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Are You being all You can be with Internet Lead Conversion, before we begin, we need to undersand just what a lead is and the forms it can take on. In its most simplest form, a lead is a name, a phone number, an e-mail address. Now a days the Internet sure is by far our greatest producer of leads for our businesses.

Did you know when you analyze the data based on your response time as opposed to the call attempts you try, the resulta are a whloe lot more consistent.

What do you say, to taken a bit of a look at that?

Lets say you call a lead more than five minutes after a given lead is submitted has a 46% lower qualification rate than if you called in less thaqn five minutes.

Delaying response an extra five minutes, when comparing 0-5 minutes response time to 5-10 minutes response times, is going to result in a 23% lower conversion for us.

Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan

Are You being all You can be with Internet Lead Conversion, The impact of a rapid response sure is magnified when you take the time to look at after-hours call data and analyze it. The graph below shows the lift in contact rate and qualification rate by day of the week, when internet leads are called within calling hours vs. after hours calls.

Now when leads are submitted within your calling hours, they are called within three minutes. And as a result, the contact rate is nearly 20% higher and the qualification rate is 30% higher for calls made during your calling hours vs. the after hours calls. For some reason it seems that the biggest payoff for you, is from a rapid response for after-hours callers is on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Are You being all You can be with Internet Lead Conversion, Things sure do happen fast on the internnet, so the first person to get back to the soon to be new client, is going to have the best opportunity to being all You can be with Internet Lead Conversion. The folks that inquire via the internet do so in part because its an easy and fast way for them to gather information anonymously. So if at all possible respond to a request for information by reassuring the client lead, that you'll be happy to forward the information they desire. To be sure the info you sent was helpful and to expedite the process, be sure to have at least a short personal conversation is the best next step followed up with a phone call immediately. This will give you the opportunity to make that ever so important personal connection.

"Click on the door, So You can step through the Door of Internet Lead Conversion"

For other methods of converting internet leads, be sure to check out giftofshift.com/activerain where you can purchase a limited edition hardcover of Gary Keller's book SHIFT, which comes with a free version of the eBook Soci@l: Attract Friends, Followers and Connections to Your Business, written by Ben Kinney and Jay Papasa (in which Ben shares his 'ten days of pain' lead conversion method) as well as free audio versions of Millionaire Real Estate Agent and Millionaire Real Estate Investor all for $19.99,"

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Two of Five, In July of 2008 the State of New Hampshire enacted legislation HB 1628 to require the State's Public Utilities Commission to establish and administer a rebate program for the folks of New Hampshire, for certain renewable energy systems.

This current rebate application period applies to systems that you had placed into operational service on or after the 30 of September in the year 2009. There are two steps that was put in placed, that you must follow to the (T) for the application period. The first step, is a pre-approval application, then theres two which is the final application. You must do both steos in order to receive this incentive.

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Two of Five, This rebate is equal to $3.00 per watt of nominal generation capacity per residential home owner of the eligible facility, up to $6,000.00 or 50% of the system cost, whichever comes out to be the least. A Photovoltaic systems must have a peak generation capacity of less than five kilowatts, and it must be located at the residence where the owner lives, and has to be certified to meet UL 1703 by a Nationally reciognized testing laboratory.

All small wind turbines must have a manufacturer rated maximum output of less than 5 kilowatts, at a wind speed of 11 m/s, and it must be located at the residence where the owner lives. If for some reason there is no rated capacity at that speed, the closest speed at which the manufacturer rates the output will be considered.

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Two of Five, no roof top systems will be considered or accepted, and the average wind speed at the site needs to be at least 10 miles per hour. All wind turbines have to be mounted at least 30 feet above any obstructruction that is within a 500 foot radius. The renewable energy systems may be grid connected or off grid. Solar hot water systems are not eligible; the Public Utilities Commission has establish a separate solar hot water heating incentive program. The equipment needs to meet applicable safety standards, and facilities must meet local zoning regulations.

This program is funded by alternative compliance payments from the State of New Hampshire's renewable portfolio standard. The rebates will be awarded to the extent that funding is available. Notarized application must be submitted only in paper format, no electronically submitted applications will be accepted.

