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10 Marketing Tips that Drive Sales
Follow this 10-point marketing plan to generate new business and encourage repeat sales.
Business
A Sales Compensation Plan that Supercharges Profits
Business Services
The Trifecta of Mentoring
Business Services
Teaching the Basics…Again!
Business Services
Client Retention 101: 6 Steps to Keeping Good Customers
Business Services
Slow Payments Cost the Construction Industry $64B in 2019
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Infrastructure
Biden's Buy American Executive Order Will Impact Construction, Manufacturing
The Biden Administration is going farther than the Trump Administration—at least when it comes to Buy American executive orders—to prioritize domestic industry in government procurement.
Construction Grade
How Biden is Expected to Raise Taxes to Fight COVID-19 and Its Economic Battering
The 2017 tax act eroded US economic resources that are now necessary to rescue our economy from the impact of the pandemic's accompanying recession; here are some ways President Biden will propose to roll back some of its give-aways
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Construction News Tracker: Biden Unveils $1.9B Coronavirus Relief Plan
Chao resignation clears top of US DOT for Pete Buttigieg, Biden picks Boston mayor and ex-construction-union leader Marty Walsh for Labor secretary, unemployment claims exceed 1M for the first time since July in first week of January
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How to Avoid Challenges When Promoting Your Construction Employees
Eight best practices and strategies when promoting a worker into a position of greater authority and responsibility
Concrete Thoughts
Develop a Plan to Avert the Employee Shortage
Market your industry and company to potential employees
Business Services
Continuous Improvement Drives Long-Term Competitive Advantage
Contractors need to systematize their processes to create improvement in a controlled and predictable manner
Profit Matters
The Making of a Leader: Construction Foreman
Vision (1-2 weeks), state of their crew, and proper equipment and tool management will point any construction foremen in the right direction
Asphalt
Thousands Attend Largest National Pavement Expo Ever!
Business Services
8 Ways Construction Managers Can Motivate Their Teams
A successful project manager must strongly grasp how to keep their employees motivated; here are eight tips directly from construction project managers
Profit Matters
The Making of a Leader: Construction Foreman
Vision (1-2 weeks), state of their crew, and proper equipment and tool management will point any construction foremen in the right direction
Asphalt
Thousands Attend Largest National Pavement Expo Ever!
Business Services
8 Ways Construction Managers Can Motivate Their Teams
A successful project manager must strongly grasp how to keep their employees motivated; here are eight tips directly from construction project managers
Personnel Management
10 Ways Construction Leaders Can Ease Succession Planning
Ten proven, easy-to-use steps every contractor can use to start or advance the succession planning every company needs to implement
Business Services
2017 Contractor of the Year
Business Services
Sales Follow-up Is Key for Construction Contractors
Follow-up efforts by construction sales people is extremely important, and mastering this part of the sales process could improve results drastically
Pavement Maintenance
How (and Why) to Determine your Breakeven Point
Contractors who don’t know their costs don’t know how to price work; but breaking even isn’t a goal, it’s more of a star by which to navigate
Business Services
8 Steps to Improving Mediocre Workers
Business Services
NPE 2017 to Offer 40 New Conference Topics
Registration is now “live” and details of the 2017 National Pavement Expo and its 54-session conference program are now available on the NPE website, www.nationalpavementexpo.com.
Business Services
How Do Construction Team Leaders Motivate Their Employees?
These four action steps will help you lead your employees to want to do what you want them to do
Business Services
How Celebrating Wins Motivates Your Construction Employees
One of the best ways to offset staff frustration is to celebrate the wins; an upbeat staff works harder and complains less
Business
5 Traits of Top Contractors
What traits do successful contractors have that other contractors either cannot seem to achieve or have little clue as to where to begin? Let’s take a look at five traits that often distinguish successful contractors.
Business Services
Why Specialization May Be More Profitable for Construction Companies
Perceived experts are the first called when a customer needs a "pro" to complete a tough or special project
Business Services
5 Steps to Improving Leadership Skills among Mid-level and Senior Leaders
How to lead your leaders to minimize the risk of having poorly developed leaders who are incapable of achieving more profitable results
Business Services
8 Knows of Construction Company Leadership
Eight insights that new construction leaders will need to focus on to ensure their leadership is the best it can be
Business Services
18 Ways Contractors Can Improve How They Find and Hire Workers
Tips on how to avoid the most-common hiring mistakes contractors make before, during and after hiring process
Pavement Maintenance
The “.01 Second” Winning Job
Construction Technology
Three Types of Website Content to Generate Better Construction Leads
How to put together the educational articles, white papers and case studies that will separate you from your competitors, offering your prospects something the others do not
Business Services
The Making of a Leader: Steps to Develop a General Superintendent
Great generals superintendents can make your company a lot of money, help struggling field leaders to improve and further your customer satisfaction with hard to please customers
Business Services
The Making of a Leader: Identifying Candidates for General Superintendent
Candidates for the general superintendent position should display interest and aptitude to acquire more knowledge, information and experience
Business Services
How to Keep Your Construction Sales Staff Productive Not Just Busy
Discipline, established goals, focus, meeting the important decision makers and having an abundance of promising activity all help sales professionals be productive not just "busy"
Business Services
How to Sell More Than Low Price to Boost Your Construction Business' Bottom Line
Here are the sales process contractors should be investing in to differentiate their bids and bring real bottom-line and top-line success to their businesses
Business Services
Improve Your Sales Culture to Improve Your Sales People
Working to improve your sales culture will help keep your sales people accountable and happy
Business Services
Training Secrets: The TWCA Model©