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Optimizing a Website for New Customers

Make it easy for prospects to embrace you.
Make it easy for prospects to embrace you. By Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia Inc. The most successful energy marketers are masters of creating great customer experiences, and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/optimizing-website-new-customers/

Identify Opportunities, and Seize Them

Plan your strategy and market accordingly
Plan your strategy and market accordingly Another heating season is almost in the books, and it’s time for owners and executives to pause, take stock, and figure out how to do… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/identify-opportunities-and-seize-them/

Pricing Specialists Embrace Online Environment

Contractors create work orders with CoolFront app
Contractors create work orders with CoolFront app Profit Strategies Inc., a provider of flat rate pricing systems for heating and cooling service teams and other trades, is… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/pricing-specialists-embrace-online-environment/

Smart Thermostats and Smart Homes

New opportunities in connectivity and whole-home contracting
New opportunities in connectivity and whole-home contracting Adaptability is an essential characteristic that companies must have in order to stay on top in fuel delivery and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/smart-thermostats-and-smart-homes/

Google Algorithms and Local Search

Search giant makes changes to help consumers find local businesses
Search giant makes changes to help consumers find local businesses Home comfort companies should have an easier time connecting with new customers in 2015, thanks to new… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/google-algorithms-and-local-search/

Price Parity Could Come Sooner Than Expected

Save customers from an expensive mistake
Save customers from an expensive mistake By Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia Inc. It’s official: Switching from heating oil to natural gas makes no sense. Natural gas has… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/price-parity-could-come-sooner-expected/

Own the Home

The Powderhorn Agency and the New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) are collaborating on a new set of protection and warranty programs to help energy marketers forge deeper relationships with their customers.
The Powderhorn Agency and the New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) are collaborating on a new set of protection and warranty programs to help energy marketers forge deeper… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/own-home/

Lessons From the Big Advertisers

Primetime television advertising is worlds away from the small-budget marketing campaigns that home comfort companies use to attract new business. While companies in our niche struggle just to be noticed, giant advertisers are creating touchstone images a…
Primetime television advertising is worlds away from the small-budget marketing campaigns that home comfort companies use to attract new business. While companies in our niche… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/lessons-big-advertisers/

Social Media Offers Opportunities

So how do you feel about marketing your company on social media? Do you love it, hate it, tolerate it, or just ignore it?
So how do you feel about marketing your company on social media? Do you love it, hate it, tolerate it, or just ignore it? It’s clear that social media can help increase your… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/social-media-offers-opportunities/

Attract, Engage, Convert

In the quest to attract new customers for fuel delivery and home comfort services, an effective website is an invaluable tool. When a site delivers what prospective customers are looking for and simplifies conversion, the company is at its best in adding …
In the quest to attract new customers for fuel delivery and home comfort services, an effective website is an invaluable tool. When a site delivers what prospective customers are… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/attract-engage-convert/

Retention Is the Key to Profitability

A steady flow of new customers is essential for success, but it’s the current customers who really drive the fortunes of many energy marketing companies.
A steady flow of new customers is essential for success, but it’s the current customers who really drive the fortunes of many energy marketing companies. Long-term accounts form… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/retention-key-profitability/

Help Customers Choose Wisely

Raising doubts about ROI on fuel conversion is the key
Raising doubts about ROI on fuel conversion is the key There is a lot of interest among heating oil customers in replacing their home heating fuel. Homeowners in many areas… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/help-customers-choose-wisely/

Be Systematic in Pursuit of New Customers

As homeowners change their energy consumption habits, marketers face pressure to move beyond fuel-centric business models and find success selling to customers who might not even heat their homes with oil.
As homeowners change their energy consumption habits, marketers face pressure to move beyond fuel-centric business models and find success selling to customers who might not… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/be-systematic-pursuit-new-customers/

Eight Marketing Essentials for Diversification

When a heating company adds services and products, the company must commit to a marketing program that will attract the necessary sales volume.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the conclusion of a two-part look at the Essentials of Marketing in home comfort. Part 1 looked at marketing a full-service home comfort company. Part 2… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/eight-marketing-essentials-diversification/

The Essentials of Marketing

Cover all the basics to maximize new leads
Cover all the basics to maximize new leads By Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia, Inc. As Oil & Energy focuses this month on the essential skills and knowledge that a home comfort… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/essentials-marketing/

Will Price Protection Resurge in 2014

The intense winter of 2013-14 has set the stage for a revival of price protection programs. The industry may have mixed feelings about fixed-price and capped-price programs, but they could be an excellent draw in 2014 for companies who execute them well.
The intense winter of 2013-14 has set the stage for a revival of price protection programs. The industry may have mixed feelings about fixed-price and capped-price programs, but… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/will-price-protection-resurge-2014/

Feed the Giant

Take advantage of Google+ publishing to improve your company’s search performance
Take advantage of Google+ publishing to improve your company’s search performance   Successful local businesses attract new customers and achieve growth, as they always… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/feed-giant/

Google Learns to Listen

Google is taking Internet search in a new direction that is changing the way marketers connect with prospects via the Google search engine.
‘Hummingbird’ algorithm rewards high-value content worthy of shares and retweets   Google is taking Internet search in a new direction that is changing the way marketers… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/google-learns-listen/

Influence Your Customers

A Flexible Rewards Program Can Support Company Goals Year-Round
A Flexible Rewards Program Can Support Company Goals Year-Round   There are few things that affect a home comfort company’s bottom line more than the decisions that individual… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/influence-your-customers/

Revamp Your Receivables

AROUND FOUR YEARS AGO, SOS XTREME Comfort, of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., decided to partner with AVATAS Payment Solutions, of Newton, Mass., to gain assistance in their receivables process. Like many heating fuels companies, SOS had grown into the habit of extend…
AROUND FOUR YEARS AGO, SOS XTREME Comfort, of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., decided to partner with AVATAS Payment Solutions, of Newton, Mass., to gain assistance in their receivables… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/revamp-your-receivables/

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