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Botonde Protects Your Sensitive Information

Botonde Protects Your Sensitive Information

With everything going on in Ukraine and the fears that Russia will ramp up their cyber attack activities, it makes perfect sense that business owners can be nervous about their sensitive data. There are many contractors out there who don’t necessarily trust computers to begin with. With the added concerns of some foreign hacker compromising or wiping out all your customer information, estimates, notes, pricing and purchase orders, some might say that pen and paper might be nostalgic, but worth the trouble for security. Well we’ve got your back– Botonde protects your sensitive information. Here’s how. We Keep Up With...

Top Three Problems Contractors Have With Estimates

Top Three Problems Contractors Have With Estimates

For all the contract-for-work construction and remodeling professionals out there, few business problems come up like when it’s time to get that estimate out to the customer. Speaking to many of the contractors using the Take Off Creator by Botonde, we have devised the top three problems that contractors have with creating estimates and take offs for customers. We spoke with our subscribers to find out the biggest problems they’ve faced with creating and delivering their estimates and take-offs… here’s what we found out. Anything sound familiar? Quoting Accurate Estimates & Take-Offs It’s the big one, right? You’d almost have...

Home Buying And People Moving Equals Contractor Opportunities

Home Buying And People Moving Equals Contractor Opportunities

The current housing market, as of this writing, is one of extreme demand and low supply. Rumor has it that in most parts of the USA, there is only one house (or housing unit) available for every three families that want one. In some parts of the country–that number is much more drastic. With the past ten-year downward trend in home building now meeting the historically low mortgage rates, on top of coming off the COVID pandemic, there is a flurry of moving activity with only limited places to go and that is driving home prices to sky-high levels. Basically...

What to Consider When Searching for an Accessible Home

What to Consider When Searching for an Accessible Home

By Patrick Young Most of the time, searching for the right home is no easy feat. But when you’re looking for an accessible home, the process can be especially challenging and drawn-out. Accessible homes are few and far between on the market, and it can take time to find a home that can be modified to your specific needs. However, if you prepare beforehand, you can set yourself up to find the perfect home faster—whether your goal is to accommodate a disability or to age in place. From knowing what to look for in a home to finding experienced contractors...

New Features From Botonde

New Features From Botonde

We have some great new features within the Botonde Take-Off Creator system! Important customizations that our loyal contractors have asked for! Estimates Estimates generated through Botonde for your clients are now streamlined, customizable and cleaner than ever. Control the position of your business logo, show or hide the proposal number and customize the text. Watch how impressed your clients are with your estimates. Easlier Login Many of you asked us for an easier way to login to your Botonde account from a mobile device and we agreed. Now find a clear, unmistakable login button at the top of your screen...

How Botonde Helps Your Local Advertising

How Botonde Helps Your Local Advertising

When it comes to finding local clients, a contractor’s advertising can be limited by budget and competition. It can be extremely difficult to seize networking opportunities either in a new territory or by a new contracting business. Established or not, what can a contractor do to maximize networking and advertising opportunities and keep skyrocketing expenses under control? In other words, how can Botonde help your local advertising? “Waitaminnit“; you say, “Botonde is an estimate creation and materials calculation system. How’s it gonna help me advertise?“ Great Question The answer is the fact that at no additional cost, Botonde also provides...

Material Overages And Waste

Material Overages And Waste

Now that contractors are getting back to work after weeks or months of quarantine, business-related difficulties become apparent once again. For instance, how do contactors, especially newer contractors, deal with materials in relation to material overages and waste? How much material? Many a contractor–especially newer or more inexperienced contractors–learn this lesson the hard way. The questions of “how much material do I buy to complete the job? How do I compensate for waste? How do I adjust for complications or unforeseeable issues? And most importantly, how do I still turn a profit while remaining competitive for the client? These questions...

Botonde Helps Your Contracting Business – Demo Video

Botonde Helps Your Contracting Business – Demo Video

Of all the questions we get about the tools that Botonde provides to contractors, the first and most obvious one is usually; “What does it do?” Here is a video that show you, for the most part, what Botonde does and how it helps your contracting business. If you have more specific questions as to how Botonde can help your business, feel free to contact us and we would be happy to provide information and help you get started.

5 Things “Phased Reopening” Means For Contractors

5 Things “Phased Reopening” Means For Contractors

As the fifty states begin creeping back to “normal” and the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wither, “phased reopening” is a buzzword that many small businesses have been waiting for. But as our elected officials creep ever closer to these phases, what should contractors expect? Here are five important points that all contractors must consider at this time. #1 – Emphasis On Selling Services As restrictions begin to loosen from state to state–sales should be the primary goal of your business activity. The exception to this would be any jobs that you have yet to complete from before the onset of...

Contractors Justify Essential Construction During Covid-19

Contractors Justify Essential Construction During Covid-19

Thanks to the combined contributions of local governmental decisions and a viral outbreak, many contractors find themselves out of work or close to it. Other state officials have taken a milder approach in determining what is appropriate or not. It seems that there is no black and white to how the pandemic is affecting the construction industries across the globe. Many are being blocked from performing jobs by these state and local governments due to the arbitrarily terms that determine what is now “essential”, it’s the contractors themselves that need to justify what is essential and what is not. What...

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