Construction Business Owner

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Home » Blogs. It crystallizes our mission to make contractors’ jobs easier and we put that mission into our own words: “When better is possible, good is not enough.” For instance, Foundation Software’s vision is this: “To provide the best in accounting software and service for the labor intensive contractor.” Categories.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 30, 2011

Home » Blogs. You know, lots of contractors using an off-the-shelf accounting program ask me the same question: Why is construction-specific accounting software so much more expensive? Construction-specific systems allow contractors to instantly track and analyze job progress and performance. David Brown Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Home » Blogs. I know a lot of contractors are getting into bidding season, and this got me thinking about communication. I know from my days as a general contractor that plans and specifications are altered continuously as subcontractors become involved, materials are changed, and change orders are issued. Fred Ode Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

APRIL 1, 2011

Home » Blogs. Healthy Competition » Free Webinar on Reducing Profit Fade. One problem that even the most savvy contractors deal with is profit fade, when a job continues to incur additional costs that are not factored into the estimate. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Home » Blogs. Many contractors go into business because they’re great at what they do. I know a successful excavating contractor that took over his father’s grave digging business when he was younger. This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 11:29 am and is filed under Fred Ode Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

JULY 26, 2012

Home » Blogs. Anyone who regularly reads this blog or keeps up with technology can tell you that software, especially software for construction companies, is changing. Contractors are realizing that the typically separate operations and business management sides of their companies work better when they work together.

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Construction Business Owner

JUNE 29, 2012

Home » Blogs. The contractor doing the work was working for the city at the time. Points to Ponder: It is the contractor’s responsibility to create a work area and zone free from hazards that could cause injury or harm to persons or property. The city was the “general contractor” and owner of this project.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Home » Blogs. » Contractors Seeking Credit Should Prepare to be Prepared. Bank lines of credit are lifelines for many contractors, yet convincing a bank to provide or renegotiate a line of credit is not easy. Banks are attracted to profitable business. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Categories.

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Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Home » Blogs. But I have been surprised at the number of contractors who tell me that they have bid for jobs at break-even or at a loss. Change orders can be harder to manage – and present more of a profitability challenge – than pre-planned project work. But the biggest exposure a contractor faces is rejection.

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Construction Business Owner

APRIL 2, 2011

Home » Blogs. « Free Webinar on Reducing Profit Fade. For those of you contractors doing government work: relish the competition involved with bidding. This entry was posted on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 7:30 am and is filed under Fred Ode Blog. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Mark Reich Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

MAY 29, 2012

Home » Blogs. Contractors in today’s marketplace are caught in the middle of a paper and paperless culture. Many contractors haven’t taken advantage of digital document solutions, and the ones that have are still dealing with high volumes of data. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

MAY 24, 2012

Home » Blogs. But the point at which the office meets the field – where job progress is tracked, profitability is calculated, invoices and change orders are processed – this is the point where bad (or no) communications between the field and the office results in diminished performance and profits. Categories.

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 1, 2012

Home » Blogs. Imagine the surprise to everyone when the profit is significantly less or non-existent at the end of a job! There’s been a lot of talk about BIM and more recently IPD as project collaboration solutions, but adoption by contractors has been slow. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

APRIL 19, 2012

Home » Blogs. Staying Focused in the Fight Against Profit Fade » Connecting in Construction. Connection between our company and our customers, between industry peers, between contractors and their project teams. This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 11:54 am and is filed under John Chaney Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

JULY 12, 2012

Home » Blogs. Sometimes in the evening when I’m working on a few things, such as this blog, I’ll also try to carry on a conversation with my wonderful and patient wife Sallie. Let’s look at a few important improvements that most contractors can make. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

JUNE 29, 2012

Home » Blogs. Contractors need to proactively evaluate and address how project teams – including subs and vendors – are communicating. This is worth a blog topic of its own, so stay tuned for my next post in which I’ll share some thoughts on the intersection of document communication and project management.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 19, 2011

Home » Blogs. One of my favorite parts of this job is getting to talk with professionals in the industry who work with contractors for a living. And, let’s face it: the kind of individual driven to be a general contractor is often not the kind that relishes tedious office work and long hours spent analyzing numbers.

