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Month: February 2018

Harris Rosen tries to stay humble and hard-working at 78

Harris Rosen tries to stay humble and hard-working at 78

After Hurricane Matthew devastated southwest Haiti in 2016, there was little left standing around the school that hotelier Harris Rosen built.

Photos show its bright red roof mostly intact, surrounded by fields of destruction near the town of Chantal. By stroke of luck or providence, the school…

Target the right customers for your Contractor Business

Target the right customers for your Contractor Business

If you have your own contracting business, getting new customers is your livelihood. However, you want to promote yourself to the RIGHT customers. Otherwise, if you just promote to the masses, it can cost you. Spending time and money on resources that are going out to people who would never hire you. Don’t let the wrong customers take you away from the right customers. Your customer is someone who fits your business, the geography you work in, the price point your service at. You don’t want your promotions to go to people thousands of miles away who can’t afford your work, right? Right!

 

  • Recognize who your best customer is
  • Define your customer. Who do you love to do business with? List the traits that you think would or do define your best customer. Personality. Budgets. Geography. Project size. Type of construction.
  • Once you see who your customer is, you can go after them more clearly.
  • Use past years’ date and info to help you to also define your customer. See if your preferred customers bring you more profit.

Once you define and recognize your ideal customer, you can focus your attention on strategically marketing to that person. This person will guide your advertising and marketing efforts in person and on the web. You will realize what referrals are worth going after or know what types of customers will be a waste of time. With a target audience in mind, you will save time and money on marketing efforts and will continue to see more visibility and attention to your brand and business. read more

Piedmont buys downtown Orlando HD Supply building

Piedmont buys downtown Orlando HD Supply building

Piedmont Office Realty Trust has purchased downtown Orlando’s HD Supply building at 501 W. Church St., according to Orange County property records.

The five-story building was opened in 2004 near the Amway Center. The sale closed on Thursday, and the sale price as recorded on Tuesday is $28 million,…

Orlando attorney blasts the NRA, turns in AR-15

Orlando attorney blasts the NRA, turns in AR-15

Orlando attorney Charlie Gray, who says he’s been a longtime member of the National Rifle Association, posted a photo of himself on Facebook Monday as he turned over in his AR-15 rifle to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

He also posted a blistering letter slamming the NRA for its response to…