The last 6 months in our masterclass, we been talking with contractors throughout the USA- and one thing has shocked me personally about Electrical Contractors...

Most electricians aren’t building pricing based on math, they’re just guessing. This is a shock to me because so many of us worked our A$$ off to apply and take the state exam. Yet, we fall back to asking Facebook or Googling “how much to charge for [x].”

Another thing I saw was many copying what the other guy charges without knowing if he’s even profitable, or the fact their competitors have a different overhead.

Am I the only one going crazy here?

I built this visual as a blueprint for the trades. If you wire jobs with code compliance, you should price them with the same level of attention.

What do you all think?

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For a home services business, ranking in the top 3 of a Google search is as good as gold.

Once you’re in the Map Pack, you can expect consistent, organic leads for your business because:

• 90% of your potential customers use Google to search for services
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Here are a few tips from our recent webinar with Merchynt CEO Justin Silverman and host John Talman that your business can use today to start climbing the local search rankings.

https://companycam.com/blog/3-local-seo-tips-for-contractors

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We’ve added a new way to help you save time and maintain consistency in your documentation: Page Templates are now available in CompanyCam.

If you’ve been building the same Pages repeatedly for client updates, site reports, or job summaries, you can now turn those into reusable Templates. Build once, apply it whenever you need it.

Here’s what you can do with Page Templates and what’s new:

https://companycam.com/blog/page-templates-build-photo-reports-faster