From the category archives:

Contracting General

Now is The Time…

March 3, 2010

Today I would like to talk to all the contractors out there around the country or even the world. My thoughts today take me back to the last couple of weeks and the ups and downs of our lives and your business.
I am one to follow a lot of news, and when it begins to [...]

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Contractors Business Plan?

March 1, 2010

Trying to operate a construction business without a written business plan is like driving across the country without a map.
I remember doing one for the first time for a company that I was buying and needed an $80,000 bank loan. Now my time frame was tight and I needed this money now to make the [...]

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Contractor Missing Link

February 15, 2010

This will be a unique post because of the subject line I have chosen. But yes as always there is a madness to my thoughts. The contractor missing link means just what it says.
Let me ask you a question? Do you really believe that one person can enter your company or your [...]

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Delegating Responsibility.

February 11, 2010

” If you want something done right you have to do it yourself”
These words should not be in the vocabulary of any business owner. If you want something done right than you should teach someone how to do it right.
To grow your business you have to learn to delegate some responsibility. What ever you can do someone [...]

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Contractor’s Deadly Mistake

February 9, 2010

After talking to contractor’s all over the the country this year, I found one word that they all seamed to use and for the ones that used it, I noticed they all were in trouble because of the economy.
The word is assume ! See they all assumed that business would come back around because it [...]

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Developers Traffic Is The Key

February 5, 2010

Developers and Contractors Have Chased Traffic For Years, So Now What’s The Problem?
Yes, it’s one of the golden rules when building almost anything right?
Build it on the busy high traffic count highways and they will come in droves and bring along the money right?
For so many many years contractors and businesses have spent a small [...]

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Contractors Employee Dilemma?

January 24, 2010

How to deal with employees in this economy?
It has been a brutal year for employees in the contracting world. With massive layoffs from manufactures and distributors and with sales slow, owners have no choice but to fire or lay off employees.
As painless as it is they really have no choices or do they? Maybe sometimes [...]

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I Finally Made It!

January 18, 2010

Yes, It’s My Blogs Birthday Today!
I have read that when contractor’s start a blog that most don’t last past 3 months.
Well I got to tell you that there were times if I was going to make it also. There were many of times I was looking at a blank screen and thinking, man what can [...]

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Time Well Spent

January 8, 2010

There is nothing I hate more than wasting time. I already feel like too much of my day is taken up attending to things that waste inordinate amounts of time (like eating, sleeping, and talking on the phone).
In addition to keeping a strict Daily and Weekly To-Do list, I’ve taken a few steps in my [...]

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