Quoting work isn’t free – no matter who does it. You have probably read about this topic before from us, but we thought it was high time...

Brenton from Tax Matters Talks I am a chartered accountant and insolvency practitioner and I have helped lots of businesses with working...

Promoting Yourself We have been working with some builders helping them to put their business plan into place, and the conversation...

Maintaining A Good Business Culture It’s always pretty nice to be the guy who people WANT to work for. The one who hardly ever has to...

As a business owner, we have to be upskilling ourselves all the time…. Some of us find the hardest to get our heads around is the social...

We had a bit of yarn today with a builder – he had sent a late-night SOS email to us regarding an issue with a client who was, well,...

Because we know a lot of our clients get their work from word of mouth, but if you think your potential customers aren’t also checking...

Ugh. Seems like everyone is getting sick. Like, hardly sleeping, feeling like someone has slammed you in the face with a piece of timber,...

Its interesting the tales you hear when you speak to people who have heard of you but never spoken to you directly… We have heard a few...

Builder Dick Willson, the Apprentice’s Champion Dick Willson was born in Napier 1932, not long after the Napier earthquake, to a father...

Selling has changed – dramatically Its not by chance that in many industries the emphasis is now on the journey rather than the...

Planning with end game in mind One of the things in our years of experience of building up business', is how important it is to be able...

We reckon measuring hardware is one of the most under measured items when builders measure themselves… More often than not most rely on...

Do you know what’s exciting???? How many builders are truly considering the cost of pricing when dealing with clients. A few years ago,...

Fixed Price Quoting In an effort to help consolidate all this info we fire at you, We thought we would throw out there a blow by blow on...

You may wonder how our quantity surveyors stay sane when they are measuring and pricing plans all day… We can tell you from personal...

Concrete works come in many forms… slabs, perimeter walls, columns, beams… the list goes on. Because all the different types of concrete...

I was going through all the blogs I’ve written before – there are a lot! And I realized that there was a topic that I probably hadn’t...

Charging A Premium You’re a skilled tradie and you’re proud of the work you do. You know your workmanship is as good – if not better –...

I talk about margin for builders A LOT. And I’m going to talk about it again, but this time from the perspective of its long term...