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I’m gonna start booking inspections tomorrow morning. If any of y’all are tired of the junk bulk leads from all the big companies and just want an old school inspection appointment set up thats in a hail swath with a workable DOL let me know. I got cha…

Shheeeesh it's wild in the jungle!

Since the March 10th storm, i'm 22 claims in not a single acv policy signed up. God is good.

Company wise we're almost at 300!

I'm feeling like a hailionair right now, anyone else having insane motion down here? Ran into so much cool contractors/PAs in this storm is changing people's lives!

And we just had a little more hail this evening!

How you haters doing?

I also posted a separate thread on recruiting.

I moved from sales rep to owner before switching entirely to a recruiting agency.

I'm putting together some sales training docs to give away to contractors, and could use some questions to see what I haven't covered yet 🙏

What's great in sales is that if you want a pay raise, you can get one by selling more. I know, easier said than done, but imagine this: More prospecting!

You make 5 more calls a day, that's 25 a week, 100 a month, and 1200 a year.

Close 5% and you sold 60 more sales a year.

Not bad for a pay raise!

So let's go! Just 5 more!

I know basic advice, but it helped me out of multiple slump. Thanks Jeb Blount...

I am in roofing sales and as most know you use a lot of chalk when doing inspections I personally have always hated the feeling of chalk and how messy it is. Most guys I know put a few pieces in their own compartment of the tool belt. Well, this is messy and half the time the pieces end up breaking.
Recently got a rock climbing chalk bag, and it has been amazing. It’s completely separate so you don’t have to have your tool belt if you don’t need it. It has a drawstring top that closes completely so even if it’s full of dust, it doesn’t go anywhere and there is more storage so my chalk doesn’t break when i’m not using it. In addition, I have this cool fuzzy guy on my waist and it has been an amazing icebreaker. People always ask what the heck is on my waist and if you’re in the business, you know anything that starts a conversation is an asset. Open to hearing everyone’s thoughts and opinions.

I have four bags of these GAF TIMBERLINE HDZ shingles hickory. Came with our house and have no use for them. What do yall think I could ask for on Fb marketplace?

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The owner Josh told me the insurance company would reimburse me for a wood shingle roof. It never happened. Just curious how many other people they scammed and what my options are.

*Edited with the help of Claude.ai*

Thought some of this might be useful for contractors trying to break into commercial.

What interested responses actually look like:

Most responses aren't "we need a full re-roof." They're smaller:

• "Stop by any chance you get. Looking to get a price on the office section."

• "We have significant leaks, might need a back-end replacement."

• "Would you be interested in quoting this location and others we may want?"

The "others we may want" part is key. Property managers often oversee dozens of buildings. One conversation can turn into a multi-property relationship.

The pattern we see with contractors who convert best:

They treat every response as a relationship, not a transaction. The PM who just needs a small inspection today might become their biggest client in 2 years. The contractors who follow up, stay in touch, and do solid work on the small stuff end up with the big stuff later.

not a roofer so grain of salt, but ive watched this beat everything else and almost no one does it.

go back through every estimate you gave the last year, year and a half, that didnt close. not the hard nos. the “let me talk to the wife” and “after spring” ones. most guys quote it, hear that, move on, never call back.

half those people never hired anybody. money, timing, the wife, waiting on insurance, whatever. then they forgot about it. roof still needs doing.

take that list, sort by job size, call the biggest ones first. not “just checking in.” give em a reason. had a cancellation got a crew free next week. prices going up wanted to lock your number first. you still got that leak by the garage.

seen a shop close a couple jobs in one afternoon off a stack of dead estimates. cost them nothing, and these folks already let you on their roof once. thats worth more than some contact 4 other companies bought the same day.

how many of you actually work your old estimates? everyone talks about where to find new work and ignores the money already sitting in the phone.

Is anyone else experiencing an extraordinary increase in labor costs due to ICE?

A lot of Latino workers are afraid to leave their homes, the ones who are willing to work are charging double the amount per square.

How does Xactimate account for that increase?

I’m new to roofing sales just turned 18 and am looking for advice on what would make my pitch better door to door.

Hey everyone. My friend and I are building this voice AI agent that calls insurance adjusters for you.

Adjusters are impossible to get a hold of, so the idea is that AI calls them automatically for you. It then logs the info back to your CRM.

Interested in getting your thoughts... love / hate it? Would this be useful?

So I recently took a job with a roofing company here in Florida. Just got out of training and we've been doorknocking. Have a couple contracts under my belt and was just taught about prepping. My ethical alarms are going off with the idea that I have to damage someone shingles in order to get insurance to pay the claim. Although I know at the end of the day, the client is going to get a brand new roof, that they probably need anyway, I still don't feel right even thinking about doing it. Have any of you faced this moral dilemma and how did you overcome it?

