It is in the potential. And it is looking outward. The potential clients who need your services aren’t mind-readers. You must tell them...

Get too comfortable in your business, and you’re likely to discover the same thing sleeping people and sleeping dogs learn. You get left...

Core Values – Everybody’s Got ‘Em Simply having core values doesn’t mean a construction contractor has high ethical standards. Even the...

Have you, like me, grown weary of the Stay Safe message? Well, hold on to your seatbelts because this adventurous message isn’t about...

Every construction company either has or has had at least one crappy employee. Just like in the friendliest of neighborhoods, it seems...

What is a construction project made of? What makes a successful construction project a successful construction project? What is the...

Construction Business Owner as Hero When writing this post, I wanted to use the title, “How to be a Top-Notch Construction Business...

It’s your plan Take a moment to envision the peeling of potatoes. In your mind’s eye, you might have seen different tools being used, but...

Interruptions – you got ‘em When daily interruptions and distractions keep you always on your toes as you put out the small fires they...

The mighty checklist tool From administrative procedures to job site safety protocols, from purchase orders to change orders, from daily...

In the first of this two-part series, we dealt with removing the obstacle course in your commercial construction subcontracting office...

Obstacle Course or Office? Obstacle courses can be for the fun of it, or they can be used for training military and police forces, but...

Operations Accountability Last time, we focused on the dual options (DIY or MODIFY) that The Profit Constructors offers construction...

We looked at sorting and clutter in the first part of this two-part series. This time, we’re tackling the process of sorting within three...

What sort is it? The post titled The Power of Categories focused on how the development of categories is the basis for organizing your...

The Power of Categories Whether you think of it as a well-oiled machine or a streamlined operation, the health of your construction...

What’s in a name or title? Occasionally, I can’t help myself. I borrow from The Bard, William Shakespeare. He asked (through the voice of...

First things first The other day, The Profit Constructors received an excellent review from a client, and that got me to thinking about...

Documents run business Documents run business and, in the construction contracting business, the very idea of documentation is embedded...

Cost-Benefit Analysis and numbers The cost-benefit analysis allows commercial construction subcontractors to compare expected potential...