Our Company Story

“The Way We Do Things Around Here”

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... late 1980’s our company was building new homes in the Des Moines area... we operated a small remodeling and restoration division.… following the 1993 flood it was clear to us that that our small Des Moines based remodeling division needed to expand...    

 

As the president of Firstcall, it is my intention to live with integrity in all areas of my life including the remodeling business that I am involved with.  I can honestly say that the people on staff here at Firstcall share that same passion for displaying honesty, integrity, and good old-fashioned values that are so hard to find these days in personal lives or in business.  Many times in our remodeling business when we are faced with a decision that typically costs time or money.  I can say that our fundamental values for deciding what to do is not based on things such as how important is this customer, will this customer bad talk us, what they don’t know won’t hurt them, - the list is endless.  On the contrary, Firstcall evaluates our decisions based on “what is the right thing to do?”.  This simple foundational philosophy has served our remodeling business well over the years and has added a simplicity that is easily passed on to others throughout the company.

 

 

Customer Care Program  (CCP)

In an effort to achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction within the remodeling and restoration industry, we are presently developing and have begun piloting an innovative Customer Care Program .

Phase 1:  This is an elaborated approach to our previous pre-construction process.  It has been implemented to increase and sharpen the communication of information to and understanding between the client and the Firstcall staff.  Phase 1 is comprised of an extensive contract including a thorough Scope of Work and a Pre-Construction Conference Checklist.  The Scope of Work includes an itemized description of the work to be performed by Firstcall, thorough customer allowance sheets, and easy-to-use product selection forms.  The Pre-Construction Conference checklist is to better enable our field personnel to understand practical customer concerns before work starts.

Phase 2:  At intermittent points during the project, an office staff member of Firstcall contacts the customer by telephone.  This phone call is initiated to gather the information included on an Interim Customer Satisfaction Survey.  Once the information in gathered, it is forwarded to the project manager of that project.  This information allows the project manager and the Firstcall management team to get a pulse from each customer on how they perceive their job is going.  If action is needed to regain any customer confidence or remedy a problem, the survey gives us the opportunity to know about it with time to react and resolve the matter.

Phase 3:  Includes a final mailing of helpful customer information and, most importantly, a thank-you letter.

 

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