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Posted on September 24, 2020 7:45 AM by Jack Dennison
What if one TPA sent you 3 jobs a month. That’s 36 a year, and if you are a mitigation-only company that will produce more than $100,000 of revenue. If...
Posted on September 24, 2020 7:41 AM by Jack Dennison
NO, you don’t use it for masking a paint job, silly! Have you ever had a customer at the end of the job come up with a two-page long punch list...
Posted on September 24, 2020 7:36 AM by Jack Dennison
Good cash flow management ensures there is always enough cash on hand to meet expenses. For most restoration owners, this is rarely the case. We always seem to be cash strapped....
Posted on September 16, 2020 8:21 AM by Jack Dennison
If you want to grow your restoration business and are not providing rebuild services, you are missing out on the biggest moneymaker ever! Every Restoration owner wants to grow their business!...
Posted on September 14, 2020 6:57 AM by Jack Dennison
This is about your future that should direct your steps today! The matter is vitally important, and I hope you read this carefully! To the 25,000 Restoration Company Owners, I ask you,...
Posted on September 9, 2020 10:58 AM by Jack Dennison
Fear? Know-How? Confidence? Of the 25,000 restoration companies in the US, 80% are mitigation-only businesses. Would it surprise you to learn that many of those want to become full-service? But they don't...
Posted on September 8, 2020 11:46 AM by Jack Dennison
Owners should receive a salary of no less than $100,000 annually. While some smile at such a notion, others frown because they see no way of doing this. A young fledgling company...
Posted on September 8, 2020 10:29 AM by Jack Dennison
ROI measures the amount of financial benefit you receive from a particular marketing investment. We all make marketing investments in our business: Some contractors spend $2,000 or more on monthly Google AdWord...
Posted on September 1, 2020 11:20 AM by Jack Dennison
That was the greeting I recently received from one brash young contractor. “Tell me what you can do for me,” he said. After starting to recover my composure, I spit and...
Posted on August 18, 2020 8:14 AM by Jack Dennison
How many companies have a process in place for estimate review? I'm not just talking about checking an estimator's work to ensure they are not leaving money on the table. It...
Posted on August 17, 2020 1:35 PM by Jack Dennison
Every Owner knows how difficult it is to find quality workers. This is especially true for managers. Many owners struggle with knowing where to look, how to interview, and how to...
Posted on August 6, 2020 2:52 PM by Jack Dennison
A Change Order is any change, whether an upgrade or a downgrade that a customer makes to the approved scope of repair. There's only one way to document a change order...
Posted on August 6, 2020 11:23 AM by Jack Dennison
If you haven't, you likely have serious collection issues on unpaid balances owed to you. Lien leverage is your most valuable tool in getting paid by customers who don't want to...
Posted on August 2, 2020 3:29 PM by Jack Dennison
The treasurer hunt is our effort to find the lost or hidden treasure of missing items from an adjuster's repair estimate. When the staff adjuster writes a repair estimate, they typically...
Posted on July 28, 2020 7:00 AM by Jack Dennison
Many full-service contractors struggle with cash flow. They float the costs of their rebuild work and don’t get a nickel toward those costs until 45 – 60 days after completion. The...
Posted on July 22, 2020 5:51 AM by Jack Dennison
I have gone on the record to say that I LOVE … Xactimate … TPAs … and Construction. Each of these are hot buttons for contractor trash talk. Some contractors say of...
Posted on July 6, 2020 6:54 AM by Jack Dennison
Are you an entrepreneurial business owner looking for your next big move, rebuild services might be it! Of the 25,000 restoration contractors in the US, 4 out of 5 do Mitigation...
Posted on June 29, 2020 6:16 AM by Jack Dennison
It's really very simple. When you show up on the doorstep of a customer who is ankle-deep in water, they think, they expect, they want you to do all that is...
Posted on June 22, 2020 7:54 AM by Jack Dennison
Owners, don't ask your team if they want to grow your business. Why? Because they really don't! Owners and employees see the world differently. Owners want more, and employees feel they...
Posted on June 15, 2020 10:02 AM by Jack Dennison
Net profit is what's left over after all your work is done, and bills are paid. In restoration, we should expect net profit to be around 20%. If you make $1...
