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For Construction Pros
As the old year ends and a new one begins, it is understandable to want to look forward to the future of your small business. However, it is important to first look backward to understand how the year financially impacted your company. For many, this can be an ominous proposition, but it can easily be an opportunity to learn and make your company more efficient. The key is to keep things as simple as possible.
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Construction Executive
Construction has never moved at the same technological pace as other industries. The nature of the business is that conditions change from job to job, and even construction of "cookie-cutter" restaurants and hotels present different geographic, regulatory and labor challenges. Therefore, it's no surprise that when a tool or system works — outdated though it may be — there's hesitation when it comes to changing it on the mere promise of a better deal. As the old saying goes, if it's not broken, why fix it?
However, the old way of doing things is broken.
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Builder
Callbacks and construction defects have made the national news again. A recent Nightline segment detailed shoddy construction in production homes around the country. The program, replete with teary homeowners, searched out only the most dramatic errors, including one home with melted siding and another with more than 800 drywall nail pops. The intended message was clear: Builders are doing low-quality work. Of course, such problems are rare among pros who are serious about great work and great service.
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Window & Door
For window and door dealers, the showroom — its location, layout, design and usefulness — is key to every sale. And, central to any great showroom is its appeal to the customer. During the Window & Door Dealer Days Keynote Panel Discussion, Oct. 19-20, held during GlassBuild America 2016, four Window & Door Dealer of the Year award winners shared their best practices for creating a showroom that makes the sale.
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Construction Today
Finding the right workers' compensation insurance at an affordable price is a challenge for every general contractor. It is an especially difficult dilemma for independents in the trades and services industry. As independents, they are by and large subcontractors, and in many cases, one-person bands who are not obligated to maintain coverage. They are considered owners and operators because of their independence, which is why general contractor do not have to include them in their company's workers' compensation coverage.
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Construction Dive
Last year, the city of Detroit fined several contractors a total of $500,000 for failing to meet the local hiring requirements they had agreed upon in their construction contracts for work on the new $627.5 million Detroit Red Wings arena. The 51 percent local-resident requirement was steep, but contractors held job fairs and offered up training programs in the hopes of feeding the pipeline that would make it possible for them to hit the mandated hiring goal.
Nevertheless, they fell short. City officials supervising the program said the contractors acted in good faith but just couldn't drum up enough locals.
Unlike the Detroit hockey arena, other workforce programs have seen success in attracting enough workers and training them in order to help the project's staffing needs.
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Small Business Trends
If you're not using Instagram Live for your small business yet, you're missing out!
Since its debut as a photo-sharing platform, Instagram has improved significantly, going from an unknown startup to a social media behemoth with more than 600 users as of December 2016.
Today, businesses of all sizes recognize the platform's incredible marketing potential as its newest feature, Instagram Live, takes business communication to the next level.
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Construction Dive
Labor is at the heart of residential construction. Master suites don't frame themselves, nails stay in the gun, and kitchens aren't plumbed without a trained and reliable workforce making it all happen.
Although labor is one of the most important elements of the construction, it is among the hardest to control. The industry lost more than 40 percent — or 2.3 million members — of its workforce from April 2006 to January 2011. What’s more, 6 in 10 construction workers who lost their jobs during the recession went to work in another sector or left the job market entirely by 2013, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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