Connect with Clients Faster With MarketSharp Texting
When you need to contact with your clients, the fastest way to reach them is through their phones. MarketSharp is one of the few home improvement CRMs that offers a full suite of texting tools to ensure that your message gets to your clients. With the upcoming release of Two-Way Texting on the MarketSharp platform, there’s no better time to learn how texting can benefit your business.
MarketSharp Mobile 2.0: Tips & Tricks
We recently released a brand new mobile app, MarketSharp Mobile 2.0, designed specifically to help sales teams do what they do best: create satisfied customers. As our team continues to add new features to the application, we’d like to share 3 tips and tricks to help your team make the most of the new app. […]
How to Prevent Employee Burnout at Your Home Improvement Company
Employee burnout, also known as job burnout, can sneak up quickly and be difficult to reverse; so, how can you prevent it from happening in the first place? Have you ever felt so over your job that just the idea of going to work makes you tired? Maybe you’ve even called in ‘sick’ to avoid […]
The Good, Better, Best Approach – does it work?
A tiered pricing strategy may just be the key to closing more deals and increasing your average job size. Good, Better, Best pricing – also known as tiered pricing – is a pretty straightforward concept. Essentially, product or service options are presented to consumers at gradually increased prices over each tier, with each option adding […]
Finding (and Keeping) Skilled Labor: Overcoming one of the Biggest Challenges Facing the Home Improvement Industry
Build a stronger workforce by changing your approach to how you recruit, train, and compensate your employees. With a surge in demand for home improvements, it’s crucial you have enough qualified workers so that you don’t have to turn down projects or sacrifice quality to keep up. And while there’s no magic wand you can wave […]
3 Bad Email Habits You Should Leave Behind in 2020
Avoid leaving a bad impression or losing business by stepping up your email game in the new year! Emails often get a bad rap: they flood your inbox, can suck up all your time, and even occasionally lead to misunderstandings. However, when used correctly, email can be a highly effective tool for communicating with your […]
How Better Customer Follow-Ups Helped ‘Crawl Space Ninja’ Grow Sales and Expand the Business
“We just had our best month ever with MarketSharp; we closed over a half a million dollars.” For 15 years, Crawl Space Ninja was built from the ground up (literally) to provide high quality basement and crawl space services to their loyal customers, but it wasn’t always so easy. In 2005, Michael Church […]
The 5 Minute Rule: How to Streamline Your Lead Response Time
Did you know that new lead inquiries convert 22 times more often when contact is made in 5 minutes or less? If you don’t reply to a lead inquiry quickly, someone else will. It’s as simple as that. When a lead contacts your home improvement company, time is of the essence. By responding instantly, you […]
3 Steps to Increase Lead Conversion with Pre-Appointment Marketing
So, you’ve scheduled an appointment with a prospect-now what? While the ultimate goal is to make the sale, scheduling an appointment is still a huge win! Once you’ve gotten this potential customer on the schedule, you just need them to show up for the appointment. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? If only it was that easy. […]
3 Steps to Increase Customer Testimonials and Manage Your Online Reputation
With the peak of busy season behind us, it’s time to start following up with all those newly happy customers and turn their satisfaction into positive, online reviews! A job well done should never go unnoticed. If your work knocked the homeowner’s socks off, the world should know, and so should your prospective clients! According […]
How to Use a CRM to Keep Up With the Busy Season
While a CRM system can’t help you beat the heat, it can help you stay organized and boost your productivity during the busy season. Summer isn’t over yet! Contractors and other home improvement pros are still in the peak of their busy season and, for that reason, need to be on their A-game. But […]
How to Drive More Sales With Jobsite Radius Marketing
Did you know one of the best places to find a new customer is actually right next door to your last customer? It’s true! All of the neighborhoods you’ve done previous work in are actually goldmines for new business. That’s right, GOLDMINES. Why? Because neighborhoods tend to be alike in nature; homes are of similar […]