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Running Promotions in the Slow Seasons

Using promotions can help you continue to sell during seasons when extreme weather isn't creating urgency for homeowners to buy.

Weldon Long

Aug. 22, 2019

Using promotions can help you continue to sell during seasons when extreme weather isn't creating urgency for homeowners to buy.

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This week, our experts explain why promotions are necessary and how you can utilize them to keep business booming year-round.

That and more on this week's Cracking the Code, available free for all until 8/30. Watch now at EGIA.org/CBS-Show.

About the Author

Weldon Long

New York Times Best Selling Author & Creator of the HVAC Sales Academy

Weldon Long is a successful entrepreneur, sales expert, EGIA Contractor University faculty member, and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Power of Consistency:Prosperity Mindset Training for Sales and Business Professionals (Wiley). In 2009, his HVAC company was selected by Inc. Magazine as one of America’s fastest growing privately held companies.