How To Get 100 Roofing Referrals A Year with Ron Snouffer, National Claims Negotiators

Want a proven strategy on how to get 100+ roofing jobs a year through referral partners? How about a case study on how Ron Snouffer received over 300 roofing jobs in one year from one referral partner?

We will cover how to:

-Create referral partners with Insurance Agents who send you warm leads each week

Create referral partners with Realtors who send you warm leads each week

-How to stand out from other roofing owners as the best partner to referral partners

-How to use the referral partner strategy as part of your sales process

Ron is a licensed public adjuster and owner of National Claims Negotiators. National Claims Negotiators has a team of 12 experienced public adjusters that work exclusively for property owners.

Ron is considered an expert in the insurance industry and has been featured as a guest speaker on numerous radio shows.

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Transcript

SPEAKERS

Dylan McCabe, Ron Snouffer

Dylan McCabe  00:00

limitless roofing podcast episode number 26 Welcome to the limitless roofing CEO show My name is Dylan McCabe. And in every episode we give you a seat at the table. Because we talk with owners and CEOs of roofing companies and industry experts so that you can gain the wisdom and strategies you need to take your own company to the next level. Take your own leadership to the next level. And in this episode, my guest is going to unpack how to get at least 100 100 roofing referral jobs a year through the right strategic partner. His name's Ron Snouffer. He's the CEO and founder of national claims negotiators. He's got a very successful team. He also does training at different roofing companies around the US on a regular basis on how to increase referral business. It's something that he's really good at. And he's going to share a case study where he got over one over 300 roofing jobs in one year from one referral partner. This is going to be a great show. Before we jump into that if you haven't done so already join our Facebook group. It's called the limitless roofing CEO Facebook group. We don't allow any spam any vendor ads or anything like that. We want you to engage in discussion, you can tap the wisdom and experience of other leaders by posing questions, posing the challenges you face as a leader in your company. And let the other people in the group weigh in on that we want to build a community that brings about great discussion and feedback and insight, not just a big advertising platform. And lastly, I want to challenge you if you haven't done so already, consider joining one of our roofing CEO groups, there is no need to lead your business alone, you can run your company with a team of leaders around you and our roofing CEO groups. It's like a mastermind group unlike any other because they're capped at 10 members per group, we meet once a month via zoom so that there's no direct competition, we not only get great feedback from one another on our biggest challenges in business, we also work through the entire EOS system together. EOS worldwide is the gold standard for business strategy and development. You can Google that, and I'm an authorized EOS implementer. So we do that together. It's a pivotal experience. And it could truly be the turning point in your business. So if you have any questions about that, just schedule a discovery call today, you can go through the shortened business checkup. And then we'll talk about your business to see if there's a fit. Alright guys,  let's get into this discussion with Ron Snouffer  about how to increase your referral business even up to 100 jobs a year to the right strategic partner. Awesome. Well, Ron, thank you for joining our  , man.

Ron Snouffer  02:35

I appreciate you letting me be on. 

Dylan McCabe  02:37

Yeah And to those listening, this is the first time we are using stream yard. So if there's any issues, joining this or listening to this, or whatever, I'm gonna blame it on. I'm going to claim ignorance here with stream yard. But, Ron, we really appreciate you being on the show today. And I was really excited about this because you've worked with a lot of roofing companies to help them grow their sales, grow their referral business. And I really wanted this be kind of a live training inside of our group of hearing your story and your background, but also just giving people some solid tactics on how to grow that referral business. So before we get into all that, just kind of share your background. Who are you? What's your company, stuff like that?

Ron Snouffer  03:23

My name is Ron Snouffer. I own national claims negotiators. We are a public adjusting firm in Texas. We have 18 public adjusters here in the state. And we deal with claims that contractors are having issues with the carriers where they're not paying properly. I've been a contractor, I've been in real estate. So I have a pretty diverse background when it comes to construction and real estate. I have seen how with working with hundreds of different Roofing Contractors how the best ways to get business, both repeat business and through door knocking and so forth. And so share that information to make everybody successful.

