53 Minutes
The Ultimate Showdown (Part 1): Types of Financial Services
Diane and Mita (of Payless Taxes, LLC) have teamed up for a totally DIFFERENT (and very positive) “Ultimate Showdown” about the types of financial services needed by construction companies and their owners.
Benefits: Get terrific insights about the types of financial services you need and who provides them so you can “run your company by the numbers.”
53 Minutes
The Ultimate Showdown (Part 2): Financial Services Cost Comparisons
Diane and Mita provide an easy method that you – as a company owner – can use to discover the costs of “in-house” vs “outsourced” bookkeeping services that you might need for your company
Benefits: By the end of the webinar, you will be able to easily calculate what an ‘in-house’ bookkeeper truly costs.
55 Minutes
Tis (Always!) the Season for Cybersecurity
Diane and her guests, Ryan Kane and Nick Costa of Soaring Towers share tips you can use to quickly and easily recognize risks and implement security measures to protect construction companies just like yours from cyberattacks.
Benefits: Learn actionable cybersecurity strategies to safeguard your business!
53 Minutes
Bulletproof Accounting for Long Term Business Survival
Diane and Daryl Urbanski explore how small and medium-sized business owners – especially NEW business owners – can leapfrog the competition and thrive using proven “success habits”.
Benefits: Diane reveals some simple start-up and accounting-system tips in this podcast that can result in impressive business results.
54 Minutes
Elevating Your Business With Cloud Innovation
Jake Reeves (Cloud Productivity Expert – Summit Hosting) joins Diane Gilson to illustrate innovative ways to use “anytime/anywhere” cloud access services.
Benefits: You’ll see how “elastic scalability” and “resources-on-demand” can help you collaborate between team members, securely share data and company information, and grow your business.
50 Minutes
Before You Sign: Pre-Construction Contracts and Agreements
Diane and Michael Stone (Construction Programs & Results, Inc. and MarkupAndProfit.com) reveal practical tips and proven strategies about pre-construction contracts and agreements.
Benefits: When you know (and use) these, you dramatically increase the success of your construction project even before you commit to taking on a job.
54 Minutes
Conquer Construction Chaos: 3 Innovative Options
Diane Gilson and her special guest, Bob Cain (Business Unit Leader, BuildTools), offer expert insights into three cutting-edge software solutions tailored for the construction sector.
Benefits: You’ll discover how to Conquer Construction Chaos using three cutting-edge software solutions (ECI BuildTools, Bolt, and Thermogrid) that have been tailored for the construction sector.
54 Minutes
Insights About QuickBooks Project Management Apps
Diane and Tom Houghton (Owner & Lead Consultant, Round Peg Solutions) share insights about the “Pros and Cons” of adding construction project management software to your (Desktop or Online) QuickBooks.
Benefits: You’ll get a new perspective on the inner workings of integrated project management apps (regardless of your level of QuickBooks expertise…).
55 Minutes
Reduce Time Spent on Accounts Payable
Diane and MakersHub founders, Charley Howe and Phong Ngo, show how you can reduce the time your company spends on accounts payable – by 90%!
Benefits: Reduce the time you spend on accounts payable, AND improve the accuracy of your books. Not only that, MakersHub works with your QuickBooks (Desktop or Online.)
43 Minutes
Avoid the Gross Profit Rollercoaster
Diane and Dave Sullivan reveal why businesses get stuck on a “Gross Profit Rollercoaster” (and what to do to eliminate those nerve-wracking ups and downs!)
Benefits: Pricing your work correctly means your business can become more profitable more quickly.
55 Minutes
Payroll Profit Leaks – How to Avoid and “Repair” Them
Diane and her panelists from busybusy discuss how you can avoid those “losing-money-without-realizing-it” payroll profit leaks using innovative (and easy-to-use) technology.
Benefits: Reveal, reduce, and repair some invisible (but costly!) payroll profit leaks that can cause your company to lose a LOT of money
55 Minutes
Using AI to Revolutionize Your Hiring Process
Diane and Justin (of Contractor Staffing Source) demo how YOU can “remodel” your hiring process to effortlessly identify the most qualified job candidates for your business.
