Updated: 07.01.22 by HVACR Business Staff
You handle your business, we’ll handle the marketing.
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Updated: 06.01.22 by Heather Langone
View Celebrating the 15th Year Anniversary of Fleet Design Excellence
Updated: 06.01.22 by Emily Newton
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View Residential Service Agreements Part 3: Converting Theory Into Practice
Updated: 02.01.22 by Ron Smith
Start with a structured and organized approach. Make sure all owners buy into the program, your technicians are well-trained in performing quality precision tune-ups, and a process is established to support the inside sales team as well as a fair pricing strategy.
Updated: 02.01.22 by Richard Hartman
How Hartman Brothers successfully presents high-end systems as solutions to homeowners’ health and quality concerns.
Updated: 07.01.21 by Dan Antonelli
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Updated: 06.01.20 by Ruth King
There are three simple marketing activities you should do to increase your revenues so you cover the losses from the past few months.
Updated: 05.01.20 by Melanie Rembrandt
View Boost sales fast a budget of zero and public relations.
Updated: 04.01.20 by Melanie Rembrandt
View Tips to Help with a Press Release for your HVACR Business
Updated: 03.01.20 by Kelly Borth
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Updated: 12.01.19 by Terry Nicholson
By posting a map on the wall for your call takers who are booking your appointments, they know where the best, most profitable area is located.
Updated: 08.01.19 by Jamie Kitchen
Updated: 08.01.19 by Joy Gendusa
To generate enough calls and sales from your marketing, you need to market consistently.
Updated: 06.01.19 by Joy Gendusa
As long as you invest your marketing dollars in methods proven to generate leads and customers, growing isn’t difficult.
Updated: 05.01.19 by Elaine Duraes
Don’t miss out on the potential to grow your business online.
Updated: 04.01.19 by Joy Gendusa
Your customer database is filled with consumers in need of your services at least twice a year.
Updated: 03.01.19 by Alyssa Young
The ultimate measurement of success for a digital marketing campaign is conversions.
View Keyword Rankings are Irrelevant — Learn to Measure SEO Success
Updated: 02.01.19 by Joy Gendusa
No one knows better than you that the needs of your customers change with the seasons — so remind them.
Updated: 01.01.19 by Tim Ross
The path to success may lie in growing from existing customers rather than a sole focus on finding new ones.
Updated: 01.01.19 by Alyssa Young
Updated: 10.01.18 by Taylor Hill and Carter Harkins
Updated: 08.01.18 by Joel Frederick
Updated: 06.01.18 by Vicki LaPlant
Boomers have lost the position as the largest generation but, remember, this generation still holds the purchasing clout.
View Boomers or Millennials — Where to Spend Your Marketing Dollars
Updated: 06.01.18 by Jim Baston
Engaging your technicians in business development activities can increase the value to the overall service your company provides.
Updated: 05.01.18 by Terry Nicholson
Eighty-six percent of consumers will decide against buying from you if they read negative reviews about you online.
Updated: 05.01.18 by Jodie Deegan
Updated: 04.01.18 by Jim Baston
Updated: 04.01.18 by Roger McCoy
Updated: 03.01.18 by Ryan Holden
Coming up with a brand message is a smart strategy, whether your company is new or it’s been around for years.
Updated: 03.01.18 by Michael Haines
Updated: 01.01.18 by Tim Ross
Business resolutions force you to address issues that may keep your business from reaching its full potential.
Updated: 01.01.18 by Jim Baston
Updated: 12.01.17 by Todd Bairstow
Updated: 11.01.17 by Daniel Lemin
Updated: 10.01.17 by Tim Ross
Embrace the slower times and use it to try out new marketing techniques that can keep you busy all year.
Updated: 10.01.17 by Mike Tinz
Updated: 09.01.17 by David Heimer
Updated: 08.01.17 by Michael Haines
Updated: 07.01.17 by Drew Cameron
Updated: 06.01.17 by Julie Decker
Updated: 06.01.17 by Bob Viering
Updated: 03.01.17 by Michael Haines
Updated: 02.01.17 by Anthony Caliendo
Updated: 01.01.17 by Todd Bairstow
Updated: 12.01.16 by Dillon Collier
When someone writes a negative review, it doesn’t have to be a blemish on your record. It can be the stage on which you display your devotion to customer satisfaction and service.