Dylan McCabe  04:17

Yep. And so as you've navigated the landscape in this industry, and you've helped other roofing companies, and you've really drilled down on negotiating the claims process and stuff like that, at some point, you really realize you had a niche for developing strategic relationships. And the title of this podcast is 100 100 roofs a year through strategic referral partners. And so let's get into that. You know, I The reason I think this is so critical is we got a guy we're talking to today that we're helping to start a roofing company. It's part of the consulting we do for guys sometimes that are entrepreneurs. successful business guys already have what it takes to be successful in business but they want to get out of the corporate world. They want to start a roofing company, so They were asking us questions today about Hey, work in a storm is great. We're in Dallas, Texas, what do you do when you're not working the storm? How do you continue the revenue to maintain that revenue stream in your business. And so kind of walk us through, I know, you've got kind of three or four major things you do to keep that going get us started on that strategy.

Ron Snouffer  05:22

So I'd say it all starts with your initial customers, your initial customers are going to be the ones that are going to be the happiest with you. And they're going to refer you additional leads, those additional leads come from their friends, their family, their realtors, and the biggest one, I think, is their insurance agent. If you make that customer happy, nine times out of 10, you're going to be able to make that insurance agent happy. And if you're in an area that got hit by a storm, within the last two years, that insurance agent is going to have several people, not just one that have hail damage to their roofs. Problem is most roofers will only go touch that insurance agent one time, and then never talk to them again. Well, if they see 100 roofers one time a piece, there's no relationship built. But when you have a customer, you can build a relationship with that insurance agent, by just doing a few small things. To touch that insurance agent every time you're talking to the property owner, keeping them involved in the claim, letting them know when you're going to put the roof on letting them know what type of roof you're going to put on. But don't know when the roof is completed, let him know what kind of warranty is going to be on. And then I always have a recommendation that you should have some kind of 90 180 360 day warranty inspection to be able to go back out there to the property with the property owner and then notify the insurance agent again. We did a 90 day inspection. proofs good. No questions, no issues.

Dylan McCabe  06:54

Alright, so before we get into going even deeper on that some people were thinking, Okay, here's some more tips. Let's make this real. You have a real life case study of where your strategic referral partner has given you over 100 roofing jobs in one year, share that story so that people listening to this can go Okay, this actually works.

Ron Snouffer  07:14

So back when I was in the roofing business, we started out like most other roofing companies did door knocking in areas that we knew had damage. We ended up running across an insurance agent. On one of his properties, he was very happy with how well we took care of his property. And he was an agent in the area where the damage happened. So instead of him calling another roofing company, he called us because of how well we took care of him. In over about a year's time, we got several 100, not just 100 rooms, but several 100 roofing leads from him. And those are always easier to close because you already have somebody who is referring you as a strategic partner, your closing ratio goes way up.

Dylan McCabe  08:01

So you're naturally good at this. I mean, I gather that from our discussions before we did this, before we started this live show and just leading up to it. I think you're naturally good at connecting and educating. You're wired to educate. So walk through for people that are thinking okay, but how did you do that? I mean, there's lots of insurance agents. I know that I mean, thanks. Hey, we have roofers in our office every week. don't really get us for them to send us business. So kind of walk through. How did you stay in that? Number one? How do you stand out in an ocean of roofers?

