“Canned” Estimating Data is the phrase I use (and I’m sure many other professionals do to) to describe using estimating data that comes from an estimating data books such as companies like R.S. Means, Craftman’s, BNI, or RemodelMax produce although it can also mean the data that comes with a new estimating program. As helpful [...]
FileMaker Pro 11: 2 for 1 End Of The Year Special
While talking to one of my contractor buddies today about databases vs. spreadsheets like Excel I suddenly recalled that FileMaker Inc. has a special 2 for 1 deal going on for the next three weeks until December 22nd 2010. Here is a link to the web page (email) that was net to me about the [...]
360 Difference Estimating 4.0 is finally here
360 Difference Estimating 4.0 for Macintosh, Windows and iPad* is finally here….well almost… This is the public beta were releasing and we have a special offer to any new users who join us while were still in the beta test period this December. Purchase 360 Difference Estimating for the the discounted price of $265.00 ($100 [...]
GM Thanks Public for Bailout in Holiday Ad
While watching the Jet Bengals game this Thanksgiving evening I saw a commercial spot from GM that touched me. I did a quick search and found the ad on a Cars.com blog with the following commentary: GM Thanks Public for Bailout in Holiday Ad Just 16 months after emerging from bankruptcy, General Motors is again [...]
Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.
I’ve been re-reading and re-listening to my Seth Godin book and audio book library these last few weeks and one of the reoccurring themes Seth talks about over and over again is the vital importance of being "remarkable" and is the fundamental concept in his book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (a [...]
A Short Story About How Being Curious On the Internet Has It’s Rewards
Okay so earlier this evening maybe even this afternoon I read this blog post from a blog I subscribe to and semi-regularly read entitled: Marketing Value | The Business Renegade while it’s a great blog I like to read I didn’t find anything particularly spectacular in that article but the last line of it read: [...]
Story Telling Frameworks
With a hat tip to Steve Holt and his message on the CMSIG Yahoo Group where on reading his message there I followed a link and discovered this great little web site (Anekedote.com.au) with a video about the one of my favorite subjects: story telling in organizations and what is called the Cynefin Story Telling [...]
ReWork, Crush It, Linchpin & The 4 Hour Workweek (again)
I’ve been tracking the upcoming release of the book ReWork by the folks at 37Signals.com and today on their blog they published REWORK Trailer 1: Staying Late After looking at that trailer I clicked through to Amazon to per-order my copy and I found Amazon had one of those ‘people who bought this book [...]
Why We Generally Don’t Use Flash
Contractors I talk to sometimes ask me why we don’t do our web sites in Flash. Well the truth of the matter is we would do a website in Flash if we felt it appropriate to achieve some kind of artistic experience that reflects the brand identity of the contractor, architect , or other type [...]
How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy
I’ve was working cleaning up my computer files the other day and I ran across a PDF of a Harvard Business Review article had downloaded a while back entitled How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy by Robert I. Sutton. Bob Sutton is the author of the excellent book The No Asshole [...]
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