Keeping track of your revenue and expenses can be very time-consuming and even confusing. How can you accurately determine what your budget is, how much your expenses are eating into your profit and how to budget for a future project? At its core, the biggest problem remodelers face when it comes to understanding how to
Most remodelers I speak to think they own a remodeling business. But this isn’t always the case. Some are surprised to learn that they are, in fact, running a practice. Do you know which you own? In this week’s episode of PowerTips TV, I’ll discuss the differences between a business and a practice, the pros and
One of the most common questions I’m asked by the remodelers and building product manufacturers that I meet is, “What are you hearing from others?” Since we work with hundreds of remodelers across the United States and Canada, I often have a good anecdotal pulse on what’s happening across the country. Here’s my overview: 80%of
Each member of the Remodelers Advantage team brings a unique and powerful point of view to our organization and I love it. Having an array of personality types, and people with differing sets of experience on our bench means that we can have a wide set of information at our fingertips, and we deliver that
Judith Miller is one of our company’s most popular business consultants so I often pick her brain for thoughts and ideas on what our members should be doing today to insure success tomorrow. Today, we focused on the habit of using something called the Look-Ahead. “A Look-Ahead is a process that helps train your team,
Now that the dust is settling, we can all see that our business world has changed and will never go back to the way it was. So it’s up to us to learn how to function in this new world and it’s lots easier when you’re learning along with a group of your peers. One
This book is written by two of my favorites from Inc. magazine, Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham, who totally understand the challenges faced by owners of small business. As we see regularly with our consulting clients, people building a business look for a silver bullet, a step-by-step formula or set of rules to help them
Group-think helps develop the most effective business solutions available. Don’t work alone when you can have the synergistic power of a group of peers or advisors who will help.
