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...
Category: Botonde For Contractors
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Contractors Should Stop Pigeon Advertising
Seems like it was not so long ago that you could make a website for your business. “submit” it to Yahoo or the new internet thing called Google, and in no time your site would be indexed and showing for all to see. As time went on and things changed, advertising and promoting your business...
During The Covid-19 Quarantine–“Essential” Contractors need “Un-Essential” Support
During this unusual time (to say the least) of global semi-quarantine, many of the nations contractors, if not the WORLD’s contractors, find themselves labeled as “essential workers”. Yet they are unable to arrange for permits, inspections or other local government official procedures required to begin, continue or complete jobs for their clients. Even more frustrating...
Shelter-In-Place Can Mean Opportunity For Contractors
As of this writing, 3/23/20, those states with current, active shelter-in-place orders (New York, New Jersey, California and Illinois) have deemed that residential construction is to be considered “essential business”, while the Covid-19 pandemic continues. Pennsylvania also has such an order in place, however, they have decided that only emergency construction is to be considered...