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Protect Your Profits Through ‘Defensive’ Estimating

 

Learn how to estimate based on fiscal goals and protecting the company’s bottom line through “Defensive Estimating: Protecting Your Profits” by Bill Asdal, CGR, and available through BuilderBooks.com.

For builders and remodelers, this user-friendly approach to estimating will help you improve your process, and the book provides hundreds of ideas and simple suggestions.

Through “Defensive Estimating,” you will learn how to:

  • Take a hard look at your business processes and modify them to meet financial goals.

  • Create profits un-endangered by carelessness or short vision.

  • Defend each estimate line so that the system of planned profit is consistent and bankable.


Defensive Estimating: Protecting Your Profits” is available at www.BuilderBooks.com, or by calling 800-223-2665.

 
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