Updated: 12.01.16 by Joy Gendusa
Updated: 09.01.16 by Brian Greenberg
The overwhelming demand for consumer attention and dollars has created a market filled with cynics, whose defenses are on full alert.
Updated: 08.01.16 by Jim Baston
Updated: 07.01.16 by Daniel Lemin
Updated: 06.01.16 by Frank Motola
Updated: 03.01.16 by Brad Shorr
A far better path to generating revenue and retaining customers is to focus full attention on two or three Internet marketing campaigns and execute them better than the competition.
Updated: 01.01.16 by Anthony Caliendo
The sales world is one of continuous stress and demand for performance. You want your sales team to perform at a high level — and it's up to you to motivate them.
View Prepare Mentally and Use Engagement to Motivate Others.
Updated: 12.01.15 by Joseph Callaway
Updated: 11.01.15 by Robin Jones
Updated: 10.01.15 by Mike Walker
Updated: 09.01.15 by Anthony Caliendo
With literally thousands of different sales techniques and philosophies that salespeople attempt to master, we find ourselves using trial and error, sampling and tasting until we think we’ve mixed the right sales cocktail.
Updated: 02.01.15 by Ben Hubbert
Updated: 12.01.14 by Neal Schaffer
Updated: 09.01.14 by Joy Gendusa
Updated: 08.01.14 by Tony D'Avino
Updated: 08.01.14 by Jaime DiDomenico
Updated: 08.01.14 by Drew Cameron
Updated: 06.01.14 by Pete Grasso
Updated: 05.01.14 by Paul McCord
Your frontline sales managers have more influence on how your salespeople sell than anyone else. If sales managers don’t believe, your sales team won’t believe.
Updated: 04.01.14 by Bill Fortner
6 steps to ensure you don't miss another opportunity to make add-onn sales.
View Selling Thermostats that Save Customers Energy and Money
Updated: 03.01.14 by Jaime DiDomenico
How to Optimize Your Company Culture for Sales Growth
Updated: 12.01.13 by Ruth King
In the past two months you’ve created your 2014 goals with your employees and your 2014 marketing plan. This month you’ll complete your three page business plan by estimating your 2014 budget. I’ll end this series with some implementation suggestions so that you make 2014 your best year ever.
View Finishing and Implementing Your 2014 Three Page Business Plan
Updated: 11.01.13 by Kelly Meeneghan
How To Properly Leverage These Platforms To Work For Your Business
Updated: 11.01.13 by Ruth King
How to create page two of your three-page 2014 Business Plan
Updated: 10.01.13 by Jeff Shawd
You know the technical side of your business, but your marketing skills might need improvement. This article shows how investing time to strengthen your digital marketing skill set can pay off.
Updated: 09.01.13 by Joy Gendusa
Promoting your business during Fall months can generate wintetime sales and revenue
Updated: 09.01.13 by Ken Reese
This action plan for implementing suggestive selling into your business model will help you increase close rates.
View Implement Suggestive Selling and Increase Your Close Rates
Updated: 08.01.13 by Keith Mercurio
Discussing price earlier in a call – a practice called Price Conditioning – can be more successful in getting customers to do business. Here are five key steps for implementing Price Conditioning
Updated: 08.01.13 by Kenneth Goodrich
Goettl Good Guys Air Conditioning Repairmen uses these 10 basic steps to maximize their use of SEO. How does it work?
Updated: 07.01.13 by Frank Rotello
Selling sustainability is about offering a long-term value to your customers that will provide a payback for years to come. The sales process is based on presenting data and solid solutions while building a durable relationship with your customers.
Updated: 06.01.13 by Dan Antonelli
Using your vehicles to help brand your company should be part of an overall marketing and branding effort, so that what ends up on your fleet is an extension of all the other marketing your company does.
Updated: 06.01.13 by Greg Smith
Whether they have a fleet of one, or many, smart business owners recognize their fleet’s value for cost-effective advertising.
Updated: 05.01.13 by Andres Lara
Updated: 05.01.13 by Bob Kelleher
How a tri-branding strategy promotes all you have to offer.
Updated: 04.01.13 by Keith Mercurio
Bundling is the assigning of a single value to a combination of multiple items, and it is one of my favorite topics because it’s a genuine “art.” To learn how to present bundles to potential customers requires a lot of training, time, and faith because the shift in your thinking will be significant.
