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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.

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Email Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

Email marketing is a great way to nurture potential customers and earn referrals and repeat business. Find tips to get results from your email campaigns below.

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End of Summer Productivity Tips

Closing sales, completing projects, lining up new business, working with suppliers and collecting payments are just some…

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Tips to Connect with Customers Before, During, and After the Job

Forging a connection with your customers can lead to better reviews, repeat customers, and more referrals. Get started with these tips.

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Business Growth

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

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Top 5 Reasons to Offer Financing

Improve your sales process and help your customers at the same time by offering financing. Discover how financing can help you close more sales, improve your cash flow and more!

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Website Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

Growing your business isn’t about trying the next big thing or creating a large marketing budget. As…

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Email Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

Email marketing is a great way to nurture potential customers and earn referrals and repeat business. Find tips to get results from your email campaigns below.

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Finding Customers

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

thumbs up by contractor coworkers at a construction site

Top 5 Reasons to Offer Financing

Improve your sales process and help your customers at the same time by offering financing. Discover how financing can help you close more sales, improve your cash flow and more!

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handyman in overalls using digital tablet while standing near facade of house

Website Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

Growing your business isn’t about trying the next big thing or creating a large marketing budget. As…

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two carpenters planning on tablet

Email Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

Email marketing is a great way to nurture potential customers and earn referrals and repeat business. Find tips to get results from your email campaigns below.

Read More

Social Media

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

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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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3 Marketing Strategies to Try this Summer

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

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5 Topics to Engage Your Customers in Q2

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

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Community

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

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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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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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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.

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How to Improve Your Google Business Profile

Many home improvement searches start with an internet search. Most of those searches happen on Google. As…

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3 Google Analytics Features to Check Out

There are many wonderful business tools online. One of the best is Google Analytics. This free program…

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Free Online Tools for Small Businesses

Small teams can accomplish big goals with the right tools. Whether you’re in roofing, landscaping, HVAC, windows…

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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.

Note: Use of the terms "Loan," "Lender" and "Borrower" is for ease of reference only. Financings are in the form of retail installment contracts ("RIC").

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