Webinars

Clear Estimates is bringing you an all encompassing, multiple-part series to help your company estimate jobs, increase sales, effectively calculate markup and better understand Clear Estimates. We’re partnering with industry experts to bring you the most up to date information on various topics. This series will focus on estimating walkthroughs, as well as common questions we receive. Our topics will include estimating, referral marketing, the sales process, effective markup calculations and more!

Accounting for time, wages, benefits, tax and insurance for each employee can make estimating labor costs challenging and time consuming for remodelers & handymen. What if you could skip the uncertainty, and maximize profits with reliable cost data? Join us for Estimating with Certainty: a powerful series designed to help contractors save time and estimate with accuracy. In this edition, we discuss labor only estimating for cabinet and countertop replacement. Join us live on February 14th at 2 PM Eastern!
Feb 14, 2025 2:00 PM
  • Estimate labor for cabinets & countertops
  • Increase confidence with local cost data
  • Save hours on estimating with powerful templates

Estimating with Certainty: Cabinet & Countertop Replacement Labor

Accounting for time, wages, benefits, tax and insurance for each employee can make estimating labor costs challenging and time consuming for remodelers & handymen. 


What if you could skip the uncertainty, and maximize profits with reliable cost data?


Join us for Estimating with Certainty: a powerful series designed to help contractors save time and estimate with accuracy. In this edition, we discuss labor only estimating for cabinet and countertop replacement. 


Join us live on February 14th at 2 PM Eastern!

We’ll cover:

✅  Labor only estimating for cabinet & countertop replacement  

✅  Increasing confidence with powerful, locally sourced cost data

✅  Saving hours on the estimating process using powerful templates

Let’s make 2025 the year you stop ball-parking and start estimating with confidence!

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We discuss how to estimate door replacement costs in Clear Estimates
Dec 30, 2024 2:00 PM
  • Estimating door replacement costs
  • Saving time with templates
  • Estimating with accuracy

Estimating Door Replacement Costs

In this quick walkthrough we discuss how to estimate door replacement costs in Clear Estimates. We also get a sneak peak at what kinds of templates are available for handyman contractors!

Plus, we share some resources for getting started with Clear Estimates, so you can get the most out of the software!

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It's incredibly easy to estimate a living room painting job using Clear Estimates. In this quick walkthrough, we show how to save time on painting estimates, and see the premium templates Clear Estimates offers for painters.
Jan 24, 2025 2:00 PM
  • Estimating with accuracy
  • Add painting costs to an estimate
  • Working with interior painting templates

How to Estimate Living Room Painting Costs

It's incredibly easy to estimate a living room painting job using Clear Estimates. In this quick walkthrough, we show how to save time on interior paint estimates. Plus, we take a look at the premium templates Clear Estimates offers for painters. Watch the full webinar now!

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Oct 25, 2024 2:00 PM
  • Modernizing your invoice process
  • Streamlining payments
  • Creating draw schedule templates

Streamlining Your Invoicing: A Remodeler's Guide

With multiple customers, ever evolving job scopes and rising material costs, invoicing can be especially time consuming for remodelers. In this guide we show how to streamline your payments process, stay organized and automate your invoicing. Watch it live now!

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Aug 16, 2024 2:00 PM
  • Creating professional proposals
  • Exporting project details
  • Customizing your reports

Clear Estimates in Practice: Proposals & Documents

In this fun and informative walkthrough, we discuss setting up & emailing proposals from Clear Estimates. We also walk through exporting project details & breakdowns, custom project reports, and general settings.

Plus, we share some tips for getting started with Clear Estimates, so you can get the most out of the software!

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Digital Payments: A Contractor's Guide
Feb 1, 2024 2:00 PM
  • Best practices for invoicing
  • Tips for modernizing your payment process
  • Working with a payment processor

Digital Payments: A Contractor's Guide

In this joint webinar from Clear Estimates and Clearent by Xplor, we'll discuss tips for contractors for simplifying payments. We'll discuss modernizing your payments workflow, reducing failed payments, and streamlining your accounting process overall. Join us for this fun and informative virtual seminar!

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  • What Are Referrals, Understanding The Value
  • Effectively Following Up With Customers
  • Be Proactive With Your Leads

Maximizing Referral Marketing

Referrals are a major aspect to any remodeling company’s business. Satisfied homeowners are always happy to spread the word of great craftsmanship. Are you doing the best you can to maximize this marketing channel? Passive, incentive and subtle referrals are all beneficial to your company. We’ll deep dive into how you can effectively manage the referral process, be proactive with leads and gain strategic partners.


