Category: Business Improvement
Another UK Specialist Contractor Goes Under. Don’t YOUR Firm Be The Next!
Here’s today’s headline (13 February 2014) from Construction Enquirer; “West Sussex-based steelwork contractor Graham Wood Structural has collapsed.” The firm… had run up losses in recent years, but managed to keep afloat …
Profits and Moral At An All Time Low? Announcing A Hot New Resource For Specialist Contractors!
One minute the industry statistics are painting a picture of growth and recovery, the next it’s all gloom and doom again! What isn’t changing is that when I speak to Specialist Contractors …
It’s Wise Up Wednesday! So How Important Is Collecting Retention?
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 is …
Why Specialist Contractors Should Be Blogging in 2014
I have had many people mention already that they have made the New Year’s resolution to ‘get more involved with the digital world’. And in 2014, with the digital age well and …
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 …
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