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Rental
Expand Preventive Maintenance Beyond Your Equipment
Some rental business owners are more in tune with the preventive maintenance needs of their rental fleet than the preventive maintenance of their procedural systems and staff.
Labor & Workforce Development
How To Make Your Employees Accountable and Responsible
Construction Business Coaching
Often workers want to be responsible but a micro-managing boss can be holding them back
Your role as a leader is less about what you do and more about what your people do; people want to follow leaders who trust them and give out accountability and responsibility.
Business
Are You Ready to Rent?
GB Financial Services, LLC
With the recovery in motion, rental equipment is in high demand, so it pays to prepare in advance.
Make sure both the rental company and your staff know where equipment should be dropped off, who should be contacted with any questions and where it can be picked up at the end of the rental term.
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Concrete Equipment & Products
How Durable Are Your Hand-Held Electric Power Tools?
Tools must work in harsh environments and take their share of hard knocks but if they are to have long, productive lives both manufacturers and users must do their part. The long life of the tool shown was probably compromised.
Business Services
Should You Get a Business Partner?
The Contractor's Business Coach
Having a business partner can help reduce stress and provide someone who can step in if you are sick or hurt
When choosing a business partner pick a teammate who will compliment your skills, abilities and personality.
Decorative Concrete
High Speed Chemical Applicators for Concrete – A Great Profit Opportunity
Aztec Products Inc.
How does a business make as much money as possible? By leveraging its assets as efficiently as possible in order to maximize throughput while minimizing costs.
Whit Beverly, Presdient of Aztec Products, Inc.
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Business Services
Calcium Chloride: Friend or Foe?
Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)
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Business Services
The Rise of Rental
GB Financial Services, LLC
For the past couple of years, an estimated 51% of new construction equipment manufactured has made its way onto rental lots, which includes both rental company and dealer fleets.
Nearly half of all new construction equipment sold has ended up in rental fleets. This should mean better availability when needed.
Personnel Management
Don't Be Afraid of Hiring the Wrong Person
Construction Business Coaching
Fear of hiring the wrong person can cause construction companies to postpone hiring, which can result in a downward spiral that leads to low profit and no growth
By not hiring additional administrative, project management, estimating or supervisory help, construction business owners spend too much time on menial tasks that could be handled by other employees.
Business Services
Unbillable Hours Cost Contractors Money
The Contractor's Business Coach
Unbillable man-hours reveal how well your job costing, estimating and production management systems are working
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.
Business Services
How Contractors Can Wow a Customer
Construction Business Coaching
Use these six tips to wow customers and set your company apart from the competition
Manage the job, be more pro-active, help the customer and managing the contract are all strategies contractors can use to help wow the customer.
Business Services
6 Top Construction Business Owner FAQs
The Contractor's Business Coach
No matter your construction segment, many contractors have the same questions about how to make their businesses better
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.
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