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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 Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
How do you build a sustainable business? Join Monique Allen, who grew up in
the HVAC world…and created a thriving, growing business…not in HVAC but in the
landscape industry. You’ll discover these two industries have the same issues.
Monique discusses how she has seamlessly combined the worlds of landscaping
and business and why sustainability is the key to success.
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Ruth King
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
What are cash flow do’s and don’ts? What does it take to maximize cash flow?
Timothy Wingate, Jr., CPA works with contractors on a day to day basis to help
them maximize their cash flow. He’ll give you five easy ways to do this.
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Ruth King
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Life long customers – that is one of the keys to building profit and wealth. You
might recognize my guest today, Ron Nussbaum who recently changed the
company name from NutNest to Builder Coms. He’ll tell you why during our
conversation – and yes, it has to do with keeping life long customers.
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Ruth King
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
What if you could increase your sales closing ratio by 5%, 10% or more?
What would that do to your bottom line? Join Phillip Ferrara as he explains
software that can help you price better and Bruce Gammon who teaches you
how to close more sales.
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Ruth King
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the seventh and final step – Daily, weekly, and monthly
reviews to keep you on track.
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Ruth King
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the sixth step – budgeting.
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Ruth King
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the fifth– knowing your key performance indicators and
making changes based on the results.
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Ruth King
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the fourth step – having a growing, thriving maintenance
program – I’ll cover both residential and commercial maintenance in this podcast.
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Ruth King
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Today is our 300 th podcast. Be sure to listen in to get free thank you gifts from
me.
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the third step – proper pricing.
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Ruth King
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the second step – knowing your overhead cost per hour
and net profit per hour.
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Ruth King
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
What does it take to have a financially fit business? Over the next seven weeks I’ll
give you a step by step process. Your business is a tool to use to increase
profitability, build wealth, and live the life of your dreams.
In this session I discuss the first step – knowing how you really generate revenue
and why tracking billable hours is critical to your success.
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Ruth King
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Lessons learned from Allan Ferguson – who has years of experience – in Australia
and in the US helping contractors increase revenues and profits.
He was the first contractor to introduce flat rate into Australia…where time and
material billing was the status quo.
Discover his ideas to increase your revenue and profits.
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Ruth King
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Enjoy my Thanksgiving stories and wishes for you.
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Ruth King
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Is your wife doing your books? If so, is she trained on bookkeeping? Probably not
a good idea if she isn’t. I’ve seen husbands and wives fight over the books and in
some sad cases, get divorced because of the insistence that the wife keep the
books without knowing what she is really doing.
What’s the solution? Sometimes an outsider who understands rapidly growing
companies. Katina Peters, my guest on this podcast, is one of the people who
could help you.
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Ruth King
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
In this session I give you easy to implement ideas and processes to make the
holiday season less stressful and more enjoyable for everyone.
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Ruth King
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
A genie waved her magic wand and gave you all the money you desire for
marketing...with the only caveat that it has to produce results. Where would you
spend the money? How would you know that it produced results?
Join, Marcia Barnes, author of the Book Here we Grow, to get your answer.
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Ruth King
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
You’re going to think I’m crazy talking about taxes and it’s October. However,
preparation is the best way to pay the least amount of legal, legitimate tax
without getting into gray areas.
My guest,Barbara Weltman, wrote the book on legitimate tax strategies and she
shares some with you on this podcast…so you can be prepared for this season and
the changes coming in 2024.
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Ruth King
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
You’re going to think I’m crazy talking about taxes and it’s October. However,
preparation is the best way to pay the least amount of legal, legitimate tax
without getting into gray areas.
My guest,Barbara Weltman, wrote the book on legitimate tax strategies and she
shares some with you on this podcast…so you can be prepared for this season and
the changes coming in 2024.
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Ruth King
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Water heater training. Critical for proper installation, maintenance and service.
I had the opportunity to do a financial bootcamp training at the AO Smith training facility outside Nashville Tennessee and I was blown away by their training capabilities for hands on training and classroom training.
I asked members of the AO Smith training team to join me on Contractor Cents and explain how they help you be more effective and efficient…which improves your bottom line.
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Ruth King
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
What if all of your field service challenges were eliminated? How would that change your customer’s experience with your company?
My guest, Michael Israel, Head of Field Service Evangelism at Zuper, gives you some of the tools to eliminate those challenges.
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Ruth King