Implementation snapshots from contractors and service operators working to improve estimating discipline, operating structure, and execution clarity.
What happens when you don't have systems, processes, and rules while scaling a six figure contracting company? A ton of profit bleed and chaos that can make any business owner question where the company is headed.
How do you scale a small consultancy practice without any real estate? Incorporate open source tools and decentralize everything.
What happens when your One Drive is not synchronizing to your desktop, files are missing and valuable opportunities are being lost? Decouple browser and password management.
What is required to bid county government procurement opportunities? A fine-tuned backoffice and estimating tool that can scale with the company.
How do you bid a large scale window cleaning project? You bid it square feet by square feet and account for the details.
How do you improve customer response times while bypassing and protecting the owner's time? By automating and circumventing the owner/ founder directly into the dispatch app for personnel to respond efficiently.
How do you improve a website to tell a story? Incorporate video b-roll of the very niche construction supply process and add graphical tag lines.
How do you expedite the bidding process and ensure top quality pursuits? Implementing an online bidlog and go/ no-no process.
How does a contractor know if the job is profitable? Incorporating job costing into the project estimate a founder will instantly know, line-by-line, where are the deltas.
Where do small general contracting company founders go to get setup to bid work? A founder that has been there and done it.
How do you pass the family company baton to the next generation of owners? Password managers, operations manuals and naming convention rules.
How do you ensure a project bid with two rooftop units and a crane is profitable? You build your estimate in-house and include all indirect, overhead and profit costs.
What do you call a small construction company w/ profit margins under 10%? A company that is slowly going under.
How do you expand from residential contractor to commercial, government contracts? Operationalize the backoffice.
What is the most efficient way to create an estimating team to submit a response to a government RFP? Build out backoffice and bid templates.
How do you scale a company with multiple personal emails, no website or business branding? You can't and will lose your hair trying.
How do you mount a political campaign without much financial resources to your name? Incorporate open source tools and decentralize everything.
Where do you find a construction estimator to bid on a large scale, statewide government contract? You build it internally.