Ron Snouffer  08:32

Well, your first obstacle is, or your easiest obstacle is, if you have a customer that you're doing business with, that's already agreed to have you put the roof on, you're going to take care of them, they're going to be your client. At that point in time, you need to advise the insurance agent, Hey, Mr. Mrs. Jones is going to be using me to do the roof. We've already gotten it approved through the insurance company or we're meeting with the adjuster on Tuesday, notify the agent as you go or notify the agents gatekeeper. There'll be one or two things you'll either have a gatekeeper or you'll be able to talk directly with the agent depending on the size of the agency. But the more information that you can provide them and the more contact, you can stay in front of them, just communicating that stuff. Because like I said, most roofers will go by and drop off a bag of doughnuts or flyers or whatnot, one time and then never go back and talk to that agent again. So if you have systematically put in place things to go back and talk to that agent, when you sign the customer up, then you notify them the agent, we're putting the roof on on Tuesday. Then you go back and say the roof is completed on on Wednesday. Everything's been taken care of, we're gonna file for the depreciation. Then you notify the insurance agent a third time Hey, this is the warranty information, please put it with their file. You may call the agent up and say, Hey, before you put the roof on, are there any discounts that are given for a type of roof that's put on the roof so that I can notify your client and maybe upsell them to a ir, or designer shingle or something like that. So all those things solidify the relationship with the agent and his customer, because most customers leave their agent when they've had a bad experience in an insurance claim. So if you can show through the entire process where you make it fluid, easy for their customer, keep them in communication, they're going to love you because they're going to keep retention themselves. And that's what it's all about for them. They want to make sure their customers are taken care of. And they want to make sure that if there is any issues that there's communication through the entire process.

Dylan McCabe  10:53

So one glaring thing that's standing out to me right here, a glaring question that I want to ask everybody and I have to ask myself, too, is when you engage a customer or client relationship, a homeowner on a roofing job, what is your communication look like with their agent? And this is not something that you're talking about a lot? Usually the the perspective is on the desk adjuster or the field adjuster that comes to the house, what what do you have to do with them? And what do you how do you push things forward either through supplements public adjuster, taking things to appraisal, that whole conversation is usually the focus. It's not about, Hey, did you call that homeowners agent, their insurance agent to say, hey, by the way, I'm taking care of Sally Smith or john smith just want to let you know when to give them world class customer service, I also want to help you in any way I can. And start that whole conversation, I gotta tell you, I don't hear about that very often.

Ron Snouffer  11:45

That's because it's one of the simple things that you can do that people hear all the time that I can get lots of referrals from an insurance agent, or lots of referrals from a real estate agent, but they don't take the time or commit to actually making it work. And once you have those relationships is established with strategic partners like that, they will, they will fight for you to make sure you get those claims. They're only going to refer you to their clients. And they're they're going to back you up when there's issues. Does that make sense?

Dylan McCabe  12:21

Yep, we've got a local guy from goose head that's got a pretty big book of business here in Dallas, it sends us jobs almost weekly. I mean, he sends us repeated business because he knows we're not going to go there and just try to close the homeowner, we're going to go there and educate the homeowner. And actually, there's many times where we go in and do it rain tight general contracting, we'll go do an inspection on the roof and tell the homeowner you know what we don't think there's enough damage to file a claim, we think you should wait. So our contact over at goose head knows that we're not there to just get everybody to file a claim and close as much business as possible. We're there to really be an extension of his customer service. because like you said, a lot of times people people do have a bad experience. That's the question. They say, do you know what the best insurance company is? Because I've been unhappy and I want to switch?

Ron Snouffer  13:11

Well, that helps you with your strategic relationships. Even if you have somebody that's referring you business, you would have another off shoot to be able to send them to somebody else. And and the thing, like you said is that these agents don't want to have their clients open claims for no reason. So if they can have a roofer that they know they can rely on and depend on to go out there and get there quick and give their customer an honest opinion on whether or not it has damage is huge. Because they'll send out stuff because we do have 1000s of contractors that are out there door knocking that sometimes never get on a roof. I mean, we go look at claims all the time that there is no damage on the roof, but a claims already been filed. So that is a huge benefit if you can offer that to do the inspection before an adjuster appointment ever comes out.

Dylan McCabe  14:06

So I think glaring question number one for people listening to this that are thinking Yes, I would love to get 2550 100 referrals a year. glaring question number one is are you reaching out to the homeowners insurance agent to bridge to build a bridge to make a long term relationship with them? that's step number one, are you reaching out? Are you starting that communication, to really kind of partner with them to offer world class customer service to get you more referral business but also maintain their book of business? I think the big question number two is what let's let's be more specific about what that communication looks like because again, for somebody that's a seasoned business professional, a lot of this stuff is common practice but for somebody that's not used to doing this thing or shooting more shooting from the hip kind of roofing business owner roofing salesperson, so so Walk us through that if you if you could have it exactly the way you wanted Ron, and you are training somebody on this, you're just going to tell them this is exactly how I want you to do this. What would it look like?

