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Customer Wants a Full Price Breakdown…

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I took a sales call to do work on a home in a nearby residence.  The guy I went to see owns the home in a beautiful neighborhood 15 miles away.  He wants me to fix some drywall from a busted pipe that burst during the winter, install a new high-efficient toilet in the bathroom [...]

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Questions, Questions, Questions…

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A contractor got a laundry list of questions from a prospective client.  They were posted on the Contractortalk forum: Member Heritage said: Too good not to share To make a very long story short…here is one of my prospective clients. We haven’t signed anything yet but since they had concept drawings for their reno & [...]

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Passion Equals Sales

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I found this thread rather kick ass from the Contractor Talk forum: Original Post from — katoman: I was thinking about how it is I’ve never been unemployed through good times and hard times. Not boasting at all. I think a big part of why I get work is because the customer sees the passion [...]

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People Are Crazy

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I found this thread rather kick ass from the Contractor Talk forum: Original Post from — D Jones Const: People are crazy I started my business a couple of years ago and have had my ups and downs. I do not understand it seems that almost everyone I have worked for are crazy, unreasonable, Do [...]

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Getting In Front Of The Right Customers

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I prefer to work for clients that want quality work done to their homes as opposed to clients that are more focused on the prices that others charge.  There will be little red flags that pop-up during the interview that tell me which type of customer I am dealing with. “It’s all about the benjamins…” [...]

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