Chuck The Contractor

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In this video, I talk about the pros and cons of using Stripe for collecting payments as a contractor. Pros: Speed to Money: Stripe allows for faster payment collection, which is crucial for me. Convenience: It's easy for clients to pay using credit or debit cards, or linking their bank accounts. Improved Cash Flow: Payments through Stripe typically take three days to process, which can be quicker than other methods. Integration with Bookkeeping Software: Stripe connects directly to software like QuickBooks, automatically recording transactions. Building Trust: Using modern tools like Stripe can help build trust with customers. Automation: Stripe supports subscription models, allowing automatic, regular charges to customers, reducing the need to chase down payments. Cons: Transaction Fees: Stripe charges a fee of 2.9%, which can add up, but I factor this into my pricing. Chargeback Risk: There's a risk of chargebacks with credit card payments, which needs monitoring. Technical Issues: Potential technical difficulties, though Stripe is generally reliable. Internet Dependency: Requires a stable internet connection, which might be a problem in some areas. Learning Curve: Setting up and learning to use Stripe might take some time. Reduced Personal Interaction: Using online payments might decrease face-to-face interactions with clients, affecting relationship building. I've been using Stripe for over six years and have found it to be an essential tool in my business. If you have any questions or want to know more about my experiences with Stripe, feel free to ask in the comments. More and more contractors are moving towards using Stripe, and you might consider it too. ✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ 🏡 Join a community of contractors in our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorcollective -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorcollective Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70 #contractorbusiness #growyourbusiness #contractor #contractormarketing #howtogrowyourbusiness #youtube #youtubeforbusiness #youtubegrowth #localbusiness

What are the operational considerations if you have an LLC? Keep your personal and business expenses separate. Don't commingle funds. If you commingle personal expenses with your business, it will remove the liability protection an LLC gives you, allowing someone suing you to go after your personal assets. If you need help forming an LLC in any state, go to www.businessanywhere.io/#ck

Sometimes you start a business with little experience. All you can do is learn and create systems to move forward! #business #systems #learnandcreatesystems #googleads #sales #salestips #contractor #contractorbusiness #contractorservices #growyourcontractingbusiness

90% of my viewers aren't subscribed. If you found this valuable, will you do me a favor and hit the subscribe button? My goal is to help as many people as possible and by doing that you'll signal to YouTube to show me to more people. Thanks 🙏 This is a clip from a call I had with a potential client where I explain how customers use Google Maps to decide who to contact, and how you can be the company they reach out to. ✅ The sales checklist I mentioned is in our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorcollective ✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ #sales #salestips #marketing #salesandmarketing -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorcollective Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70

SNEAK PEEK from an exclusive consulting session featuring Chuck the Contractor. ✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ This is a clip from a paid consultation call with Chuck. James is asking Chuck specific questions about how to grow his contracting business and asks about content. Should he be making content? And how can it benefit a contracting business? In the world of YouTube, it seems that making content is for getting worldwide famous sometimes. But it actually can boost your local reach and help craft you as the expert in your city. Schedule a call with Chuck here: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ #contractorbusiness #contractor #contractormarketing #landscape #landscaping #landscapingbusiness #howtogrowyourbusiness #referrals #referralprogram #howtogetreferrals #growyourbusiness #businessgrowth #entrepreneur #marketing #marketingtips -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70 #contractorbusiness #growyourbusiness #contractor #contractormarketing #howtogrowyourbusiness #youtube #youtubeforbusiness #youtubegrowth #localbusiness

Contractors!! You will find more success in your business with consistency. This bleeds into every area of your business. Remember to make adjustments as you go so what you're doing is high quality + consistent. #contractor #contractors #contractormarketing #contractorservices #contractorbusiness #consistency #highquality #growyourbusiness #howtogrowyourbusiness

If this video was valuable, please like, comment, and subscribe! Let me know what video topic I should do next. ✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ This is a clip from a call I had with a potential client where I explain how customers use Google Maps to decide who to contact, and how you can be the company they reach out to. -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70

✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ If a contractor comes to me and says they live in somewhere like San Francisco, the first thing I ask them is, can you move? The reality is that in highly populated metro areas, you have way more competition than in smaller rural markets. In some smaller markets, in fact, there might be NO competition. Of course, you can be successful anywhere with enough hard work. But if you have the ability and desire to live in a smaller town, it could also make business easier. -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70

✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ Joining local business groups and networking is one of the best things you can do as a new, or even established construction contractor or home services business owner. -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70

✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ Here are some key takeaways from the video: -- Most contractors prefer getting referral-like leads from organic search rather than lower quality leads from ads. They don't want to deal with high volumes of leads. -- Optimizing for SEO helps contractors get found by customers who are further down the sales funnel. They've already researched you online and are much warmer leads. -- Getting reviews on Google helps contractors stand out in organic search results and builds credibility. Customers essentially pre-qualify you. -- Asking for the customer's budget and other qualifying questions on contact forms helps filter out bad fits earlier on. -- Following a consistent system for contacting and nurturing leads helps convert them faster. Use a CRM to track interactions at scale. -- Mindset is key - every "no" gets you closer to a "yes" when dealing with high volumes of leads. Focus on providing great customer service. -- Contractors should understand if they really want to scale their business, as it requires stepping back from the tools and focusing on sales and marketing. -- Referral-like SEO leads convert at much higher rates than cold leads from ads. SEO provides the warmer leads contractors prefer. -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70

The only way to know if your marketing is working is to track it properly. As a contractor, you're used to tracking everything else. So track this as well! #marketing #marketingforcontractors #contractor #contractors #contractormarketing #contractorservices #contractorbusiness #tracking #trackyourmarketing #growyourbusiness #howtogrowyourbusiness

If you don't like asking for referrals, this is the easiest way to do it. And I highly suggest getting referrals in order to grow your business. #referrals #askforreferrals #growyourbusiness #growyourcontractingbusiness #contactyourcustomers

✅ Want us to do your marketing? Work with me: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing/ This is from a live video I did in our Facebook group a few weeks ago. In this video, Matt shows his step-by-step money flowchart. It makes it way less stressful and confusing to manage your business money. Like me, I know you struggle to keep track of where all your hard-earned cash is going when you only have a couple bank accounts. Matt's system uses multiple accounts to automatically split up and budget your income. He walks you through setting these up and figuring out the right amounts to put in each one. No more guessing about your books. Do you guys currently have a bank account setup like this in your business? Drop a comment to let me know. And if you have any questions, leave those down below too so Matt can answer them. -- Adapt Digital Solutions' Foundational Marketing System is everything you need to get the phone ringing on a consistent basis and close more deals. Our clients are serious and dedicated to taking action and the results speak for themselves. Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration Check out the free Foundational Marketing Mini-Course to learn how to build a website system and create a steady flow of customers online: https://youtu.be/lbFdrL-ne70

Marketing isn't just about spending money - it's about understanding your cost per customer. #contractormarketing #marketingforcontractors #salesandmarketing

Have you ever heard of Powell & Sons? You have if you've done a Google search for home services in any city in the country. I discovered today that these guys are taking peoples' contact information when they're looking for home services and relaying them into other lead reselling platforms like HomeAdvisor and Angi Leads. This is sort of a bizarre story made me think that this could be one reason so many people tell me that the leads they're buying are no good. If you're a construction contractor, or home services business owner, it's important to know how these lead reselling platforms work.

If you watch my stuff, you know that I'm not a huge fan of lead reselling middleman companies like HomeAdvisor and Angie's List. In my opinion they only make money because they monopolize the front page of Google. My company's mission is to get enough contractors on the front page of Google that these lead reselling middleman companies go away. Watch this video a couple times if you need to. Understanding this stuff is huge for businesses, especially those that are spending tons of money buying leads! Want my team to get you more customers? Click here: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing

If you're now aware by now, Angie's List and HomeAdvisor have been the same company for the last couple of years and together they take up half the front page of google. Right now, Angie's List is rebranding to Angie Leads and HomeAdvisor is becoming Angie's Leads and they're combining forces that way. In this video, I will walk you through the basics of how these lead reselling companies work and talk about why I don't like them so much. Visit my website: https://www.adaptdigitalsolutions.com/contractor-marketing Join a community of like-minded business owners in this private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/contractorleadgeneration

Is Angi Leads worth it? This question is on a lot of minds and I want to answer this question in the most honest way possible. I've used Angi Leads with multiple businesses including my family's remodeling company and can safely say that my opinion is based on facts and experience.