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This is the book you should have bought the day you decided you could make more money running a construction company than banging nails for somebody else. It provides you with the answers to those business questions that plague contractors: what am I doing wrong and what's stopping me from making the money that I deserve?
You'll meet Mike, a remodeler who thought he owned a business but actually had a low-paying job. Many contractors start out like Mike. This book, in a very simple and easy to understand way, follows Mike as he learns to understand his numbers, adopts new systems, and creates a repeatable process for profit.
"Every contractor should read this book. It is the first and only book that makes the numbers game easy to understand, but, more importantly, easy to incorporate into a contractor's business. Bravo!"
- Shawn McCadden, CR, CLC, CAPS, award-winning remodeler, columnist, and nationally recognized remodeling industry specialist.
"The authors have distilled many of the mysteries of the small-business person who can no longer manage the business by quick thinking and fast actions."
- Mike Gorman, CR, construction industry author and speaker.
"Contractors love a good story, and that's what they get. All of the basics are covered, including cash flow analysis, distinguishing job costs from overhead expenses, and calculating mark-up."
- Sal Alfano, Editorial Director, Hanley Wood Business Media.
Melanie Hodgdon (Business Systems Management, Inc.) and Leslie Shiner, MBA (The ShinerGroup) both manage successful consulting and coaching companies. With over 40 years combined experience, they help contractors better understand and improve business practices and maximize profits. In 2007, they began to work on a series of joint projects that would capitalize on their combined talents. This book is one product of that collaboration........
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a simple guide to turning a profit as a contractor
a simple guide to turning a profit as a contractor
Buy Cheap A Simple Guide to Turning a Profit as a Contractor
This is the book you should have bought the day you decided you could make more money running a construction company than banging nails for somebody else. It provides you with the answers to those business questions that plague contractors: what am I doing wrong and what's stopping me from making the money that I deserve?
You'll meet Mike, a remodeler who thought he owned a business but actually had a low-paying job. Many contractors start out like Mike. This book, in a very simple and easy to understand way, follows Mike as he learns to understand his numbers, adopts new systems, and creates a repeatable process for profit.
"Every contractor should read this book. It is the first and only book that makes the numbers game easy to understand, but, more importantly, easy to incorporate into a contractor's business. Bravo!"
- Shawn McCadden, CR, CLC, CAPS, award-winning remodeler, columnist, and nationally recognized remodeling industry specialist.
"The authors have distilled many of the mysteries of the small-business person who can no longer manage the business by quick thinking and fast actions."
- Mike Gorman, CR, construction industry author and speaker.
"Contractors love a good story, and that's what they get. All of the basics are covered, including cash flow analysis, distinguishing job costs from overhead expenses, and calculating mark-up."
- Sal Alfano, Editorial Director, Hanley Wood Business Media.
Melanie Hodgdon (Business Systems Management, Inc.) and Leslie Shiner, MBA (The ShinerGroup) both manage successful consulting and coaching companies. With over 40 years combined experience, they help contractors better understand and improve business practices and maximize profits. In 2007, they began to work on a series of joint projects that would capitalize on their combined talents. This book is one product of that collaboration........
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The Simple But Powerful Long Term Stock Investment Strategy That Works
In her third book about making finance simple and fun, savvy author Tracey Edwards lets you in on her 5 simple rules for investing in the U.S. stock market. These are the techniques that she personally used to be able to leave her full time job and live on her investments. She still continues to use them even during our current volatile market.
This simple but powerful strategy will show you how to pick the best stocks that are likely to become true long term winners.Â
You'll learn:
* Which fundamental is the most important one to determine how well, financially, that the company is doing. (Even Warren Buffett agrees with this one).
* How to find out quickly how much debt that the company is holding so you can avoid any potential disasters.Â
* See at a glance whether the company has positive earnings growth.
* Find out if the stock is currently trading at a fair price and when you should buy and sell.
* How to invest for the dividend income by choosing high yield stocks with good growth.
This quick read contains just the facts and no fluff (she get's straight to the point and tell's you exactly what to do), and you can even see which stocks within the Dow Jones Industrial Average index fit all her five rules.
You'll learn how to quickly and simply find the winning stocks so that you can profit from the stock market.Â
Who said investing in the stock market was hard?.......
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See more technical detailsrule #1: the simple strategy for getting rich--in only 15 minutes a week!
