Some Contractors Are Booming!

February 17, 2010

How a 2 hour drive south changed my thinking !
I work and play in the Sarasota, Florida area and yes we have stayed busy in our area ,I was hoping for a wave of work once the snow birds arrived.
We did see increases in sales but nothing that made me jump for joy. I personally [...]

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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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Contractor Leads

February 13, 2010

Are finding good quality leads like finding a needle in a hay stack?
This has always been a sore subject in the past and mainly because a lot of contractors get mad when there lead company sells the lead to many contractors.
To me it’s the lazy way out of getting contractor leads.
I can only believe [...]

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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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Contractor Upside Leverage Series

February 7, 2010

This will be a series of 7 separate post on upside contractor leverage.
First, lets talk about what upside leverage means in your contracting business. I am talking about how you can take in investment or a activity or even an opportunity with the people all around you and make it bigger,better and more profitable without [...]

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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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Contractor Leverage

February 3, 2010

You are the leverage in your company, you and only you!
Think about it for a minute, you must be the driving force to get your company to where it is today. Right? You are the one with the ideas,vision,talent, so you must be strong and healthy. Are you?
I like the word vision because most people [...]

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Contractor Gas Pedal Stuck?

February 2, 2010

My marketing masters tell me everyday to take advantage of what’s happening in the world on a daily basis. So sorry Toyota today is your misfortune. Yes, I thought if I was working with plumbers I would have used “Pants On The Ground” but I just thought contractor gas pedal stuck worked better with my [...]

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The 80/20 Rule!

February 1, 2010

Contractors and suppliers can use this rule but most do not even think about it. Why not? Hold on Glen and stop and explain it for us first. Sorry about that, sometimes I assume everybody would know this. The 80/20 rule means that 20% of your clients produce you 80% of your income or sales.
Now believe me [...]

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