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The Business Of Doing Business
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Are you one of those business owners who
sets their pricing by what others are
charging? It is a fact that in order to be
successful in business you must know your
costs and develop a price strategy that
keeps your business healthy.
The Business of Doing
Business
In A Modern Stripping & Refinishing Shop
is designed to help create and
implement management processes. This booklet will help you
sharpen the business skills necessary to become more successful,
and more profitable! Many business owners in this marketplace
tend to be highly skilled in their crafts, but often lack, or have poor
business skills.
The Business of Doing Business is designed to be helpful for
start-up businesses as well as established shops! This booklet
will review ways of collecting pertinent information, provide
examples on how to better customer relations and most importantly
how to help your “bottom line”.
By reading the The Business of Doing Business you will learn
answers to these questions and more:
Symptom: I have many projects in my shop,
but I know the jobs that need to be done first by
the amount of calls I get checking on their
furniture.
Chapter 2 Tracking Your Work Projects (pg 11),
this chapter discusses methods to organize and
track your projects. This helps you know what
projects need to be done first and help you meet
deadlines.
Symptom: I just look at the piece and guess
how much time it will take to do the job.
Sometimes I do O.K., sometimes I don’t.
Chapter 3 Calculating Estimates Using
Itemization (pg 23), this chapter will teach how
to write and present estimates to customers.
You will learn how to itemize tasks so that you
charge for a complete job and sell your
customer more often.
Symptom: I’m not always sure what it costs me
to do a job, I usually just guess.
Chapter 4 Know Your Costs (pg 27), this
chapter will teach several methods to track your
costs. If you know your costs then you can
price for success.
Symptom: Sometimes I get the job, sometimes
I don’t. Customers just don’t understand what it
takes to do the work.
Chapter 5 Pricing Your Work (pg. 30), this
chapter will show you how to educate your
customer on your processes and win more bids.
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The Business of Doing Business will review the many ways to
market your business and services. After reading this booklet you
will understand how to track costs and how to set prices that will
keep you profitable and your business healthy.
The Business of Doing Business is being developed and presented
by industry veterans that know what it takes to be successful and
knows what will and will not work for you. This is an opportunity to
work through the mysteries of being in business and gather business
concepts that you can apply to your restoration and/or finishing
business.
This booklet has helped 100’s of other restoration and finishing
businesses just like you. Take a few minutes and order this booklet
for your shop, you will be glad you did!
Stock# Description Price
KN10 BofB Booklet Electronic Download $14.95
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KN10P BofB Booklet Unbound & Printed $24.95
Visit www.touchupdepot.com for preview clips of this
training booklet!
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Basic Color Theory Booklet
“A Simple Approach To
Learning Wood Color” booklet
is a 14 page guide on
understanding the basics of
color theory. It is written to
help beginners understand
primary colors in relation to
wood tones. “A Simple
Approach To Learning Wood Color” will help you develop a
better eye for color and improve your color matching
abilities. Available as a download via touchupdepot.com or
as printed, unbound booklet.
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Stock# Description Price
KN12 Color Booklet Electronic Download $5
e-mail order to sales@touchupdepot.com
KN12P Color Booklet Unbound & Printed $5
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