Ron Snouffer  15:11

One of the first things you want to do is be able to set an appointment with the insurance agent. This is not an over the phone type situation, you need to have excuses to go by and see that agent, and the excuses that you have, or they're going to be the same ones over and over again. Your first one is going to be we sign a contract with Mr. And Mrs. Jones, here's a copy of the contract. Here's information about our company, we are a certified contractor with certainteed Owens, Corning GAF, whoever that manufacturer is, this is the type of materials we're going to put on the roof. That's when you would also have a conversation with them about Are there any additional discounts that I should make my client or wherever our client aware of where they'll get a discount on their insurance, so that when I go back and give them a presentation on the type of roofing materials that we're going to put on the roof, these are your additional discounts that you'll qualify for, based on your insurance company. Farmers has like a 40% discount just on a new roof. And so you have depending on who the insurance agency is, they all have different discounts based on the type of roof that's going to be put on the roof. So your second time that you go by is Hey, I just wanted to let you know that Mr. or Mrs. Jones, or putting the roof on today will probably be done in a day, two days, whatever you think it's going to take. That's your second time that you stop by and talk to them, it's always important that you have those face to face drop ends, because it's all about establishing the relationship and the communication. If they think they're never going to hear from you again, or never go to see you again, you're not Top of Mind, you're not taught of thoughts. And they're going to move on to the next guy that drops off doughnuts on Friday. So if you do that, on those two occasions, and then you wait a week or so and you go by and drop off warranty information, here's the warranty the roofs completed. We want you to know that there. They have a two year five year 10 year whatever warranty the contractor has in place, I'm a big fan of doing a lifetime warranty, because the only thing that's going to stop you in Texas from not getting your roof done and sale. Right. And then that gives you the ability to go back out there on an annual basis and just go check on that roof. Why is that a big deal. customers don't know that they have held nine times out of 10 until somebody knocks on the door. Right? They can't see the damage from the ground. So they never know. But if you have the ability, if you have set up regimens, where you go out at 90 days, you can talk to them about the roof, it's still completely done. You notify the insurance company, we did our 990 day follow up. And then you asked the property owner who else in the area so has another roof done. So now you're double dipping that you get it from the customer, and you get it from the insurance agent. Who else in their book of business still hasn't had their roof done.

Dylan McCabe  18:13

I love that. So let's stop because we're getting we're getting into exciting stuff. So first of all, you're what I don't, again, I just I'm just blown away by how little I hear about this as a sales process. So step one, reach out to the customers insurance agent and you have a reason that's the big thing I like about this is you've got a reason this is not really a cold outreach or a cold call. You are saying hey, I'm actually working with your customer. Let's meet you know, we'd love to learn from you about like you said discounts and stuff like that also want to kind of let you know about our process, and why it's exceptional. And want to make a win win kind of strategic relationship with you in this process and do the best for the homeowner. And then when you say to follow up with them, I like that too. Because you're not again, you're not walking in their office cold, you have a reason to go back in and talk about the process when the roof is going to be done. And you have a reason to go back in and talk about that warranty information. So this is a very warm approach to building a strategic relationship.

Ron Snouffer  19:18

So another good strategic time to go back and talk to the agent is after you've collected the depreciation and you sat down and met with the property owner made sure they're completely satisfied with everything you get that customer to give you a testimonial, whether that's a written one or even better a video testimonial about how awesome of a job you did. Right. And then you physically take whether it's written email on the BBB, Google whatever back to that agency. I just wanted you to know this is what your customer thinks of us. If you have any additional customers use this testimonial for them to Call us and let us take a look at their roof.

