PowerTips Unscripted

Are you looking for innovative tax strategies to reduce you or your clients’ tax burden?  Or, simply sick of paying more than you need to in taxes? Then tune into this episode to hear vital information that you won’t want to miss! Guest Shauna Wekherlien, CPA provides proven, legal, effective, and easy strategies that any […] The post The Top 3 Deductions Your CPA Never Told You About with “The Tax Goddess” – [Best of PowerTips Unscripted] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

Sales management can be one of the hardest jobs in a company, especially if you are both a player and coach. Sales managers are constantly focusing on how to improve their business, their team and themselves, and could use some tips along the way.  Guest David Mattson joins Victoria and Mark in this episode to […] The post The Three Most Important Skills in Sales Management with David Mattson – [Best of PowerTips Unscripted] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

Current events have created an environment of incredible stress for homeowners across the globe. Remodelers have an opportunity to tap into their dissatisfaction with their home environments by using an empathy-based marketing approach to make an emotional connection. On this episode of Best of Powertips Unscripted, Tanya Bamford joins Victoria and Mark to share how […] The post Making powerful emotional connections using empathy-based marketing with Tanya Bamford – [Best of PowerTips Unscripted] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

Today on PowerTips Unscripted, Lane Cooper joins the show to discuss the large project sales process. Price is a process like design. Setting our clients up for a successful pricing process is critical to large remodeling projects moving forward through design into construction. Lane walks us through his pricing process to manage clients’ price expectations. […] The post Exploring a Large Project Sales Process with Lane Cooper – [PowerTips Unscripted S4 E11] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

As remodeling companies grow, owners face the challenges of deciding when leaders are needed, how to find them, and train them to be good leaders. In this episode of PowerTips Unscripted, Wayne Ottum discusses these challenges and provides tools and methodologies for facing these challenges head-on. In addition, he talks about how he helps owners […] The post Solving the Challenges of Leadership Development in Remodeling Companies with Wayne Ottum – [PowerTips Unscripted] S4 E10 appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

Today on PowerTips Unscripted, Mark and Victoria are joined by Michael Hodgin to discuss using the financial review to pivot to profitability. A complete understanding and review of your company’s financials is a practice that requires a disciplined effort. However, with this practice in place, an owner will be able to use the information from […] The post Using the Financial Review to Pivot to Profitability with Michael Hodgin – [PowerTips Unscripted S4 E9] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

In this episode, Pete Blank shares customer-service strategies from Disney with Victoria and Mark, and discusses how to apply these lessons to your remodeling company to boost your own team’s customer-service performance.  Pete has been developing leaders and improving service levels of organizations for the past 25 years — 13 of those with the Walt […] The post The Magic of Disney’s Customer-Service Strategies with Pete Blank – [Best of PowerTips Unscripted] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

The demand and absence of skilled labor is a huge challenge for remodelers across North America. We hear it from our Roundtables Members as well as from our associates, sponsors and Podcast guests. In this episode Victoria and Mark explore different ways to tackle the issue, and welcome Dan Hurst to the show to talk […] The post Fighting the Labor Shortage with In-house Training with Dan Hurst – [Best of PowerTips Unscripted] appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

In this episode of PowerTips Unscripted, Iris Harrell discusses the importance of having women in key positions within remodeling companies. They make up half of the US workforce, so there is a sizeable recruitment pool, and they also relate on a deeper level with female customers, who often drive decision-making. Women are multi-taskers, organizers, collaborators, […] The post How To Double The Number Of Top Leaders In Your Remodeling Comapny: Hire And Train More Women, Featuring Iris Harrell – [PowerTips Unscripted] S4 E8 appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.

Today on PowerTips Unscripted, Lauren Campuzano joins the show to discuss outsourcing 3-Dimensional (3-D) Design. 3-D designs can help remodelers sell their plans, but finding the right talent can take time and effort. Lauren found that 3-D designs were great communication tools within the design department, construction department, and sometimes with clients. Creating 3-D models […] The post Outsourcing 3-Dimensional Design with Lauren Campuzano- [PowerTips Unscripted] S4 E7 appeared first on PowerTips Unscripted.