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Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Home » Blogs. What happens when construction expert George Hedley gathers 15 different contractors from all over the country, puts them in a room for 2 days and leads an open discussion? What I can tell you is encouraging: There are contractors who are succeeding in this economic climate. David Brown Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 19, 2011

Home » Blogs. Relationship between the designer and the contractor » The Difference Between Selling Used Cars and Selling Software. They just plod along telling unsuspecting contractors that their software can do everything imaginable. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 12, 2012

Home » Blogs. I was in a conference room full of general contractors a couple of years ago, and the presenter asked, “How many of you prequalify your subcontractors?” When I was a general contractor, I sent out invitations to bid, but the communication didn’t end there. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Home » Blogs. I’m pleased to announce that this week’s blog is written by Jim Schug of FMI. If leadership success was measured only on profitability, then there were certainly many “great leaders” sitting in the CEO position of many contracting companies. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Home » Blogs. After working with contractors for 30+ years, it still concerns me how many do not have a real handle on their equipment costs. This in turn lets the estimators use equipment rates that are spot on when estimating forthcoming work, which helps to get new work, and bring that work in profitably. Fred Ode Blog.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

JULY 23, 2021

However, we understand your preference, so I would like to talk about it in this blog post. How costs and profits are shared among the participants depends on how the joint venture is structured and the terms of the agreement. Contractors with annual sales of less than $10,000,000 often get together to work on a specific project.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Home » Blogs. « Contractors Seeking Credit Should Prepare to be Prepared. This entry was posted on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 2:06 pm and is filed under Mark Reich Blog. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog. John Chaney Blog. John Meibers Blog. Mark Reich Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Home » Blogs. I’ve mentioned in previous blogs that cloud computing isn’t really cloud computing if the software is just being accessed from a remote computer. I’ve even read of contractors creating their own applications to fit their business. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Industry News.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 26, 2012

Home » Blogs. Venture tools are built to give contractors visibility and control over three key areas of construction operations: Documentation. I remember the amount of time I used to spend as a general contractor following up on project notifications and issues. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Categories.

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Construction Business Owner

JUNE 20, 2011

Home » Blogs. One of my favorite books is Good to Great by Jim Collins, which crystallized our mission to make contractors’ jobs easier, characterized by the quote, “When better is possible, good is not enough.” This entry was posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 2:54 pm and is filed under Fred Ode Blog. David Brown Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 6, 2011

Home » Blogs. There is just something special about being around contractors. One of the things I enjoy most about my position at ComputerEase is that I have the opportunity to deal with different contractors everyday and have the opportunity to help them with their construction software needs. David Brown Blog.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Considering contractors face ongoing high pressure to perform and operate with razor-thin profit margins, there’s no doubt: construction is a challenging industry. Many contractors experience data frustrations ranging from waiting on IT to build a custom report to trying to make a critical business decision without proper data.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Home » Blogs. As a general contractor a few years ago, I was working on a tenant improvement project. A lot of contractors track these issues in an Excel spreadsheet, which is great, but takes time and energy to keep current. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog. John Chaney Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

APRIL 4, 2011

Home » Blogs. Contractor, do for me? It is up to us, the contractor, to shape the message effectively and communicate to the client what the building will cost, an estimated time line to completion and any inherent issues that need to be addressed as early in the project as possible. People Management. Green Building.

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Construction Business Owner

MAY 17, 2012

Home » Blogs. But what would that look like and how would contractors be able to comply with some of the very costly expenses? This entry was posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 1:20 pm and is filed under John Chaney Blog. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog. John Chaney Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Home » Blogs. Contractors Seeking Credit Should Prepare to be Prepared » Hazard Communication? I’m pleased to announce that this week’s blog is written by David DeVita, President of Carolina Safety Consultants. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog. John Chaney Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 8, 2012

Home » Blogs. Contractors are always looking for as much project information as possible in order to track progress, get paid, and identify problems. But the point here is that contractors are often already sitting on a wealth of data just waiting on the right structure to turn it into useful information. David Brown Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Home » Blogs. Just like we expect our smart phones to alert us of daily events and provide us with apps that are easily accessible, contractors are expecting more from their machines and software. Mikasa Reversible Plates with COMPAS compaction analyzing system help contractors improve efficiency avoid costly over-compaction.

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 29, 2012

Home » Blogs. From architects and general contractors to mechanical engineers and sub-contractors, every member of the construction project team benefits from BIM documents. This entry was posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 3:52 pm and is filed under Mark Reich Blog. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Home » Blogs. I know a lot of construction business owners (especially contractors who have grown their small businesses into medium-sized companies) who were once “digging graves with a shovel.” This entry was posted on Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 9:09 am and is filed under Fred Ode Blog. David Brown Blog.

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