Storm Season Plan
Generate a storm season sales plan for your roofing team. Covers territory targeting, staffing, and lead prioritization.
Created by Tim Nussbeck — 20+ years in home improvement sales, founder of GhostRep
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Created by Tim Nussbeck
Founder of GhostRep · 20+ years in home improvement sales
Review the draft against current company guidance before using it with a customer or team.
What Is a Storm Season Plan?
Build a storm-season plan around the work your team can actually support. Territory coverage, inspection capacity, follow-up, production handoffs and customer updates need to fit together. The plan should make responsibility clear before several crews begin working the same area.
Enter available staff, service area and current workload. Separate confirmed capacity from additional help you still need. Use your own contract and payment process for customer commitments. Review the plan when volume changes so appointment promises remain connected to the people and time available to deliver them.
Use the fields above to prepare the storm season plan. Review the result with the relevant company information, then adapt the wording to the person using it. The draft gives you a starting point you can edit, copy and use in your workflow.
How to Use This Tool
Enter your company size
A solo operator needs a fundamentally different storm plan than a 15-rep company with a management layer. The plan will be scaled to your actual team capacity — what is achievable for you, not what a much larger operation would do.
Describe your market
Gulf Coast hurricane prep is a different operational challenge than Midwest hail season. The plan will be tailored to the storm profile, seasonality, and regional competitive dynamics of your specific market.
Select storm types you work
Hail, wind, and hurricane events require different response timelines, damage documentation approaches, and insurance claim workflows. Selecting the right storm types keeps the plan focused on what is actually relevant to your operation.
Add your current preparation gaps
If your last storm response broke down in a specific area — slow mobilization, materials backlog, leads not getting tracked — enter those here. The plan will address those exact gaps with specific corrective steps, not generic advice.
Build it into a calendar with assigned owners
Convert the plan into a pre-season calendar with specific deadlines and named owners for each preparation task. Review it 90 days before your typical season start. A plan without dates and owners is an aspiration, not an operational document.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
| Common Mistake | Better Approach |
|---|---|
| Waiting until the first storm hits to start hiring | Begin recruiting and pre-screening candidates 8 weeks before your historical hail season starts. By the time a storm drops, your competitors are calling the same pool of available reps. |
| No defined activation trigger for storm response | Set specific criteria — confirmed hail above 1 inch, a set number of damage reports in a ZIP code — so your team deploys without waiting for someone to make the call. |
| Not pre-negotiating subcontractor capacity | Confirm crew availability and written scope, capacity and scheduling arrangements before accepting work that depends on them. Record a backup plan for changes in availability. |
| Ignoring cash flow during the revenue surge | Storm season creates a revenue spike followed immediately by a production expense spike. Plan deposit requirements, draw schedules, and sub payment timing in advance. |
Pro Tip
Work backward from the season using actual lead times for hiring, materials and crew availability. Assign an owner to each dependency and review readiness before deployment. Use the onboarding plan to organize rep preparation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What information should I enter?
Use current staffing, service area, inspection capacity, active workload and the actual handoff process. Separate confirmed resources from help you still need to arrange.
Should the plan set deposit or claim rules?
Use your company’s established contract, payment and claim-related processes. A seasonal planning draft should not invent a universal deposit percentage or legal requirement.
How often should the plan change?
Review it when volume, staffing or capacity changes. Update customer-facing commitments before the team schedules work it cannot support.
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