Roofing Job Costing Systems You look at your bank account on Friday and see a healthy balance so you assume the business is doing great. Then the supplier invoice for the last three jobs hits your inbox and the payroll tax deadline arrives and suddenly that “profit” vanishes into thin air. Let me be direct….
Service business tech stacks: 5 Ways to Scale Profit You feel like you are flying blind even though you check your bank balance every single morning. You see money coming in. You see money going out. Yet, you have no idea if the job you finished yesterday actually made a profit. You feel the constant…
Roofing Job Costing: 7 Proven Ways to Maximize Profit You just finished a two hundred thousand dollar commercial roof but your bank account only went up by five thousand dollars. Let me be direct. If you do not master roofing job costing, you are just trading dollars and hoping for the best. Most roofing owners…
Pricing for Quality: 7 Crucial Ways Rushed Work Destroys Profit You just finished a ten thousand dollar job and felt like a hero until the phone rang three days later with a leak or a broken promise. Let me be direct. If you are struggling with rework and unhappy customers, your Pricing for Quality is…
True Billable Hours: 7 Shocking Truths You look at your team and see everyone is busy, yet the profit at the end of the month does not match the effort. You are paying for forty hours of work, but you are only getting paid for twenty-five, and you have no idea where those other fifteen…
Accounts Receivable Automation: 7 Proven Steps to Massive Growth You finished the job three weeks ago but the bank account still looks empty while your vendors are demanding payment today. Let me be direct: if you are still manually sending invoices and checking your email to see if a client paid, you are burning profit…
Your lead technician just finished a water heater install and moved to the next zip code when his phone buzzes with a photo of a slow drip from a compression fitting he just tightened. Let me be direct. This is not just a minor annoyance or a quick five minute fix. This is a leak…
Change Orders 7 Rules to Protect Your Profits You are three weeks into a roofing project when the homeowner asks if you can “just quickly” wrap the chimney in matching flashing even though it was not in the original bid. Let me be direct. If you agree to that “quick favor” without a written document,…
Proposal-to-Payment in 48 Hours: 5 Quick Steps I sent the quote three days ago. I haven’t heard anything back. Should I call them? If I wait too long, they might go with a competitor. If I call too soon, I look desperate. Meanwhile, the bills are due and the bank account is looking thin. Let…
Weekly Margin Review: 1 Simple Ritual to Stop Profit Loss I am working harder than I ever have. My revenue is up 30 percent from last year. We are winning bigger jobs and the phone will not stop ringing. So why do I have less cash in the bank now than when we were half…