I did it for my first few years on the sales & management side and I will never do it again. If you have ever seen people in neighborhood social media groups, or just in general, everyone hates it. I was good at it, but I know they hate it. After a major hail event is another story, because customers basically chase you down the street with insurance checks, but in general everyone hates it. When I learned to network and teach others how to network, I never knocked on a door or paid for advertising again. Support charities, get into networking groups, and build relationships with people who have the same target customer base as you. I promise it's better.
@@Caleb_Johnson I actually learned the networking game from the time I spent in a Business Networking International (BNI) group. It's kind of culty, so I didn't stick around for long. The two years I did it set my career on fire in the best way possible though. I recommend looking into that, or something like it. They're everywhere.
brother where can i find these groups and how can i learn to network too, please if you could respond im new to this stuff and Im learning as much as i can thanks
My wife was a Jehovah Witness and I once told her if they weren’t interested in finding salvation through Jesus that you noticed their roof was a little worn & my husbands a roofer..
I am the best roofing door knocker in the world. Thanks for your appreciation shared for the craft in this video. One comment for the door to door people tho. You need to ask for more money. The companies will pay!!
My first day door knocking I got allergies too… I definitely was NOT crying… Excellent content as usual Dmitry! Is door knocking still alive in southern CA?
The training we had knocking on a strangers door and going right in selling siding. These guys have a set appointment and there selling money. If your sales guys are a little weak then the appointment has to be tight and follow up has to be excellent. When we sold deals and got them financed we would run credit on a terminal and there was no such thing as a credit score and this was early 90s. Sorry for the long story.
I don't knock doors I SLAP them! Adam has the juice for D2D Marketing! You guys should do a RU-vid Crossover, Adam SLAPs the door to get the Appointment and you do the inspection! It would be wild!
Shit. People say eminem is washed these days..... its crazy....I'm a huge eminem fan myself....this channel has nothing to do with eminem then out of the blue, we find Dimitri is a fan. That made my day seeing that lol legend song too 🤙 Ems far far from being washed up
The customer doesn't want her roof done, nothing wrong with that. She's the type that will solicit your service when she needs it not before that. She don't want people to solicit business from her.
I did d2d for a summer in DC selling pest control. I only did it because I needed more money to continue college. Some morons I went to school with dropped out of college to make this their “career” 🙄. I did well in sales because of hard work, practice, and God. The meetings my company would have before the day where they would scream and hype everyone up were stupid and frivolous. I ended up skipping a lot of them towards the end and that is also when I got higher sales each day. Sales culture is stupid as hell and more salesmen would do better if they just concentrated on how to get better through study and practice. Also, DON’T be fooled and make this your career. Do you really want to knock doors for the rest of your life? It’s a good summer college job, but I will leave it at that. Working a well-paid office job is far more comfortable and profitable than this shit.
Wouldn’t agree. If you can make this a career more powerful to you. If you’re not making 100k plus selling roofs you’re not knocking enough. I know several people that door knock 9 months out of the year make 100k and some up to 260k. They take off Nov-Jan for the holidays and vacation. This is a very very lucrative business.
@Makeitwithmanny I'm aiming higher than that, but if you make that kind of money doing it then I'm happy for you. Hopefully your company compensates you fairly. I think salesmen should get higher commissions if they're required to pound the pavement all day to drum up business.
