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The American Contractor Show

Technology is Here To Stay – How Contractors Should Be Approaching Tech

πŸ“… October 29, 2020 ⏱️ 25:40 🎀 John Dye, Tom

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  • 0:00
    Welcome & episode 40 milestone
  • 1:05
    A note on election day
  • 2:46
    Introducing Tom from Leap
  • 3:52
    From shingles to the Marine Corps
  • 6:06
    Law school, sales & Hover to Leap
  • 9:23
    What Leap actually does
  • 10:28
    People and processes before technology
  • 12:37
    Technology as a self-audit
  • 14:16
    Pandemic, Zoom & virtual sales reality
  • 16:59
    The real hurdle: implementation
  • 18:04
    The best CRM is the one you use
  • 19:40
    How to get started & closing

Speakers

J
John Dye
Host, The American Contractor Show
T
Tom
Strategic Partnerships, Leap (former US Marine & roofing contractor)

Key Takeaways

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Fix people and processes BEFORE adding technology - bad processes plus new software just amplifies your mistakes and gives you worse processes at scale.

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Good software acts as a self-audit: contractors adopting a point-of-sale tool often realize how inefficient or cumbersome their pricing and follow-up really were.

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Implementation, not features, is the biggest hurdle - you have to devote real internal resources and time to set a tool up so it works for your business.

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The best CRM is the one you actually use; features don't matter if the tool sits idle, and a CRM is only as valuable as the data you put into it.

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The pandemic forced adoption of tools like Zoom and virtual sales, but in-home selling still dominates - many contractors keep virtual as a second-call/follow-up backup (one large contractor reported ~3% virtual sales).

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Leap digitizes the whole in-home sale - from the moment the rep pulls into the driveway to when they leave - covering estimates, contracts, proposals, and financing in one application.

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Technology is here to stay and your competitors are adopting it to take market share, so the real competitor to beat is the status quo of pen, paper, and carbon copy.

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