Benefits: Save precious time (and eliminate frustration!) so you can effortlessly identify the most qualified candidates for YOUR team.
55 Minutes
Real Life “Cloud Tech” with QuickBooks Desktop
Diane does a live demo with Jake Reeves (of Summit Hosting) to show how ‘cloud-hosting’ REALLY works for QuickBooks desktop. Find out why we’re impressed with Summit Hosting!
Benefits: See how you can set up your REAL LIFE hosting features as Diane shows how it looks and acts in real life. PLUS – get your questions answered about how hosting might work for YOUR company.
55 Minutes
Demystifying Construction Business Finances
Diane and Todd Miller (of the Construction Disruption podcast) reveal how construction owners like you can cut through the confusion and take control of your numbers!
Benefits: Discover why good numbers are so important, especially for small and mid-sized companies. Plus, you’ll hear Diane’s top financial tip for any small business owner!
59 Minutes
Job Costing is Critical in Construction Companies
Diane and busybusy’s Bracken Anderson answer “what you really need to know” questions about time tracking and job costing – asked by attendees (just like you).
Benefits: When you understand what job costing is and how to get started with it, you’ll see how you can focus on your winning jobs. And that means more profits for you!
58 Minutes
7 Job Cost Profit Boosters: JobTread + Info Plus
Eric Fortenberry (Founder & CEO of JobTread) and Diane team up to talk about JobTread, an end-to-end construction management software tool that can help owners best manage (and track) the MULTIPLE moving parts in a construction business.
Benefits: Get organized, complete your projects on time, and increase your profits!
40 Minutes
Maximize Your Design and Building Profits
Diane interviews Dan Baumann (Chief Architect expert and founder of Chief Experts Academy), to reveal how you can maximize your design and building profits.
Benefits: See the BIG IDEAs behind design services and Chief Architect. (And learn some insider secrets that can help you maximize your design and building profits!)
1:14 Minutes
Maximize Your Profits with QuickBooks
Learn how to easily use QuickBooks management reports to transform your company. You’ll see how to view your profitability through QuickBooks Estimates, Job Costing and Variance Reports.
Benefits: Increased profitability.
34 Minutes
Save and Make Money with Job Costing
Kyle Hunt (Business Coach for Remodelers) and Diane dive into specific examples that will inspire you to continue to improve your job costing. Hear why he thinks you need to be just as good at job costing as you are at doing your finished trim work.
Benefits: As Kyle says “Good job costing really makes you a better estimator, which is a huge benefit.”
54 Minutes
BuildTools: Tech, Productivity, and Profitabiliity for Builders
Bob Cain (Business Unit Leader, BuildTools) was a home builder just like you and he designed the BuildTools product to help you organize the chaos of construction! Watch as he and Diane pull back the curtain to share how it works.
Benefits: It integrates with QuickBooks to empower you to run a more efficient, successful, and profitable business!
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Divvy – Expense Management Made Simple
Divvy (now BILL Spend & Expense) is the FREE program/app where you can pay all of your bills and invoices right from the Divvy platform.
Benefits: Here are just a few of the great features you’ll get:
– Automatic expense reporting
– Budget the way your company spends
– Get money out to your team in seconds
– Use virtual credit cards
56 Minutes
Construction Labor Shortages: 6 Common Hiring Myths & Solutions
Ed Earl really delivers the goods in this webinar with Diane Gilson. They explore common perceptions (and misperceptions!) when it comes to finding and hiring qualified employees (especially within the construction industry).
Benefits: Increase your success when it’s time to find and hire qualified employees.
45 Minutes
Attract Customers that Pay, Stay, and Refer
Kenny Harper (Business Growth Coach at Growth Amplifiers) helps you dive into how YOUR customers ‘experience’ your company so you can develop an authentic strategy with a focus on all aspects of your “customer’s journey.”
Benefits: Create predictable profitability, build customer trust, and achieve new levels of success for your company.
