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Which Contractor Listing Services do Consumers Trust the Most?
 

Which Contractor Listing Services do Consumers Trust the Most?

Last week, we shared our findings on the methods that homeowners employ to find home improvement contractors.  This week, we are taking one step further and exploring how homeowners perceive the various methods for finding home improvement contractors. Survey respondents were provided with a list of eight methods for findings contractors and asked to rank [...]

How Consumers Find Home Improvement Contractors

17 May 2012

We recently conducted a survey of 546 homeowners who had hired at least one home improvement contractor in the past year, to learn about their experiences and perspectives.  The survey explored a variety of topics including their general satisfaction with home improvement contractors; the methods they used to find contractors; and the factors that influenced [...]

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It’s Not All Semantics – The Importance of Structure to Big Data

20 April 2012

This is Part 5 of a 5-part series devoted to exploring the concept of Big Data to determine what makes it different from other hyped data “revolutions” of the past. In 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced they would be adopting new rules for how material information should be structured for public consumption.  The [...]

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Chasing Clouds – How Data Fundamentally Changes when it Evaporates

19 April 2012

This is Part 4 of a 5-part series devoted to exploring the concept of Big Data to determine what makes it different from other hyped data “revolutions” of the past. In its molecular form, water consists of two hydrogen atoms bonded to a single oxygen atom.  At ambient temperatures, water molecules bond together to form [...]

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What Was Lost is Now Found – How Openness Helps Fuel Big Data

16 April 2012

This is Part 3 of a 5-part series devoted to exploring the concept of Big Data to determine what makes it different from other hyped data “revolutions” of the past. On his first day in Office, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, a platform aimed at fostering greater accountability from the [...]

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Big Data & Social Media: Do Two Memes Make a Right?

13 April 2012

This is Part 2 of a 5-part series devoted to exploring the concept of Big Data to determine what makes it different from other hyped data “revolutions” of the past. Back in 2005, Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired wrote, Three thousand years from now, when keen minds review the past, I believe that [...]

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Defining Big Data – How Data has Begun to Breed Like Rabbits

10 April 2012

This is Part 1 of a 5-part series devoted to exploring the concept of Big Data to determine what makes it different from other hyped data “revolutions”  of the past.  About three months ago I posted a simple question to my Facebook wall, asking whether my next computer should be an Apple or a PC. [...]

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Visualizing Big Data – How we Help Consumers Understand the Quality of a Contractor at a Glance

09 April 2012

This past Friday, we announced the public availability of ProRank, a visual depiction of where a contractor ranks compared to every other contractor in their metropolitan area.  Here is an example of how the percentile visual looks on the profile page for one of our LA based clients, Joel and Co Construction. Each of the 1.8 [...]

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How BuildZoom Helped a Yuma Couple Achieve a Fair Resolution

16 March 2012

Giovanda and Ivan Norman faced a nightmare that homeowners sometimes encounter when they hire a contractor. They employed a landscaping contractor who took their money without doing the work. It was money the couple could ill afford. Ivan, on active duty with the Marine Corp, had been ordered to Yuma, Arizona, so the Normans rented [...]

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Introducing the New BuildZoom Business Profile

06 December 2011

Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned business profile page. At BuildZoom, we are constantly working on new ways to create a more engaging experience for visitors to our site. Over the past several months, we have been studying why some profiles tend to keep users engaged for a longer [...]

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How we increased time-on-site by over 150% with one simple change

16 November 2011

One of our ongoing priorities at BuildZoom is enhancing the user experience, making it easier for people to find reliable contractors. There are a lot of metrics we examine to help better understand the impact of changes we make to the site. One of the more important numbers we look at is the average time [...]

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