Finance

How to Retire a Millionaire

Rob Corbo, newly retired, explains how to not work in style.

Navigate Price Volatility with Smarter Estimating Tools

How Not to Discuss Markup With Your Customers

How Much of a Carpenter’s Time is Billable?

BlueTape and Buildxact Partner

Five Ratios Your Business Should Track

Builder Round Table: Financials

How to Invest Wisely in Your Construction Company

Builder Round Table: Aha Moments

A Construction Pro's Path to Financial Independence

Mortgage Applications for New Homes Fall 28.6% on Year-Over-Year Basis in October

Hopeful Thinking Can Ruin Your Company

A Tactical Response to Inflation

Making Social Security Benefits Work

It’s That Time Again: Yearly Tax Prep

COVID-19 Update: ‘July’s Theme is Relief’

Tracking Profitability in Design/Build

COVID-19 Update: ‘The Economy Is Coming Back to Life’

COVID-19 Update: Economy ‘Back in Growth Mode’

COVID-19 Update: The Vaccine, The Election, and The Economy

COVID-19 Update: ‘The Implications of These Diverging Economies’

Keeping Your Company Out of Hot Water

The Numbers That Matter

Clarity Comes to the Paycheck Protection Program’s Loan Forgiveness Rules

Covid-19 Update: ‘The Economy Is Loaded With Mixed Messages’

Report: Contractors Struggle With Project and Payment Delays

President Trump Signs Additional Coronavirus Relief Bill

Take Control of Cash Flow

A Clear Path to Razor-Sharp Estimating

COVID-19: ‘An Economist’s Worst Nightmare’

Study: Trust Associated With Employee Retention, Repeat Business, and Timely Project Completion

What Often Kills a Business … and How to Prevent It

Buildertrend Partners With Rocket Loans

Survey: Majority of Homeowners Unprepared for Costs of Home Improvement Projects

IBS 2019: Simple Financial Metrics Can Help Measure Business Success

Five Signs Your Remodeling Business Is Spiraling Out of Control

Your Bidding and Estimating Tune-Up Guide

It’s Time for a Year-End Profit Checkup

Remodeling Is Trending Upwards Despite Challenges, Hanley Wood Exec Says

Here’s Why Most Top Contractors Offer Financing

It’s Nearly Halftime. Are You Winning or Losing?

See How You Stack Up Against These Remodeling 550 Firms

How to Refresh the ‘Hedgehog’ Business Model

Strategic Bookkeeping

How to Climb Out of a Debt Hole

How to Identify and Analyze Profit

Benchmarks Are Helpful, But Approach with Caution

Building a True Team

Foundational Flaws

Six Best Practices for Managing Your Remodeling Business Cash Flow

The Hot Topic That Could Boost Your Profits This Summer

The Right Reports

92% of the Biggest RC Firms Offer Financing for Projects, Survey Finds

Financing Options for the Future: 1st Mortgage Construction and Renovation Loans

Financing Options for the Future: Mortgage Options

Financing Options for the Future: Non-Mortgage Borrowing

Financing Options for the Future: Non-Borrowing

Help Your Employees Help Themselves Through Financial Advice

What to Do at the End of the First Quarter? Plan for the Next One.

A Remodeler’s Guide to Business Growth

One Key Indicator You Shouldn’t Overlook

The Reluctant Bean Counter

What Does it Take to Go from ‘Chuck in a Truck’ to the Big Time?

Feeling Stressed? Get Organized to Find a Reprieve

Creating Consistency

Paul Winans’ Greatest Hits

When Running a Remodeling Company, Prepare for the Unexpected

Forecasting Is a Guessing Game. Here’s How to Get Better at It.

Hanley Wood Survey: Construction Industry Not Overtime Ready

Are You Turning Away One in Three Customers?

