The Dynamic Dozen: 12 Ways To Analyze and Improve Profit

Increase your profit on each sale…before construction begins. Dennis Dixon will help you get control of your costs through a host of simple methods. It starts with better estimating and client qualification, and goes through the proper wording on contracts, change orders, allowances, draw schedules and specifications. These up-front efforts will help avoid problems and generate greater customer satisfaction, quality…and profit on every project. You’ll take home 10 ideas you put into place the day you get back to the office. You'll learn:

• How to plug the profit leaks in your contract
• How to manage your client's expectations, and why
• What most builders miss in their estimating
• How to identify and disarm problem clients up front
• How to keep change orders profitable
• How to nail down specifications and prevent profit leakage

Unlocking Your Profit Potential: Managing Contracts, Allowances, & Change Orders

Learn methods on how to improve your Change Order Management through allowances, cost plus vs. fixed price COs, 15 CO examples, using CO summaries and contract wording regarding your company's CO processes.

Fast & Accurate Estimating Techniques

Estimate with confidence and speed using a systematic approach based on standard procedures, whether unit pricing or counting by the stick. Veteran contractor, Dennis Dixon, will tell you how to develop reliable estimating systems for both new construction and remodeling - whether manual or computerized - and how to constantly improve it through job costing.

Accurately Estimating a Standard Kitchen Remodel

Dennis Dixon will walk and talk you through estimating a real world kitchen remodel by covering everything from receiving a set of prints to sharing with you a cost estimating template for a typical kitchen. Also, he'll discuss a fixed priced remodeling quote versus a cost plus-open ended approach and show you the differences when you qualify, quantify and price certain line items instead of listing lump sum allocations.