The Opportunity Cost of Quoting
Quoting work isn’t free – no matter who does it. You have probably read about this topic before from us, but we thought it was high time...
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Drawings or Salary???
Brenton from Tax Matters Talks I am a chartered accountant and insolvency practitioner and I have helped lots of businesses with working...
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Making your marketing dollar stretch
Promoting Yourself We have been working with some builders helping them to put their business plan into place, and the conversation...
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Building The Team
Maintaining A Good Business Culture It’s always pretty nice to be the guy who people WANT to work for. The one who hardly ever has to...
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Ahead of the Game
As a business owner, we have to be upskilling ourselves all the time…. Some of us find the hardest to get our heads around is the social...
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Dealing With Disputes
We had a bit of yarn today with a builder – he had sent a late-night SOS email to us regarding an issue with a client who was, well,...
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Builder Social Media – 9 Good Ideas For Your Social
Because we know a lot of our clients get their work from word of mouth, but if you think your potential customers aren’t also checking...
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Dealing with work when you are sick
Ugh. Seems like everyone is getting sick. Like, hardly sleeping, feeling like someone has slammed you in the face with a piece of timber,...
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Red QS Myths debunked!
Its interesting the tales you hear when you speak to people who have heard of you but never spoken to you directly… We have heard a few...
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The New Zealand Building Economist
Builder Dick Willson, the Apprentice’s Champion Dick Willson was born in Napier 1932, not long after the Napier earthquake, to a father...
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Sales – The Personalised Journey
Selling has changed – dramatically Its not by chance that in many industries the emphasis is now on the journey rather than the...
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Putting your building business in a box
Planning with end game in mind One of the things in our years of experience of building up business', is how important it is to be able...
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Blog Bites – hot tips on measuring hardware
We reckon measuring hardware is one of the most under measured items when builders measure themselves… More often than not most rely on...
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Builders taking a stand on pricing…
Do you know what’s exciting???? How many builders are truly considering the cost of pricing when dealing with clients. A few years ago,...
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Blow-By-Blow
Fixed Price Quoting In an effort to help consolidate all this info we fire at you, We thought we would throw out there a blow by blow on...
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Peer checks – how a QS stays accurate!
You may wonder how our quantity surveyors stay sane when they are measuring and pricing plans all day… We can tell you from personal...
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Blog Bites – hot tips on measuring concrete
Concrete works come in many forms… slabs, perimeter walls, columns, beams… the list goes on. Because all the different types of concrete...
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Top tips on pricing labour
I was going through all the blogs I’ve written before – there are a lot! And I realized that there was a topic that I probably hadn’t...
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How to Charge More – and get more clients through the door…
Charging A Premium You’re a skilled tradie and you’re proud of the work you do. You know your workmanship is as good – if not better –...
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Your margin and how it affects the value of your business
I talk about margin for builders A LOT. And I’m going to talk about it again, but this time from the perspective of its long term...
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