The Markup and Profit e-mail newsletter is published at least monthly, and includes
information pertinent to your construction business. Business management issues, sales issues,
dealing with customers, pricing jobs, employee relationships, time management - almost every
aspect of managing a general or specialty construction business is covered.
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Previous articles have included:
- My Customer Has Unrealistic Price Expectations
- Employees: Give Me Some Heat!
- How Do You Get the Customer to Make Their "Selections" Before You Write the
Contract?
- What Do You Do When Your Clients Fight?
- My Customer Claims I'm Overcharging and Won't Make the Final Payment
- Guaranteed Price Contracts
- How Do You Deal with an Architect or Designer that Wants to Run The Job or Write the
Contract?
- How Do You Handle "We Want to Do Some of the Work Ourselves?"
- Why Your Customers Tell You Your Price is Too High
- What Should Your Volume Built per Employee Be?
- Asking the Right Questions of Your Customers
- What is a Good Sales to Leads Ratio?
- What Do You Do on a Sales Call When Another Contractor Shows Up?
- Why You Should Not Do New Home Construction and Remodeling at the Same Time
- My Customer Refuses to Pay Until I Do Additional Work That Is Not In The Contract. What
Do I Do?
and more.
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