Presentation by Kyle Hunt


Kyle Hunt is a business coach for remodelers and the owner of Remodel Your Marketing. He offers 1on1 coaching on the topics of marketing, your sales process, and helping you understand and improve your business financials. He leads professional mastermind groups of non-compete remodelers through his Remodelers Circle program and offers courses/training all focused on helping you achieve your business goals and the work/life balance you desire.


Kyle resides in Michigan with his wife, Sarah, and their four children. You can learn more about Kyle here or listen to his podcast, Remodelers On The Rise, here.

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  • Ideas to Increase Close Rate
  • Effective Communication With Customers
  • Estimate Presentation
  • Help Improve Your Sales Process

Turn More of Your Leads Into Paying Projects – Improving Your Sales Process

The easiest way to generate more revenue is to increase your close rate. In this webinar Kyle will discuss tips in each area of your sales process: The Initial Phone Call: What you must do to make a great first impression, 5 Powerful Words When Talking With A Remodeling Prospect, The In-Person Meeting: How to prepare, what to bring, and the approach you should take, and No Project Left Behind: Your lead tracking, sales pipeline, and follow-up system. Get ready for this fast-paced and informative webinar to help you close more sales!


Presentation by Kyle Hunt


Kyle Hunt is a business coach for remodelers and the owner of Remodel Your Marketing. He offers 1on1 coaching on the topics of marketing, your sales process, and helping you understand and improve your business financials. He leads professional mastermind groups of non-compete remodelers through his Remodelers Circle program, and offers courses/training all focused on helping you achieve your business goals and the work/life balance you desire.

Kyle resides in Michigan with his wife, Sarah, and their four children. You can learn more about Kyle here or listen to his podcast, Remodelers On The Rise, here.

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  • What is Markup? What Should be Included?
  • How to Calculate Markup, Importance of Accurate Markup

Calculating Your Markup

If you want to survive in construction, you have to make a profit, and that only happens when you price your jobs correctly. The correct way to price your jobs is to create an accurate estimate, then apply your markup. Michael will explain what markup is and how to calculate the correct markup for your company. He’ll also discuss some of the common mistakes made when calculating and applying markup.


Presentation by Michael Stone


Michael Stone, author of the best-selling book Markup and Profit; A Contractor’s Guide Revisited, has more than five decades of experience in the building and remodeling industry. Michael offers business management assistance to construction-related companies in the U.S. and Canada with books and training programs available on his website, as well as coaching and consulting services. He can be found on the web at www.markupandprofit.com, by email at info@markupandprofit.com or by phone at 1-360-335-1100

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  • Forms, Processes
  • Invoicing and Labor Burden

Understanding Labor Rates with Burden

Accounting best practices are extremely useful when managing your money. Tax season can be dreaded, or it can be handled swiftly and with ease. You should be ready to effectively manage your taxes and file appropriately. Join us as we discuss basic accounting principles revolving around labor burden.

Presentation by Karen Mitchell


A licensed CPA
, Karen has spent her career focused on helping entrepreneurs start, grow and sell their businesses since 1987. Her passion is for helping business owners develop policies, make financial decisions and increase the overall value of their company. She is the author of several books and often speaks at industry specific trade shows across the country on finance and accounting topics.

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  • SEO
  • Website Quality
  • Converting Leads

Marketing Basics, connecting all the DOTS for More Quality Leads

Too many generalize the words “Marketing”, “Website Marketing”, “SEO”, “Facebook”, and “Google”. Your website is a nucleus with so many Free and Paid topics supporting the opportunities to generate more quality leads consistently over an extended period of time. In this webinar, we’ll cover Remodeling examples, as well as specialties such as Roofing and Windows.

Presentation by Brian Javeline

Javeline is President & Co-founder of MyOnlineToolbox, the industry-leading Online Marketing & Website Education Series. MyOnlineToolbox also provides Marketing Planning Services for local market domination with a focus on More Quality Leads. Brian has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, has written for Fast Company, and is a frequent guest speaker focusing on Marketing To Grow a Business.

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Past Webinars:

5 Surefire Ways to Attract More Referrals

  • What are referrals, understanding the value
  • Strategic Partners
  • Effectively following up with customers
  • Be proactive with your leads
  • February 19, 2019
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Passing the Baton – Sales to Production

  • Managing Owner Expectations
  • Clearly Defined Scope of Work
  • Under-Promise, Over-Deliver
  • Accurate and Detailed Specifications
  • April 26, 2018
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Full House Remodel

  • Full house remodel from start to finish
  • See every step from design to estimate to completion
  • Proven tips and practices every step of the way
  • Presented by Building & Remodeling Expert, Wyatt Knight
  • May 19, 2016
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How to Never Give “Free” Estimates

  • Get paid for your time, stop giving free estimates
  • Eliminate the price shoppers up front
  • Use this proven process to save you time
  • Presented by Building & Remodeling Expert, Wyatt Knight
  • April 21, 2016
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