Improvement Contractors

How to find and convert customers for your home improvement business.

There’s more to creating a successful home improvement business than completing projects. Whether you work in roofing, siding, water treatment systems, or another home improvement field, we have helpful tips and strategies to help you find and convert customers for your business. Explore all our blogs below or search one of these popular topics:

Customer Management

Learn how to nurture and support home improvement leads and customers once they enter your sales funnel.

Brush up on your financing options and techniques!

Free Financing Guides

Offering Financing Is Easy, but It’s Even Simpler with the Right Resources. Between creating project estimates, ordering…

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How to Ask for Referrals

There are countless ways to find new customers for your business. Social media, email marketing, billboards, and…

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See how different payment options change your customer's monthly payment amount.

3 Ways to Get Paid for a $20k Project

Different payment methods can make a big difference in your customer’s monthly payment. Learn how you can…

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Business Growth

Find key business tips and techniques to help grow and develop effective business practices.

Get more approvals with second look financing!

Was Your Customer’s Financing App Denied?

Let Us Take a Second Look! If at first you don’t succeed, try getting a second look!…

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Attract more customers when you market your business.

3 Marketing Strategies to Try this Year

Keep your customers engaged and your marketing fresh this summer by trying out some of these strategies.

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5 Ways Customers Can Pay for Home Improvement

A recent report from the National Association of REALTORs found that 92% of consumers would remodel more…

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Finding Customers

Explore new lead generation techniques and sources to create more customers for your home improvement business.

Get more approvals with second look financing!

Was Your Customer’s Financing App Denied?

Let Us Take a Second Look! If at first you don’t succeed, try getting a second look!…

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Financing, marketing and email campaigns

Close Sales Faster with These Tools

Do you need a little extra time in your day? Whether you need more time to meet…

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Couple paying for their project via tablet

5 Ways Customers Can Pay for Home Improvement

A recent report from the National Association of REALTORs found that 92% of consumers would remodel more…

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Social Media

Find strategies to create a strong social media presence and reach more home improvement customers here.

Attract more customers when you market your business.

3 Marketing Strategies to Try this Year

Keep your customers engaged and your marketing fresh this summer by trying out some of these strategies.

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Build a better online presence with these content ideas.

5 Topics to Engage Your Customers

Building and maintaining an active online presence is an important part of growing a home improvement business,…

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Your logo, font choice, tone and other factors all contribute to your company's brand identity.

Does Your Company Have a Brand?

Your company provides services for people, but your brand is how you set yourself apart from all…

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Community

Find ways your business can join and support local communities to create brand trust and loyalty.

Capture your customer's attention and close more sales this holiday season!

Closing Sales During the Holidays

Shopping, wrapping, parties, dinners, family, friends, and more keep homeowners busy this time of year. However, with…

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Have you considered how you will answer these customer FAQs?

Are You Prepared for These Customer FAQs?

A home is many people’s most valuable asset, so when they start searching for a home improvement…

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Wondering what you should post on your company blog? Find ideas here.

Blog Topics to Keep Your Website Relevant

You can create huge growth opportunities for your business with a website that has strong SEO. Capitalize…

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Tools & Tech

It’s a digital world! Find tools and tech to make running your business and closing sales simpler.

Brush up on your financing options and techniques!

Free Financing Guides

Offering Financing Is Easy, but It’s Even Simpler with the Right Resources. Between creating project estimates, ordering…

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Financing, marketing and email campaigns

Close Sales Faster with These Tools

Do you need a little extra time in your day? Whether you need more time to meet…

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eBooks, blogs and more.

Training & Tools for You & Your Team

Back to the Basics! Each fall millions of students set out for another year of learning, but…

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When Is Your Business Successful?

Creating a successful home improvement or home renovation business isn’t easy. Figuring out what you consider a success can sometimes be even harder. Success is often hard to define and as your home improvement business grows and your experience as a contractor develops, your measure of success often does too.

A new business owner working on their first home improvement project may be justified in feeling like the world’s best businessman. However, after a few years and hundreds of closed sales, that same contractor’s perception of success should have shifted to a more ambitious benchmark.

Whether you’re just starting in the home improvement or renovation business or running a nation-wide contracting business, it’s important to set business goals. Business goals often help create and drive success as the business’s employees come together to reach that common goal. These home improvement contractor tips are specially written and collected with the intent to help you create and reach business goals to help you reach your version of success in the home improvement industry.

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