Business
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Getting Follow-Up Refinishing Projects
This month’s article will teach you how to gain follow-up refinishing projects from your current or recent customers. This will include when to discuss follow-up projects, how to ask for customer interest, and how to close the sale. We will also discuss how to approach recent customers to ask about follow-up projects, including conversation and call scripts.
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Strategies for Generating More Referrals
While many businesses earn a significant portion of their revenue from referrals, it is also true that most businesses do not ask for referrals or systematically develop them. They are happy to receive referrals, but they are reluctant to ask for them. In this blog post, we discuss the value of referrals, the obstacles to getting referrals, and the effective strategies to develop them.
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Best Practices for Pursuing Multi-Unit Refinishing Opportunities
As you are growing your refinishing business one of the challenges is how to create scale and stability in your business. Multi-unit opportunities are one important way to do that. Multi-unit opportunities are found with hotels, apartment complexes, dormitories, and realtors. Each of these is slightly different in terms of what they care about, how, and why they buy. In this paper, we will profile each type of buyer and discuss how to approach and sell to them.
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Know Your Buyer Personas
In the bath and kitchen refinishing market, there are several different types of buyers. Each type of buyer has their own priorities and unique buying process. Personas are very helpful in developing a profile for the customer, knowing what services they want, and how they buy. We’ve identified several personas for the refinishing business. Use them as a guide as you are prospecting and engaging with customers.
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Best Practices in Hiring Staff in the Refinishing Industry
Your refinishing business is growing, and you need more help – but hiring can be tough. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a foolproof formula to ensure every new hire would be a perfect fit? Unfortunately, there isn’t. But you can improve your chances of finding the perfect hire by writing a great job description and asking the right interview questions. In this article, we will review the important steps and considerations in hiring. We’ll focus on hiring refinisher techs.
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Tips to Help Remodeling Contractors Endure the Slow Winter Season
At NAPCO, we understand all too well how the slow season can drag on if you do not have a plan in place to stay focused and productive. In this guide, we discuss the various aspects of your business that you can focus on to not only stay productive, but also improve your business and get ready for the next busy season.