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Midweek with Tyler: Vetting Clients Before Meeting in Person

Modern Craftsman

Modern Craftsman

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Grace discusses vetting potential clients through email correspondence to determine fit and budget before meeting in person, to save time and ensure a successful project. He also talks about politely declining clients and offering referrals to other contractors.

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Transcript

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I ask questions to get a feel for what the type of job is, who the person is, and what their program is.

0:08.0

I will also ask them if they can send me photos and an address so I can see what their house is worth. I can see the

0:16.2

inside of their house, if there's a real estate listing, all these things that are

0:22.3

indicators of the type of customer.

0:25.0

So after I get some answers to these questions,

0:28.0

or at that point, if somebody doesn't want to go through and send me photos,

0:32.0

I've just vetted myself a customer because,

0:35.0

hey, if you can't send me this, you can't send me your address, you can't send me some photos,

0:39.0

you don't value what I'd do enough to hire me.

0:48.0

What's going on everyone? Have a good weekend?

0:50.0

It was a long weekend this weekend, huh?

0:52.0

It was a long weekend this weekend, huh? The girls had off half day Thursday, all from school Friday,

0:57.8

Saturday Sunday, and they had off yesterday. We had planned to go away for the long weekend, but then plans changed and did not go away so we stayed busy around here

1:12.4

Try to do a couple of fun things with the girls when I go away so he stayed busy around here.

1:12.8

Try to do a couple of fun things with the girls,

1:14.8

went out to the movies.

1:16.2

There's a movie theater near us in AMC.

1:20.8

It's in Marlton, New Jersey, but they have like you request your seats and it's assigned seats and they have recliners people bring in blankets

1:29.4

So we brought them there to see this movie called Migration.

1:32.6

So the girls had a fun time.

1:33.7

I had a fun time.

1:34.7

Rachel had a fun time.

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