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Discover ideas, tactics, news, and information that matters to your contracting business and you. Increase productivity, profitability, customer and employee satisfaction.
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Labor is like a hotel room. It is perishable. I discuss pricing using a billable percentage, the theoretical maximum billable percentage, and what you can do to increase the billable percentage.
Podcast Sponsor is Profitability Movement - https://profitability-movement.mn.co
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
There is so much mis-information about COVID. I went to the expert about all things HR and payroll. Suzi Lemen.
Suzi explains what you should do and why you may want to do it. You can get all of the policies and procedures related to COVID for your state with her HR Toolkit.
Go to www.dynamiccorp.com for more information.
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
How do you get your website to achieve the goals you want it to achieve? Join Brady Smith, founder of Invicta Enterprises as he gives you the answer to these questions and more. And, Brady has a free website audit for you: https://www.invicta.enterprises/
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Forget about the marketing perspective. Discover what you need to know from a legal perspective.
Join Shireen Smith and me as she gives you the good, bad, and ugly.
Her new book, Brand Tuned can be pre-ordered – go to www.BrandTuned.com
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
A contractor’s story of surprise, hurt, and disbelief.
And…procedures to put in place to help prevent it from happening to you.
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Get a Silver Bullet. An easy proposal software that technicians and salespeople can use to close more sales.
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Join Jeff Sawyer and Matt Powers, partners at TruNorth Construction and they explain how to make a partnership in business work successfully
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Join Jody Read, CEO of Sapphire Disinfection, as he explains some easy to use products that can help separate you from your competition when selling replacement equipment
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
What to do when technicians (or any employee) tries to hold you for ransom when they want an increase in pay.
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Three Keys to Business Freedom
This podcast is the expanded version of the Contractor Cents email. How to use your business as a tool for business freedom – concentrate on customers, employees, and financials.
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
How to Survive When Your Top Techs Quit Right before Busy Season
This happened to one of my clients. Find out how he survived and the implications for what is happening now.
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Why Water not Soda this Summer
Your field team is working in the heat. Why water is critical for them, how much water they need, and why they should not be drinking soda. Join John Pace, Founder of Pace Yourself to Health, as he explains the role of water
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Become Conscious about Your Business
What does it mean to have a conscious company? How does it affect your culture and your profits? Join Casey Grey, founder of the Conscious Builder, and me as he explains how he became a conscious builder and the affect it has had on attracting employees and his bottom line
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
What if you could add 1% to your bottom line?
How much are your credit card charges? What if you could save 1% of them? That 1% goes directly to your bottom line. My guest, Bailey Cooper, tells you how you can do just that.
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
Market Locally for Increased Profitability
Take a look at where your customers are. What if you could shrink your geographic area and be more profitable? My guest, Scott Channell shows you how to do this.
Here’s the link for Scott’s book: My Area Marketing: Local Business Growth & Advertising Strategy
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Where is the Home Services Market Going?
Join Greg Cicatelli, the head of home improvement sales for Ally Lending and me for a fascinating discussion of where the market is headed and what you can do to take advantage of it
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Getting Ready for Summer – Part 2
Summer is around the corner. In this two part series I cover actions you can take to help increase your profitability this summer. Part 2 talks about cash actions and one dumb thing you should never do.
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
Getting Ready for Summer – Part 1
Summer is around the corner. In this two part series I cover actions you can take to help increase your profitability this summer. Part 1 talks about inventory actions (probably not what you think) and customer actions.
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
What do you do when a field or office employee comes to you wanting a significant raise? Before you say “I can’t pay you that” calculate the amount of revenues that must be generated to actually pay the employee what he or she wants. This podcast tells you how to do it.
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
My frustrating story
My frustrating story – and why you should always keep in contact with your customers. I give you simple ideas to implement that keep your company’s name in front of your customers.