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Field Guide · At the Door

How do I button up an appointment at the door?

You run the seven-part button-up before you leave the doorstep. It exists to strengthen the appointment — you are buttoning them up, tightening everything — because this is the last time you will see the homeowner before the rep arrives, and a set that unravels loses everyone the appointment.

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The short answer

Seven parts, in order

  1. Appointment reminder. Restate the day and time, and ask them to let the other decision maker know you stopped by and when you're coming.
  2. First rebuttal, repeated. Free, no obligation, guaranteed in writing for the future, and no trouble because you're in the neighborhood anyway.
  3. Credentials. What the company can point to.
  4. Licensing. Licensed, bonded, and insured — hand over the license number, and tell them whoever they choose should be able to do the same.
  5. Company website. Somewhere they can check you out before the appointment.
  6. Close out. Your name again, and an open door for questions — the rep can answer anything when he comes.
  7. Phone-call reminder. Tell them to expect a quick on-the-way call, and from what kind of number, with the rep's name.

How it runs

Tighten, don't resell

The button-up is not a second pitch. Every element either repeats a commitment already made (the time, the free estimate), arms the homeowner against doubt between now and the appointment (credentials, licensing, the website), or choreographs the next contact (the reminder to the spouse, the on-the-way call). Skip it and the appointment rests on a doorstep conversation; run it and the homeowner has been reminded, reassured, and told exactly what happens next.

Do not confuse this with the rep's button-up — the after-approval close-out the in-home rep runs at the end of a sold appointment. Same name, different documented job: this one protects a set; that one protects a sale.

Go deeper

Where the full treatment lives

The systemCanvassing — the door systemThe button-up's place at the end of the door sequence. The other button-upThe Button-Up stepThe rep's after-approval button-up — the in-home step of the same name. Next guideHow do I set an appointment both decision makers attend?The spouse-notice line in part one is doing doctrine work.

Run it in a round before you run it in a home

The moves in this guide are graded in Spar's rounds — Round 1 is free, the full camp is $29/month. Spar before you knock.

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