Dylan McCabe  20:03

That is so good. Yeah, you're, you're really standing out to there's a there's a book on sales that I love called the ultimate sales machine by Chet Holmes. And he does a lot of sales training. And it's not new fancy stuff that he talks about. It's just pigheaded stubbornness to a process and sales. But one of the things he does talk about the book that kind of makes him stand out is these the ways that he stays Top of Mind with people. And so, to me, that's, this is a powerful way to really stay top of mind with that insurance agent when you go back in with a video with their client. And they're going you know what, we were a little skeptical at first. But this roofing company did an exceptional job, they did this, they did this, they did this and the sales guide, whoever is you know, did such a good job even over communicated. We never wondered where we were at the process. And then you are going back in. And I think that there might be some people thinking right now, how am I going to get a video, I don't have time to do that. Well, I want to challenge everybody listening to this, go back and listen to my interview with Kirby, the CEO of lightspeed construction, he actually makes it required for his sales guys to get a video testimonial. And they actually do not receive their commission, unless they get a video testimonial from that customer. And that, and so that that entails then building up to that throughout the entire process, giving great customer service coaching the homeowner on the process, and letting them know, hey, I want you to be so happy at the end. And so satisfied that you are going to be excited to get on video and talk about this.

Ron Snouffer  21:44

Videos are strong. I need to have my guys do more videos. Right now we concentrate on just written stuff. But videos are strong. And I'm seeing that more and more as we go forward. In today's world. 

Dylan McCabe  22:00

All right. So you've started that initial outreach, you've done the job, you've reached back out to the insurance agent, you're just building this relationship even stronger. You've got a video, hopefully you can show them. So we're multiple way you're we're, we're pretty far along in this process. Then what after the job's done after you've shown that video, what is your follow up look like with the insurance agent? And what is your follow up look like with the homeowner.

Ron Snouffer  22:24

So a typical agent will have somewhere between 515 100 clients, that's the average. Well, how many clients do you think they have around the client that you just did? It's not like an agent that lives in Flower Mound is selling stuff in Waxahachie. all their stuff is around Flower Mound. So after that 90 day 280 day period, you're going to send a screenshot of whoever you do business with as far as hail recon, hail trace, hail strike, whatever hail mapping system you have of Hey, Mr. Mrs. Agent, this is where the hell was one of the clients do you have in this area, we'll go out and do a free inspection for you. And that puts them on notice. And then between that 180 days, and 360 days, you remind the agent, your clients only have a limited amount of time to file a claim before they can recover their depreciation. Who do you have in this area again, so you have multiple times that you're going to touch them throughout that one year mark. And eventually, they're going to get on board because they don't want a client that has damage, never filed it. And three years from now they have a leak. And now it's the agents fault that they have a leak and the insurance company isn't paying for it.

Dylan McCabe  23:45

So when you do that, what can you real? I mean, what would you say is a good expectation for somebody thinking, you know what, this is going to take a lot of my extra time, which we know if you're if you're going to be an exceptional salesperson, this really isn't taken a lot more time and it's thinking long term instead of short term. But for somebody saying, Is this really worth the time? What can somebody expect? As far as the amount of referrals? Or what would what would you coach somebody on like, Hey, this is what you should expect? Maybe the first year and then it's probably going to get more the second year and more the third year?

Ron Snouffer  24:22

Correct. So like I said, a typical agent isn't just an average agent, not a huge agent by any means. We'll have 500 to 1500 clients in an area of town. So if 20% of those people had hail damage, or were in the hell belt belt of where the hell happened, that could be 100 clients within a matter of a year.

Dylan McCabe  24:46

Well, that's a lot. And if I glossed over that before, it's because I'm trying to do stream yard for the first time here and trying to make sure I manage comments on our Facebook page. But to me, I think if you even spent 20 hours with one insurance agent, and you can get 50 to 100 jobs a year from that insurance agent. This is one of the most important things you could you should do if you care about sales. And if you are in roofing you care a great deal about sales,

Ron Snouffer  25:15

Because it's year over year, and remember this just on the surface, good friend, he's not the only goose head in the Metroplex. And if you took care of him, he's going to refer you to other goose head agents. Now look at how your domino effect is when it comes to agents. And it's not like you need 1000s of agents, you need a handful of agents in order to be very successful in this business.