Updated: 03.26.13 by Jenn Morgan
The average adult attention span is 8 seconds, according to studies. Therefore, sales professionals must capture a customer’s attention immediately.
Updated: 01.01.13 by Stacey Hall and Denise Michaels
Telling your story in a compelling way and being forthright in business will build up your reputation and set the stage for star status.
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Updated: 12.01.12 by Bill Lee
There are certain predictable mistakes companies make that can derail customer referral programs before they ever get off the ground.
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Updated: 12.01.12 by Colleen Weston
When using social media tools alone to drive your company’s messages, it’s nearly impossible to determine the correlation between all the likes, tweets, and shares you receive and how they translate in actual, concrete sales results.
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Updated: 11.01.12 by Victor Arocho
Collect input from everyone, define your promise, and then train for company-wide delivery.
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Updated: 10.01.12 by Anish Patel
Just about any service an HVACR contractor offers — can be effectively conveyed in an explanatory video, and with such widespread access to the Internet these days, explanatory videos are a great way to reach current and prospective customers.
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Updated: 10.01.12 by Carmine Galletta
GallettAir of Long Island, N.Y., added a new division that offers energy-performance testing in two months.
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Updated: 10.01.12 by Marsha Friedman
People have changed in dramatic ways over the past five years, and businesses should take that into consideration this holiday season, says one public relations expert.
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Updated: 09.01.12 by Kelly Meeneghan
Many business owners often sabotage their online reputation without realizing it by making decisions that harm or certainly don’t help their websites. Analytics can help to verify what improvements need to be made, but not all HVACR businesses have such statistical tools.
Updated: 09.01.12 by Geoffrey James
Use these tactics instead to make the most of your opportunities
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Updated: 09.01.12 by Joe Thomas
Tips to finding and hiring the right professional website developer.
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Updated: 08.01.12 by Heather Onorati
One of the most powerful tools to help overcome a prospect's natural skepticism and to build relationships is the customer testimonial. They create believability, credibility, and a sense of security for your prospect and customer.
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Updated: 07.01.12 by Ken Summers
An average contractor could spend tens of thousands to launch energy performance contracting, but the profit potential makes it worth the investment.
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Updated: 07.01.12 by Geoffrey James
Stay calm, be smart and continue selling while others are giving up.
Updated: 06.01.12 by Tonya Vinas
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Updated: 06.01.12 by Wendell Bedell
This is the final installment of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.
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Updated: 05.01.12 by John Treace
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Updated: 04.01.12 by Jim Hinshaw
Getting Started on Electro-Programmable Thermostat Sales. Show and teach benefits to your team, and then make a sales plan!
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Updated: 04.01.12 by Geoffrey James
Benefits could include cost savings and access to new prospects.
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Updated: 04.01.12 by Dan Antonelli
Don’t let nostalgia, “nephew art” and lack of standards hold your business back.
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Updated: 04.01.12 by Lee Gientke
What customers think about your company defines your brand.
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Updated: 04.01.12 by Wendell Bedell
This is the fifth of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.
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Updated: 03.01.12 by Lauren Whitson
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Updated: 12.01.11 by Lauren Whitson
To manage your online presence, first define and recognize how each platform discretely supports your marketing goals. Then develop content appropriate to each channel
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Updated: 11.09.11 by Wendell Bedell
This is the third of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.
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Updated: 11.09.11 by Geoffrey James
Great sales closers set an objective, go into a meeting with the right mindset (to sell), check with the customer to make sure they're relating, reiterate their purpose and most importantly, ask for the sale.
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Updated: 11.09.11 by Joy Gendusa
Postcard marketing will work for you if you do it correctly. Include these 10 elements to prepare a solid direct mailing piece.
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Updated: 11.09.11 by Geoffrey James
The "art" of using mobile demonstrations to close business sales and sell more HVAC equipment and systems.
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Updated: 11.01.11 by Nadia Romeo
Each year Google changes its algorithm — the formula it uses to rank websites — hundreds of times. Most of the changes are small; however, every few months, Google rolls out a major change that affects the performance of websites in its search engine. Below is a summary of major algorithm changes that took place in 2011 and likely affected your site.
