Don’t hesitate to spend time learning and improving your staff and yourself. The time spent training will pay dividends later in the form of faster job completion, little-to-no damage to items in your care and, of course, happy and well-cared-for customers in their time of need.
Many restoration contractors, business owners, and managers struggle to train their teams to clearly and consistently document the story of the loss. Every insurance claims estimate, especially those composed in Xactimate, need two key things.
Ultimately, all participants in the restoration response chain should be aligned in getting the property owner back up and running again in the fastest and most fair way, assisted by the trust and peace of mind that well-constructed automation provides.
In my role as a chief customer officer, I meet with a lot of contractors looking for ways to improve their business and I’m struck by how often certain phrases come up.
As the chief customer officer of a restoration technology company, I spend a lot of time talking about tech: how it increases efficiencies, streamlines processes, and ultimately gives restoration companies the power to improve their profits.
Over the past 12 years, I managed a restoration company in Mesa, Ariz., before moving on to be the CEO of a Xcelerate Restoration Software, a job management system my partners and I founded. In my role leading a large, full-service restoration company, we serviced a significant volume of commercial and residential jobs.