A random discount teaches a homeowner your number was soft. The Marketing Home Close is an exchange: their project showcases the company in their neighborhood — and the investment changes for a legitimate reason.
When it runs
This close comes late. Never lead with it — a marketing incentive mentioned before the project is sold just becomes the number they anchor on. The project has to be the type a company would genuinely want to showcase: a visible transformation, a street where the company wants presence.
The exchange is specific: a yard sign during the project, and permission to take before-and-after photos of the exterior to showcase the work afterward. Get agreement on the marketing program first. Then establish the commitment. Then present the new investment — and lay off it.
What it is
What separates this from a random discount is that both sides give something. The homeowner gives the company marketing value in their neighborhood; the company applies an additional incentive toward the investment. The original project stays valuable — nothing about the work got cheaper, the terms changed because the homeowner is participating.
Do not stack incentives on top of it, and do not destroy the original value by treating the first figure as fiction. When the new investment is presented, present it once, cleanly, and stop talking.
“There is one other thing I can look at. We do have a marketing program for certain projects where we’re trying to increase our presence in the neighborhood.”
“We’d put a yard sign out during the project, and we’d want permission to take before-and-after photos of the exterior so we can showcase the work afterward.”
“In exchange for allowing us to use the project for that marketing, I may be able to apply an additional incentive.”
Where it fits
The Marketing Home Close is the in-appointment cousin of the Doorknob Close’s re-entry — both change the investment only for a stated, legitimate reason. One of the twelve closes drilled in Spar Fight Camp.
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