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Aug
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If you’ve decided to sell your home, it’s likely you’ve some unfinished projects you need to complete before putting it active on the market. Deferred maintenance won’t only serve to delay your sale, but will also bring down your property value and lose money on the sale. Read on for a discussion on the ways a handy man service can be of benefit to you as you prepare to sell your home.
1. Offering Time Management
Plain and simple, hiring a professional handyman service to complete many or all of your unfinished projects or needed updates will save you loads of time and allow you to prepare differently for your upcoming move. A good team of workers can complete in a fraction of the time what it would take you to accomplish alone or with a spouse or helper. The buying of time is always a smart purchase.
2. Getting the Job Done Right
A good, reputable handy man service will be bonded and insured, and its workers will be licenced and trained in the tasks you’re hiring them to complete. This equates to no guesswork on your part on how to do certain installings or repairs. Also, most services guarantee their work, so in the event of any flaws or problems, they’ll fix it for no another charge. That beats spending countless hours on a project only to have to return to that again and try another remedy. Read more… »
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Apr
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One of the most vital decisions a company will make is the hiring of the right sales manager. All the same, many business proprietors and executives make the only too common mistake of restricting their search to those with industry experience. There’s a feeling that the sales manager must come from their industry as that’s the only way they’ll be successful in the role. Many put that element of their criteria at the top of their decision list. “The successful applicant will have 10 years experience in the widget industry.
The finish result of this access is that companies hire the industry retreads. Mayhap, employers think that this person will bring along valuable competitive secrets, maybe even some clients. While that may occasionally happen, this approach negatively impacts the company. They may as well hang a sign outside that says, “No new ideas permitted” because that’s what you get when you focus your search on industry people only. What often happens is that the individual gets hired because they can create the illusion of brilliance by using industry jargon to blind the interviewer. “Eureka! We’ve found our sales manager! She’s very strategic!”
Every company thinks they’re in an industry that’s so unique and has so many nuances that the hire must have industry background. This is a scary approach! If that’s the feeling in the company, there’s a much greater issue that they face. How will they scale? If they always limit the search to those within the industry, what do they do when they run out of candidates? The fact is that most industry information can be taught. The company needs to get over their hubris thinking that their industry is so special that it takes an industry veteran to be successful. Product knowledge isn’t the main driver in a successful sales person, nor is it the primary one for the successful sales manager. Consider this, CEOs bounce from Fortune 1000 company to Fortune a thousand company based on their CEO acumen, not their industry knowledge. Read more… »
