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Posted On - 12/03/2024
Leads 2 Trade, the provider of double qualified sales leads for installers in the home improvement industry, has reported a big increase in single composite door leads at the start of 2024. Leads 2 Trade experienced a 38% increase in composite doors/single door lead volumes in January 2024 compared to January 2023. Andy Royle, director of Leads2Trade, puts the rise...
Posted On - 05/03/2024
“Let’s face it, turning up to sell windows with a pad and pen no longer cuts it,” said Tommy Trinder CEO, Chris Brunsdon. “Homeowners expect more. They want to see exactly what they are getting; they want to try before they buy. And Tommy Trinder is proving to be the tool for the job.” According to Chris, Tommy Trinder has...
Posted On - 05/03/2024
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot. Average sales increased again in February. It may have only been by 1.2% to 59.1, but it demonstrates that the big leap in January wasn’t a one-off. It is also worth noting that this figure is 25.7% higher than the same period last year. Leads have fallen back marginally – down 9.9% to...
Posted On - 27/02/2024
BPsite – the new Business Pilot app – is said to be proving a hit with installers. Installers can upload images, notes and voice notes via the app, all while on the move. And if they don’t have a signal at the time, the app will save the information and upload it to the cloud as soon as they’re reconnected....
Posted On - 06/02/2024
Bill Butters Windows is reported to already have ‘a fantastic reputation’ among domestic and trade customers across the south of England but is now taking customer experience ‘to new heights’ with quoting software developed by Tommy Trinder. Managing director, Paul Kelly, says he has leveraged the Tommy Trinder platform to supercharge sales and quoting: "We're so pleased with Tommy Trinder....
Posted On - 06/02/2024
Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot: Both leads and sales rebounded in January, heralding a positive start to 2024 despite the wider market appearing sluggish. Before we pulled off the data from Business Pilot this month for the Barometer, we had a chat in the office about how we thought the first month had gone, and we were all surprisingly...
Posted On - 30/01/2024
Yorkshire fabricator, Dempsey Dyer, says it has saved over £50,000 in labour costs after being awarded a £7,000 grant from Digital Enterprise. Digital Enterprise offers expertise, impartial advice and grant funding to enable businesses to invest in resilient technology solutions. The £7,000 grant awarded by Digital Enterprise allowed Dempsey Dyer to remap its internal processes, leading to ‘significant’ efficiency gains....
Posted On - 30/01/2024
KLIC Home Improvements, an East Anglia based installation company, has a 4.8 ‘excellent’ rating on Trustpilot and attributes much of its success to the use of the installer management system, AdminBase. “We have ambitious growth plans for the next 12-18 months,” said Stewart Grand, director of KLIC Home Improvements, “and customer service is central to these plans. We had to...
Posted On - 23/01/2024
Rehau has launched a new webshop to provide fenestration professionals with requested window accessory products. Developed to help facilitate access to system accessories and other in-demand items such as trickle vents and trims upon request, the webshop is set to go live in Q1 2024. Its launch is a key part of Rehau’s efforts to streamline the existing order processes...
Posted On - 23/01/2024
As BM Aluminium launches the new Simply Tag traceability module for its LogiKal aluminium processing software, the company has revealed some ‘Quite Interesting’ facts about the QR code technology which helps to make Simply Tag such a user-friendly solution: QR stands for Quick Response. A QR code will scan even if 30% of the code is damaged. QR codes are...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Analysis of over 375,000 PVC-U casements quoted by installers on Tommy Trinder’s platform in 2023 underlines the importance of colour; only 63% of PVC-U casements quoted in the year were white. Grey, in many shades, continued to dominate in 2023; the preferred finish for one in five casements with anthracite (10%) and agate (5%) still topping the charts. But overall,...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot. 2023 was, most would agree, a tough year for trading, especially as we emerged from a significant boom following Covid, and straight into inflationary pressures brought about predominantly by global forces outside of our control. It will be four years ago in March when much of the world closed down to limit the...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Paul Hines, managing director of Hinckley-based Progress Windows, Roofline and Conservatories, explains how Business Pilot made his efficient business run even more efficiently. Before we used Business Pilot, we were very manually driven. I’d say we were working hard rather than working smart. We have great people working here at Progress, but people can forget and have bad days. The...
Posted On - 19/12/2023
With financial caution set to continue for households in 2024, trust could well be the biggest driver for consumers when eyeing up home improvements says Andy Royle, director of Leads2Trade, the provider of double qualified window, door and conservatory sales leads. In today's ever-evolving economic landscape, financial caution has seen the home improvement market become a little less buoyant. And...
Posted On - 12/12/2023
Epwin Window Systems has confirmed an increase in downloads of its thermal efficiency calculator, ‘U-Comply N’, by customers calculating the thermal performance and transmittance of their window and door specifications. The U-Comply N online tool is fully accredited by the BSI and the BFRC and can be used to prove a product’s compliance with Part L of Building Regulations. Gerald...
Posted On - 05/12/2023
The desire amongst installers to attract more high-end clients has become a primary reason for seeking new quoting software, according to latest research from Tommy Trinder. Tom Barfield, business development consultant to Tommy Trinder, speaks to a lot of window installers; he claims to have carried out more than 170 demos of the firm’s sales app over the last six...
Posted On - 05/12/2023
Simply Tag is a new module available in the latest version of BM Aluminium’s LogiKal software which is designed to allow fabricators to provide full traceability of their products and eliminate the need for printouts and paper documentation. The software automatically generates a QR code from the fabrication assembly list, which is paired with a self-adhesive tag ready to be...
Posted On - 05/12/2023
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot: I ended last month’s Barometer by asking if we could see a positive end to a tricky year. We know that this month [December 2023] will see a fall in sales and leads, because that is typical of any December, but many of us will be using November’s figures to get an idea...
Posted On - 21/11/2023
Remi Gruszka, national sales manager for Smart Vision Systems, explains how Business Pilot became central to their operations. We are a nationwide commercial fabricator and installer of aluminium windows and doors. We started small but grew very quickly as our reputation spread. As we grew, took on more people, and carried out more jobs, the original systems we had in...
Posted On - 14/11/2023
Business Pilot has returned from three days at Glassbuild America in Atlanta reporting ‘significant new business leads’, ‘potential new business partners’, and that it is now better positioned to expand internationally. “This was our first year exhibiting at Glassbuild America, and it has benefited us far more than we ever expected it to,” said Business Pilot’s managing director, Elton Boocock....
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