How to Handle Price Shoppers

Once a month or so, we hold Office Hours.  It's an informal phone chat we host on gotowebinar.  We celebrate successes, and solve problems.  It's a lot of fun, and a super challenging question always comes up.  Here's one from our last Office Hours... How do you respond to callers who want a price over the phone? If [...]

How to Handle Price Shoppers2016-12-01T14:55:07+00:00

Are you encouraging texting and driving?

Here’s a pic of me and Jerod, elbow deep in a furnace.  Jerod is everything you look for in a technician…nice, polite, skilled, ethical and ambitious.  He deeply cares about his customers and fellow team members.  Jerod just graduated from his company’s field supervisor training course and is determined to make a powerful, positive impact.  [...]

Are you encouraging texting and driving?2016-12-01T14:55:17+00:00

Circulate Among the Troops – The Ride Along

What can you learn by Riding Along? You don’t even have to do the Undercover part. Just GO. Hop in the truck (or the assembly line or the phone bank) and say, “Show me what you do. I am here to learn.” One of my best biz buddies is a master of the Ride Along. I wrote about him…and how [...]

Circulate Among the Troops – The Ride Along2016-12-01T14:55:18+00:00

Tracking Contractor Jobs

Contractors are notorious for shortchanging themselves. They often don’t charge enough per hour. Or, put enough hours in the Job. How about you? Do you know if your prices are right? Do you know if you are properly bidding your Jobs? The bottom line is the bottom line. Hurray for you…if you are making all [...]

Tracking Contractor Jobs2017-02-17T23:33:27+00:00