Contractor Update

Labels: Construction Deal, ConstructionDeal.com, free webinar, lead generation, lead services, maximixing lead generation

Labels: Construction Deal, ConstructionDeal.com, facebook, social media, social media marketing, twitter

Labels: Blog, blogger, Blogging, blogs, Construction Deal, ConstructionDeal.com, Marketing, Webinar

We're in the process of upgrading our website to help make sure we generate job leads for our network of service professionals. And your company can help! When new visitors come to our site to post their improvement or repair projects, we want them to see all types of work being done.

In an effort to update our site, we're adding new customer testimonials but we'd also like to include real pictures of real projects along with real people. We can post these photos on Construction Deal.com to demonstrate how our site and your companies can help! We could easily put up pretty pictures with posed models, but new visitors to our site know these are not authentic. But the pictures you take of the work you do will help new visitors see firsthand how you can help them.

And they'll post their projects with us. More projects being posted means more jobs for your business.

We would like you to send us pictures of any projects you've been working on. Before and after photos, shots of your happy customers, pictures of you and your crew working hard on the job. We'll use those pictures on our website to let new visitors know we have a dependable nationwide network of service professionals.

These pictures can be in virtually any category we have so don't be afraid you can't send us your photos. We want pictures of your company in action and of the people you are in the business of helping. Send us digital photos in JPEG or GIF formats, if possible, and you can email them to support@constructiondeal.com. If you have any questions on how to do it, give us a call at 866-663-4711.

Your company will receive full credit for any pictures posted.

Again, we want to help you expand your business and this is a way for us to help you do it!

Labels: Construction Deal

The ConstructionDeal.com website is continuing to grow and add new services for our network of contractors and service professionals. We wish to continually evolve to meet the needs of all our members.

To make sure we cover all the job requests posted by our residential project owners, we have added 42 new categories to our site. Some are not entirely new but are more specialized versions of current categories. For example, we have split our Swimming Pools category into:

• Swimming Pool Construction
• Swimming Pool Repair
• Swimming Pool Maintenance

We have added brand new remodeling, construction, and repair/maintenance categories as well. Specialties include Interior Design, Structural Engineering, Acoustical & Specialty Ceilings, and Decorative Concrete. Sign in to your membership account to review all the possibilities. Add any of the new categories that pertain to your company and specialization.

Simply go to ConstructionDeal.com, log in to your account, click on Preferences in the upper right corner, and select Edit Categories. Check off all the categories that apply to your company (uncheck any that do not) and check the Save box at the bottom of the page.

Many contractors had asked for these categories and we listened! Our goal is to help your business succeed. Also, we are just beginning to market and advertise for these new categories and are expanding nationwide campaigns with Google, Yahoo!, MSN and others to bring in more jobs.

If you have any questions about your membership, feel free to contact our Customer Service department (Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm PST) at 866-663-4711 or email us at: support (at) constructiondeal (dot) com!

Labels: Construction Deal

Over the last few weeks, we surveyed our network of service professionals about our budgets that we provide in the leads. We conducted phone interviews and asked the question about leaving the in the budgets in last week's Activity Update. We had been hearing from some contractors that they weren't happy with the budget information the jobs being posted on our site. Since our goal is helping you grow your business, we wanted to make sure we are giving you what you need to do that.

Here is what we discovered:

The results from our survey show that a large majority of our nationwide network likes having the budget information that is entered by the project owners. Over 90% want us to leave the Budget question on the project form.

Most said the budget was a good way to pre-qualify the lead. Many feel they could educate the project owner about the true cost of their project. The majority did not feel their budget was the project owner's final decision on what they would pay.

Over 75% said they would still call the project owner, even if they felt the budget was too low. The remaining companies said they would probably not contact them because they only are looking for the "high end" jobs. What those companies may not realize is that the customer may have a high-end job but does not want to promote (over the Internet) what they're willing to spend. How many people walk into a car dealership with their checkbook wide open announcing how much money they have to spend before they even find out what the cars cost?

As more people turn away from their phone book and turn to the Internet to find service professionals, we'll continue to market to them to help bring your company more business. The results from our survey show you like to have as much information as possible about those projects. So, we will continue to provide budgeting information. And we will continue to try to make the budgeting choices as accurate as possible for each category.

If you have any suggestions for our budgets, please let us know!

RELATED POSTS:
Love the Budget or Leave it Out?

Labels: Budgets, Construction Deal

At Construction Deal, we've been hearing from many contractors in our network about the project budgets.

You've said the budgets posted by project owners are too low. Since our goal is to help you expand your business, we wanted to reach out to you.

We always try to provide you with as much information as possible to help you bid on the remodeling, building, and repair leads posted on our site. The budgets are chosen by the homeowners and business owners but many of you have complained that these budgets are not realistic. These are not numbers set in stone or final in any way - these are the figures from people who may not have any idea how much it will cost or are afraid if they put too high a budget, they'll end up paying too much.

So, we want to know:

Do you want us to continue to include the budget information in the projects we send you?

Please let us know what you think. Contact us at bizdev@constructiondeal.com or post a comment here on Contractor Update! (Click on the link just below that says, "Comments")

RELATED POSTS:
Our Budget Survey Results

Labels: Budgets, Construction Deal