Business Archives - Page 308 of 387

March 23, 2004

I was wondering where you guys are finding your best return on investment as far as advestising. I've tried church papers a little newspaper advertising and some fliers. None have…

March 23, 2004

Ok, I'm a fairly typical contractor. I do somewhere in the range of $250,000.00 to $500,000.00 worth of business a year in new homes and remodeling. Can anyone suggest an…

March 22, 2004

My mason bailed on a job that he was halfway thru (and paid for). I wonder if any brickies could give me a rough estimate to lay 3000 common brick…

March 20, 2004

we use a time card with 25 field classifications... naturally it's a bear trying to keep everyone filling it out correctly...  and then there is the inevitable time slippage... 10-15…

March 19, 2004

  41161.4 in reply to 41161.3  PaulB's post caught my eye as I'm looking at a similar situation. After 20+ years as a solo design/build GC with one apprentice carpenter,…

March 18, 2004

I have never taken contingent offers (subject to sale of their house) on any houses that I've sold until they have a commitment letter for the person buying their house.   I…

March 18, 2004

Recently upgraded from QuickBooks Pro 99 to QuickBooks 2004 - Contractor Edition.  Custom home & remodeling transitioned fine, but I'm banging my head against the wall trying to set up the software to account for my spec…

March 16, 2004

How do you structure your Change Orders to fairly cover your costs and profits? Do you use a different mark-up than usual? How do you bill for them? 100% up…

March 15, 2004

I was doing something else this after noon when I accidently stumbled accross the online versionof an article I read a month or so ago In Professional Remodeler Magazine and…

March 15, 2004

Hey folks... In my continuing (and hopefully not yet annoying) quest to pick the collective brains here, I'm wondering what you all would suggest for tools for estimating mid size…