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Before I became “Phil Town, teacher of investing principles to more than 500,000 people a year,†I was a lot like you: someone who viewed individual stock investing as way too hard to do successfully. As a guy who barely made a living as a river guide, I considered the whole process pretty impenetrable, and I was convinced that to do it right you had to make it a full-time job. Me, I was more interested in having full-time fun.
So I was tempted to do what you’re probably doing right now: letting some mutual fund manager worry about growing your nest egg. Let me tell you why that decision could one day make you absolutely miserable.
The fact is, because of natural market cycles, the mutual fund industry is likely to soon be facing twenty years of flat returns. That means that if you’ve got your nest egg tucked away in funds—especially the type found in most 401ks—your egg won’t get much bigger than it is now. Translation: Get ready for a retirement filled with lots of cold cuts, plenty of quality TV-watching time, and a place to live that’s too small to accommodate your visiting kids.
In this book I’ll show you how I turned $1,000 into $1 million in only five years, and then proceeded to make many millions more. I came to investing as a person who wasn’t great at math, possessed zero extra cash, and wanted a life—not an extra three hours of work to do every day.
Fortunately, I was introduced to The Rule.
Rule #1, as famed investor Warren Buffett will tell you, is don’t lose money. Through an intriguing process that I’ll clarify in this book, not losing money results in making more money than you ever imagined. What it comes down to is buying shares of companies only when the numbers—and the intangibles—are on your side. If that sounds too good to be true, it’s because the mind-set I’ll be introducing you to leads not to bets but to certainties. Believe me, if there were anything genius-level about this, I’d still be a river guide collecting unemployment much of the year.
Part of the secret is thinking of yourself as a business owner rather than a stock investor. Part is taking advantage of today’s new Internet tools, which drastically reduce the “homework factor.†(We’re talking a few minutes, tops.) Part is knowing the only five numbers that really count in valuing a potential investment. And part—maybe the most important part—is using the risk-free Rule #1 approach to consistently pay a mere 50 cents to buy a dollar’s worth of a business.
What I won’t waste your time with is fluff: a lot of vague parables reminding you of what you already know and leaving you exactly where you started. This is the real deal, folks: a start-to-finish, one-baby-step-at-a-time approach that will allow you to retire ten years sooner than you planned, with more creature comforts than you ever imagined.
Also available as a Random House AudioBook and eBook.
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See more technical detailsa simple book of financial wisdom: teach yourself (and your kids) how to live wealthy with little money
Buy Cheap A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom: Teach Yourself (and Your Kids) How to Live Wealthy with Little Money
This easy-to-understand book gives specific steps you can take right now to become more financially secure. Danny teaches how to:
* Raise a family of four on less than $40,000 a year
* Easily track your expenses and spending
* Save over $5,000 a year
* Establish an emergency fund
* Pay-off all your debt
* Invest for retirement and college
* Teach your child(ren) how to manage money
* Live a "wealthy" life with little money
Many feel intimidated and confused when it comes to managing money--
A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom makes it easy........
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Simple Numbers can guide you to increased business profitability!
Take the mystery out of small business finance with this no-frills guide to understanding the numbers that will guide your business out of any financial black hole. Author Greg Crabtree, a successful accountant, small business advisor, and popular presenter, shows you how to use your firm's key financial indicators as a basis for smart business decisions as you grow your firm from startup to $5 million (and, more!) in annual revenue.
Jargon free, and presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, with plenty of real-world examples, Crabtree’s down-to-earth discussion highlights the most common financial errors committed by small businesses, and how to avoid them. You'll be fascinated to learn:
- Why your numbers are lying to you (and why you are the cause!)
- How labor productivity is the key to profitability and simplifying human resource decisions
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Take advantage of Crabtree’s years of experience teaching clients how to build successful businesses by “seeing beyond numbers†with this step-by-step guide to increasing your businesses profitability........
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The Healthy Home is not a comprehensive tome on modern health hazards; nor is it a treatise on eco-conscious living. Instead, the book focuses on the most important environment--the home--and the problems that can most easily be lessened or eliminated. Busy parents who suspect that they should be doing more to protect their family but don't know where to start will learn about practical changes they can make in the next fifteen minutes, fifteen days, or fifteen months to create a haven for healthier living.
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Find all of the following explained in Plain-English with no technical jargon:
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