<\/a>In a market full of copycat assholes all stealing your clients or customers, ad copy and website pictures, there is one thing none of them can take away\u2026<\/p>\n

Your Word!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You old heads out there know exactly what I\u2019m talking about. You built solid businesses, sent kids to college and paid for summer homes trading on your word.<\/p>\n

You young guys, stop fucking it up!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stop taking deposits and showing up weeks later, stop telling people you are going to use one thing, then use something else. There is a guy out there hunting down assholes that do that!<\/p>\n

Holmes on Homes<\/strong><\/p>\n

And you don’t want that guy coming in behind your shit, that’s for sure. So go out and mean what you say and say what you mean.<\/p>\n

How to market that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If your local industry custom is to guarantee the work for 5 years, do it for 10, do it for 20, hell, do it for life. What difference does it make? If you do good work, you won’t have more than 1-2% of your jobs that you will have to go back in on.<\/p>\n

And even if you do, those revisits represent additional selling opportunities to the homeowner, their family and friends and their neighbors.<\/p>\n

Be different when not being consistent!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be that company that kills the competition in service and value, and earn a reputation one handshake at a time…that\u2019s old-school social media right there boys and girls. No go forth and get r\u2019 done!<\/p>\n

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