The Contractor's Business Coach

SantaBarbara, CA 93101

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Spend time grooming and training your replacement to make the transition smoother.
Grooming Your Replacement
When choosing a business partner pick a teammate who will compliment your skills, abilities and personality.
Should You Get a Business Partner?
Unbillable hours show up in your direct costs, throw off your production numbers, almost always end up being significantly higher than assumed, and can cause a lot of chaos that is buried deep in the finances of your business.
Unbillable Hours Cost Contractors Money
Contractors from a wide variety of backgrounds share the same problems and frustrations and can often benefit from answers to these six frequently asked questions.
6 Top Construction Business Owner FAQs
You must adjust your budgeted work volume and budgeted hours in accordance to the authorized change orders.
How Outstanding Change Orders Impact Your Numbers
Network both where your clients are (their professional organizations) and where they are networking (events held by their clients).
Are You Networking With The Right Groups
A SWOT analysis is a vital first step in building a viable strategy for growing your business. It sets the stage for your strategic decision making.
SWOT Your Business
Pursuing losing projects is far too common mistake construction contractors make, and it can end up putting them out of business.
Know When to Walk Away
Manage your backlog through cold calls, relationship maintenance, knowing the going rate for work, following up after bids, knowing when to slow down on bids and monitoring time delay between bid and mobilization.
Managing Your Project Backlog
The reason you want to pursue continuous improvement mindset is that it leads to a business that can almost run itself.
Continuous Improvement Drives Long-Term Competitive Advantage
All of your estimating, budgeting, scheduling, job costing and financial reporting systems need to adhere to the same basis of allocation.
Allocating Overhead via Man-hours
Daily production targets are relatively easy to set if you invest a little thought into how to measure field productivity.
How to Set and Track Construction Production Goals
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