Ten Tips for Improving Cash Flow

Mix Shift: Sized and Priced to Sell

Mix Shift: Sized and Priced to Sell

Creating Coherent Company Policy

How to Profit on a Big-Dollar Project When Regs Limit Your Deposit to $1,000

10 Ways to Improve Cash Flow

Planning for Cost Increases

Ryan Garcilazo on Entering the Real Estate Market

Home Depot to Double Payback Terms, Ramp Up Deliveries

Three Ways to Price Yourself Out of Business

A Visual Guide to Understanding Markup and Margin

When You’re Drowning in Work, Get Out of the Pool

How to Avoid Trouble Over Your Use of Subcontractors

12 Tax-Trimming Tips

Markup and Margin

Angie’s List Posts Net Loss, Revenue Up 11%

The One Thing Most Contractors Aren’t Doing to Grow Sales

How to Push Up Your Prices

Profit Is Not a Happy Accident

Price the Job Right, Starting with Overhead

Two Critical Budget Mistakes

Angie’s List Records $15.2 Net Income in Q4

When the Customer Is the Owner

How to Find the Right Accountant

Markup vs. Margin

Making Sense of Markup

How Small Jobs Killed My Business

5 Success-Limiting Actions Contractors Should Avoid

Do the Math: Supplier Discounts

The Pitfalls of Hybrid Estimating

A Builder’s Guide to Easing Financial Anxiety

Retainage: How to get Some When You’re Halfway Done

More Than ‘Tips’ Needed to Improve Energy Efficiency

Seven Reasons Why Most Contractors Will Never Be Able To Retire On Their Own Earnings

3 Reasons Contractors Don’t Share Financial Info With Employees

Four Common Delusions Among Contractors

Stop Fooling Yourself When You Measure Your Performance

Take the Discount

Nothing but Net

Financing—It’s Back

Paid in Full?

How to Conduct a Job Start Review

Independent Subs–How Do You Keep the Good Ones?

When It Comes to Asking Clients for a Deposit–Some Advice

Save the Trades

Financing–It’s Back

Deck Maintenance Programs

Calm Cautious Homeowners With Financing

Cheapskate Challenge: Money-Saving Ideas You Wish You Thought Of

How the Power of Suggestion Can Help You Upsell Siding

Getting Started as an Insurance Adjuster

3 Financial Myths That Compromise a Contractor’s Long Term Success

Who’s Helping You Grow Your Business and Make More Money?

New Service Adds Remodeling Performance Insurance to Typical Online Tools

Build Compliance Into Your Benchmarking

To Maximize Profitability, Track Labor Utilization Rates

Delay Flood Insurance Hikes? Not So Fast, Coalition of Insurers and Green Groups Says

Take Remodeling’s Cheapskate Challenge!

Could Ductless Mini-Splits Solve Your HVAC Problems?

How to Increase Video Exposure Without Breaking the Bank

Know Your State’s Rules Regarding Interns

Tap Into Lead Carpenters’ Full Potential by Adding Incentives

Are You Going to Court, or Courting Disaster?

Improve Your Profits by Tracking Labor Utilization

Do You Take Credit Cards? Maneuver Carefully When You Apply Surcharges

Government Shutdown To Hamper Hurricane Sandy Recovery

Watch Your Watts With Trane Energy Management Software

Prepare for an Onslaught of Web-Based Price-Estimating Services

Why Equity Is Key for Growing Your Business

Want TV Exposure? This Remodeler Buys It

Home Price Rises Moderate

Ways for Remodelers to Create Wealth During Retirement

How to Delegate to Grow Your Business

What Daily Information Do Replacement Contractors Need To Ensure Their Business Is Thriving?

Waterlogged: Flood Insurance Relief Short-Lived

Could Your Business Survive a Disaster?

Stop Losing Money on Change Orders

Profit in the Modern World

How-To: Evaluate Health Care Options

How To Track Gross Margin Loss

The Basics of Online Review Sites

All Together Now: Providing Seminars About Multigenerational Living

Getting Past Consumers’ Hesitancy to Buy

Sandy Still Raining Down on New Jersey Shore

Energy Efficient Home Tax Credit Extended

The Paperless Office

Daylighting savings time, and money

Warning Lights: Using a Business Dashboard to Alert You to Problems

Get in the Game: Have a Plan in Place Before the Fiscal Year Gets Under Way

IRS Makes It Simpler To Figure a Deduction for Your Home Office

Set a Goal to Leave Debt Behind — and Stick to It

In-Home Sales: Manage the Financing Conversation, Part 1

Trash Talk: How to Set up a Jobsite Recycling Program

2012 Tax Time Deductions

5 Online Tax Tools for Small-Business Owners Available at IRS.gov

5 Metrics for Tracking Your Financial Growth

Remodeling Work on Loan: Foreclosure Repair Program for Remodelers

Cookbook: A Recipe for Evaluating Your Progress Toward Revenue Goals

Practice Asking The Money Question

Disaster Planning for Small Business

Blogger Kathy Shertzer Asks, “What Ordinary Task Will Be My Imprint?”

