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Contractor Insights: Challenges and Opportunities for 2025

Your insights as a contractor are essential to addressing industry challenges and shaping solutions. By sharing your perspective, you’ll help identify key priorities and influence resources and support tailored to your needs.

This survey starts with a few quick questions about your top challenges and business strategies for 2025. Have a few more minutes? Stick around to take the full quiz, where we’ll dive deeper into workforce training, government incentives, and how BPA can support your business. The entire quiz takes approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Your feedback helps us improve support for you and the home performance community!

General Business

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* 1. What do you anticipate being your top (3) challenges and priorities as a contractor in 2025?

	#1	#2	#3
Hiring and retaining skilled workers	Hiring and retaining skilled workers #1	Hiring and retaining skilled workers #2	Hiring and retaining skilled workers #3
Training workers	Training workers #1	Training workers #2	Training workers #3
Navigating government incentives, rebates, or tax credit programs	Navigating government incentives, rebates, or tax credit programs #1	Navigating government incentives, rebates, or tax credit programs #2	Navigating government incentives, rebates, or tax credit programs #3
Addressing supply chain issues or material shortages	Addressing supply chain issues or material shortages #1	Addressing supply chain issues or material shortages #2	Addressing supply chain issues or material shortages #3
Increasing customer demand or educating customers about EE benefits	Increasing customer demand or educating customers about EE benefits #1	Increasing customer demand or educating customers about EE benefits #2	Increasing customer demand or educating customers about EE benefits #3
Managing rising costs (e.g., labor, materials, or operational expenses)	Managing rising costs (e.g., labor, materials, or operational expenses) #1	Managing rising costs (e.g., labor, materials, or operational expenses) #2	Managing rising costs (e.g., labor, materials, or operational expenses) #3
Competing with other contractors or companies	Competing with other contractors or companies #1	Competing with other contractors or companies #2	Competing with other contractors or companies #3
Keeping up with evolving technology	Keeping up with evolving technology #1	Keeping up with evolving technology #2	Keeping up with evolving technology #3

Other (please explain)

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* 2. How confident are you in your ability to grow your business over the next 12 months?

Not very confident

Confident

Very confident

Clear

i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 3. What strategies have you found most effective in increasing customer demand for energy efficiency services? (Select all that apply.)

Digital marketing (website, social media, newsletters, SEO)

Word-of-mouth referrals

Partnerships with other businesses

Hosting educational workshops or seminars

Community engagement events (Home Show, etc.)

Other (please explain)

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* 4. What are your primary sources of information for staying up to date on industry trends and best practices? (Select all that apply.)

Industry associations

Trade publications

Online forums or communities

Conferences and trade shows

Local or state resources/networking

Other (please explain)

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* 5. The rest of this short survey addresses your concerns about:

Workforce and Training

Government Incentives and Programs

Association Support

It takes about 3 minutes. Please click "Continue" to provide your valuable insights or click "End Survey"

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Contractor Insights: Challenges and Opportunities for 2025

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* 1. What do you anticipate being your top (3) challenges and priorities as a contractor in 2025?

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* 2. How confident are you in your ability to grow your business over the next 12 months?

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* 3. What strategies have you found most effective in increasing customer demand for energy efficiency services? (Select all that apply.)

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* 4. What are your primary sources of information for staying up to date on industry trends and best practices? (Select all that apply.)

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* 5. The rest of this short survey addresses your concerns about: Workforce and Training Government Incentives and Programs Association Support It takes about 3 minutes. Please click "Continue" to provide your valuable insights or click "End Survey"

* 5. The rest of this short survey addresses your concerns about:

Workforce and Training

Government Incentives and Programs

Association Support

It takes about 3 minutes. Please click "Continue" to provide your valuable insights or click "End Survey"