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Putting It All Together: Your Profitable Selling Price
To set your profitable selling price, you need to know four numbers about your business: Labor Rate, Overhead Rate, Productive Hours, and Target Profit %. In our previous article, we explained how to calculate your profitable Field Labor Rate. In … Continue reading
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How to Calculate your Labor Sell Price
Before you can run a profitable business, you need to know what to charge. Matching what a competitor charges, or just picking a number that feels right is a sure way to lose money and customers. Based on our years … Continue reading
Build to Last on a Solid Foundation
Your business’ success all starts with a solid foundation. Over the past 30 years, we have worked with all types of businesses from struggling companies to some of most profitable Plumbing, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Electrical Service companies ranging in … Continue reading
Is Your Computer a Threat to Your Business?
If you’re company is still using Windows XP months after Microsoft stopped issuing security updates, your data is more at risk than ever. If you run any part of your business on your XP computer, you risk that information by … Continue reading
You Can’t Do Everything
Running a business can be overwhelming at times. It seems that there are never enough hours in the day for everything you want to do. Now that the rhythm of the new work year has been established, you should try … Continue reading
Nexstar Super Meeting
Super Meeting, the crown of Nexstar Network events, is where most members learn how to leverage the newest business trends and opportunities. Members can strengthen their business acumen by attending pre-conference workshops (held one day before the event) – a … Continue reading
Over 2000 Years and Nothing Has Changed?
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again … Continue reading
Avoid Your Own Fiscal Cliff
The news is filled with so many stories about the “Looming Fiscal Cliff” that we all want to just tune it out. For most small businesses, the fiscal cliff that they should be most concerned about is the one they … Continue reading
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NSPG Task Bundles
For several years now, we have been working with our clients to create compact sections of their Flat Rate Price Books that include pages that combine a series of Tasks on a single page that offer their customers comprehensive solutions … Continue reading
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Customer Care Program at Nexstar® Network
A 60 Week Customer Care Program will be Unveiled at Nexstar® Network’s 20th Anniversary Super Meeting Residential service contractors from around the country will gather in Las Vegas, October 11-13 to dive deep into systems, coaching and peer support that … Continue reading