When the market slows, the first instinct is usually to go looking for more leads. That makes sense. Contractors need a steady pipeline of new opportunities. But before you increase the advertising budget or launch another promotion, take a closer look at the opportunities already sitting inside your business. The estimate that went quiet three
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Contractors have spent the last several years adjusting to higher material costs, labor shortages, changing consumer demand and a housing market that never quite returned to normal. Now interest rates are moving higher again. In September, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a target range of 3.75% to
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Production management is never static. As contractors grow, retailer requirements evolve, and customer expectations change, the software running your operation has to evolve right along with it. That’s why we’ve continued investing in new capabilities designed to eliminate manual work and help production teams keep jobs moving. Over the past couple months, we’ve released a
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By Gary White Every home has a hierarchy of trust. The salesperson gets fifteen minutes at the kitchen table. The store associate gets a few questions at the desk. The installer gets the garage code, a full day (or days) in the house, and knows the dog’s name. Ask any homeowner who has had a
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The latest earnings reports from Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, and other industry leaders show that demand has not disappeared, but it has become more selective. Finding growth looks different in today’s home improvement market than it did just a couple of years ago. Contractors still have opportunities to grow, but they are increasingly competing
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Over the past few years, contractors have had to adapt to a very different home improvement market. Demand has not disappeared. Homeowners are still investing in their homes. The difference is where they are choosing to spend their money. The days of homeowners saying yes to every project have cooled. Today, many are weighing projects
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Most contractors still think of themselves as construction businesses. Roofing companies install roofs. Flooring companies install floors. Kitchen remodelers renovate kitchens. That is all still true. But as these companies grow, something else happens behind the scenes. The business becomes less about individual jobs and more about coordinating people, schedules, communication, materials, systems, and expectations
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When a company’s operations start to strain, the first instinct is almost always the same. We bought the wrong tools. So the search begins. A better scheduling platform. A different CRM. Something with stronger reporting. The assumption underneath all of it is that somewhere out there is the right piece of software, and once it’s
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Most contractors did not intentionally build a complicated software stack. It just happened over time. One platform handled leads. Another handled quoting. Someone added a scheduling app. Accounting lived somewhere else. Then came customer communication tools, an app for jobsite photos, one for taking payments, spreadsheets, retailer portals, and mobile apps for crews in the
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The first quarter earnings reports from Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, and other major suppliers are starting to paint a clearer picture of where the home improvement industry is heading. The broad slowdown many contractors feared has not fully materialized. At the same time, this is not a booming market driven by large discretionary remodels
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