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10 Proven Strategies to Find Free Leads for Your Commercial Roofing Company

10 Proven Strategies to Find Free Leads for Your Commercial Roofing Company  Growing a commercial roofing company requires strategic efforts to generate leads without incurring significant costs. Fortunately, there are several methods to find “free” leads that can be highly effective when implemented correctly. Here are some proven strategies to consider:   1. Leverage Existing […]

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Lead Tracking for Contractors: Key Strategies for Success 

Lead Tracking for Contractors: Key Strategies for Success  Lead generation is crucial for contractors looking to grow their business and ensure a steady stream of projects. Here are some essential strategies to determine the effectiveness of your lead generation efforts: Measuring Leads Understanding where your leads come from is the foundation of effective lead generation. […]

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Leveraging Roofing Software for Effective Lead Tracking

Leveraging Roofing Software for Effective Lead Tracking Roofing software plays a pivotal role in lead tracking efforts for contractors. By integrating advanced tools and systems, contractors can streamline their processes, ensuring no lead falls through the cracks. Here’s how roofing software can significantly improve lead tracking: Centralized Lead Management Roofing software provides a centralized platform […]

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Objection: We Are Happy with Our Current Contractor

Objection:  We Are Happy with Our Current Contractor Customer: “I’m sorry you’ve wasted your time.  We’re very happy with our current contractor.”      It’s never easy to find a silver lining when you run into such a flat-out rejection.  Nothing’s ever perfect.  For most clients, telling you they’re satisfied with their current contractor is […]

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Objection: I Need to Think About it

Objection:  I Need to Think About it It’s the ultimate non-decision decision.   Customer: “Well… It’s very interesting.  We’ll need to consider it.” It’s all about timing.  Meet the objection head-on.  Push the decision.   Call out the objector.   Be specific.  Focus on details.  If you judge that the objection is being raised because the decision maker […]

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Objection:  NO! 

Objection:  NO!  Customer:  (Objections throughout the discussion) “It’s too expensive.”  “We’ve never done it before.”  “We are fine the way we are.” Customer: “I want to thank you for coming in here today.  You’ve done an impressive job, and I know we’ve put you through the wringer.  I appreciate what you’re offering, but I must […]

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Qualifying Your Customer

Qualifying Your Customer….  When you hear the word qualify, do you feel overwhelmed?   Questions such as, “Was that lead qualified?” are asked with every prospective job.  So, we ask the qualifier if the qualifying for the qualifications were correctly qualified – huh?    Qualifying boils down to asking simple questions to understand the need of […]

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Objection: Price

Clients have needs because they have problems that must be solved.  Not all these needs are equal.  Some are more important than others.  When you first meet clients, you need to spend some time deciding what their needs are.  Start by working on the big problems first and then gradually ascend to the smaller less […]

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Selling More than Price

Selling More than Price Have you ever been low bid and didn’t get the job?  It doesn’t seem right. How did it happen?  What can you do to avoid that in the future?  Bidding more and more jobs will not guarantee a steady flow of profitable work in today’s competitive market. When a client doesn’t […]

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Selling Skills – How to Open a Call

Selling Skills – How to Open a Call When it is time to make a sales call, what is the best way to begin?  Some techniques to open a call are the following: Open Probes Purpose Statements General Benefit Statements Open Probes:  Open probes are particularly useful in situations where you feel the customer will […]

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Selling Tips – Enthusiastic Attitude

Selling Tips – Enthusiastic Attitude There is no substitute for enthusiasm.  When the members of a team are enthusiastic, the whole team becomes highly energized.  And that energy produces power.   Have you ever noticed the difference passion makes?  How many dispassionate successes have you met?  How many high achievers lack enthusiasm?  How many great leaders […]

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Stop Complaining

Stop Complaining “How’s business?” one attendee asked another at a networking event.    “This (fill in the blank – weather, economy, regulation, manufacturer inventory, flu) is killing us. We’ve got projects delayed right and left and trying to get prospects to close anything isn’t happening — things need to turn around fast.”    The person […]

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Upsell Effectively

Upsell Effectively How many times have your ordered fries just because the server asked, “would you like fries with it?”  How about asking your client if they would like: Gutters with that, along with some downspouts? Skylight Protective covers with that? Roof Hatch Safety Rail with that? Preventive Maintenance with that? Client Portal access with […]

Less More Sales Selling Overselling

About Overselling 

About Overselling  In the movie, Jerry Maguire, TomCruise reaches an epiphany which he must share with Renee’ Zellweger. After his LONG spiel Renee’ interrupts him saying, “Shut up. Just shut up….You had me at hello. You had me at hello.” Do you know when to shut up?  How often do you oversell?  Can you read […]

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Selling Skills – Closing

Selling Skills – Closing When you close, the first step is to summarize those benefits the customer accepted during the call.  In other words, you will summarize ONLY those benefits that the customer agreed were important. Summarizing accepted benefits can be of great value because it considers the listening ability of your customer.  Most people […]

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Selling Skills – Probing

Selling Skills: Probing Probing is the skill of asking questions to gather information and uncover customer needs.  There are two types of probes:  open and closed.  Open probes encourage a customer to respond freely.  The key words that will assist in identifying an open probe include: Key Word Example: Who “Who handles this process for […]

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Handling Objection

Handling Objection Customer objections usually fall into two main categories: Misunderstandings about our product or service due to a lack of information. Drawbacks of our product or service, which exist whenever we are unable to directly satisfy the customer’s dislike or dissatisfaction with our product or service.   Misunderstanding Drawback The customer objects to using […]

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Recognizing Customer Attitudes

Recognizing Customer Attitudes A customer attitude toward our products/services generally falls into one of these four categories: Attitude Example:  😁 Acceptance is a customer statement of agreement with or approval of a benefit.   “It sounds like you cans save us time/money/resources.” “You’re very convincing.  I believe you could help with our budgets.     […]