Finance Advice for Starting Your Contracting Business
My recent article about the Kiva microfinance program brought up a lot of discussions about the global economic crisis, and the difficulties that even American companies are now having when applying for loans.
Small businesses have a particularly difficult challenge when it comes to reducing costs without sacrificing quality and service.
In business and finance, there is a lot of talk about “opportunity cost”. An opportunity cost simply indicates what you must give up in order to pursue one option versus another. Without going to deep into boring numbers and complicated logic, I’d like to give you a simple example to illustrate how this concept works.
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Support Construction Companies in the Third World
Access to Financing is Vital to Proper Construction
It’s often been said that you can judge a man by the quality of his problems. Does any of this sound like you?
- I’ve got a scratch on my brand new car
- There’s a stain on my carpet
- My flight was delayed by over an hour
- My Internet is too slow
Sometimes we get so busy with our fabulous lives that we can easily forget how lucky we are to be amongst the 20% of the planet that controls 80% of the wealth.
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Different Types of Air Nailers - Part 1
The first air nailer was invented in 1959 by the Paslode Company. Although it’s a staple (pardon the pun) of many workshops today, this tool didn’t really earn mainstream acceptance for a long time. At first, most people in the industry didn’t trust the technology and simply dismissed it as a novelty.
Finally, around the early 1980s, professionals in the carpentry and framing industry began to take notice. These trades people found that air nailers provided tremendous ROI by improving speed and productivity.
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Choosing the Right Air Compressor - Part 1
Improvised Air Compressor in Kenya
It should go without saying that if you’re at all serious about getting started working with air tools, you’re going to first need to find yourself a good air compressor. They come in a wide array of shapes, sizes and types. In order to know what type is right for you, it’s important to have a good idea of your intended use.
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Air Guitar - It’s Time to PAAARTAY
This absolutely blew me away when I first saw it. It’s a 100% pneumatic robot that plays “Through The Fire and the Flames” by Dragonforce, which is the last impossible song on Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock. It was built for a robotics competition earlier this year, and I must say it’s pretty impressive.
3 Great Ways To Build Your own Shed
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Learning construction is very different than other skills such as accounting or computer programming. There’s only so much you can read from books, and the most important lessons are the ones you learn on the job, through hard work and first hand experience.
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