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.
How to Offer Financing with Confidence
Offering financing isn’t a sales tactic. It’s a service. Your customers want options, and you can deliver….
Decision Fatigue: How Too Many Options Lose the Sale
As a home improvement contractor, you’ve probably watched a customer get excited about a project, then go…
Unclosed Leads Cost More Than Just Time.
Identify Leads That Need Nurturing to Start Closing More Sales! The average home improvement lead costs between…
Business Growth
Find key business tips and techniques to help grow and develop effective business practices.
The 30-Day Sales Experiment Every Contractor Should Try
Try this experiment: for the next 30 days, tell every customer you offer monthly payment options. That’s…
5 Questions Customers Ask About Financing
The estimate is on the table. Your customer trusts your expertise. And then comes the question: “So…how…
Decision Fatigue: How Too Many Options Lose the Sale
As a home improvement contractor, you’ve probably watched a customer get excited about a project, then go…
Finding Customers
Explore new lead generation techniques and sources to create more customers for your home improvement business.
5 Questions Customers Ask About Financing
The estimate is on the table. Your customer trusts your expertise. And then comes the question: “So…how…
Decision Fatigue: How Too Many Options Lose the Sale
As a home improvement contractor, you’ve probably watched a customer get excited about a project, then go…
Unclosed Leads Cost More Than Just Time.
Identify Leads That Need Nurturing to Start Closing More Sales! The average home improvement lead costs between…
3 Marketing Strategies to Try this Year
Keep your customers engaged and your marketing fresh this summer by trying out some of these strategies.
5 Topics to Engage Your Customers
Building and maintaining an active online presence is an important part of growing a home improvement business,…
Does Your Company Have a Brand?
Your company provides services for people, but your brand is how you set yourself apart from all…
Community
Find ways your business can join and support local communities to create brand trust and loyalty.
Managing Your Business and Family When School is Out for Summer
Having children at home for the summer can affect your business’s productivity when you’re trying to juggle…
Help your Employees Cope with the Stress of the Holidays
The holidays produce higher levels of stress for many people. Often times this can affect your employees’…
Home Improvement Tricks – Contractor’s Nightmares
You never know what is going to happen when completing a home improvement project for a client….
Tools & Tech
It’s a digital world! Find tools and tech to make running your business and closing sales simpler.
How-To Guides for Foundation Finance Dealers
Get More Out of Your Financing Partnership Ready to get more from your financing partnership? We’ve put…
4 Tips to Profit with Financing
You don’t have to be an expert to profit from financing. Take advantage of just a few…
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…
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.
Social Media
Find strategies to create a strong social media presence and reach more home improvement customers here.