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Attract Future Customers with 'Bug-em' Mail

Construction Business Coaching

Create awareness and interest to keep your construction company top of mind with future clients through unique mailing campaigns

Get future customers to remember and call you with creative, different, unique and informative 'Bug-em!” mail. And once is not enough.

Fiscal Cliff Bluster Brings Tax Benefits

GB Financial Services, LLC

While little came out of the fiscal cliff debate, there are some positive results for construction businesses

Keep Two Sets of Books for Taxes and Borrowing Purposes

The Contractor's Business Coach

Keep one set of books for taxes and another set that more realistically treats depreciation

Keep one set of books for taxes and another set that more realistically treats depreciation. When you visit with your lender show both sets, and explain why you have two sets.

How to Determine an Abrasive’s True Cost

Cuviello Concrete and Terrazzo Polishing

Concrete polishing contractors should factor in purchase price, use and labor costs to arrive at the true end use cost of their abrasives for grinding and polishing.

A quick-change system requires less time for changing abrasives, shortening the time machines stand idle on the job.

Let Go To Grow

Construction Business Coaching

Build a great place to work where people can grow, take responsibility and be accountable

When you control the work, hold your people back and constantly tell them what to do, you hurt your company’s growth and profit potential. An effective leader’s role is to inspire others to perform at higher levels and maximize results.

Is It Time to Invest in a New Location?

Detmer Consulting Inc.

Now that at least some of the fiscal cliff uncertainties seem to be clearing up a little, it might be a good time to look into what investments in your rental business really make sense now.

7 Tips for a Successful Vertical Concrete Placement

Planning and communication will help you achieve a successful concrete wall pour.

The Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle

The Contractor's Business Coach

A four-step cycle can help companies grow and get ahead without getting lost in elaborate methodology

Executing a plan may seem like the success but it is just the mid-point of an ongoing process.

The Art of Appreciation

Construction Business Coaching

Small tokens of appreciation and unexpected thank you’s get you remembered

Make it a habit to thank your clients on a regular and unexpected basis.

Show Us the Data

American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)

Authoritative statements in ACI documents are often unaccompanied by any reference to published data that validate the statements. That’s a problem.

Reinforcing steel is so congested in the shear wall boundary element (right side of photo) that concrete must be placed in the less heavily reinforced shear wall section (left side of photo) and vibrated at that point to move it laterally into the boundary element.

Train Employees Now for the New Economic Reality

Detmer Consulting Inc.

Regardless of what items you're renting and what types of customers you traditionally draw to your company, there are certain constants when it comes to growing your rental business successfully (and profitably)

Choose Your Business Model Carefully

The Contractor's Business Coach

Business models may be simple, but they have tremendous power over the evolution and success of your construction business

Construction contractors can choose more than one business model, but be sure you can be profitable, growing and willing to adapt to make the models work.

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