If you are a Building Contractor, are you quite sure you can survive a Recession? 

Dear Building Contractor,

If you are already considering these problems, then you may join a growing band of building contractors worldwide and learn some survival secrets that will save you, your family and your staff a lot of pain over the coming months.

If you truthfully answer "Yes" to any of these questions, then you have come to the right group.

Do you have an uneven work load?

Do you have weeks where you work like a one-armed paper hanger and then the next you sit around scratching your backside wondering when the phone's going to ring again ~ or the thought crosses your mind that it may not be any-to-soon!

Do you have trouble retaining good staff?

Does it seem like every time you get a "good 'un" you just get them used to your system and they're off? How much time do you spend training staff only to see them leave and often start their own business in competition to yours

Do you get a great ROI from your Yellow Pages Ads?

Or don't you measure it? Do you know ways it can be measured? How do you know that all those thousands of dollars you spend on your Yellow Pages Ad actually bring you the best ROI (Return on Investment) if you never test your ads?

Do you lose good Customers to your competitors?

Ouch! This hurts, so why are you losing your good customers to your competition? Would you like to know ways to keep them so happy that they never consider getting another Contractor to do their work?

Or do you prefer to spend a lot of YOUR time doing estimates? Do you know the percentage of quotes you win against all the quotes you spend those hours doing? Does it seem that you are ALWAYS quoting for work but rarely winning? Losing customers to your competition is an extremely costly mistake

Are you in a good financial position to survive the sub-prime mortgage crises?

Have you thought how you will position yourself and your contracting business in the event of a sub-prime mortgage meltdown? Do you know where most of your work will be coming from when this crises becomes fully-fledged? Don't think it will happen to you? Watch this space ~ And watch your competitors steal more of your customers while you are still scratching your rear-end!

If you relate to these questions then it's TIME for you to garner some new ideas for your  building Contracting Business.