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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

I happen to have an iPad, which came with essentially no instructions. However, after taking it out of the box, I knew to charge my iPad and then download necessary business-related applications (after downloading Angry Birds, of course). Software must be simple. If these developers continue to believe this, they will fail.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

It made me pause to consider how social media–and the other new technologies that allow us to share information quickly like the smart phone–have forever changed the rules for society. Would you take an iPad to a construction site? To be sure, changes in technology are also shaping the way business is conducted.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

We are at no loss for new technologies: iPads, tablets, netbooks, Droids, wireless everything, software, you name it! That fancy new tablet to easily transfer data from field to office will do you no good if you don’t have a system to code and process the information. I can’t turn on the television without seeing something new.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

We all know that, projects change constantly, which means your workers and your office need to be equipped with the most up-to-date information. Everyone needs access to a common set of applications they can share in order to make use of that information. Is this future technology on an iPad? The Two-Way Data Street.

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How to remove irritants from your business (and construction marketing)

Construction Marketing Ideas

Perhaps the quick and easy solution would be to eliminate the Net and Gross pricing structure, but our analysis has shown that it improves payment velocity (always helpful to cash flow) and the extra revenue from late payers really offsets most of our bad debt. Then they pay. The charges were technically correct, but absurdly high.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Small home builders and.

Construction Cost Estimating

The users can easily take control of profits as the software contains real time variance & cost ‐ to ‐ complete reporting, cash flow forecasting and profit analysis. Get the Web to Work: distribute information, documents & drawings amid your customers & trades. Top notch features of Job Simplicity :-.