Even at its best, owning a business offers a host of challenges. One of the latest: how to get and keep good employees.
Business & Technology
From self-cleaning and self-repairing to bendable and glowing, concrete is constantly evolving, regularly bringing technologically improved products to market.
How To Navigate the Craziness of Troubleshooting
Information has become the currency of the 21st century. Just look at how fast and easy obtaining information has become. Most of us can access the world from a hand-held phone or PDA. In contrast, it seems like providing basic information when you’re the one asking the question can be like pulling teeth.
7 Basic Steps to Consider Before Starting any Concrete Project
This is where the seven steps to success before you start come into play. Problems with architectural concrete projects, real or perceived, can all be traced back to a breakdown of one or more of these seven steps.
Contractor Gives Tips On Different Ways To Manage Your Customer’s Expectations
As a former contractor, manufacturer and now basically an owner’s representative on most projects, I’d like to share a relatively simple formula that will handle this issue for 90 percent of your projects.
Contractors Should Have a Resource Network in Place
The air temperature is 97 degrees F, the concrete arrives late and it turns out it’s a hot load. A set retarder is added, which only makes matters worse. The concrete now sits for eight hours before you can do anything with it. Now what?
To Succeed in Decorative Concrete: Be Your Best
To be your best doesn’t mean you have to always do the most difficult concrete projects. It simply means you do your best work on every concrete project.
For Bomanite Personal Relationships are Part of the Plan
A good marketing strategy was only part of the overall picture. Just as crucial to Bomanite’s long-term franchising game plan was the networking — the sharing of expertise and innovations among the highly diverse and widely dispersed franchisees.
Mastering Polishing Specifications for Success and Profit
The time will come when a general contractor, architect or another flooring contractor will ask you to bid on polishing floors in a new construction project.
Decorative Concrete Hall of Fame Grows by Three
Three more men joined the ranks of the prestigious Decorative Concrete Hall of Fame established in 2010 by Professional Trade Publications, parent company of Concrete Decormagazine. Chris Sullivan and Michael Murray will be inducted and presented plaques.
How to Make Maintenance Work for You to Increase Profitability
Consumers, often blown away with the low prices of desktop inkjet printers, forget to consider the additional cost of ink cartridges which put many of them on a first name basis with the folks at the office supply store.
