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Equipment Acquisition: What's Next?
GB Financial Services, LLC
Project backlogs may be improving, but caution is required when it comes to long-term financial commitments.
Growing project backlogs can make an equipment purchase tempting. But it needs to make financial sense given ongoing market uncertainty.
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Find Ongoing Revenue Streams with Polished Concrete Maintenance
Husqvarna Construction Products
Concrete polishing contractors can expand their businesses by adding maintenance services to their customers.
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Get What You Deserve with Proper Contract Management
Construction Business Coaching
With low-price and high competition leading the way, contractors need to be be firm with their customers and actively manage contracts
To manage a contract, start by getting a complete copy and read every contract, specifications and general conditions to clearly understand what you must do to protect your rights and be in conformance with the project requirements.
Workforce
Are Your Customers Qualified?
Detmer Consulting Inc.
Regardless of how busy your employees might be or their amount of equipment knowledge, it's important they be well trained to consistently use proper qualifying techniques.
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54 Do's and Don'ts for Running Your Business
The Contractor's Business Coach
A short list of do's and don'ts for construction business owners
It is important to set goals for your company but don't set ones that you cannot achieve or that are arbitrary.
Safety
Ten Tips to Prevent the Construction-Accident High Season
Timmons Group
What to say, wear, stretch, eat, drink and do to anticipate and survive Spring’s annual spike in construction accidents
To enhance safety, make sure everyone on the ground is wearing high-visibility apparel.
Management
How to Be An Effective Leader in a Flat Economy
Construction Business Coaching
Effective leaders realize they must have the courage to change themselves first before anyone will follow their lead and innovative vision
Business owners should have a dynamic focused vision employees get excited about. People want to follow a leader on a mission.
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Sequestration, Health Care Set Up Road Blocks to Profits
GB Financial Services, LLC
Prepare your construction business to weather both federal budget cuts and higher health care costs.
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Focus on Increasing Profits
Detmer Consulting Inc.
Most customers don't purposely misuse equipment they've rented from your company. It's frustrating for you to have your equipment misused, but the good news is there are some ways to avoid some of this frustration.
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Work Less and Do More
Construction Business Coaching
Learn to delegate and prioritize to get more work done without spending as much time working after official office hours
Steps, like taking vacation and prioritizing work at the office, can help you be a more efficient business owner and do more in less time.
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Ahern Rentals' Ownership Struggle Intensifies
Ahern Rentals Inc.
When the bankruptcy judge welcomed creditors' proposals, Ahern's rhetoric escalated a simple reorganization into a fight for control of one of the nation's Top 10 rental companies
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Management
Methods to Ensure Crews Deliver Top Quality in the Field
The Contractor's Business Coach
Tips to help ensure your crew is working properly without having to be in the field with every crew every day
Mix and match your approaches for driving quality. Different approaches will work for different crews.
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