What Features Are Homeowners Willing to Pay More For?
Posted By brittney,May 15th, 2013Data compiled from the National Association of Realtors has yielded some interesting information regarding what home owners and prospective home buyers most want to have in their houses, and the features for which they are willing to pay additional money. Of those homeowners surveyed: FIREPLACE 40% of home buyers without a fireplace said [...]
Leave a CommentThe Best Advertising No Money Can Buy
Posted By brittney,May 9th, 2013No matter how impressive your marketing, no matter how many discount coupons you hand out, no matter how modern your vehicles or your equipment may be, your first, last and best marketing tools will always be your interpersonal skills and the skills of the people you hire to work in [...]
Leave a CommentGrowing Markets
Posted By brittney,April 30th, 2013As we continue to make our way out of the extended recession that has mired the country for so long, there are indications that certain areas are experiencing even stronger comebacks than others. Top performers include places like Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Houston and Oklahoma City, with a handful of [...]
Leave a CommentIt Ain’t Easy
Posted By brittney,April 24th, 2013To paraphrase President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Nothing worth having comes easily.” Here’s another quotation worth mentioning: “If it was easy, then everyone would be doing it.” Starting any new business is difficult. It requires a sincere commitment of every resource available to you: Time, money, effort, and a belief in what you are [...]
Leave a CommentMaking the Commitment
Posted By brittney,April 10th, 2013We’ve become an increasingly isolated society. There’s a certain amount of irony in the fact that even as technology provides us with more and more ways to communicate with each other, we actually seem to communicate less and less effectively. We pump our own gasoline, we make deposits and withdrawals to our [...]
Leave a CommentHandyman Matters Awards Grand Prize Bathroom Remodel to Colorado Air Force Reservist
Posted By brittney,April 3rd, 2013Last summer Handyman Matters locations across the United States launched the Handyman Matters Great American Makeover. Today the grand prize winner, Samuel Alexander of Aurora, CO is enjoying his beautiful updated bathroom! The Denver Post went to the Alexander’s home to see how they are enjoying their new bathroom and what their experience [...]
Leave a CommentGaining Perspective After Convention
Posted By brittney,March 27th, 2013The overwhelmingly positive response we received from our franchisees, vendors and other participants at the 2013 Handyman Matters convention was particularly gratifying this year. Though the event itself is over almost as quickly as it begins (at least, that’s how those three-four days seem to us!), it is the culmination [...]
Leave a CommentThe Good News Just Keeps Coming!
Posted By brittney,March 12th, 2013The Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high on Tuesday, March 5th, surpassing a key level in its recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown. It’s the latest in a series of positive signs that the economy really is headed towards a recovery after years of slow growth and [...]
Leave a CommentHandyman Matters National Convention 2013
Posted By brittney,March 7th, 2013We returned from our eleventh annual Handyman Matters convention in early March, re-energized, excited, and committed all over again to make this year the one in which we shake off all remnants of the economic recession and sluggish economy that slowed, but never deterred our progress or our optimism. It’s difficult [...]
Leave a CommentWearing The Handyman Matters Brand
Posted By brittney,February 26th, 2013When you buy a Handyman Matters franchise, you buy a brand, and this is what sets you apart from the competition, whether it’s the Chuck-in-a-Truck individual operating out of his home, or another franchised home repair business utilizing its own systems and guidelines. As a prospective new buyer, you want to [...]
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