Planning for Next Year
The end of the year is a good time to look at how you’ve been doing business. What standards have you set, and are you keeping those standards?
The end of the year is a good time to look at how you’ve been doing business. What standards have you set, and are you keeping those standards?
Growth is inevitable when you successfully market your business and have solid business practices but growing a construction business brings a few challenges along with the blessings.
Michael shares a valuable tool that will improve both your sales and your relationships.
It’s painful to see people who don’t know better get taken advantage of by those who do or should know better.
Doing work without a permit is a mistake. Pulling permits protects the homeowner; when a contractor doesn’t want to pull a permit, there’s always a reason.
You can’t always determine if the person you are about to do business with is ethical, but you do know your own behavior. Choosing to operate your business with integrity is within your control.
Having to return to a previous job and fix something that’s wrong costs money. Knowing the cost of a callback helps you or your crew to be more diligent to avoid them in the future.
It’s not unusual to find a contractor who sells by deliberately underpricing or underbidding jobs and making up the difference with change work orders.
If you’re doing residential construction, you’ve met all kinds of people. There are also all kinds of contractors, and some of them don’t operate ethically.
It’s time to catch up on some spare topics I have lying around. These aren’t earth shaking but they can and will impact your bottom line.
How should you handle a mistake? What if it’s a mistake you made over a decade ago?
It’s interesting how friends, relatives, and other contractors try to rope you into their schemes by asking to borrow your license to build their jobs.
Last week, a contractor called to ask my opinion on getting involved with storm chasers that were in his area.
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