Construction Marketing Ideas

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Energies dedicated to this blog have been reallocated to our new daily newspaper, Ontarioconstructionnews.com, a monopoly-busting initiative for some highly regional legal notice ads. About a month ago, I learned our competitive initiative would face its own, formidable, competition. (In

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Construction Marketing Ideas

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We had managed to successfully engineer the Ontario Construction News’ launch, ending a 30-year legal notice publishing monopoly […]. The post Loose lips, competition, and challenges of the long-haul appeared first on Construction Marketing Ideas.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MAY 31, 2019

If I’m having real challenges in developing a marketing model for our new monopoly-busting business with a direct, specific and highly geolocated offer (and with knowledge of the market size and at least partially, the specific clients), then consider the challenge if you are tasked with getting your building product materials or technology written (..)

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Best Practices Construction Law

JUNE 14, 2022

North Carolina Avenue is one of the hottest properties in Monopoly, says most of my kids. And if you are a contractor or subcontractor in North Carolina, the law makers recently afforded you some additional protections to your lien rights.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The relatively new (we launched May 1) monopoly-busting business […]. As I noted previously, the launch of our daily construction trade newspaper, Ontario Construction News, has consumed so much energy and mental bandwidth that I haven’t maintained this blog’s former daily schedule.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 29, 2016

Both California and Maryland have mature renewable energy portfolio standards that make distributed small scale generation not only more expensive per watt than central generation for the user but also economically inefficient, largely as a result of regulatory schemes that protect dinosaur electric utility monopolies.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 29, 2016

Both California and Maryland have mature renewable energy portfolio standards that make distributed small scale generation not only more expensive per watt than central generation for the user but also economically inefficient, largely as a result of regulatory schemes that protect dinosaur electric utility monopolies.

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Best Practices Construction Law

MARCH 20, 2018

We recently dusted off some of the oldies like Sorry , Life and Monopoly to play with the kids. I forgot how much fun it was playing family board games as a child. I laughed uncontrollably the first time I got to say, “Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200!”

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

think monopoly electric utilities) and the cost of compliance is passed through to ratepayers. Except that nowhere does HB 1106 actually require that 25% of “Maryland’s energy” come from renewable sources. The Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard is a mandate on electricity suppliers (.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 17, 2017

So why bother trying to sell and further the development of this complex, difficult to understand, even harder to use multi-dimensional system, when they can go back to the basics and leverage their market monopoly to snatch away the good ‘cash-flow cow’ of the market, that of storing and sharing basic information.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 25, 2015

State legislatures and public service commissions are beginning to authorize community solar, although faced with opposition from dinosaur monopoly utilities, many are pilot programs of limited megawatt scope like the pilot authorized earlier this year by Maryland House Bill 1087. But community solar appears poised to shine brightly.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 15, 2016

But the retail rate is at an actual loss to the monopoly utility. Net metering programs that exist today are a regressive income redistribution in support of a greater political goal. It is not good energy policy. It is not good environmental policy.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 11, 2015

It is arguably corporate welfare at its worst to subsidize utility monopolies with a regressive fee on electricity. One key public policy question that had previously been little debated in Maryland, or elsewhere, is whether utility customers should pay for the investment in car charging stations.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 5, 2016

Some have suggested that under the regulatory complexities of many jurisdiction’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards, it is the dinosaur electric generating monopolies that are actually among the largest dollar beneficiaries. It is worthy of note that Maryland’s largest electricity generating utilities did not oppose this bill.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 5, 2016

Some have suggested that under the regulatory complexities of many jurisdiction’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards, it is the dinosaur electric generating monopolies that are actually among the largest dollar beneficiaries. It is worthy of note that Maryland’s largest electricity generating utilities did not oppose this bill.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 15, 2016

President Obama announced today his support for a pending proposal at the Federal Communications Commission to end the cable TV industry’s monopoly over set-top cable boxes. Should the FCC end the cable TV industry's monopoly over set-top boxes? In a word, (as the Brits would say) brilliant. Thank you for voting.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 21, 2011

Groceries have been distributed in NZ for the last decade through 2 main monopolies; we still feel that we have a choice of much more providers on offer. They spend a lot of effort on maintaining the perception of choice even when there is no real alternative available. Software developers, don’t underestimate the power of giving a choice!

