At Matte Meehan, we are all about helping exterior home improvement companies define their brands, improve customer experience and increase revenue. But we also realize that you have a business to run, so anything that increases efficiency and streamlines your processes sounds like a great idea to us. With this in mind, we set out to find a tool that would help our clients, small to midsize exterior home improvement businesses. We even talked to some of our colleagues and friends – including Rob Kurzner, owner and president of Hammer Exteriors – to find out what they use. One tool rose to the top pretty quickly, so we wanted to share it with you. Enter JobProgress.
Many businesses find tremendous value in incorporating a productivity application into their day-to-day processes. Let’s look at some overall pros and cons:
Pros:
- Collaborate more frequently and efficiently between teams and individual employees
- Update and track the progress of every job in real time
- Access valuable information from anywhere with mobile devices
- Increase productivity by reducing tedious administrative tasks
- Close sales more quickly by creating proposals and getting signatures on the spot
- Impress customers by having all the information they need at your fingertips
Cons:
- Finding the right one can be difficult and take time away from your day-to-day responsibilities
- Some options are great at one thing, yet the rest of the features feel “phoned-in”
- Pricing on more robust options can be prohibitive for smaller companies
- Set-up takes time and attention to detail (garbage in = garbage out)
- Most apps are built for office-based businesses and not for those in our industry
- Getting buy-in and adoption from all team members can be challenging
“There are many productivity apps and tools out there, and I tested a lot of them when I was first starting out,” Rob said. “Nothing held a flame to JobProgress; it has a lot of features that none of the others even start to offer.”
One of the biggest reasons why JobProgress is such a good tool for those in our industry is that it was created by contractors. This means it comes already set up for the type of work you do.
When asked to name his favorite feature, Rob said, “It’s hard to pick one. It makes managing projects and schedules for individual team members and full crews much easier. I can make appointments and set reminders quickly and even create and send proposals directly from the platform. But the biggest time saver is probably the workflow features. I can fully customize the process from initial lead to estimate to signed contract then move directly to scheduling the work, installation, invoicing and payment.”
We will share the rest of our conversation with Rob in a future blog post. But if you have questions now, reach out to us and we can put you in touch with the right folks at JobProgress to get you started on the right foot.