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Business Solutions for Maximizing Profits March 2005
In This Issue

Custom Benefits

$498,750,000

Nexstar in Chicago

Business Forms

 NSPG News

Freebie of
the Month

The freebie of the month is a web site or product that we feel gives you something worth looking at or using that costs you nothing. 

Over the last several months we have had calls about problems installing and running various software products.  Most of these calls have been related to spyware that has taken over certain Windows files.

If you connect to the internet, you need protection.  Microsoft has released a new anti-spyware product that appears to be quite effective in preventing infiltration by most active spyware.  You can download it for free here:

Please read the instructions and be cautious when making any changes to your computer.

If you have a favorite internet freebie, please pass it along and we'll include it in a future newsletter.
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Coming Soon

• Schedule
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• Job Cost Service Invoice
• Flat Rate Integration
• Automatically Graph Nine Benchmarks

 

 


Ever Wonder Where Did the Money Go?

 

 

Nexstar Money Masters

I'll be at the next Money Masters at the Eaglewood Resort near Chicago on April 15. 

I'm looking forward to seeing you all there.

I am especially looking forward to learning how ABC Plumbing Heating & Cooling does things right.  We can all learn from a quality operation.

Mike Conroy

PS. You can make your discounted guest golf reservations by calling 630-694-5901.

For over 10 years, NSPG has been providing the tools that allow contractors to increase profits and minimize business hassles. With our simple-to-use-tools, you can make being a  business owner what you always wanted to it be - successful, profitable and rewarding.
Easy Employee Benefits
In Numbers Cruncher you set up the "Default" values for calculating your employee's taxes and Benefits on the Info form.  For many of these items, you can customize the values for individual employees.

Customized Taxes and Benefits
For most Field Employees, taxes and benefits are based on the same calculations.  So, we simply enter the details on the Info form, and then go to the Tech form and click on the Use Defaults button.  This automatically calculates the default values, and you're done.

On the other hand, there are employees who are different. 

Some employees or benefits just don't fit the mold. For these employees, you need to enter the specific details that fit their situation.  Let's look at aTech Pay Flat Rate Calculations situation in which you pay different amounts for hospitalization for different employees.

Typically a company will pay a certain amount for single coverage and a different amount for family coverage.  Entering the correct amount for each employee is simple.

Click on the Hospitalization button and fill in the amount you pay for that employee.  Click OK and Numbers Cruncher will calculate the cost per productive hour for that employee. 

This change will ripple through all of the values throughout Numbers Cruncher and will be automatically reflected in your breakeven cost.  You can make this type of change for any or all of your employees as needed.

This flexibility shows the power and ease of use of Numbers Cruncher.  You work with the simplest part of the process, and the totals are calculated for you.  There is no guesswork about what your total costs are.  No basing your numbers on average employee costs that you have to calculate yourself.  Numbers Cruncher does it all for you.

It's easy to calculate your own Profitable Prices without the cost of on-site consulting. Remember that Nexstar Members receive special pricing on Numbers Cruncher and all NSPG software products. 

Measure Monthly, Adjust Quarterly
 & Achieve Annual Profit Goals

Call us at 800-841-8542 to schedule a Numbers Cruncher Review so you can be sure that you are making the profits you need every day.      


 

National Standard Price Guide Works

If the Bottom Line is important to you, here's an interesting number to think about.

$498,750,000.00

That's almost five hundred million dollars.  What could a number of that size possibly have to do with NSPG Flat Rate?  It translates into about 1,425,000 service calls in 2004 with NSPG Flat Rate!

As I was flying to Texas for a seminar earlier this year, I got to thinking about how the number of successful NSPG Price Guide users has grown over the past dozen years.  It occurred to me that this profitable group must have some interesting sales numbers to talk about.

So I did some Numbers Crunching of my own.  Based on the average selling price and the number of printed Price Guide's in the field, I arrived at a conservative estimate of total sales made in 2004.  Roughly a half a billion dollars in sales generated by companies using our Flat Rate in just one year!

I was blown away by the figure.  It's truly amazing the impact each successful Service Business owner has on the industry.

With the shortage of technical service professionals only getting worse, the best plan is to build a profitable company that is able to offer more to attract quality people. This can only happen if you plan to offer more benefits, salary and profit sharing when implementing your Price Books.

Now, I often hear remarks like "Flat Rate won't work for me" by people thinking about making the switch from T&M.  They have all types of excuses why it won't work for their type of business, their market, their employees.  Well, there's a lot of money being made by successful companies using NSPG Flat Rate today.  And whether you're in the USA, Canada, Australia, or anywhere else that businesses use NSPG Flat Rate,NSPG Flat Rate on Computer Screen you can be more successful with the right system.

If you currently use NSPG Flat Rate, be sure that you review your numbers to confirm that your prices are right.  Also review the way your books look.  A high quality, laser printed, color book is a much more effective sales tool than a dog eared, torn one.  The cost to print a new book is small compared to the sales it can generate.

Now you have almost half a billion reasons to take a look at how you're running your business.  And remember, we're here to help.

Take some time and get it done today!


 

The Next Money Masters™ will be at the Eaglewood Resort & Spa near Chicago on April 15 & 16, 2005

Could you leave your $4½ million in sales operation for a week or two and know it would run itself while you were away? You can see how the owners of ABC can confidently leave without worry.

ABC Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is one of the smoothest running service providers you’ll ever see. It’s due in part because of the systems and procedures they have in place and the quality of people they’ve hired.

Registration deadline: April 1, 2005

 

Friday:
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast & Registration
8:00 - 12:30 Money Masters Seminar
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:30 Tour ABC Plumbing, Heating & Cooling
6:00 - 10:00 Dinner & Entertainment
Saturday:
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 - 12:00 Money Masters Seminar
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 Seminar, Nexstar™ Showcase

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