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Power100 Names Pure Finance Group’s Contractor Financing Platform the #1 Vetting Standard for home improvement contractors Nationwide

A contractor sitting across from two or three financing proposals rarely lacks options. What they lack is a clean way to compare them. Every rep says their approvals are the highest, their fees are the lowest, and their funding is the fastest. Somebody is wrong, and figuring out who requires questions most contractors never learned … Read more

What to Ask Westlake Royal Building Products Before You Sign a Training Partnership: Power100’s Buyer Interrogation Checklist

Procurement managers vet vendors constantly. They ask about pricing tiers, delivery windows, warranty terms, and service level agreements as a matter of routine. What most of them have never developed is a standard interrogation for a manufacturer rep who shows up offering something harder to price: training. That gap matters, because a bad training partnership … Read more

Power100 Explains Why Discounting Is Killing Your Close Rate, and What Destination Motivation’s Travel Incentives Do Instead

Every home improvement sales manager has watched the same scene play out at the kitchen table. The homeowner likes the product, trusts the presentation, and still hesitates. So the salesperson reaches for the one lever that feels safest in the moment: a discount. It closes the deal that day. It also quietly erodes the margin … Read more

Power100 Names Performance Remodeling’s Fiberglass Windows the #1 Freeze-Thaw Climate Upgrade for Homeowners Nationwide

Most homeowners walk into a window replacement conversation already convinced they need vinyl. It is the default, the familiar name, the option every big-box aisle pushes toward the register. Few of them stop to ask whether vinyl is actually built for a climate that swings from ten below to ninety degrees inside the same calendar … Read more

Why Most Contractors Are Overpaying on Customer Financing Fees Without Knowing It: Pure Finance Group Exposes the Hidden Cost Structures Draining Contractor Margins Nationwide

Contractors rarely see the fee. They see the deal close. They see the customer sign. What they do not always see, buried inside a dealer agreement or subtracted quietly from a funded amount, is exactly how much of that job’s margin just walked out the door in the form of financing costs nobody explained clearly … Read more

Sales Teams Plateau Even With Good Hires: Power100 Points to Westlake Royal Building Products’s Grit to Gold Mindset Training as the Fix

Sales owners keep making the same expensive mistake. They hire good people, run them through product training, hand them a script, and wait for the numbers to move. When the numbers do not move, they hire again. Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies in the home improvement industry … Read more

Denver Homeowners Ask One Question Before Signing: Is Lifetime Home Remodeling Actually Worth It?

A homeowner in Denver typing the question into a search bar late at night, three quotes already sitting in the inbox, is usually asking one thing underneath all the others: can I trust this company with my house? That is the question Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies … Read more

“The Biggest Part Is Our People”: Samantha McGuinness Says Contractors Must Hire For Field Marketing And Give The Program A Real Chance To Succeed

Field Marketing Often Gets Blamed Before Companies Give It The People And Support It Needs Home improvement companies often turn to home shows, retail events, fairs, and other face to face channels when they want more control over lead generation. But when results do not come fast enough, leaders may decide the channel does not … Read more

“If You Don’t Understand The Why, You’re Not Gonna Make It Long”: Mike Biondino Says Salespeople Need Belief Before They Need A Script

Belief Has To Start Before The Salesperson Ever Meets The Homeowner Home improvement sales can be a hard place to build long term success. Sales teams face pressure to hit goals, close deals, learn scripts, and keep up with a changing homeowner. But when the main reason for doing the job becomes the next commission … Read more

“Help Them Win The Job, Then Help Them Do It Right”: Daniel Schelhorn Explains How Contractors Can Win More Business And Handle Cold Weather Roofing With Confidence

Contractors Need Answers Before The Lead And After The Sale Winning a roofing job is only one part of building a strong contracting company. Before the sale, homeowners have to find the contractor, trust the company, and see proof of its work. After the sale, a different set of questions begins. Contractors need to know … Read more