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Jackie Rainwater

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Managing, Monitoring Sales For Success

Properly training retail sales personnel and making sure they areperforming to expected levels is essential.

A sales lead is a terrible thing to waste. I am sure you will agree with t...

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MORE ARTICLES BY Jackie Rainwater

How To Build A Dynamic & Highly Profitable HVAC Retail Business With Residential Service Agreements 
First of three in a series. After a combined career in the hvac industry of over 90 years, we can say one thing with absolute certainty: We fully recognize and understand the importance of residential service agreements in growing a highly ...

Proven Ways To Generate Sales Leads 
As I write this column from my home near Atlanta, we continue to have record-high temperatures. We have seen triple-digit temperatures daily during this three-week-long “heat wave,” and local weather forecast...

How To Boost Your HVAC Accessories Sales 
Selling after the close of a replacement-job sale gives customers a chance to fully consider benefits and savings.

Turbocharge Your Sales With Compensation That Motivates 
Maximizing the performance of sales professionals requires several key components. Some of the obvious ones are sales training, effective sales lead-generation and tracking programs,...

Achieve Business Goals Through Partnering 
Assessing key areas for alignment is important for mutually beneficial relationships.

How To Deliver What Customers Really Want. 
Comment cards and focus groups are two ways to keep growth on track.

Growing Sales Takes More Than Adding Salespeople 
Most residential and light commercial hvac contractor...

The Importance Of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 
At Peachtree Heating and Air Conditioning, the Atlanta-based $18-million (more than $20 million expressed in 2006 dollars) residential and light commercial “retail” company I operated from 199...

Know Your Limits: Establish a Primary Service Area (PSPSA) 
How to minimize costly drive time and maximize productivity and profits.

Planning for Growth and Improved Profitability 
Let’s begin with the assumption that your business resources (including cash!) are “finite” and not “infinite.” If you agree with this assumption, then you&...

Great Companies Are Built With Great Internal Communications 
“We have met the enemy and he is us!” This great line from an old Pogo comic strip aptly describes one of the major problems I have seen at the majority of the hvac companies I have observed or consulted with: failure to properly com...

How To Increase Service Agreement Revenues 
At Peachtree Heating and Air Conditioning, the Atlanta-based service, replacement, and IAQ company I helped to operate from 1990 until 2002, we were successful in growing our maintenance-agreement customer base to over 18,000 and we leveraged that cust...

Building a Winning Company Culture 
Would you like to triple your customer referrals? Increase your sales closure rate 10%? Cut your installation warranty cost 75%? Add 1% to your installation profits? Reduce the turnover rate of your installati...

PART 4: Establish the Appropriate Culture in Your Company 
A culture that values and nurtures its customers and co-workers was the key to the tremendous growth and profitability of Peachtree Heating and Air Conditioning (Peachtree) from 1990 to 2002, when I ran the company. In that time, Peachtree grew to beco...

PART 3: Establish the Appropriate “Culture” in Your Company 
Successful contractors know a winning company culture keeps customers and employees happy.

PART 2: Establish the Appropriate “Culture” in Your Company 
In the June issue of HVACR Business, we discussed the overall importance of creating the right culture in your company in order to achieve success over the long term. The culture we established at Peachtree Heating and Air Conditioning (“Peachtree”) in...

PART 1: Establish the Appropriate “Culture” in Your Company 
What’s all the buzz about the importance of creating the right sort of “culture” within your company if you hope to have any chance at all in achieving success over the long term? What does the word “culture” actually me...


 








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