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Updated: 11.01.11 by Geoffrey James
This 5 step geometric approach results in more closes with the same amount of work.
Updated: 11.01.11 by Terry Tanker
Publisher Terry Tanker offers advice on improving sales calls from prospecting to presenting.
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Updated: 11.01.11 by Ron Smith
The same elements that make your installed system unique only to your company are some of the elements that contribute to establishing and maintaining your company’s brand.
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Updated: 10.01.11 by James Gerdsen
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Updated: 10.01.11 by HVACR Business Staff
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Updated: 09.01.11 by Heather Onorati
Although there is a marketing push to increase online presence, build communities and interact through technology, when it comes down to it, people buy from people. Make time for person-to-person relationship building.
Updated: 09.01.11 by Steve Bilica
Educating your sales team about zoning options and benefits. Your sales team can then provide a wider range of comfort solutions.
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Updated: 08.01.11 by Geoffrey James
Use language and concepts that resonate with customers so they see your differentiators as value and won't mind paying a higher price.
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Updated: 08.01.11 by Wendell Bedell
This is the second of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.
Updated: 08.01.11 by Greg Brown
Email marketing can be daunting with all the laws, spam filters, and confusion over the best method to use. Whether you’re an e-marketing novice or you’ve tried it before, learning the tricks of the trade can make the process easier and the outcome more successful. After reviewing the campaigns we’ve run for customers, we came up with the following 10 tips to get the best results from your email marketing campaigns:
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Updated: 07.01.11 by Rich Friedel
One of the most powerful tools to help overcome a prospect's natural skepticism and to build relationships is the customer testimonial. They create believability, credibility, and a sense of security for your prospect and customer.
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Updated: 07.01.11 by James Graening
Before you can sell and deliver commercial service successfully, you must develop systems and “checklists” or standard operating procedures, policies, and systems.
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Updated: 07.01.11 by Wendell Bedell
This is the fourth of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.
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Updated: 06.01.11 by Wendell Bedell
This is the first of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.
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Updated: 05.01.11 by Robert Wilkos
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Updated: 05.01.11 by Geoffrey James
These are the five most common blunders that cause teams and companies to fail when it comes to working together to make big-ticket sales, and what you can do to fix the problems.
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Updated: 04.01.11 by Nadia Romeo
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Updated: 03.01.11 by Geoffrey James
When you’re selling to the customer, don’t try to be the hero who conquers the dragon. Instead, be the wizard who gives the hero a magic sword
Updated: 03.01.11 by Rich Friedel
This is the second of two articles on mistakes contractors commonly make on their websites and suggestions on how to avoid them.
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Updated: 03.01.11 by Ford Saeks
Smartphones have morphed into a texting, tweeting, multi-tasking productivity and entertainment gadget that offers a wide range of possibilities for you and your business.
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Updated: 02.01.11 by HVACR Business Staff
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Updated: 02.01.11 by Rich Friedel
When planning an online presence, first have a written plan and design with your marketing goals in mind.
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Updated: 02.01.11 by Nadia Romeo
Stay ahead of competitors with good content, frequent updates, and keyword optimization.
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Updated: 12.01.10 by Mike Callahan
The features and benefits of almost all the systems that we investigated without going into the technical details or revealing specific provider names. This is certainly something you will want to research yourself.
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Updated: 12.01.10 by Mark Barraclough
View Customize Your Mobile Devices With Bridges To Other Software
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Updated: 12.01.10 by Shama Hyder
What do you need to attract prospects online? A great BOD! No joke. BOD stands for Brand, Outcome, and Differentiator.
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Updated: 12.01.10 by Geoffrey James
These are the top mistakes made by sales reps and how to correct them.
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Updated: 10.01.10 by Geoffrey James
Your challenge is to focus time and energy on the prospects who are the most likely to buy. Here is how to do that by pre-qualifying your sales leads before you call them.
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Updated: 10.01.10 by Vicki Suiter
If your purpose and customers are pinching pennies, it's was to think the only way to get business is to cut your prices. Think again.
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Updated: 09.01.10 by Mike Callahan
It means they practiced the four Ps of retail; Personality, Positioning, Presentation, and Price. Personality: Your company’s personality mirrors your own.
