Guessing Ends Here. Take Control of your Business
Winning in business is a balance of knowing the “right way” of doing things and having the proper mindset. Read up on the tactics and mindset that have propelled contractors in the SynkedUP community into profitable growth.
Business Management
Business Hard? Choose Your Hard
Is business feeling hard right now? Maybe you’re seeing leads dry up. Maybe you’re having a hard time building a good team. It’s not your imagination, these things are hard. Not to make light of these for real hard situations and challenges. But have you ever considered that it’s a…
Business Management
Know Your Numbers – I Know it’s Bad, I Don’t Want to Look – What Next?
You know you should figure out how to “know your numbers”, but you know it’s bad, and you don’t want to look… Ever been there? I’d bet most contractors have been there at some point in their journey. If you feel this way now, you’re not weird, messed up, or…
Business Management
Building a system for your estimating process
I’m going to be using the metaphor of the fishing test in the context of building a system for your estimating process. “Does your business pass the fishing test?” Ever had anyone ask you that question? 😅 What do you mean by “fishing test”? I just got back from a…
Business Management
Making Money? Time for the Mid-Year Check
It’s that time in the heat of summer again! Are you making money? We’re officially past the halfway mark of this year. Which means… It’s time to hop off the hamster wheel for just a few minutes and sanity check whether we’re on track to hit our financial goals for…
Business Management
Feeling Resentment? Where Does It Come From?
I was on a call last week with a good friend in the industry, and we got to talking about leadership, a growth mindset, and approaching relationships with personal responsibility. The gist of the conversation landed on where feelings of resentment come from, and that’s what I want to share…
Business Management
What Are You Putting Off?
What are you putting off? Today’s blog is a bit different. I’m zooming out, talking about a higher perspective. Yesterday I received a jolt, which prompted me to write about this title of “What are you putting off?” To give you a bit of context, we are visiting…
Business Management
Streamlining Tracking of Materials Used on a Job
There are multiple reasons why tracking of materials used on a job is important. Last week we discussed tracking time, and how to simplify that. The reasons for tracking of materials used on a job, in principle, are the same. Knowing all the bullet points above are all in…
Business Management
Tracking Time is Critical in a Landscape Company
I just got back from speaking at an event at Zimmerman’s Mulch Products in Eastern PA. While there I had some great conversations with landscapers getting geared up for the season – and much of the conversation was about tracking time. We were discussing the things they were working on…
Business Management
Contractors saying, “That’ll Never Work In My Area”
“Yeah, but that’ll never work in my area.” How many times have you heard a contractor say that or seen it in a Facebook group comment thread? 😅 Actually, I know I’ve been guilty of saying that myself. But my perspective of that comment, excuse, whatever you want to…
Business Management
Budgeting for Profit in Landscape Companies
As contractors and entrepreneurs, we all want to be successful and have a business that makes a profit but that doesn’t own us. So… how do we become or build that ever-elusive business “we wanna be”? Well…. pragmatically speaking, it at minimum takes cash. Without cash, all chances of “success”…
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