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Get a Handle on Your Costs of Doing Business to Make a Profit

Construction Business Coaching

Construction is just an expensive hobby until you use knowledge of how much sales and markup you need and labor costs per unit of work to drive toward profit goals every day

To build a construction business you must be focused on your bottom-line numbers, know how much sales and markup you need, know your labor costs per unit of work, and always be sure you’re making a profit.

Two Updates Contractors Need to Know about Section 179 Depreciation

RDO Equipment Co.

The 2018 tax bill brought some opportunity and complexity to equipment depreciation choices. Here's what buyers need to know at year's end about Section 179 program changes

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Two Important Updates to Bonus Depreciation

RDO Equipment Co.

Bonus depreciation can offer a valuable opportunity for both new and used construction equipment purchases

If you're considering a purchase before the end of 2018, investigate how the changes in bonus depreciation may apply to the acquisition.

Sell What Customers Want

Construction Business Coaching

Each customer requires a unique selling and marketing strategy to be successful

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How to Keep Sweeper Operators Safe at Night

How to Keep Sweeper Operators Safe at Night

Situational risk analysis begins with due diligence (conduct a site survey, examine the history of incidents in an area) and preparation (lights, camera, company policy etc.)

Millennials in your Workplace

World Sweeping Association

Adapt your culture to Millennial workers

How a BIZ-BUILDER BLUEPRINT Written Plan Keeps Your Construction Company Focused and Successful

Construction Business Coaching

A BIZ BUILDER BLUEPRINT helps business owners write out exactly what they want, their vision, targets and action plans to achieve their dreams

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What Makes Rental Businesses Seem Professional?

Detmer Consulting Inc.

I remain a firm believer in the massive growth and profitability power of a visually impactful and well-designed showroom, an efficient warehouse and a production-focused service area.

Dick Detmer

Construction is Booming: Is It Time to Invest, Time to Manage or Both?

GB Financial Services, LLC

Contractors need to position their businesses to take advantage of the construction boom without placing it at risk of going bust

Contractors need to position their businesses to take advantage of the construction boom without placing it at risk of going bust

Performance Groups Can Guide You to Control Construction Project Costs

GB Financial Services, LLC

Performance groups let you take advantage of peer knowledge to keep project schedules and costs under control.

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Placing Concrete Smarter: A Closer Look - Part 2

WL Concrete, division of BlueScope Construction

Part two of a of three part series. This feature will take a more in depth look at productivity and quality variables for common slab on grade installations.

Figure 1: On site steel fiber loading station.

Resources – Never Stop Learning

Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)

This summer, ACI has released the latest technical resource produced by this committee and now available for your business, ACI 332.1R-181 ‘Guide to Residential Cast-in-Place Concrete Construction’. This column discusses this latest technical document.

The American Concrete Institute has released the latest technical resource, ACI 332.1R-181 ‘Guide to Residential Cast-in-Place Concrete Construction’.

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