Updated: 09.01.10 by HVACR Business Staff
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Updated: 06.01.10 by Tonya Vinas
Pine State Services, South Portland, Maine, began a vehicle-stocking-and-organization program for its fleet of 21 vehicles, 10 of which are service vehicles. Here's why and how they did it.
Updated: 06.01.10 by Tonya Vinas
Schultheis Bros. stands out with time-tested yellow-and-red fleet.
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Updated: 05.01.10 by Ed Cerier
A well-executed PPC campaign often will have a higher conversion rate than organic research results.
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Updated: 05.01.10 by Bruce Christensen
Updated: 05.01.10 by George Hedley
Taking pride in your company's awesome service and workmanship is one thing, but getting paid more than your competition for better quality is another.
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Updated: 02.01.10 by Guy Kawasaki
Way back in July of 2009, I explained how I use twitter. A lot has changed since then, so this is an update on how I tweet. As a business owner, you can adopt my techniques to use twitter as a marketing tool.
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Updated: 02.01.10 by Wade Mayfield
Drastic price increases require a clearly defined sales process.
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Updated: 02.01.10 by Stacy Whisel
How to make customer connections online.
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Updated: 11.01.09 by Ed Cerier
If your company isn't already listed in Google's local search listings for hvacr contractors, then you need to get listed as soon as possible.
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Updated: 11.01.09 by Michael Wayde
Part 2: How to produce effective broadcast ads for your target audience.
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Updated: 10.01.09 by Mike Callahan
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Updated: 10.01.09 by Michael Wayde
HVACR contractors should be able to answer three important questions before making a broadcast ad.
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Updated: 10.01.09 by Susan Kimball
How to use a combination of push promotion and social media interaction to attract new customers.
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Updated: 09.01.09 by Kari Logan
Take these three small steps to begin using these valuable online tools.
Updated: 08.01.09 by Guy Kawasaki
Everyone is a atwitter with Twitter, but not everyone uses Twitter for business. I use twitter as a tool - specifically as a marketing tool, and here nine lessons that I've learned about doing this.
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Updated: 08.01.09 by Kari Logan
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Updated: 08.01.09 by John Sonnhalter
Updated: 06.01.09 by Ron Smith
How to develop commercial service agreement sales leads that will establish and grow a service agreement customer base.
View Light Commercial Service and Service Agreement Business, part 2
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Updated: 05.01.09 by Guy Kawasaki
The reasons people talk about products and services and the best ways to seed discussions.
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Updated: 03.01.09 by Ron Smith
HVACR residential retail contractors who wish to grow their revenues and profits have a natural and synergistic diversification opportunity. With proper guidance, planning and execution, it’s not difficult to expand into the light commercial service and service agreement business.
View If Your Employees Regularly Fail, the Problem Might Be You
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Updated: 03.01.09 by Mike Callahan
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Updated: 02.01.09 by Mike Callahan
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Updated: 02.01.09 by Barry LaBov
Choosing survival, denial or revival in this (and any) recession.
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Updated: 01.01.09 by Ross Soyka
The trend toward greener living and the emphasis on energy and sustainability isn’t going away. Becoming a green contractor, in many ways, is a change in business strategy. You have to transform yourself into a green consultant and take the lead in educating your customers about energy efficient systems and their value.
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Updated: 01.01.09 by John Empson
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Updated: 10.01.08 by Michael Wayde
A faltering economy presents the opportunity to rethink what you’ve done in the past and invest wisely in your future, maintaining or even growing a marketing communications program. In fact, history suggests that companies who continue to communicate and promote in hard times fare better during the downturn and recover more quickly as the economy improves.
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Updated: 10.01.08 by Ruth King
Direct mailing, reminder pieces, referral programs, and surveys are good uses of marketing dollars. Be sure to track results!
Updated: 09.01.08 by Laura Pasternak
Employee education is particularly important for service organizations that don’t have concrete products. Their offerings are soft assets like knowledge, experience and people.?
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Updated: 09.01.08 by Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett
This customized excerpt is from the book, Get Content. Get Customers. The book teaches you, step-by-step and through countless case studies, how to create and market your own content to acquire customers. Copies are available for purchase at www.getcontentgetcustomers.com.
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Updated: 08.01.08 by Guy Kawasaki
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Rohit Bhargava, founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, discusses the role of personality in branding with Guy Kawasaki.
