
What Does It Take to Be A Builder?
There’s So Much More to This Building Thing Than Just Construction I regularly go back through my life plans, especially at this time of the

There’s So Much More to This Building Thing Than Just Construction I regularly go back through my life plans, especially at this time of the

How Do We Know What to Give Without A List? Last week I wrote about the coming new year and our excitement about the possibilities

Asking Questions and Finding Answers to Help You Schedule Better Things taking longer than we expect them to. This is a topic of

Focusing on One Shovel Full of the Mountain at A Time With my years of construction experience, I tend to view things from a building

How to Create Realistic Expectations for Customers – Part 2 Last week we discussed the importance of communication to creating realistic expectations for customers.

Expectations Are My Responsibility, “The Buck Stops Here” In March of this year I wrote about the home my architect niece is planning to build,

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,