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Style and function in the junction – How Carmelin Design and Build created an award-winning project
When the new owners of a century home in…
5 tips for a seamless composite deck installation
Jase DeBoer, Senior Category Marketing Manager at Deckorators, offers five tips to ensure you achieve a seamless composite deck installation to create a beautiful build for your client.
EDCO’s Industry Experts Series – Concrete Surface Profiles (CSP)
This edition of EDCO’s Industry Experts interviews we define:…
Boost your window game
Three steps to success
I don’t fail at anything
A couple of years ago, Steve Maxwell wrote an…
JELD-WEN’s 12-Day Home Winterization Checklist
Twas the first day of winter, and all through…
The Art of Sound Reduction
Whether you live in a busy household, have an…
Delegate or die: How trying to do it all yourself will kill your business
“The lack of courage to delegate properly, and the knowledge of how to do it, is one of the most general causes of failures in organizations.”
Coaches Corner (VIDEO): How to stay FOCUSED as a professional renovator
Focus comes from having distinct goals for your renovation business. Useful goals can be related to (1) Hours worked (2) Revenue and (3) Profitability.
(VIDEO) Coach's Corner with Mike Draper: How to handle work crunches in busy season
If you’re a good contractor, and you’re in a good marketplace, you should be at your busiest time of the year right now. Contractor coach Mike Draper (www.renovantage.com) talks about how to use busy times to structure your business properly for the future.
Don’t be a statistic: Look up and look out for powerlines! (sponsored message)
In the last decade, 20 people have been killed by contact with overhead powerlines. It didn’t have to be that way
(VIDEO) Coaches Corner: How to generate more leads – without spending a fortune
What’s the difference between “building a brand” and “lead generation”? The first term is “nice to have,” but the second is “need to have,” as Renovantage’s Mike Draper explains in this short video clip.
Do you have a business plan for your reno business for 2014? If not, read this….
This is the perfect time of the year to ask yourself this question. “Do I really want to fly by the seat of my pants as a renovation contractor, or do I want to try to come up with the Three Year Business Plan?”
Coaches Corner (VIDEO): "There is no deficiency list!"
What happens when you decide there will be no deficiency list? It changes everything and makes you much more profitable.
Coaches' Corner VIDEO: Solving problems with the homeowner, Part 2
Whenever there’s a glitch, a screw-up, or a surprise on a renovation project, it’s tempting to forge right on with a solution that you, the renovator, thinks will work. But you need to make sure the client agrees with the changes you are going to make to the plans, to the schedule or to the finished look. Watch the video for more.
Contractor U: Do you have a vision and a plan?
I recommend that renovation contractors have a Three Year Plan. Three years is a good timeframe as it is close enough that it is motivating, yet far enough out that you have time to reach your vision.
Are you on the first page of Google? (VIDEO)
If you are not, you are a dead man… or woman. Carrie Shaw tell us why.
The next issue of Canadian Contractor
Why parents don’t want their kids to be trades people. And what to do when your customer owes you $100,000
