Estimate review process: stop bidding blind

Estimate review process: stop bidding blind

You won the job, and then the job ate your margin. The estimate looked fine when it went out the door. Nobody checked it hard, because nobody had the time, and the estimator who built it was the same person who signed off on it. That is the gap. Most construction...
How to handle layoffs in a trades business

How to handle layoffs in a trades business

You built the crew. Now the work has softened, or the structure has to change, and you are the one who has to tell someone their seat is gone. Nobody trains a trades owner for that conversation, and doing it wrong is expensive twice: once in a wrongful dismissal...