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Flat Rate: Are You Doing It Wrong?
These days it seems like there are dozens of companies that want to integrate your flat rate prices into their systems. There is one glaring flaw in almost all of these systems, they don’t know how Flat Rate Pricing actually … Continue reading
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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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
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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Special Offer: Free Printed Flat Rate Price Book
Free NSPG Flat Rate Price Book We have decided to extend out special Free printed Flat Rate Price Book offer to anyone who orders our Flat Rate Software (National Standard Price Guide) through our web store. Get your first Custom … Continue reading
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QSC Power Meeting March 2013
Mark your calendars now for Power Meeting XXXVIII – San Diego, CA, March 14-16, 2013.
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Tagged business training, contractor, peer to peer, PHCC, QSC, small business
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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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Tagged Electrical, Flat Rate, HVAC, management, Nexstar, Plumbing, selling price, small business, software
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Update your Flat Rate Price Book Software Today
A recent Windows update issued by Microsoft included changes to files used by NSPG Software to layout and print flat rate books. In order to properly format your Price Books, you MUST download and install a program patch that will … Continue reading
We’re Moving!
NSPG Is Moving After 20 years in our Harrington Park, NJ location, it’s time for a change. This September we will begin our move to a temporary location while we build our shiny new NSPG headquarters building in central New … Continue reading