Dylan McCabe  25:45

Right. Right. That's something we talked about when I started with with rain tight general contracting about a year ago, the owner said, Look, you need to really focus your downtime on referral partners. And if you could get 25 referral partners, sending you 10 jobs a year, you're going to be just fine. Yeah. And because hailstorms are going to take care of the rest, but if you could get 25 referral partners sending you 10 to 15 jobs a year, which is not a lot to expect from referral partners should be more like you just discussed, you know, you're gonna be doing well, because you hear a lot about these guys in different groups is, are you a million dollar producer? Are you a million dollar producer and stuff like that? That's really not a ton of roof sales. That's doing that's doing okay. But that's not to me, that's not like wild success. And if you if you deploy this strategy, you should easily be selling a million a year in revenue.

Ron Snouffer  26:44

Yes. And that's basically it here in North Texas, our average roof is somewhere around $22,000. That's less than 50 roofs a year. For roofs a month. Let's say you take off two months. That's five roofs a month, when you take off November, December. Yeah, plenty of damage out there for you to do it. And that's the other thing that drives me nuts in this industry is guys will say all the time. Well, there's no business out there right now. We haven't had a good hailstorm. And I laugh at that two years ago, we had a huge storm that came through Allen McKinney, Frisco. Plano area, two and a half inch hail. Everybody mad bashed up there for 60 to 90 days made a killing. And then some stayed another 180 days? Well, here it is almost two years. We're still getting claims right now from that storm. And it's almost two years ago. We'll be storming in April.

Dylan McCabe  27:47

Right. And it may have been you who told me some of the statistics, I can't remember who it was somebody told me about the amount of jobs that don't get done when a big hailstorm comes through. And and so let's talk about that for a minute. For guys that thing, because I know like here in Dallas, it would be hailstorm hits, there is this oversaturation of guys knocking doors right in the middle of the storm, they've got their hail apps, you know, whether it's Hillary con or whatever it might be, and they're going, you know, our strategy is always to work the outskirts. Because if you go to the center of that thing, and you're the 10th roofer that's knocked on that homeowners door in Dallas, I mean, they're just pissed off by that point. But if you work at the outskirts, while everybody else is focused on the center, even then, even beyond the outskirts, there's so many that don't get done, or they say no that day because they get swarmed. But then 60 3060 days later, they're actually willing to talk things have calmed down. I think it's around 30%, isn't it? Or is it a bigger number than that.

Ron Snouffer  28:46

So in that first 90 days, they say that the average is about 30% of roofs get done. And that first 90 days, and then over the next 18 months, it's only another 30%. So you still have 30 to 40% of roofs that never get done. And that goes back to the equation. Even though there's 1000s of roofers here in North Texas, there's only so much labor in North Texas. And there's not enough roofing crews to do all the roofs that are not that are hit on a annual basis.

Dylan McCabe  29:20

So you know that's so interesting and it takes persistence and people that are in sales know that but I was at lunch today with the with the owner ran tight my business partner, and we were sharing a story with a guy that's gonna engage us for consulting. But the story was that a big hailstorm came through and Miller weed and the owner rain tight went with a sales guy to the area. They knocked on doors all day long. They thought they were just going to make a killing right? No one would let them on their roof. Not a single person. One person at the end of the day, said Okay, go ahead and then the next day when they were actually supposed to get up on the roof. The guy call and say, you know what I talked to my wife. We're really not ready for that. Nobody. They kept going back. Finally, one older gentleman left him up on his roof. They educated him in the process, did the roof put a sign in the yard, he said, by the way, my neighbor also needs theirs done. We were talking about did there's within a couple of months, they had signed up 200 people off that one job. And that neighborhood had 400 homes they did 201 company ran tight, general contracting, did 200 out of the 400 homes in that neighborhood, because of one person was the domino that started the rest of fall.