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Updated: 07.01.08 by Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett
Although traditional marketing efforts may continue to pay some dividends, the Internet is where the true opportunity lies. Consumers are beginning their purchasing search online, make sure the information you provide helps them to make better choices.
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Updated: 05.01.08 by Traci Purdum
Education is key to IAQ sales. One way to help consumers is to offer customer testimonials, which can be a very powerful marketing tool.
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Updated: 05.01.08 by Paul Grunau
Contractors should actively seek customer feedback, and develop a deep understanding of the customers’ businesses and what is important to them.
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Updated: 04.01.08 by Ruth King
Whether busy or slow, you should do some marketing activity every month (phone book advertising doesn’t count). The activity can be a major campaign or a small reminder about your company’s products and services. The small reminders, or drips, keep your company’s name in front of your customers and prospective customers each month.
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Updated: 04.01.08 by Mark Swepston
The best way to do thrive is to provide outstanding service that blows away the competition. To do that, you must stand out from the crowd. Vanity phone numbers and websites are a way to move your company into the mind of the customer when they're thinking about heating and cooling services.
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Updated: 03.01.08 by Guy Kawasaki
Make marketing your new habit, and find the money to stick with the plan. Effective small business marketing is a system — not an event — composed of simple, effective, and affordable techniques.
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Updated: 03.01.08 by Paul Dooney
Word-of-mouth advertising is a powerful marketing tool. Networking groups enable you to spread the word even farther.
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Updated: 02.01.08 by Michael Wayde
Consumers comparison shop by surfing the Web. When they've read enough, they click to buy. Make sure your site is the one that provides them all of the information they need to click "buy"!
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Updated: 01.01.08 by Guy Kawasaki
Lois Kelly, author of Beyond Buzz, explains how picking the best story line for your company can give your marketing efforts a big boost.
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Updated: 11.01.07 by Armstrong, Andy
Updated: 10.01.07 by Ruth King
Ensure that your marketing message is heard by thinking differently then your competition. Stand out by sending mailers at unique times throughout the year. And, distribute bonuses in February rather than in December so as not to have your employees mistake profit sharing for a holiday bonus.
Updated: 10.01.07 by Traci Purdum
Traci Purdum summarizes characteristics of successful branding strategies and presents insight from the winners of HVACR Business' fleet design contest.
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Updated: 10.01.07 by Ron Smith
Ron Smith offers tactics for caring for customers — both dissatisfied and highly satisfied. He notes that practicing added value helps you disarm angry customers and move satisfied customers into the more-than-satisfied bracket.
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Updated: 10.01.07 by Jackie Rainwater
By properly managing the sales force, you can be certain that all sales leads are carefully tracked, and promptly pursued— thus bringing more money to the bottom line.
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Updated: 09.01.07 by Jackie Rainwater
Weather-driven sales certainly are a nice windfall when they happen. However, depending on temperature extremes to grow a viable hvac retail business simply doesn’t work for the long haul. In order to grow and prosper, the business must generate sufficient valid sales leads on a year-round basis.
Updated: 09.01.07 by Ron Smith
First in a series. Experts share what they've learned about the use of residential service agreements in building a residential retail contracting business.
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Updated: 09.01.07 by Ron Smith
As an hvac retailer, you must focus on these items: quality work, on-time delivery, ethical corporate behavior, and convenience. Price only becomes an issue when a company fails to provide any or all of these four items that customers want.
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Updated: 08.01.07 by Jackie Rainwater
By educating customers about additional accessories, your company can increase sales and profit margins.
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Updated: 08.01.07 by Guy Kawasaki
Follow the 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint.
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Updated: 07.01.07 by Jackie Rainwater
A vitally important (although often underestimated) component of successful sales is the incentive and compensation plan. Jackie Rainwater discusses what an effective plan should include.
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Updated: 04.01.07 by Jackie Rainwater
Building a successful retail sales and production department requires careful planning followed by the ongoing 100% commitment of everyone involved in the process to successfully execute the plan.
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Updated: 03.01.07 by Robert Wilkos
Enhance your success with knowledge, experience and instruments, consumer trust, and marketing.
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Updated: 02.01.07 by Tonya Vinas
Several trends make now the time to incorporate IAQ information, products, and services into your offerings.
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Updated: 10.01.06 by Joe Dysart
What to look for and how to work with your web marketing partner.
