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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Pack Your Pipeline With Sales!

Sales pipelines are vital to keeping you in business. But cold calling is like running your nails…

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Fall Financing Strategy

Fall signals the end of summer, the transition to winter, and the onset of your business’ 4th…

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Simple Ways to Build Your Referral Pipeline

In a nutshell: just ask. Business relationships with customers have changed since the quarantine guidelines of the…

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Business Growth

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

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Why Bother with Business Goals?

A successful year is measured by the goals you set. Whether you’re improving your safety standards, boosting…

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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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Finding Customers

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

3 times to bring up financing with customers

How to Offer Financing that Closes Sales

Offering financing to customers can increase customer loyalty, project size and sales overall. But are there best…

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Watch and Learn with Helpful Financing Videos!

Do you remember how to log in to submit an app? Wondering what special promotions you can…

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Generate more customer referrals with these 5 tips.

5 Tips to Get More Referrals

Email marketing, direct mail and online advertising can each be an effective way to find new customers…

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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.

why bother with business goals

Why Bother with Business Goals?

A successful year is measured by the goals you set. Whether you’re improving your safety standards, boosting…

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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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Tools & Tech

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

5 tools to automate and streamline your sales process

5 Tools to Automate and Streamline Your Sales Process

Are you using today’s technology to your advantage? Tools like AI, CRMs and customer financing can increase…

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Short, helpful financing videos

Watch and Learn with Helpful Financing Videos!

Do you remember how to log in to submit an app? Wondering what special promotions you can…

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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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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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