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Home Service Expert

Connecting Marketing, Design and Technology To Better Serve Your Customers with Peter Sena

πŸ“… December 25, 2019 ⏱️ 56:42 🎀 Peter Sena, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Introduction
  • 1:38
    Peter Sena and Digital Surgeons: from dorm room to boardroom
  • 4:57
    Building a one-year plan to go fully digital
  • 8:15
    Confirm you have the right local audience
  • 9:54
    The 80/20 rule: defining your ideal customer
  • 13:10
    Working backwards from word-of-mouth referrals
  • 16:28
    Building blogs and landing pages around customer needs
  • 19:46
    Using your CRM to generate better leads
  • 24:38
    Pay-per-click and SpyFu for competitive research
  • 32:46
    Know your audience and its buying moments
  • 47:40
    Loyalty, trust, and experience: the three pillars
  • 52:35
    Final advice for home service businesses

Speakers

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Peter Sena
CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Surgeons
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Tommy Mello
Host; Founder & CEO, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

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Before spending a dollar on marketing, confirm that the traffic reaching your website is actually your serviceable local audience, because leads from outside your coverage area waste both money and technician time.

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Use the 80/20 rule to identify the roughly 20% of customers who drive 80% of your revenue, then build your marketing to attract more people who look exactly like those best repeat clients.

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Start offline before going digital by interviewing your best word-of-mouth customers and working backwards to learn how they found you and the exact language they used to describe your service.

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Map your competitive ecosystem, including franchise players with bigger budgets, and study what people are and aren't saying about you versus your competitors to find your positioning.

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Design marketing around your customers' buying moments, distinguishing the crisis buyer who wants an immediate answer from the planned-remodel buyer who is researching over time.

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Leverage your CRM and tools like SpyFu and pay-per-click data to understand which keywords and sources actually produce revenue, then double down on what works and cut what doesn't.

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Long-term growth comes from the three pillars of loyalty, trust, and experience, where trust ultimately exceeds a single transaction and turns customers into repeat referral sources.

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