Brian Tracy, recent newsletter: “Great business leadership is characterized by honesty, truthfulness, and straight dealing with every person, under all circumstances. This law requires that you be impeccably honest with yourself and others. As Emerson said, ‘Guard your integrity as a sacred thing. Nothing is at last sacred by the integrity of your own mind.’ [...]
Today I listened to a local radio station that was piped through the phone system as I waited on hold for my buddy at the local hardware store to tell me if the chains for my chainsaw had been sharpened yet. The advertisement talked about wasting money, and one line was a guy saying, “Honey, [...]
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As we roll toward the end of summer, construction-related companies that are doing a good job of advertising are keeping busy and making money. Good on you! With money coming in, keep an eye on how you are spending it.
This time last year, nobody was buying much of anything. August and September 2009 were [...]
I was talking with my son-in-law this week about securing new work. He just moved his family back to our area and has 6 mouths to feed. He did not and does not have time to wait for the phone to ring, he’s out hustling work every day.
He told me he went to see [...]
Interesting quote recently from Brian Tracy. He quoted Kenneth Blanchard, “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
I have read this before said other ways, but it always gets back to the theme that the dictatorial manager won’t get the results they want by bullying or badgering to get things done “their way”.
My [...]
During the month of July, my travels took me to 9 different states. Talking to people, I found that most everyone will tell you that their locality is “different”, that they are harder hit than anyone else and that there are all kinds of flakes out there giving their work away.
For everything being “different” in [...]
Recently I received two marketing emails the same morning. One was a newsletter and the other was an advertisement asking if we wanted to “Receive A Free Window Replacement Estimate Today?”
These contractors are advertising, schmoozing, getting the word out – good work! Well, except . . . the newsletter did not have a phone number [...]
I read an article recently about a ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court regarding what the owners of a residence are able to recover from an unlicensed contractor. The old law said that the owner could recover 100% of the money they had paid a contractor if it was found that the contractor did not [...]