How FHA-Insured Loans Can Help Homeowners Afford to Remodel

Business How-To: Implementing an Incentive Plan to Motivate Employees

Getting a Handle on Cash Flow

TRACEY BAIL: Booster Shot for Your Sales

Prime Numbers

Financing Fundamentals: An Interview With Jeff Moeslein

Competing in the New Economy

Be Cautious With Small-Business Credit Cards

Sales Alchemy: Getting Prospects off the Dime

Be Frank On Financing

Using Financing to Help Clients Pay: An Interview With Dino Andreakos

Financing Today: An Interview With Bruce Pinsler

Bidding and Building Large Projects

Deck Values Down in Cost vs. Value Report

Cautionary Tale: Beating the Odds of Small-Business Failure

Where’s That Silver Bullet?

Combine Exterior Jobs For A Bigger Ticket

Where Will BP Billions Flow?

Air Apparent: Versa Kitchen Faucet Aerator

Checks and Balances: Should You Outsource Payroll?

Benchmark: KISS Dashboard

Tracking Changes With Variance Purchase Orders

Making His Mark: Tom Kelly Wins the 2011 Fred Case Entrepreneur of the Year Award

On Target: Getting an Accurate Appraisal for a Construction Loan

Feeling Free: Steps to Attaining Overhead Freedom

Destination: Profit, Use Your Budget as a Tool for Business Success

High Credit Scores Required in Today’s World of Unsecured Financing

Busines How-To: Paper or Plastic? Accepting Credit Card Payments

2011 Remodeling 550: Franchise List

Be a Square: Mobile Payment Service Offers Advantages for Some Remodelers

Story to Tell: Making the Most of Media

Finding Success: Two Steps to Make Your Business Thrive

How to Make Money in Remodeling

Scrap the Mortgage Deduction? Americans Weigh In

Solar Flare-up Over Inspections

Home Buying and Homeownership: 100 Years of History

Can New Consumer Agency Control Greed in the Marketplace?

Loan Star: Securities-Backed Lending for Upscale Clients

It’s Hiring Time: How Much Help Can You Afford?

How to Monetize Ideas

Reward Employees Without Money

The Next, Worse, Financial Crisis

LLC, Corp., Sub-S: What’s the Difference?

Financial Press Getting Very Scary ñ Good Sign?

Budget Your Social Media Program

Consult Then Construct: Home Asset Management

Gross Matters: Tracking Gross Profit

Control Company Credit Card Use

Be Wary of Personal Guarantees

Financial “Spring Cleaning”

Ask for Public Money, and You May Receive

Tighten Belt: Americans Lower Expectations for Making Money

The Heat Is On

How to Get Good at Making Money

Early Bird: Saving Money With Supplier Purchase Discounts

Reap What You Sow

Can You Make Money on Small Customers?

Benchmark: Foolproof Cash Flow

Payment Pals: Offering Your Clients PayPal as a Payment Option

The War Chest: Your Company Survived the Recession by Spending Down Its Rainy-Day Funds. Now What?

Four Alternatives to the Competitive Bidding Process

Decking News

Protecting Profits in Your Construction Business

Where s the Money Bankruptcy Court Reverses Tousa Ruling

Victoria Downing: Money Matters

Financing Flows — to a Few

The Home’s Changing Financial Role: It’s No Longer a Piggy Bank

Flood Insurance Program Under Fire ~

Business How-To: Preparing an Operating Budget

Deck Values Drop in 2010

Business

Use Excel to Budget Next Year’s Project Mix

Know Production Costs To Determine Job Profit

The Puzzle: Business Success Is Complex

Value-Subtracted: Tighter Appraisal and Lending Practices Continue to Affect Remodeling Market

Kelly-Moore 10 Classic Neutrals Collection

Using the NAHB Chart of Accounts to Organize Your Business Finances

The 2010 Replacement 100

Executive Dashboard: Keeping an Eye on Your Company’s Really Important Numbers

If Time Is Money, How Can I Control the Clock?

How a Remodeler Survived the Housing Bust

Q&A: Budget K&B

Pricing It Right: Tips for Accurate Estimating

Little Games, Big Solutions: Using Mini-Games to Help Solve Management Problems

Strategic Budgeting and Your Break-Even Volume

A Foot on The Brake: On Hiring, Remodelers Proceed With Caution

To the Bonus, Driver: “Critical Number” Keeps This Company Focused on Improvement

Death by Discount: Recovering Discount Losses

Regular Checkup: Schedule a Monthly Review of Your Accounting Information