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 Marketing Made Easy
Take charge of the marketing process! If you're a professional working in a design, contracting, or consulting firm, this book will provide the ideas that help you win more customers and more jobs.
It clearly sets forth a step-by-step process for figuring out what customers need, devising ways to meet those needs and convincing prospective customers to hire your business instead of the competition.
What's more, this book is packed with real-life scenarios that put marketing principles into a familiar, easy to understand context.
$59.95
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 Markup & Profit - A Contractor's Guide
To succeed in a construction business, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material and overhead expenses, and make a decent profit. The construction management problem is knowing what markup to use. You don't want to lose jobs because you charge too much, and you don't want to work for free because you've charged too little. If you know how to calculate markup, you can apply it to your job costs to find the right sales price for your work. This book gives you tried and tested formulas, with step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow examples, so you can easily figure the markup that’s right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use
$32.50
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 Moving to Commercial Construction
Commercial construction work is usually larger than residential, the payoff is better and you don't have to deal with homeowners. But commercial jobs have risks of their own, and if you are not careful you can lose your shirt. If you've been thinking of taking on more commercial jobs, you should have the information in this new book. It offers the general contractor, subcontractor, and designer some step-by-step methods to making the move from residential to commercial construction a successful one. Covers finding commercial work, compiling and estimate and presenting a bid, getting through the submittal and shop drawing process, working with owners, architects and subs, and controlling your costs and insuring profit.
$42.00
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 Sales and Marketing Checklists
One element of construction management is practical marketing and you can apply it to your construction business. How to construct a realistic marketing plan, how to budget, how to conduct research, how to manage sales people, how to manage prospects, how to run a public relations campaign, and how to conduct promotional events that put your business in a favorable light and bring in the sales.
$29.95
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 Production Checklists for Builder's and Superintendents
Tailor each checklist to meet your specific needs and print out a clean, customized set for every job. These easy-to-use, step-by-step checklists give you day-to-day procedures to confirm start dates, monitor progress, predict completion dates, meet production schedules, and produce a quality finished product every time. Includes computer disk.
$34.95
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 Quicken for Contractor's
Most builders, contractors, and remodelers came up through the ranks, learning their craft "in the trenches." They know how buildings go together, but office management skills like bookkeeping, accounting, payroll and job costing are often a new, and dangerous, challenge.
Quicken for Contractors explains how to use Quicken, an affordable, easy-to-understand computer program published by Intuit. It shows step-by-step how Quicken can work in the builder’s office, putting accurate bookkeeping within easy reach. This manual does not include the program, but has instructions and examples, with onscreen "pictures" of familiar forms like checks, deposit slips and time cards that you can create with Quicken.
Even if you only have a few minutes a week, this book will help you use Quicken to set up a basic checkbook system that will quickly tell you your cash position and job costs. You’ll learn how to set up your financial files and create valuable reports, including profit & loss statements, payroll reports and job cost reports.
The companion diskette included with the book consists of a sample construction company that you can use as a tutorial, or as a template for you to plug in your own data.
$32.50
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 How to Succeed with Your Own Construction Business
Everything you need to start your own construction business: setting up the paperwork, finding the work, advertising, using contracts, dealing with lenders, estimating, scheduling, finding and keeping good employees, keeping the books, and coping with success. If you're considering starting your own construction business, all the knowledge, tips, and blank forms you need are here.
$28.50
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 Smart Business for Contractors
In this book, a construction attorney explains how you should charge for your work, how to figure your overhead expenses, and how to calculate a realistic hourly rate to apply on each estimate. Includes how to bill and collect on your invoices, what you should always include in your contracts, and creative new ways of dealing with contract disputes. Shows how to keep customers happy so they’ll hand you referrals, how best to handle subcontractors, and how to find a good accountant. You’ll learn the pros and cons of incorporating, how to handle tax issues such as what you can and can’t deduct, and what you’re allowed to depreciate, and how to plan the future of your company. Reading this book is like getting good advice from a construction lawyer –at a fraction of the cost.
$19.95
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 Managing The Small Construction Business
Proper construction management will help you overcome your share of business hassles by learning how 50 small contractors handled similar problems in their businesses. Here you’ll learn how they handle bidding, unit pricing, contract clauses, change orders, job-site safety, quality control, overhead and markup, managing subs, scheduling systems, cost-plus contracts, pricing small jobs, insurance repair, finding solutions to conflicts, and much more.
$34.95
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 Finding Hidden Profits - A Guide for Custom Buiders
Use this manual to find opportunities to increase the profitability of your business in seven key areas, including: determining overhead, salary, and profits; preparing accurate bids; calculating allowances; pricing change orders; customizing draw schedules, and more. It will help you determine what your services are worth and what to charge for them
$15.00
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 Contractor's Survival Manual
Explains what it really takes to survive hard times in the construction industry and how to take full advantage of the profit cycle in good economic times.
Whether you’re just getting started or have been bidding jobs and meeting payroll for years, this practical manual will suggest unique ways to overcome your most persistent problems – getting through a debt crisis: what to do when bills can’t be paid, finding money and buying time, conserving income, trans ferring debt, handling creditors, choosing assets to liquidate, setting payment priorities, cash float techniques, alternatives to bankruptcy, dealing with lawsuits, judgments and liens and laying the foundation for recovery.
Then there’s building sales and profits – using other people’s cash, becoming a great salesman,setting goals, using limited partnerships, building financial reserves, accurate estimating, calculating overhead, contingency and profit margins. Completely updated, including major new sections on the use of personal computers for bookkeeping, estimating and scheduling, and Web addresses that have additional useful information.
You won’t find conventional advice in this book. Instead, expect to learn what’s really needed to survive, stabilize and thrive as a construction contractor.
$38.00
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 Markup & Profit - A Contractor's Guide
To succeed in a construction business, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material and overhead expenses, and make a decent profit. The problem is knowing what markup to use. You don't want to lose jobs because you charge too much, and you don't want to work for free because you've charged too little. If you know how to calculate markup, you can apply it to your job costs to find the right sales price for your work. This book gives you tried and tested formulas, with step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow examples, so you can easily figure the markup that’s right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use
$32.50
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