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Several weeks ago, we had a community member ask us about some damage to their hardwood floor. They had received one estimate from a contractor, who had recommended that they fully replace their floors.  The homeowner was a little shocked by the price estimate – – after all, the damage was relatively minor. The homeowner [...]

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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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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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We’re happy to announce that last week’s release contained a number of updates to the BuildZoom homepage.  Overall, the updates were designed to accomplish a number of goals including 1. Placing more focus on our featured contractors, 2. Ensuring that our project photos were more localized and easier to navigate and 3. Creating a simpler, [...]

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Out of all the different marketing tactics you can engage in, the most consistent and powerful is perhaps the most simple. It involves showing potential customers what makes you different (as opposed to telling them). On BuildZoom, it is our goal to make this process as simple as possible through the portfolio tools, which allow [...]

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At BuildZoom, it is our mission to constantly figure out how to make our platform faster, simpler and more powerful.  Much of the time this involves smaller, incremental steps.  However, every so often, we do something a little bigger and now is one of those times. After several weeks in the lab, we are happy [...]

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The “Business Information” section of the BuildZoom contractor profile contains some extremely important information on contractors.  For example, this section will be able to tell you whether or not the contractor is licensed, bonded and how long they have been in business. We have a verification process in which a BuildZoom researcher will go and [...]

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