The direct and indirect costs of sales, contracting, billing, and accounting have been long considered inevitable for home services companies. Since everyone has to deal with them, there is a tendency to ignore or underestimate their effect on profit margins. No more. Early adopters of end-to-end technology systems see many “old” costs decline or disappear …
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Are you having trouble keeping your brochures and other product resources up to date in your resource library within Leap? If so, we have the perfect solution for you. Last month, we launched a new Resource Library within the Resources section of the Leap Dashboard. Leap has preloaded 50+ brochures from windows, roofing and doors …
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According to a recent survey by Verizon Telematics, 79% of home remodeling customers expect service professionals to be tech-savvy, and two out of three consumers won’t hire them for a second job if they’re not. “Tech” in this context covers a lot of ground, but the trend is clear: customers report greater satisfaction with contractors …
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By Steve Stencil, CTO and Co-Founder of Leap Choosing the right software to run your business can be daunting. There are too many vendors using the same terms and making the same claims to improve performance and grow business. There are also many different types of software to address various operational functions, such as customer …
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By Steven Stencil, CTO of Leap The use of technology to engage customers has grown dramatically in the home services and remodeling industries. By now, your business probably has a website that allows homeowners to view pictures of completed projects and contact you for an estimate. You may even have a Facebook page or a …
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Our Chief Operating Officer, Wauker Matthews, was recently featured in the Baltimore Business Journal’s “5 Minutes With…” column. In the interview he discusses how Leap has quintupled over the past 6 months and where the company is headed next. Find out more here!
When John Chambers, President of LeafGuard of Indiana, first heard about Leap’s digital in-home sales app, he thought it was “too good to be true.” A premier seller of one-piece gutter systems with a built-in hood that deflects leaves, pine needles, dirt, debris and more, John’s salesmen were estimating costs longhand on a price estimation form …
We are proud to be featured in the What’s App section of Kitchen & Bath Design News, a magazine that’s circulated to over 45,000 designers, dealers, distributors and fabricators nationwide. The article highlights how our app digitizes the entire in-home sales process for the benefit of home services and remodeling companies. Check us out on …
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Steve Stencil started using a spreadsheet to compile lots of different information, but he knew there should be a better way. While working in sales for home improvement jobs, Stencil had to carry a lot of paper to a home when getting together a price. He wanted a digital way to take paper-based price guides and …
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The Daily Record, Maryland’s trusted source for business, legal and government news, featured an article about Leap. The article details how our app digitizes the in-home sales process for companies in the home services industry to help eliminate inefficiencies of handwritten paper contracts, inaccurate estimates and credit application errors. The article also addresses how Leap’s …
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