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Your best location closes 65%. Your worst closes 35%.

That 30-point gap is not a talent problem, it is a conversation problem, and it shows up in the same four moments everytime. The Standardization Playbook shows multi-location operators where the gap opens, what the top performers do differently, and how to close it in ninety days. Free, no sales call attached.

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250,000+
In-person conversations analysed
30 pts
Close rate spread between locations
90 days
To a measurable change
What is inside

Eleven chapters, and four of
them you can use this week

The full contents run from the gap itself through to a day-one to day-ninety rollout, with case studies from Taylor Morrison and Kitchen Tune-Up and a read on what PE consolidation is doing to the trades. These four are the ones operators quote back to us.

1

The gap you are already paying for

Your top location closes 65%, your worst closes 35%, and the ACCA puts the average contractor at 43% of estimates. The chapter shows why that spread sits in the conversation rather than in the talent.

2

The portfolio math

An eight-location HVAC platform, 15 replacement calls per location per week, a $14,000 average ticket. Ten points of close rate is $8.4M of revenue and $7.5M of enterprise value at a 6X multiple.

3

What top performers do differently

Four moments decide the sale: the financing introduction, the price objection response, the second-opinion stall, and the add-on. 63% of reps forget financing, and mentioning it moves close rates from 38% to 49%.

4

Day one to day ninety

Setup in week one on the phones your reps already carry, baselines by weeks two to four, and a 10 to 15 point close-rate lift by week twelve. Written as a rollout you can run yourself.

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Book cover titled The Standardization Playbook by Dara Shabnam on closing the gap between best and worst locations.
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Chapter one

The gap you are already paying for

Your top location closes 65% of its estimates. Your worst closes 35%. Same brand, same pricing, same marketing spend, same product. That 30-point gap is not a talent problem, it is a conversation problem.

The industry benchmark backs it up. The ACCA puts the average contractor at 43% of estimates closed, and across our own corpus the distance between the top performer and the average performer on the same team runs 25 to 35 points.

Meanwhile the cost of getting a homeowner to the door keeps climbing. The average home services lead now runs $91, up 10.5% year on year, and 69% of businesses report rising cost per lead. You are paying more for the same appointment and converting it at a rate that swings 30 points depending on who shows up.

Both case studies
are in the playbook

+16%

Appointment-to-contract rate, across communities in Texas, Florida, Arizona, California, Colorado, and the Carolinas. Management also got 50% of its review time back.

Taylor Morrison
100%

Coaching visibility across 30+ franchise owners without a single ride-along, and coaching ramp-up time 8X faster.

Kitchen Tune-Up

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