Construction Informer

In economic challenging times there is all kinds of advice floating around about how to keep your construction business alive. But there isn’t much being said about just closing it down. The truth of the matter is that for many construction businesses closing the doors is going to be the only option, and it is [...]

When times get challenging, and it looks like at least in the near term that is going to be the case, construction companies have to find ways to become more efficient while simultaneously becoming more aggressive in the search for new contracts. Just about everybody in business likes, and prefers, to get new business from [...]

There are a multitude of ways to differentiate your construction business from the pack. In these challenging economic times it often comes down to the selling points you identify that bring the work your way. However, this is exactly where construction businesses often fail to differentiate themselves at all, and instead make the mistake of [...]

It is a fact of life that we all get older and along with getting older we face the deleterious effects of aging. Particularly in construction, the knees, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders and feet start to rebel if we tax them too much.
The truth be known we own most of that. For years we didn’t [...]

Our search for the truth often leads us to the well-known conclusion that the truth is in the mind of the beholder. Often referred to as perceptions, these person-specific tidbits of truth become a person’s vantage point from which they make decisions. Once these perceptions are in place they are very difficult to change.
The really [...]