I Want A Breakdown

So I was “cleaning” my office today looking for one particular article I printed and saved years ago on estimating and I ran across a print out of another old article I had printed out that belonged in my “Markup & Pricing” file bucket. Frank Blau is to Plumbing...
The Paradigm Projects: Activity Based Pricing Seminar

The Paradigm Projects: Activity Based Pricing Seminar

How Much Should I Charge?
Activity Based Markup & Pricing for Builders Remodelers & Contractors

Back in the later 1980s I took a one day seminar sponsored by New England Builder Magazine (which later became The Journal of Light Construction) taught by the late Irv Chasen called How To Survive & Prosper in the Contracting Market in which I was introduced to the PROOF Pricing Methodology which a few years later I would see described in David Gertstel’s 1st edition of his classic book Running a Successful Construction Company as Capacity Based Markup. In the 35± years since then and numerous other seminars it remains the most important and most memorable training seminars I ever took in regards to running a building and remodeling company.

What Can We Learn From This Chart?

What Can We Learn From This Chart?

What Can We Learn From Chart? In a discussion on FaceBook regarding markup my friend and collegue Dan Kolbert of Kolbert Builders in Portland ME wrote: “…the most predictable aspect of your volume is your own crew in the field, and your markup should be connected to...