Anybody who hates on it can’t do it. It’s not easy and rejection is going to break most. My question is this. If you sign a roof are you not going to knock on the neighbors doors? Why would you not train your reps to expand the lead turned into a deal. If not. Thank you. I will gladly take their business
One thing I learned knocking and only about a month and a half now but most people are pleasant. Even if they're not interested more often than not the people are just some cool mfs. All depends how you look at it
I have a lot of experience in door to door. My father and my brothers took me out when I was 15 years old in 1989. I would rather have a person who has no sales experience that listens and has sincere enthusiasm than the guy who comes in and tells me how to sell and says he can sell ice to eskimos and the gift of gab nonsense. He could never understand sales is more listening than being a salesman who won’t shut up. When I first started I was also trained on the phone and I remember that I enjoyed learning and went to every training I could. I knew that these old guys who I learned from were good but I really learned when in 2006 my friend is an attorney who was doing mortgage closings for a company and he told the owner about me and my background in knocking doors and telemarketing rooms. I set up his telemarketing room . I had 10 people dialing and I had 30 loan officers to send out on these reverse mortgage appointments. I wasn’t trained to say the words free or estimate. I set only appointments that were in need and I was trained to have all decision makers there. Most of the mortgage guys who were supposed to be good closers couldn’t write a deal on the first night if their life depended on it. My father came by to see me one day and one of the closers was telling my father how the appointment was good and your son had their daughter and son there too. My father said did you get the deal . The guy said not yet but they liked me. My father said to me that’s your best guy out of 30 closers. I said dad I realize how
You might want to park company truck in view, so customer know you are a real company not an imposter pretending to have a company. I would shut door on somebody real quick because I don't see they are a legit company.
Who you you rather deal with as a homeowner an intelligent person with class and style that knows how to sell and close a deal and how to move on into the labor phase or a rude construction worker that might know how to do the labor part but knows nothing of the sales and the ambition, and countless days of improvement in all areas of life and effort put in not to just sell but be a great, supportive, and positive individual. Who should sell and share in the profits? The guy that follows others and doesn't invest in himself or the responsible one?
It is a known common courtesy to ask for permission when using the other person's ladder for an adjuster or roofer. You did instigate and bully. The roof may need to be repaired in some areas and replaced in other areas. Sometimes the carrier requests a combination of vendors to conduct independent inspections to determine the cause of loss, type of damage, and repairability vs replacement. It may seem like they are dragging their feet from one perspective. However, that has not been my experience. Sadly I have experienced many contractors and roofers who believe everything has to be replaced and never repaired. And if you paint the lamp post you also have to paint the chicken coop! Typically neither one of these have to do with the claim, but it's asked for anyways. I have witnessed roofing companies damage the roof and expect the carrier to replace the entire roof. To be fair I have also conducted reinspection, where the field adjuster wrote to cover damage that was not related to the claim. The contractor was more than glad to accept the money. Now all of us homeowners are paying higher premiums for the misdeeds of others. Things are not always so one-sided! I am a knowledgeable field adjuster and building consultant.
THAT IS A SALES COMPANY NOT A ROFING COMPANY. Truly this is sales to the max, they care less about the customer and its all about the sales and pitching and look how good we are. None of them actually know how the roof goes on and engages with problem solving with the crew. So be mindful this is sales not roofing.
I like to mention that i live around the corner. I sometimes will say "I can provide u a free quote and give them a notpad to write their info down. When people say they arnt interested i just then ask them do u have any family? friends? co workers? neighbors? i try to keep it going some times. Also instead of a full blown roof quote i will tell them we can do repairs as well and sometimes thats abetter option for you. I just mention repairs to break the ice and make them feel more open with you and that could be the door to doing a full roof.
It looks like you had fun making this video, but the truth of it is what you should be pointing out. They are calling themselves roofers on the street and marketers in the office...both lies. I love how the one guy at about 16 minutes in says they knock on doors that say no soliciting, because they aren't selling anything. They are selling roofs and soliciting does not only mean selling something...look it up. We just had a hail storm in the Allen TX area and we give our customers signs for their door stating the roof is already under contract and put a sign in the yard and they still knock. If you talk to the home owners they will tell you that these people are the worst. While waiting for an adjuster to show up, we saw 3 different groups of door knockers come through. I feel sorry for the home owners. One of our customers had a stack of over twenty leaflets and business cards from roofing solicitors...sad business.
Every industry will take advantage of demand increase. Also "marketer" is accurate if you view them as walking billboards. They are representing the company and every second they're on the streets they are advertising for the company
@@BCTvfx They are just door to door salesman. You can sugercoat it anyway you want. If they would respect the law and peoples no soliciting signs they would not be so hated in our community. 🤣
I try to knock near and around where i live so i can always refer back to "hey i live right around the corner and been wanting to stop by to ask about your roof" thats prob the better ice breaker line i use