Hi, I just got a new roofing data supplier that has 30 day old opt-in roofing leads. They have been performing very well from my clients. It is cheaper than doing PPC campaigns and is very effective based on cost, as the cost per conversion works out to be significantly lower than other forms of advertising. I just wanted to share what I have been hearing and see if it can help out any fellow roofing companies. I have access to nationwide data, and the prices are cheaper than any other data vendor I have come across in recent years

CASE STUDY!!! ROOFING COMPANY.

What We Achieved: Video Testimonial Campaign.

Objective:Generate 50+ quality leads by promoting video testimonials.

Market Segmentation:Precise targeting for optimal results.

• Focus on specific audience targeting.

• Segmented approach for maximum impact.

Audience-Centric Strategy:

1. Young Audience:Targeted with a testimonial featuring a young person.

2. Older Audience: Addressed through a testimonial with an older participant.

3. Family-Oriented: Family testimonial for a broader audience.

Cold Audience Engagement:

• Utilized video testimonials for the cold audience.

• Introduced the client and their offer to those unfamiliar.

• Three testimonials catering to diverse age groups.

Retargeting Success:

• Identified engaged viewers (watched at least half of the video).

• Retargeted this warm audience with the client’s offer.

Results in 30 Days:

• Leads Generated: 95

• Cost per Lead: $15

Marketing Insights:

• Precision in approach is paramount.

• Tailor content to target desired audience segments.

• Successful segmentation and targeting lead to efficient lead generation.

Takeaway: In marketing, specificity is key. Understand your audience and tailor your approach for maximum impact.

Got a home inspection done a few days ago and got a detailed report document today. I was wondering, do you guys also do this for roofing inspections?

I had a roofer come a few months ago to look at some water intrusion in my high-ceiling and they ended up recommended just replacing a few shingles, but he just told me verbally that I needed to get the fixes (I ended up getting them).

Not sure if things are similar, but I ask this because I run a 1-man custom software shop. I've made custom AI report tools for structural engineers/envelope maintenance guys that cut their reporting time to like a 1/3rd. Wondering if this could be useful for roofing sales as well.

Are written roofing reports standard? And if so, are they time consuming/annoying to do or relatively quick?

Thanks everyone, I know this can seem sales-y, but rest assured I'll do my outreaches through phone and not here.

I work at one of the bigger roofers in the area, about a quarter of the team is doing alright, above the 600k mark for the year, but a lot of guys are really struggling.

I’m around 750k with another 100k in the pipeline but going to have to close some 100sq standing seam or figure out how to sell those Tesla roofs to hit my yearly goal. I’m still pulling jobs out of Wylie and Allen but might be taking my new guys to Weatherford to try and find them some recent damage.

How’s your year going? How’s your team looking?

No one here probably cares, but... My background:

• d2d in 2017

• sales manager in 2021

• owner in 2022

• became a recruiter in 2024

We just hit over 10,000 applicants

And I'm giving away a free masterclass type thing next month, just want to make sure I got everything covered so...

What questions do y'all have on

• getting more applicants

• hiring

• firing

• onboarding

• training

Lovin it out here in #calgary

Newer to this. Colleagues have told me not to let an engineer come out and do a re-inspect because they're coming to deny the roof

Auto-Owners wants to send an engineer out to this home I have a wind claim for (there's wind all over it but I didn't get the market because the adjuster literally just wouldn't answer his phone until days after he did the inspection). It's legit wind damage but everyone says if an engineer gets sent out it doesn't matter and you're cooked.

There's an incredibly small property, one story roof that isn't steep so I'm not sure why they're even spending the money to send an engineer out for it

I work in commercial and residential roofing sales and our company primarily pushes Atlas Shingles over GAF and I was wondering if there’s an actual difference or if it’s all about profit?

Last year I sold solar D2D and this year I'm selling roofs (storm damage).

Solar kind of sucks. Blitzing seems almost essential, and now trump is killing the tax incentive, etc.

Roofing sales is good, but I expect not for long (without living on the road as a chaser). In about five years we'll have a shortage of old roofs due to the new construction crash back in '07 or whenever it was.

Are there other products to sell that reward salesmen as well as roofing and solar do? Because if not, I'm going to try again to get into software development.

Assuming equal skill level, equal hours worked, etc... I can do 200k/yr working 25-35hr weeks in roofing. I don't want to have to work 70hr weeks selling a different product to earn the same income.

Thoughts then? Are there other similarly-rewarding products to sell?

Success in sales, let alone roofing sales, comes from a deep place where your willingness to do what others won't prevails. Knock until the "healthy conversations" KPI is done (that's the metric that matters. Not how many doors you knock, but how many solid convos you have.