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Business - Commercial Construction Industry

Coaches Empower Players to Win

To become a competitive and profitable construction company, your people must be allowed to do the best they can and be able to contribute to their fullest capabilities.

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Business - Commercial Construction Industry

Blueprint for Business Success

Building a great construction business is not easy. It takes a burning desire to continually improve by trying new ideas, systems, and processes.

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Bug ‘Em ‘til They Buy

Creating awareness is based on the rule of seven: You must have at least seven contacts with prospects before they recognize and trust you enough to call you.

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Busy and Broke Is Bad Business

Knowing and tracking your numbers must be the number one priority for construction business owners to be successful. Unless your goal is to be busy and broke, you must spend an equal amount of time focused on accounting, financials, and job costs.

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Do More to Get More

Providing the minimum at the lowest cost will continue to get you marginal low-profit work. But to get the results you really want you’ve got to do more. Consider implementing a few of these pro-active ideas and get more than the minimum from your customers.

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Do Not Be Afraid to Hire the Wrong Person

Most construction business owners share a fear in common: that of hiring the wrong person. And to avoid making a hiring mistake, they postpone hiring for many months and oftentimes years. By not hiring additional administrative, project management, estimating, or supervisory help, they spend too much time on menial tasks that could be handled by other employees.

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Does Your Timecard Work for You?

If you want to know and track accurate job costs, your timecard can become an important business tool to make you more money. To make this happen, you need to design your timecard to reflect how you do business and match what you want to keep track of.

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Does Your Construction Business Work For You?

To take your business to the next level, you must learn how to be organized, systemized, and trust people to delegate decisions, so you can invest your time on high priority issues.

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Exciting Vision Gets Results

Leading and getting the results you want starts with yourself. Change, innovate, and try new ways of doing business. Communicate your clear exciting vision. Define specific targets with expected results and then make it happen.

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