How to Price Jobs as a General Contractor 

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As a contracting business, one of the most important aspects of your business is pricing jobs. Boost your bottom line and increase efficiency with our tips on how to track time and use job costing.

Fuel Your Company

As you are wrapping your head around the whirlwind that was 2019 and preparing for 2020…how are you going to set your home improvement company up for success?

Why Bother?

Why Bother?

Let’s pretend for a second that you are searching for some new business software for your home improvement business. You’ve done your due diligence, sat through demos of multiple systems, and narrowed it down to a couple of promising choices. Now you compare these systems to find the winner.

Quit Using Close Rate

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Close rate; you know, the percentage of appointments you run that end up in sales. If you are like most home improvement companies, you use this percentage to get a quick view of how your sales people are doing in the field.

Making Better Decisions

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In our last post we talked about the Sunk Cost Fallacy and how we, as decision makers, sometimes have a propensity for using the wrong information to power our choices. We thought it would be prudent to offer some ideas on how to overcome these obstacles. Not just for your home improvement business, but for your everyday life as well.