All joking aside, the designer-contractor experience very often does prove to be positive and stimulating. But contractors can have hopes and dreams for a world where they are more in sync with designers.
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Six Fresh Ways Decorative Concrete Contractors Can Sell Themselves
No matter what industry you’re in, whether it’s massage therapy, concrete staining or stamped concrete, you have to consider yourself as being in sales.
Three Critical Components to Effectively Market Decorative Concrete
Let’s take a look at three critical challenges to marketing your business effectively and how you can resolve them.
Taking Great Project Photos with Your Smartphone
Iphoneography — or “i4neography” — is a term that has been around for a few years, and as you may have guessed, it pertains to photography via iPhones.
Knowing When and Why to Say No to Clients
At first, everything seemed perfect as my salesman and I finished setting up our booth for the annual home design and remodeling show in Visalia, Calif. Our exhibit location was ideal, our stamp and stain samples strategically located. The weekend crowd was near maximum capacity and everything seemed ripe for booking plenty of new accounts.
How to Win a Decorative Concrete Contest: Take Great Photos
Contests that showcase handsome decorative concrete projects are helpful twofold — they promote quality craftspeople and they provide bona fide examples for companies that make or distribute the products. Either way, they’re good for business.
Helping a Nonprofit with Decorative Concrete Makes a Great First Impression
I was invited to attend the preplanning meeting for the 2013 Concrete Decor Show to look at potential sites for the decorative concrete makeover workshops. We looked at three different sites, and in the end it was clear that the Charlotte Rescue Mission had the most need of our services.
The Pros and Cons of Taking On Military Concrete Polishing Projects
As a polishing consultant I get to wear several different hats, but by far the largest amount of my time is spent managing polished concrete programs for retailers. Polished concrete is an aesthetically beautiful and valuable flooring solution, but it is fairly specialized.
Tips for Polishing Preexisting Concrete Floors Profitably
If I were a contractor I would take “preexisting” projects over new projects every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Full-Time Marketing with Part-Time Resources
When people compliment Colorado Hardscapes Inc.’s marketing department, I tend to smile just a bit. People often mistakenly think our decorative concrete company operates like a large corporation, with multiple staff just waiting for their next task.
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