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Outsourced Marketing vs. Staffing for Construction Companies

Construction Marketing

The decision to Outsource Marketing to a consultant or agency, or to hire staff for marketing is a frequent but critical consideration. Outsourced marketing or outsourcing is hiring an outside firm, agency or consultant to manage and implement a company’s marketing functions. More cost effective for small or startup companies.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders… possible? Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps.

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What Your Clients Think Of You, The Consultant

PSMJ Resources

by: PSMJ''s Public Works Project Management Consultant, Michael Ellegood, P.E. Whenever I work with consultants, I am often asked how do our clients, particularly public agency clients, think of us in the private sector consultant world. Skeptic: “Consultants are merely vendors.

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PSMJ Resources Blog: 11 Ways to Cut Overhead

PSMJ Resources

11 Ways to Cut Overhead. Here are eleven creative ideas to reduce your overhead expenses. Shift job-cost reporting, billing, and other accounting functions to the secretary who does it as a part-time, collateral duty. Assign collateral duties to everybody in the office, virtually eliminating overhead positions.

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Construction Accounting Profit And Loss Reports Are A Hill Of Beans

Contractor Bookkeeping

Reviewing QuickBooks Profit And Loss Reports - From our construction accounting clients reminded me of something I learned in my own construction businesses a long time ago. Construction accounting financial reports can be like staring at a hill of beans if you don't know what you are looking at or why.

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Can Support Services Be Recovered as Extra Administrative Costs?

Construction Dive

It is part of the contractor’s general and administrative overhead. In those cases, the cost of legal, accounting and consultant services are recoverable as extra work in the administration of a contract.A Sometimes, however, government demands can necessitate extraordinary efforts by a contractor.

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How Much Does Rework Really Cost Your Job and What Can You Do to Stop It?

Construction Junkie

Unsatisfied with stopping at direct cost, the researches at Navigant then turned their attention to overhead costs, which include managerial, supervisor, and site safety costs. With both the direct and indirect factors combined, it was determined that the median cost rework accounts for is 9% of the total project cost!