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Two of Five

Incentive: State Rebate Program

Eligible: Photovoltaics, Wind

Applicable Sectors: Residential

Amount: $3.00 / watt DC

Maximum Incentive: $6,000.00 or 50% of the system cost, whichever one is the less

Eligible System Size: Less than 5 kilowatts

Equipment Requirements: Photovoltaic Systems must be UL 1703 certified; all equipment must be new. Inverters must comply with IEEE 1547 and UL 1741

Installation Requirements: Must comply with State Building Cods and 2008 National Electric Code

Renewable Energy Credits: Is not specified

Funding Source: Renewable Portfolio Standard alternative compliance payments

Expiration Date: Is not specified, the Public Utilities Commission may modify the program after 31 Dec. 2010

Project: Pre-application required in order to secure funding. Applicant agrees

Review/Certification is subjected to random audits and verifications, owner will provide access to energy production data to the commission for up to ten years

Links to Parts 3, 4 , 5

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Three of Five

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Four of Five

New Hampshire Energy Incentive Series Part Five of Five

Disclaimer: Any of the information herein may come from various sources, some of which may not be reliable and may change without any kind of notice. Dale Baker does not guarantee or is in any way responsible for the accuracy of the information in this blog and the information provided is without any kind of warranties, either express or implied. The information on this blog represents the opinions and ideas of the author; comments left by others may not express the views of the author. Dale Baker Owner: Baker Home Energy Audit/Commercial Properties Inspections. Copyright 2010 By Dale Baker-all rights reserved.


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Post 6-66 - 2 Jan. 2010

Home Buyer be sure to have that Septic System Checked Out, A home's septic system is for sure an important component and is an expensive one to have fixed or replaced, if it should end up failing after you and your family have moved in to your new home.

If you and your family are looking at a home that has a septic system or a private waste disposal system, your going to really want to consider haven it check out by a professional septic system contractor do the inspection of it. Not a regular every day home inspector.

Home Buyer be sure to have that Septic System Checked Out,You see a typical septic system inspection involves specialized, intrusive and technically exhaustive inspection of the system. A septic system contractor, is going to need to dig holes to access underground piping, like the distribution box, the septic tank as well as determining the soil absorption of the leach field.

What most regular home inspectors does, is usually add a small amount of colored dye to the septic system and then starts probing around the leach field. Doing this kind of thing is not at all an ample way to inspected the septic system.

Home Buyer be sure to have that Septic System Checked Out, if a home inspector offers septic system inspections, be sure to ask just what kind of inspection he or she intends to perform. Will several holes be dug-ed in order to find out if all the component's of the septic system are intact and working properly and will the tank will be pumped out while he or she is at the home.

By also having a septic pumping truck at the home during your home inspection, you'll also be able to have the septic tank pumped, so you can start out with a empty septic tank, if you should wish to. In the long run, you could end up saving money, and should be assured that the septic system will not fail after you and your family have moved into your new home.

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Post 657 - 30 Dec. 2009

A Friday Night Rant, as folks know I sure don't usually write rant blog posts. But theres a leads service company calling me that just won't take No for an answer. Service Magic has called me many times now, the last call come today, they e-mail me at least 4 times a week.

But todays phone call I just could no belive what their so called salesmen said to me! they usual sart out by asken if you can use more business. This time I said I'm doing fine with the areas that use on the net, with geting business. So then he said so you have a website, told him yes, and that I belong to some blogging communitys.


And the main blogging community that I use is for Real Estate Professionals, so he goes off and asks, so you selle Real Estate. So I told him, no I do not. Then he comes back with, how can you say your a Real Estate Professional, when your just a Home Inspector. Thats sure was it for them. Do you think I'll ever do business with them? You sure can bet your boots, that I 100% will not.

Did a bit of checken on them, and two complaint sites come up with all kinds of folks talking about the bad service they give. Complaints coming from both the public and business's that have signed up with them. One site had 8 pages and the other one had 12 pages.

Post 624 - 20 Nov. 2009