And You Never Know Where Those Connections Will Come From The first couple of years as a self-employed construction contractor were a lot different than
As a Contractor What Did you Expect? As someone who has been in construction for more than forty years, I’ve worked for my share of
Flexible Rigidity Is a Good Plan Today (7/26/24) was one of those days. You know the ones. You have it all planned and then…everything gets
…And What Does Etiquette Even Mean? It means treating others the way you want to be treated. I had a conversation with a friend once
The Bottom of the Rut is Gone It’s been a tough few weeks. With the truck transmission needing to be replaced and the customer shorting
Or You Can Just Keep Doing What You’ve Been Doing The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different
The Payment Prior to Starting It can be hard to invoice large construction projects in a way that is fair to both the customer and the contractor. Random payments at the
Let John Show You How After Gene got the signed proposal from Burford’s, he needed to figure out how to set up a payment plan.
You Also Need a Good Teacher Back in February, Gene was having second thoughts about being in business. As he whined to his friend David
How Do You Invoice to Prevent That? Construction companies shouldn’t get paid just when they finish a job, especially if it’s a big one. They
If It’s Done for the Right Reasons Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about business-building tools for construction companies. We’ve discussed how good
This Can Sneak Up on You Last week we discussed project numbering. I shared how it started as a simple spreadsheet called the Job List,