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If enough of participants of the AEC ‘monopoly board’ (see image attached) buy in at any one time around a number of projects, the scales could be easily tipped and a snowball effect achieved. For BIM to work, it will need to become common.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

There are monopolies that twist these, alliances and deals that dance on the edge of ‘above the board’, government and public building projects awarded in a somewhat unsavoury way, but by-and-large – it is a robust industry that plays the rough game with some civility.

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Business Facilities

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Journal says Dow and DuPont have agreed on a game plan to fend off antitrust regulators by engineering a three-way breakup soon after the merger (the merged entity would have a near-monopoly on industrial and agricultural chemicals, as well as crop seeds).

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

1/ The major players (commercial entities, monopolies or cartels) would set the new standards 2/ A not-for-profit entity that represents all users would set the new standards 3/ Neither – the new standards would evolve on trial/error basis – hopefully with few casualties on the way. But, how would that happen?

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JULY 9, 2014

Supreme Court next year to let it break Nevada’s monopoly on sports gambling, already approved by NJ voters. Christie also pushed through the legalization of online gambling in NJ, but so far the tax windfall envisioned from people playing online poker in their pajamas has not materialized.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MAY 6, 2016

It cannot be: We do it all (except perhaps with an extremely defined social or geographic area); We provide great customer service (well, you NEED to provide great customer service to even stay in business, unless you have the good fortune to own a monopoly, but if that is the case, you don’t need to bother with marketing, eh); or.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My favorites were Hungry Hungry Hippos, Monopoly, Risk, and Sorry. Consider, for example, this recent posting about How Some Winners Think about Procurement : The “wall of games” of proposal responses: Remember the board games you played as a kid? As a child, those made up my board game world.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

My favorites were Hungry Hungry Hippos, Monopoly, Risk, and Sorry. And the older I get, the more procurements I’m involved in… …the clearer it becomes. Let me explain. Remember the board games you played as a kid? As a child, those made up my board game world.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 5, 2014

If they are fortunate, they can even achieve something truly profitable — a legislated monopoly that overrides anti-combine or trust legislation or regulations. The smartest businesses bury little details in the draft legislation to create a win opportunity at the right time. You can view these challenges as a game.

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Now, my girls have been brought up to be a bit wary of large, multi-national corporations and markets where quasi competition masks large monopolies, after all, we lived in New Zealand for quite a while before leaving for the ME and Asia. We support Jardines, Jardines supports Gammon, Gammon supports us. Everyone wins.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

When it comes to certifying something as “green” in the construction industry, the USGBC has a virtual monopoly. .” Today, you can’t turn around without seeing a LEED professional or a LEED certified building. But are the USGBC’s claims of energy efficiency false advertising?

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Lets Build

JUNE 27, 2017

According to economists, the situation that was created had mainly the following characteristics: a) Any potential construction client was an effective monopoly. b) Any party tendering for any part of the works was an effective free market.

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PSMJ Resources

JULY 9, 2008

My boss Frank Stasiowski says that if these were public entities, there would be an SEC investigation of a possible monopoly. It would appear, at least on the surface, if things progress as projected, there will be little room for other players to emerge.

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The Korte Company

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And no one has a monopoly on that. If they need new tools or to tweak a process, they suggest it. They’re free to speak their minds in the pursuit of finding a better way. There’s always a better way. We brag about our “open-door” management policy that empowers employees to question the systems and frameworks under which they operate.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 27, 2014

When so many states are jumping into the casino business or expanding it, what happens to the locations who long ago staked their existence on a monopoly over the slots and tables racket? Since 2008, a dozen states have held a total of 30 statewide referendums proposing to expand gambling. Reno is busy planning a future beyond gambling.

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The Korte Company

MAY 5, 2020

It figures so prominently because almost no one operates in a monopoly. Time is one of the main measuring sticks companies use to judge the success of an initiative. Competition is fierce, and that means time is of the essence. Serious costs accompany blown deadlines.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 12, 2014

Even though potential government monopoly regulations will prevent a shift to consolidate logistics services across sectors, it is anticipated that intermodal will continue to grow and become one of the most efficient ways to move goods in what the report calls the “new normal” of logistics—slow growth, higher unemployment levels (7.5

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 29, 2015

The result of this approach will be the dominance of proprietary software monopolies, a situation all the software houses are currently scrambling to take advantage of. Any ‘all in one’ platform will never contain the best in breed across all disciplines.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 20, 2017

He also noted that putting HQ2 in the nation’s capital could make strategic and political sense for Bezos as the Amazon titan combats rising anti-trust monopoly backlash.

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