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Well it looks like Ellen Rohr’s two great books that I so often recommend , How Much Should I Charge? Pricing Basics For Making Money Doing What You Love and Where Did the Money Go?: Accounting Basics for the Business Owner Who Wants to Get Profitable, have gotten a makeover or facelift. Notice however I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m putting together a Christmas/Winter reading list for 2008-9. It consists both of books I’ve reently read or am reading right now that I would recommend to other contractors and some new books I’ve just discovered and plan to read. The first book I’ll mention comes from that last category in that I haven’t read [...]

Relative Income, It’s a great concept so what is so many of us don’t seem t get it. As I was working today I was re-reading the The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferris by listening to the audio book edition as I was working today I [...]

There’s an interesting article in Reuben Swartz’s Dollars and Sense: The Pricing Blog entitled: Why Starbucks Coffee Is Cheap that presents a rational and explains that "if caffeine is what you want, and you want it in volume, Starbucks is your low-cost provider". While that may be true as far as ‘pricing’ is concerned in [...]

I’m often asked for recommendations regarding books on estimating techniques, not the data mind you, but the techniques and methods of estimating. Unfortunately there aren’t a whole lot of books out there to choose from but still there are some good ones that are well worth the time. On the top of the list I [...]

Way back 90′s I used to have personal web site on AOL and writing at that time what we’re really essentially blog posts years before I had ever even heard of blogs I wrote this: In the introduction to his book Leadership Is an Art, Max DePree says: "In some sense, every reader "finishes" every [...]

My syllabus starts with The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors’ Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. However on further thinking it might be a good idea to read The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It first so that you get a better more thorough [...]