Ron Snouffer  30:41

Well, I was talking about this the other day, our offices in Mansfield, Mansfield got hit three times in the last 24 months. And so basically the entire town, there's about 100,000 houses down here in the Mansfield, Southern Arlington area that had damage. And there's still tons and tons of business down here. But the last storm was April 27 of last year. So there's not people out here looking for damage, even though you can drive up and down the street and see which roofs have been done and which ones have not. And that that goes back to exactly what you're saying. People in our industry will go out that first 90 days, but then they won't go back, they'll wait for another storm. And just because you didn't nail it the first 90 days doesn't mean those customers in those areas don't need it later on. Because we know that it's not a matter of if the roof is going to leak. It's when

Dylan McCabe  31:43

Yep, and we got a we got a good comment here inside our Facebook group by a guy Brandon. And he said I love networking and referrals definitely more definitely more residual than knocking doors. It may take longer, but gets bigger and bigger every year. And that's something you mentioned. It's it's year over year over a year. And so I gotta tell you, I'm excited about this, because I just met a guy a couple of weeks ago from farmers. And we met at a party my brother in law was having a party a lot of they invited a lot of people over for one of their kids birthday parties in the backyard. And he said he said so you know you're you're a roofer I said, Well, I work with rain, tight general contracting, my business partner and I started limitless. But yes, I do some roofing jobs, I don't actively go out looking for it. But for friends and family. We do and we really focus on education. And we focus on an exceptional customer experience. We want a lifetime client. We don't aren't there just to close a deal. We're there to build a long term relationship. And he said, Well, I gotta tell you, I've gone through a lot of roofers in the last year. He said, I've got almost 3000 people in my book of business. He said, I don't have to send roofers business, said the only reason I do it is to just make it easier for the customer when they asked me who should I work with. And he and I explained him our process. And he began to get more and more interested when he heard that we go up on a roof and sometimes tell the homeowner, they shouldn't file a claim because we're in Texas Anyway, you know how it is. I mean, there's gonna be another hailstorm either later this year and next year. And so if there's not enough damage doesn't make sense, because you're just gonna buy another roof in a year or two. And so he perked up, and I'm still following up with him. we're hopefully going to get lunch next week. But even though my focus is on limitless, you know, 95% of my time, I still want to be out there as somebody who's staying at the cutting edge with roofing to stay in the industry to stay relevant. But his whole thing was it stood out to me was I don't have to send a roofer any leads. I'm doing it just to make it easier on the homeowner and easier on the roofer. But he then he spent the next 20 minutes in our conversation complaining about roofers. So what so if you were to give one parting piece of advice, after all this, if people forget everything you just covered? What's one parting piece of advice for somebody to move forward in this process successfully?

Ron Snouffer  34:16

Well, I think you hit it on the head, what they are looking for is somebody that's going to take care of their clients. There are lots of contractors that will promise everything and then not follow up on anything. We have to be realistic, what are the expectations that we set. If they don't have damage to the roof, we need to tell them because we know that like you said in Texas, every seven to 10 years, you're gonna get a new roof. That's worst case scenario. So be realistic. That customer may not be your customer today, but next year, the year after they're going to be your customer and if you establish yourself with integrity that agent is going to Tie themselves to you, because you're helping promote their business. They want their clients happy. If their clients are happy, they keep renewing. It's the the agents that you end up with that have clients that have Adam book of business for a long period of time. Those are the agents, you want referrals from the agents that end up with new clients every single year, they're sending out the two trucks in the truck that will do it for nothing. And then they get mad, and they move on to another insurance agent just like they do for a roofer. But if you establish yourself with a quality insurance agent, you'll end up with quality referrals, and long lifetime referral sources.

Dylan McCabe  35:44

 I love that. I love that it makes me more excited to follow up with the farmers guy here that I'm talking to right now. And I'm really interested to see what kind of feedback we get on this because I just don't hear this a lot. I don't hear this spoken about very much. And I know in an area I think about Dallas in my market with the the amount of agents there are the size of agencies, there are the size homes, there are neighborhoods there are. It's just, it's unwise to avoid this strategy. I mean, it's something that everybody should be doing. And so with people, I want to challenge people with this that give it a try. I mean, give this a try and give us feedback, well let us know how it goes common inside of our group. And, Ron, I really appreciate you taking the time. I know this is a training you guys offer to different companies and distributors and stuff like this and, and you've offered this for free live inside of our our limitless roofing Facebook group. And I really appreciate that. So before we bring this to an end, kind of tell us more about your company, I mean, you, you were involved in roofing, you really found out that you had a knack for the claims side of it. And tell us more about national claims negotiators and why somebody would want to reach out to you.

