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Legacy Sales Engineering

Sales training & marketing for home service contractors

Your Online Partner For In-Home Success

You do good work. You show up. You deliver. So why are you still leaving money on the table after every estimate?

40+
Home service clients
$1M+
In ad spend managed
400+
Blogs published
3,000+
Social posts shipped

Legacy Sales Engineering provides sales training and digital marketing for home service contractors, based in Hawthorne, Florida and working with businesses across the United States. We install a repeatable sales process for the people who quote your jobs, then run the marketing that feeds it: local SEO, paid ads, lead engagement and CRM. One team is accountable for both the leads coming in and the jobs you close.

The gap

Why good contractors lose jobs they already earned

Four things quietly cost you jobs you already earned.

01The lead goes cold before you call

Speed to lead decides the job. If a homeowner waits an hour, they have already called someone else.

02The estimate is a price, not a pitch

A number on a page competes on cost alone. A process competes on trust.

03Nobody follows up past day two

Most of the money is in contacts three through eight, and almost nobody makes them.

04Your marketing and your sales do not talk

Ads generate leads the crew never hears about. The spend gets blamed. The process was the issue.

How we work

We install the sales process, then run it with you

Not a course. Not a retainer that disappears into a dashboard. We build the sales process into your business, train your people on it in the room, and stay on the tools while it takes hold.

The plan

How do we actually start working together?

Three steps, in this order, every time. No discovery theatre and no six week onboarding before anything changes.

Step one

We look at your numbers before your website

The first call is thirty minutes and it is mostly us asking questions. How many estimates did you run last month, how many turned into jobs, what happens between the phone ringing and a tech arriving, and who follows up when a homeowner says they want to think about it. That tells us whether you have a lead problem or a closing problem, and those need opposite fixes. You leave that call knowing what we would change first and what it costs. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, we say so.

Step two

We fix the leak before we turn up the volume

Pouring more leads into a process that loses them is the most expensive mistake in home service marketing. So if your close rate is the weak point, training and follow up come first, and the ad spend waits. If your process is already tight and the phone is quiet, we go the other way and build demand. Either way you get one plan with one sequence, not a marketing proposal from one person and a training proposal from another that never reference each other.

Step three

We stay on the tools until it holds

A one day seminar everyone forgets by Thursday is not training, it is entertainment. We work with your estimators on real jobs, sit in on real calls, and keep adjusting the process while it beds in. On the marketing side you get the reporting that matters: calls answered, speed to lead, booked jobs, cost per booked job. When something stops working we change it. You are not paying for a dashboard you have to interpret on your own.

What we run

Every service your contracting business needs

Flagship

The Full Stack

Every system below, run as one engine, with a single point of accountability.

Demand

SEO & Paid Ads

Get found by the homeowner already searching, then pay only for the ones worth answering.

Speed

Lead Engagement

First response in seconds, not hours.

Systems

Custom CRM

A pipeline your crew will actually use.

People

Sales Training

In the room, on your trucks, with your team.

3x
Contacts most shops never make
The estimate isn't the close. It's the start of the conversation most contractors walk away from.
Shawn Derrick, Legacy Sales Engineering

Client work

Sites you can open right now

Real client websites. Click one and it opens in a new tab.

What we actually do

Sales training for contractors, not classrooms

The Legacy Sales Engineering lion mark

Sales training that survives a real homeowner

Most sales training for contractors is written by people who have never stood in a customer’s kitchen at 7pm explaining why the cheaper bid is cheaper. Ours is not. We train your estimators and comfort advisors on the conversation that actually happens at the table: how to diagnose before you quote, how to present good, better and best without sounding like a car lot, and how to handle “I need to think about it” without discounting your way to a yes.

The framework is our own seven step sales process, built on Solution Based Questions and the NEPQ approach, with the Zig Ziglar posture underneath it. Stop selling, start solving. Training happens in your office, on your trucks, with your team and your real jobs, and we stay on long enough to see whether it stuck.

Marketing that hands you a lead worth answering

A home service business does not have a marketing problem or a sales problem. It has a handoff problem. Ads generate a lead, nobody calls it for four hours, the homeowner books someone else, and then the ad spend takes the blame.

We build both sides and connect them: local SEO so you get found by the homeowner already searching, paid ads that pay only for the calls worth taking, lead engagement that responds in seconds instead of hours, and WeekendCRM, our own pipeline built on GoHighLevel that your crew will actually open.

Want all of it run together? That is The Full Stack.

What it costs to leave this alone

Nothing dramatic happens when a sales process leaks. That is the problem. You do not get a bill for the jobs you almost won. You just quote a little more to stay level, take the ones that come easy, and watch a competitor with worse work and a faster phone take the neighbourhood. A year of that is a truck you did not buy and a hire you could not justify.

The businesses that pull away are rarely the best tradesmen in town. They are the ones whose process does not drop anybody.

Where we work

Legacy Sales Engineering is based in the Hawthorne and Ocala area of North Central Florida, where we work hands on with home service businesses in person. Marketing, SEO, ad management, CRM and lead engagement are delivered to clients across the United States. Sales training is delivered on site or remotely depending on where you are and how big the team is.

Office hours are Monday through Saturday, 9am to 8pm. Call 352-612-3327 or email service@liftinglegacies.com.

Next step

Let's look at your sales process together

Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We’ll map where your jobs are leaking and tell you what we’d fix first.

Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

What is sales training for contractors?

Sales training for contractors teaches the people who quote your jobs how to run a consistent, repeatable conversation with a homeowner: diagnosing the real problem, presenting options clearly, and handling price objections without discounting. Unlike general sales courses, it is built around in home estimates, service calls and trade specific buying decisions.

How much does sales training cost for a home service business?

It depends on team size and whether you need training alone or training plus the marketing that feeds it. We price by engagement rather than per seat, and we tell you the number on the first call. There is no proposal cycle and no per head licensing.

How fast should I respond to a new lead?

In minutes, not hours. Homeowners requesting service typically contact several companies at once, and the business that answers first usually books the job. Our lead engagement systems respond in seconds automatically, then route a live human follow up, so a lead never sits in an inbox while your crew is on a roof.

Do I need marketing or sales training first?

If your phone rings and you are not closing, fix sales first. More leads into a leaking process just costs more money. If your close rate is healthy but the phone is quiet, fix marketing first. Most contractors are somewhere in between, which is why we look at both before recommending anything.

What trades do you work with?

HVAC, chimney, flooring, gutters, power washing and commercial cleaning, plus adjacent home service trades. The sales process is largely the same across them. What changes is the diagnostic language and the typical ticket size, and we adapt the training to yours.

Do you work with businesses outside Florida?

Yes. Marketing, SEO, ad management, CRM and lead engagement are delivered remotely to home service businesses across the United States. Hands on, in the room sales training is concentrated in North Central Florida, though we travel for larger engagements and deliver remote training where that fits better.