What Connected Contractors is All About:
By nature, the home improvement industry is based on local business relationships – typically, businesses and clients are in close proximity to one other. With this in mind, ConnectedContractors.com creates local hubs or marketplaces. Each marketplace is assigned to service a specific geographic region. Businesses become members only in the areas where their business operates. Consumers browse the web site and connect with those businesses that serve their specific geographic area.
Local business owners tend to know who’s doing a good job in other industries, and who to stay away from. ConnectedContractors.com enables businesses to come together to form Service Teams, shows how businesses are connected, and tabulates how many Teams each business belongs to. Consumers use this cross-pollination of relationships as a powerful new metric that aids in the due diligence process. A company that is endorsed by 30, 40, 50 or more of its peers is obviously doing something right!
ConnectedContractors.com provides an extensive catalog of features and benefits that help make home improvement projects easier and less stressful. Here’s a brief summary of our free tools:
- My Reminders: Set automated email Reminders for anything, business or personal.
- Directories: Find service-oriented businesses in your area that want to work with you.
- Due Diligence: A company’s Reputation Profile tells you how many consumers and business owners refer the company you’re considering/read reviews and credentials
- Proposals: Request and track proposal requests/save proposals to your workspace.
- Invoices: Receive, pay (securely via PayPal) and save invoices.
- Maintenance Reminders: Establish Fixed Maintenance Plans for recurring maintenance tasks.
- Project Organizers: Quickly access contact info, track appointments, budgets, notes and reminders, store proposals, change orders and invoices.
- Classified Ads: View supplies, materials, vehicles and equipment for sale in your area and throughout the ConnectedContractors.com network.
- Small Projects: Have a small job you can’t get done? Post it to be viewed by business members only.
- Coupons: Goods and services on sale in your area, and throughout the ConnectedContractors.com network.
- Rewards: Earn discounts and gifts just by referring friends and family to companies you know, like and trust.
- Employment: Fill out a form and post your experience and credentials anonymously. It’s free and confidential!
- Real Estate: Quickly find the websites of local brokers.
ConnectedContractors.com provides an extensive catalog of features and benefits that help businesses grow their bottom line by increasing productivity, cultivating strategic relationships and good old-fashioned lead generation. Here’s a brief summary of what’s included with your membership:
- Contractors & Other Businesses: Get tools that help make managing a business easier.
- My Reminders: Set automated email reminders for anything business or personal.
- Directory Listings: List your business in directory categories that describes what you do.
- Position Protection: Directories are organized by seniority. We honor early adopters; first movers are found closer to the top of each category classification in their area. At ConnectedContractors.com one member can’t ‘outspend’ another to ‘appear on the first page’ in order to swipe ‘click-throughs’ from others that got involved first, but might not have as much to invest.
- Hyperlinks: Your directory listings are hyperlinks to your website and social media.
- Reputation Profile: Build a robust Reputation Profile to show others the trust and respect you’ve earned locally.
- Post Your Service Team on your Website: Create an invaluable resource for your customers, a new reason for them to visit your site, (thereby increasing traffic) and a source of opportunities for your business partners.
- Be Found on Partners’ Websites: As you’re company becomes featured on the Teams of others you gain more and more business endorsements and sources for web traffic and opportunities.
- Customer Management: Set up customer accounts online manually; automatically when you respond to Request for Proposal and Schedule an Appointment forms sent to you via ConnectedContractors.com.
- Customer Maps: Automated driving directions for customer addresses.
- Document Storage: Store documents and account info securely.
- Email alerts: Instant notification on your Dashboard and in your email when requests and confirmations arrive from customers.
- Job Scheduling: Work Orders, Scheduled Service Reminders for upcoming appointments, and more.
- Customizable Settings: Custom text, pricing, logos, web site info, terms & conditions, sales tax fields. Quickly build custom business documents.
- Appointments: Receive and offer appointment requests/manage confirmations.
- Proposals/Change Orders: Create fully customizable proposals and change orders that are email ready.
- Sales Forecasting: Each new proposal automatically updates your Sales Forecasting Tool. Track win rate by opportunity and project new sales based on probability of closing deals in your pipeline.
- Asset Management: Assign maintenance plans to employees with automated email reminders, and track costs for each vehicle in your fleet as well as capital equipment you own.
- Supply & Material Quoting: Create one list of supplies and materials and get as many as three quotes.
- Invoices: Create fully customizable invoices that are email ready and embedded with PayPal links.
- Forecast Maintenance Revenue: Companies that provide recurring maintenance services can project and track revenue by month, year and customer.
- Classified Ads: Post & View supplies, materials, vehicles and equipment for sale in your area, and throughout the ConnectedContractors.com network.
- Coupons: Promote sales, seasonal discounts and clearance events to other business members, consumers or both. Your offers are available locally and throughout the ConnectedContractors.com network.
- Rewards: Set up a Rewards Program to thank your customers and peers for referring your company to their friends and family.
- Employment: Post job openings, view resumes/credentials posted by employment prospects.
- Create a Broadcast Network for Your Content: Not only is your Reputation Profile carried on your partners’ sites, so is your ConnectedContractors.com content including classifieds, coupons, rewards and employment ads.