Ron Snouffer  36:58

So when we got in, when we left the roofing industry and got into the public adjusting, it was just me and one other gentleman. And we were doing it just like we thought public adjusting was supposed to be done. We're one man operation, trying to get to everything, we weren't able to do that. And so we developed a system and a team mentality where we systematically attack each claim where everybody has duties and responsibilities so that we can get to them fast, efficiently, and get them closed out quickly. And for the correct amount of money. So we spend the time on the front end, making sure that each step is taken care of so that when we meet with the adjuster on the field, they're more inclined to pay the claim than in there. Our average residential claim takes 30 to 45 days, our average commercial claim takes 90 to 120 days. Last year, we opened up a supplement department, because we had a lot of contractors that were having issues getting the last three, four or $5,000. Now we have our own in house supplement team that takes care of those small claims. And so we do a lot of things different than other public adjusting firms do not do or don't even offer.

Dylan McCabe  38:19

I mean, that's great. And so what all markets do you guys work in.

Ron Snouffer  38:22

So currently we're in North Texas, Abilene, Houston, San Antonio and Austin. So we cover pretty much all the Texas

Dylan McCabe  38:31

and what kind of team are we talking about? You said you started it was just you and one other guy, what does your team look like now

Ron Snouffer  38:37

we have 18 people that have a license, we have a full staff here at the office, there's communication is not an issue, you're not gonna have to track down your pa to find out what's going on, you can call the office, we all have access to the database, and allows us to know who and where the claim is at any point in time.

Dylan McCabe  38:58

It's awesome. Yeah, this is not a small operation we're talking about here. So I love I love your approach. You're very professional, you're very clear in the way you do things, the way you talk about what you do. And even in our time together, you've just been very clear and practical. And I know anybody that works with you is going to get the same experience, they're just going to get kind of a no nonsense approach. They're also going to get a lot of clarity, and great customer service. So anybody listening to this, if you're in that need of using a public adjuster or even supplements, you definitely need to reach out to Ron and his team. I will put the link to your website in the notes to this show. And people can access it there and I know people can find you on LinkedIn as well. But if somebody wanted to reach out to you now what's the best way for them to get in touch with you?

Ron Snouffer  39:45

They can call the office at 81796946 to 189694621.

Dylan McCabe  39:55

Well, Ron with national claims negotiators, thank you so much for equipping us in educating us Today on how to build strategic referral business, and we really appreciate you being on the show. All right, what a great interview with Ron. And again, if you want to catch that stuff live and be able to comment and do q&a with the guest, join our Facebook group, you can join the live stream, we're doing all of these live via stream yard, but I love what he says about, hey, when you get the claim, or you get the job, call that homeowners agent, build that relationship, start by communicating with them saying, Hey, I'm working with your client, they are my client as well. Now, I want to work together with you and just kind of let you know what we're doing and then following up with them, to let them know that the job was well done. And then that kind of gives you a reason it's a warm call. It also gives you a reason for a warm visit to that agents office to start generating those referrals and doing that with every homeowner. I mean, I just think it's a phenomenal strategy. So guys, I hope you take that and start using it. Let me know give us feedback inside of our Facebook group, post in the comment section and the link to that video on stream yard my talk with Ron and let us know how it's working for you and your team. Like I said, if you haven't done so yet, join our Facebook community. It's free to join and you can get that interaction with other roofing owners and CEOs. And if you are not in a mastermind now and would like to be part of a roofing CEO group or at least learn more about it. You can schedule a discovery call today. Just go to our website at limitless CEO group.com Alright guys, this is Dylan McCabe with the limitless roofing show and I will catch you in the next episode.

Ron Snouffer  40:06

Thanks for having me.