Trust Your Builder, Your Best Interest Is Their Goal

It is commonplace for clients to ask their builder to use a trade contractor with whom they have an established relationship, and to allow that trade contractor to purchase his or her own materials, supplies, and surface protection. Homeowners commonly do this to establish an apparent environment of accountability and trust. However, this is oft a determination to the building process. Builders purchase from their suppliers and select subcontractors based upon positive lessons learned through prior experience, as a builder’s reputation is vital to maintaining ongoing success. Allowing the builder to use familiar subcontractors and suppliers is in the best interest of the homeowner.

Purchasing from Experienced and Reliable Suppliers

Allowing a builder to purchase from previously tried and tested suppliers provides assurance that all products are reliable, consistent, dependable, and poses no threat of damage to a client’s home. Builders use established suppliers precisely because they can stand behind the reliability and dependability of the purchased products, and because they truly feel that using these products is in the best interests of the homeowner. What good is protecting a newly installed carpet with cut-rate temporary carpet film when it leaves a residue on the new carpet. The extra cost spent cleaning the carpet is significantly more than the price savings of five or ten dollars.

In an effort to save on material costs, homeowners will frequently look online and look towards multiple suppliers to provide necessary fixtures for their homes. People are frequently unaware of the intricacies and the … Read More

Contractor Marketing for Bathroom Remodeling Services – 3 "Must Know" Tips!

To survive the war (for lack of a better term) in the bathroom remodeling Industry, one must advertise his/her bathroom remodeling business in the most effective manner. One also has to understand the various methods that he/she could use to develop the business into a trusted provider of remodeling services in local communities.

With modern technologies, there are dozens of different methods for advertising bathroom remodeling services. Television, radio, Facebook, Google, niche publications, newspaper, and the list goes on. However, one must not use all of these methods at once, or even try to comprehend them all. Doing so would be completely overwhelming and “water down” the effectiveness of your overall marketing strategy.

Instead, focus on the most effective marketing strategy that guarantees your offers will be handled and reviewed by homeowners. In the bathroom remodeling industry, this format is direct mail.

By distributing huge full-color flyers to every home in your target areas, you will generate an immediate response and virtually guarantee that your business and offers will be seen by prospective new customers. By mailing with direct mail (also known as solo mail), you can deliver your ads into the mailbox without being “stuck” in a huge coupon envelope with dozens of competitors.

3 Tips for Creating and Direct Mailing a Successful Bathroom Remodeling Flyer:

1. You must consider the design, depending on what message you want to communicate to prospects. Which photos will you use? Are you going to show before and after pictures? … Read More

Top 7 Home Remodeling Don’ts

Have you been thinking of working on a home remodeling project? If so, you may benefit from some expert tips. Without some important tips in mind, you may end up damaging something in your house. In some cases, you may even hurt yourself in the process. Given below are some don’ts of home remodeling to help you go into the right direction.

1. Don’t Make Delays

Make sure you make your decisions before making a start on the project. This will help you avoid unnecessary delays. Actually, the majority of decisions are related to stuff like faucet selection, trim and paint. They may look tiny, but if you don’t get the faucet in time, you may have to reschedule your plumbers. Therefore, you should make your decision in time.

2. Don’t change your decision too often

Once you have made a decision about something, you should stick to it. However, you have to change your mind later on. But keep in mind that changing your decision will add to the cost of the budget. You will have to spend money to make the necessary changes. It may include new stuff you need to buy and the fee you need to pay to the professionals.

3. Don’t buy the required stuff yourself

While this may sound like a great way to save a lot of money, you should not go for this option. The builder may get a lot better price than you as far as buying materials is concerned. So, … Read More