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    Get Your Clients To Pay For The QS
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    Get Your Clients To Pay For The QS

    Start with big words One of my favourite builders spoke to Paul today and asked a bloody good question, How do I convince my clients that...
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    6 Hacks to Check Your Accuracy When Pricing Residential Builds BEFORE You Send to a Client
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    6 Hacks to Check Your Accuracy When Pricing Residential Builds BEFORE You Send to a Client

    1. Each job can have some key measurements which you can then use as a filter to check whether the rest of your measurements make sense....
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    Giving Away Time For Free
    • 3 min

    Giving Away Time For Free

    3 Ways To deal with constant requests to help with a ‘quick question’ You’re a tradie who has spent years learning your trade. You want...
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    QS – Cost Or Investment?
    • 2 min

    QS – Cost Or Investment?

    “Why should I use a QS when I can price my own jobs for free?” Let’s get something straight – I am not a QS however, I do manage a team...
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    Costing Time Spent
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    Costing Time Spent

    Many moons ago, I was chatting with a business coach and he gave me some awesome advice. He showed me what it looked like on a chart when...
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    The True Cost of Pricing Jobs
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    The True Cost of Pricing Jobs

    Adding up the personal cost I’m the first person to squint a bit at the thought of using an external advisor and paying for their...
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    Internal QS vs Outsourced QS
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    Internal QS vs Outsourced QS

    Five parts to make a skilled QS Quantity Surveying is a funny old industry. I think the reason for this is that it stretches so far...
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    Matchy Matchy… Builders Road Map
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    Matchy Matchy… Builders Road Map

    Builder/QS partnership …. Its so much more than just a price Some people think that making a successful profit on a job just comes down...
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    Don’t chop your margin!!!
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    Don’t chop your margin!!!

    It’s not a bargaining chip! Why is it that every time I hear a builder trying to make the budget of a project work for the client, the...
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    Words of wisdom from Jamie – using labour constants
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    Words of wisdom from Jamie – using labour constants

    “Being a Better Business Through Labour Constants” I am sure you have heard of labour constants and their relevance to your take off. It...
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    Everything Has A Cost
    • 3 min

    Everything Has A Cost

    Case study Several moons ago, my team were working on some pricing for an earthquake damaged home on behalf of a homeowner who needed...
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    How to get the most of the money you spend on a QS – the Handover – Wisdom from Clare
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    How to get the most of the money you spend on a QS – the Handover – Wisdom from Clare

    Getting all the benefit from the transaction When you have sent a job to our QS team, and paid for them to do a full take off (measure...
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    What is a Schedule of Quantities and Why is it so Important
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    What is a Schedule of Quantities and Why is it so Important

    A Schedule of what? Okay – Probably something you’ve heard of and tried to avoid… Or attempted and perhaps not your area of expertise....
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    Quoting Tips and Tricks
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    Quoting Tips and Tricks

    I inwardly cringe when I hear of a home owner who is comparing building quotes and all they are looking at is the number at the bottom….....
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    Managing Gen Y Onsite
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    Managing Gen Y Onsite

    Mmmm. Young people. Now you know I’m broad brushing here….. not all young people are as I’m going to describe….. but you know you would...
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    Quoting Jobs is like going on Tinder
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    Quoting Jobs is like going on Tinder

    Full disclosure – I told my builder I was going to write about his comment because it was HILARIOUS. I was yakking to my builders the...
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    The Ultimate Pricing List
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    The Ultimate Pricing List

    Blow-By-Blow Just because I like lists… I thought I’d give you guys my ultimate blow by blow of putting together a fixed price quote….....
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    Blow-By-Blow
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    Blow-By-Blow

    Fixed Price Quoting In an effort to help consolidate all this info I fire at you, I thought I’d throw out there a blow by blow on Fixed...
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    Measure Twice, Cut Once
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    Measure Twice, Cut Once

    Case Study I remember back in the day when I had started at my first job in a commercial office, the first thing I had to do was measure...
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    Scope Creep
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    Scope Creep

    Case Study Almost a decade ago, we were in the throes of pricing work for those very first repairs undertaken by EQC after the Canterbury...
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