Whenever you’re selling an expensive product or service, such as commercial roofing, an educated prospect is your best friend. Restoring or replacing a commercial roof can often be very expensive and complicated.
The expense and complexity of the purchase leads to the building owner often putting off making the decision, going cold out of nowhere, or failing to ever get back to you.
We want to avoid this at all costs.
This is where Education Marketing comes in.
Using Education Marketing, you can completely revolutionize your commercial roofing business by allowing your prospects to come to you already educated, more qualified, and ready to make a decision much sooner than usual. Oftentimes, they’ll make the decision the same day.
Education Marketing is relatively straight forward.
Education Marketing begins by you assuming the role of the AUTHORITY figure in the sales process. You want to bring the building owner into your business by first educating him on commercial roofing solutions.
The sooner you can start educating your prospects in your business, the easier it will be to get the sale.
Would you prefer to deal with cold, uneducated prospects? Or would you prefer dealing with only warm, educated prospects who already KNOW, LIKE, and TRUST you because you were the source of their new found knowledge?
This is the beauty of Education Marketing. By presenting the building owner with valuable information leading up to them reaching out to you, you’re elevating yourself above the competition by showing the prospect you’re looking out for their best interest.
You’re not just any old roofing contractor who wants the job and the money. You’re a true EXPERT in your field who is able to confidently teach the building owner and look out for his best interest.
You’re probably already doing Education Marketing and you don’t even know it. If you’ve ever explained the benefits of roof coating to a prospect over the phone or in person, you’ve done Education Marketing.
The Education Marketing involved in the EEC Method takes things to a whole new level.
Rather than educating the prospect 1:1 or just one at a time, The EEC Method allows you to harness your knowledge and expertise, turn it into an article, e-book, or a video and allow your Education Marketing work 1000:1 rather than just 1:1.
The EEC Method is about using LEVERAGE to EDUCATE building owners in mass.
A great way to do this is to create a simple and straightforward blog post for your website titled:
“10 Things [STATE] Building Owners Must Know About Roof Coating”.
Then simply list the 10 (or however many) valuable pieces of information that you want every building owner to know. This type of blog post is very good at capturing the attention of a building owner because it’s not selling anything. People don’t like to be sold online, but they LOVE TO LEARN.
If you’re not a great writer, not to worry. Have a colleague record you while on a roof, explaining why you believe coatings are a great option for building owners, what roof types are great for coatings, and any other valuable topic or question you can think of.
Bear in mind that you can convey your knowledge and expertise in many different ways. If you’re not a great writer, then video may be a better option. If you don’t feel comfortable on camera (completely normal) AND you’re not a great writer, then you can still talk about your knowledge.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with hiring a professional writer to interview you on the topic of roof coatings, record the interview, and then transcribe the interview into your very own e-book or collection of blog posts.
Remember - the goal is to get the building owner to think “Wow, these guys sure know what they’re talking about.” This leads to them TRUSTING you because you were able to teach them something new and of incredible value and importance.
Once your Education Marketing content is created, it’s important to get it in front of as many building owners and property managers as possible.
Marketing only works if it’s seen by the RIGHT PROSPECTS.
You can do this by posting a link to your blog on Facebook, printing it out and mailing it to building owners in your area, or even add property managers on LinkedIn and share it with them privately. There are endless ways to get your Education Marketing out there.
We have found a lot of success getting our Education Marketing in front of building owners and property managers on social media. If you’ve tried promoting your business on Facebook or LinkedIn before and had little luck, that’s OK and very common. The problem isn’t that Facebook or Linkedin doesn’t work. You just need to have the right message that fits the platform.
Direct sales messages or offers rarely work well on social media. So anything along the lines of “Get a free commercial roofing estimate” or “Call us if you need any flat roof repair” is likely to fall on deaf ears. Your prospects are not on Facebook or LinkedIn to find a roofing contractor, so they’re more likely to ignore any direct approaches.
The great thing about Education Marketing is that it works by providing VALUE and CONTENT in the form of interesting articles, videos, or e-books. It’s harmless, non-threatening, and people won’t feel like they’re being sold to.
Keep in mind that at any given time, only 3% of a market is “Ready To Buy Now.” But another 27% is going to be buying in the next 18 to 24 months. Education Marketing allows you to tap into the much larger pool of prospects that just aren’t ready today, but if presented with the right information, they’ll reach out to you wanting to learn more or get an estimate.
Education Marketing is known for having an amazing ROI in almost every industry. The reason is it doesn’t cost much to create content, and you only need to do it once.
There’s little point in creating a weekly article about roof coating, when 90% of the information and benefits can be explained in as little as 1 to 3 well written articles or videos.
It’s a “set it and forget it” approach to marketing. After your Education Marketing collateral is created, it will serve you for 5 to 10 years. Then you just focus on distributing it via social media, direct mail, or through your website’s blog.
After you’ve Educated your prospect, you’ve earned their attention. At this point, some of them will be ready to call you and get a roof coating estimate. But many more just won’t be at that stage, yet.
This is where we want to let them EVALUATE their situation and determine if roof coating is right for them. You can accomplish this by providing them with a FREE COST ESTIMATE CALCULATOR that they can use to get a ballpark estimate.
We’re huge fans of cost estimate calculators.
A Cost Estimate Calculator that will calculate the approximate cost for a roof coating based on the answers the building owner provides.
Click 'Example' tab to see the calculator we use.
Here's what our calculator looks like.
We simply multiply the size of the roof by $2.5 to $3.5 to provide a ballpark estimate.
If the building owner wants to, he can then request a real in-person estimate. We’re always careful to specifically state that it’s just a BALLPARK ESTIMATE.
This strategy is incredibly effective because it allows you to provide the building owner with additional value, without you having to do a thing. The quiz or the calculator will do the work for you.
This also does a great job of filtering out the tire-kickers who just want a price and don’t plan on getting the roof restored any time soon.
Any leads generated from a calculator are extremely high quality because they are already aware of the approximate cost. Otherwise, they won’t ask for you to come out and provide an in-person estimate.
Again, the key here is we’re using LEVERAGE to EDUCATE and EVALUATE building owners in droves rather than 1:1.
You’re limited to the number of building owners you can speak to in one day, but a blog post and a calculator can cater to 10,000 building owners per day. That’s the beauty of the E.E.C. Method!
By properly educating the building owner, evaluating their situation, and then CALCULATING the project long-term savings… you’re walking them to a “No-Brainer” scenario.
The problem I see with commercial roofing sales currently is that commercial roofers don’t take the time to break down the savings of roof coating.
Roof Coating is much cheaper than roof replacement - we know that. They know that too, but roof coating can also help lower their utility bills by up to 25%.
Wouldn’t it make sense to show the building owner how much MONEY HE COULD SAVE OVER 15 YEARS with a white reflective roof?
Let’s say his electric bill is $2,000/month. Over 15 years he will spend $360,000 on electricity.
If he’s able to save just 20% on his electricity bill, over 15 years that’s an amazing savings of over $72,000. With an SPF system, the savings can be even greater leading the roof to pay for itself in just 7 years in some cases.
But let’s not stop there…
We know that a roof coating can be recoated at the end of its lifecycle. That’s another opportunity for huge savings. Another coating is much cheaper than another replacement.
This is another area of savings you can highlight for your prospect.
And then there’s the immediate tax deduction via IRS Section 179 that allows the building owner to deduct the full expense of the roof coating that year on their taxes. This is a HUGE incentive for building owners in our experience.
Last updated: 2022-08-31
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