A good growth strategy can be boiled down to pricing strategy, hiring well, and smartly spending marketing dollars

Why Michael Viramontes will never go head-to-head with mom-and-pop contractors on price

Take a moment between the year-end office work and holiday cheer to review this year’s most-read stories

Don’t let rising diesel and gas prices due to inflation woes, oil production interruptions and chaos in the world upend your profitability

The key to more effective sales is learning about your customer’s needs and then practicing your approach over and over again

Material and equipment prices are particularly volatile right now, creating a challenge for businesses. To stay the course consider what you can control versus what you can’t.

Don’t immediately rebuff people who want you to price out a job on little information. Think of it as a teaching experience and you could earn a customer for life.

If you get complaints about pricing, don’t automatically assume it means customers want you to go as cheap as possible. Consider the lessons of the author’s story.

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