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JUNE 2020 FROM THE PRESIDENT
IN THE TOOLBOX
4 Selling in the New Reality – an Interview with David McLean, Brothers Services
6 How to
Sell Virtually
How CCN is Helping During This Time SCOTT SIEGAL
Scott Siegal, President CCN
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s the Coronavirus stretches from an acute crisis to our long-term reality, CCN is here to set you up for success. This is why we have a call every Tuesday addressing the most pressing topics of the week. Week after week, we’ve covered everything from the getting a paycheck protection loan, to meeting the terms for loan forgiveness, leadership to sales. Adapting to this virus means grappling with disruptions to our industry that are probably here to stay.
Tuesday Webinars
8 Increase Your Sales with
Same as Cash Financing.
9 Tour the Virtual Training Center
10 COVID-19
Is Your Company Ready to Return to Work?
Government policies, safer-at-home instructions, essential worker classification, and more continue to change week to week and unfortunately will continue to change as we confront the virus and the economic fallout from it. CCN is doing the legwork for you and pushing out the most current information every Tuesday. We’re not the only ones, of course, but what makes this network is so valuable and why we seem to be ahead of the curve, is that we own contracting businesses ourselves. We’re not at a think tank speculating about what might work.
John and I are with you in the trenches, figuring out solutions, and pushing them out to you in real-time. We’re fighting the fight with you every day. Managing the crisis Even as we look to the future and how to adapt our businesses, the initial crisis is not over. I did a poll of CCN members after the first round of grants and am proud to say that 75% of our members got their loans. That is a stark difference from the horror stories you hear in the media about small businesses not getting funded. And that’s because we are all on it – about what to do, who to contact, and how to do it. But the challenge now is that there is different guidance coming out every other day for fulfilling the terms of the loan. I’ve heard from contractors that they’re thinking of
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