Spectrum Communications & Consulting Inc. Blog: lead generation
We listen to a lot of phone calls coming into our remodeling partners, and you might be surprised to see how often we see this conversation happen. Customer: “Do you sell Andersen?” (or any brand you don’t sell) Remodeler: “No, we sell our own brand of vinyl windows. Are you interested in those?” Cu...
Every salesman loves a referral – it’s like your previous customers have already sold the job, and your sales team only has to prepare the paperwork! In comparing different lead sources for remodelers, nothing compares to referrals, both in terms of having a high closing rate and a low rescission ra...
In the remodeling industry, we know that there is an ‘on season’ and an ‘off season.’ Customers just don’t relish the thought of replacing their windows while there’s snow on the ground. The holidays are hard to schedule around. You are going to have fewer leads and they’ll be harder to sell in the...
We’ve put a lot of thought into this question. After all, our remodeling partners pour cash into both the paper Yellow Pages and the internet equivalents. Here are some hard facts. We track where all of our leads come from, with unique phone numbers and URL tracking for each source. When you track y...
The classic marketing conundrum – you are running an expensive ad on television, and a couple of cheap ads on the radio. You have yard signs and home show coupons. Of course, your website is generating leads, too. As the sales appointments come in, how do you know where they’re coming from? You do w...
So you’ve started working out the details of your business’s new website and social media campaign. There’s a lot to think about! Let’s briefly go over your lead generation strategy to make sure everything’s in order. Your site is built with responsive design? Check! It has eye-catching colors and a...
Good morning, you lead generation crackerjack, you. That’s right, you. It must be nice waking up to a steady flow of quality leads every day. But then again, what do you expect when you’re doing everything right? Your website is organized, informative, remarkably self-sufficient and it fits any scre...
Your company depends on a steady flow of quality leads to be profitable. Not a dribble; a flow – that’s why you've invested all that energy and moola to create a captivating website with great content, anchor text, and just the right amount of keywords. All that wo...
Your company's website, regardless of the product or professional service you offer, is an incredibly powerful marketing tool. This is especially true if your business depends on a consistent stream of quality leads. Recently, we initiated an A/B test which completely reinforces the notion that trus...
Pay-per-click ads, as most of you well-know, appear on the side and at the top of Google, Bing and Yahoo! SERPs. They're used to direct customer traffic to websites, funneling millions of people to the optimized landing pages of companies from virtually every industry. Pay-per-click, or PPC, is a tr...
