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When Josh first started Rockin’ K, he had long since learned the skills needed for construction. Unfortunately, he did not have a great grasp on the business side of the endeavor. Through trial by fire, he has grown to excel at bidding, budgeting, scheduling and communicating with customers and employees alike. The ways we can support you and your business are vast, but here are a few examples of the ways we can help you take your business to the next level.
examples
Starting Your Business
Bidding and Charging Well
Quality Building Techniques
Large Project Management
Starting Your Business
We can help all levels of businesses, anywhere from window washers to large scale general contracting. We can teach you how to formulate your business, know where potential revenue streams lie and how to come out of the gate firing on all cylinders.
We can help you decide how and where to market your services based on the type of jobs you’re looking to perform. We can help with branding and help you efficiently put your energy into activities that will reward you for your hard work. We can teach you the ins and outs of how to give bids and estimates in a way that does not become so time consuming that you aren’t able to produce enough work on projects to keep the bills paid.
bidding and charging well
This is the downfall of most new contractors. We can help by looking at your numbers and teaching you techniques and skills to make sure your company is profitable.
At the end of the day, if your company is not making money, it isn’t going to be around for very long. We can teach the pros and cons of different bidding models, such as fixed cost, cost plus, time and materials and any combination therein. We can help you calculate what your rates should be based on your overhead and job costs. My Dad always said, “I can stay home and go broke. No reason to work my ass off to go broke.” We can make sure that doesn’t happen to you.
Quality Building Techniques
Many people find themselves wanting to expand their services but need support in doing so. We have successfully completed projects in every aspect of the “construction” world, so we can guide you through any phase of construction. This includes guidance on materials and the construction process.
Most likely, you have a bit of experience in various elements of construction, and we can help you see how those skills are relavant to every other project. We can teach specific practices in every aspect of construction including framing, siding, painting, excavation, foundations, cabinetry, finish work and more.
large project management
We can help you get organized, develop a clear schedule, and build a transparent billing model to support your customers. Learning to build and maintain a gantt chart is a wonderful tool for project management. We can bid jobs and build gantt charts for your current or upcoming work while teaching you all about this tool.
A gantt chart is one of the best tools available for budgeting and scheduling a project. It serves as a bid, as well as a road map for carrying out the project. As with any journey, the better the map you have, the more likely you are to end up at your destination with as little trouble as possible. In the beginning, we can build them for you so you have accurate price and time estimates, as well as an order of events to stick to. We can also teach you to build your own, so one day you won’t need us anymore!
ready to schedule a call?
If you are interested in working with us for support on an aspect of your business, please schedule a free 15 minute introductory call. We’ll see how we can best support your endeavors.