Category: Advice
Its Wise Up Wednesday! – Some Thoughts About Getting Paid
It’s 2014 and whilst things might be looking up, we need to stay focused on doing the right things in our business, because the future isn’t certain, with no-one truly knowing what …
Specialist Contractors – Make becoming more Streetwise YOUR only New Year’s Resolution!
What’s your New Year’s resolution this year? I can tell you that mine is to make sure that me and the team here at StreetwiseSubbie.com continue to make a positive impact on …
A Christmas Wish From One Specialist Contractor – To Those Who Have The Power Or The Influence To Grant It
Here’s a sincere Christmas wish to everyone who has the responsibility for paying their suppliers and sub-contractors from one of the Specialist Contractors in our exclusive Linked In group; “To all the …
It Pays To Keep In Touch – And Kill Not One, Not Two… But Three Birds With One Stone!
With a shameless bit of cribbing from the marketing guru Chris Cardell, who gave me the initial idea (he advocates we copy his ideas-after all that’s what we pay him for), and with a …
It’s Wise Up Wednesday!
The past few years have been anything but plain sailing for Specialist Contractors in the construction industry, and we have already lost 5,500 companies to insolvency in the space of just 2 …
We Can’t All Sit Around Waiting To Get Lucky Like Joey Essex, You Make Your Own Luck In Construction!
If you have been following I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! (and our side ways look at it via email, aptly named I’m a Specialist Contractor Get Me Out of …
Dysfunctional supply chains must be addressed
That’s the headline in Construction News today (Wednesday 30 October 2013) and it’s all about the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills having commissioned EC Harris to undertake research into the structure …
Construction Payment Abuse! Cameron Says He Will Act But He Won’t Unless You Do!
Last Sunday I told BBC Radio 5Live’s Adrian Goldberg that the Prompt Payment Charter doesn’t work, and we have the proof. David Cameron Says He Will Act – But He Won’t Unless …
“Pihl files for bankruptcy after ‘too aggressive expansion”
This story caught my eye this morning because it has a number of key points that I would ask all Specialist Contractors to bear in mind. Pihl says; “The expansion took place …
#Buildfair4all Conference Recap – What The Speakers Told Us
Thank you to all those that made our sell out conference at the Nottingham Belfry Hotel on 7th June, such a great day. The feedback and support has been overwhelmingly positive, so …


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