51 Minutes
A Clear Success Path for Your #1 Marketing Priority
Glimpse a more “zen” way to attract the RIGHT kinds of (profitable) leads into your life. Business Coach, Kyle Hunt, teams up with Diane to share a powerful, yet easy and effective ‘Success Path’ so you can focus and magnify your marketing impact!
Benefits: Maximize and automate your most valuable asset to make a huge difference in your lead-generation.
53 Minutes
Effective Marketing Strategies – Is Your Marketing Keeping Up?
What are the “traditional, tried and true marketing methods”? And why AREN’T they working like they used to? Spencer Powell (CEO of BuilderFunnel and host of Builder Funnel Radio) digs into these questions and shows you the alternatives!
Benefits: Get the buyers you REALLY want and keep your future pipeline chock full of profitable work!
50 Minutes
Construction Time & Cost Tracking – Construction Owners’ Survival Tips
Isaac Barlow – busybusy CEO and construction business owner – combined his desire to find the right time tracking numbers with his background as a contractor and construction company owner to become a true innovator in construction industry technology.
Benefits: busybusy can help maximize the profitability and efficiency of your site crew and labor.>
54 Minutes
Summit Hosting for QuickBooks Desktop: 9 Reasons to Move your QuickBooks Desktop to the Cloud
It might sound too good to be true, but… YES, you CAN ‘Cloud-ify’ Pro, Premier, or Enterprise Desktop! Jake Reeves and Diane Gilson reveal secrets you should know about moving your QuickBooks desktop company files to the Cloud.
Benefits: It really IS possible to have ‘anytime, anywhere’ access for your QuickBooks desktop company file!
44 Minutes
Appearing Profitable While Still Losing Money Podcast
Many contractors who look profitable on paper are actually losing money. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon in the construction industry. Learn why business owners need to tell what “true costs” are as a project is underway, not after.
Benefits: Quickly identify jobs that are “winners vs. losers.”
45 Minutes
QB Desktop Reports: What You CAN & CAN’T Get… and What To Do About It
Angela Meharg of Datisfy, Inc. and Diane dig into what you can do to convert your underlying ‘buried’ data into critical management INFORMATION.
Benefits: Transform your company to run more effectively, efficiently, and profitably with reporting secrets that you never knew before!
47 Minutes
How to Use Job Costing to Increase Your Profits
This “Profit by Design” podcast is a gold mine! Listen – and unearth – the nuggets of information YOU can use to become a more profitable and effective business owner. Get an inside look at how to design a business that supports the lifestyle you desire.
Benefits: Keep more of the money you make!
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How to Provide Nice Services for Construction Clients
From Intuit’s Firm of the Future site: Check out my article in their #RecipeforSuccess series. Get the ingredients to my #RecipeforSuccess on how to provide the best possible niche services for construction clients. Join the conversation on Twitter: #RecipeforSuccess
Benefits: Learn the key ingredients and steps for construction companies to achieve success.
41 Minutes
Increase Profits With Job Costing and busybusy
Diane and busybusy’s Bracken Anderson (Business Development) highlight why job costing is a major game-changer for ALL construction businesses and show you some of the magic that happens when you use it.
Benefits: Job costing will help you spot and eliminate loser jobs, so you can then focus on your winning jobs. And that means more profits for you!
31 Minutes
Helping Construction and Manufacturing Companies Grow More Profitable
Access to reliable, accurate job cost and management reports can be a struggle for most construction and manufacturing companies. During this podcast, Diane discusses how setting up an internal job-cost and reporting system can make dramatic changes to business profitability!
Benefits: Discover Misconceptions About Business Profitability
39 Minutes
Get Your Financial House in Order – COVID-19 & Your Business
A primary rule of business survival: DON’T run out of cash! If you’re a construction business owner in this Covid-19 economic environment, will your business survive these huge changes? Dave Sullivan (The Roofers Show) and Diane share their thoughts about which numbers you should be tracking (closely!) …
Benefits: A creative, realistic look at cash flow and potential options within rapidly-evolving government programs.
48 Minutes
How To Set Up Your Financials The Easy Way
To run a profitable roofing business, you have to understand the basics of accounting and the basics of setting up your financial system. Find out how understanding your accounting system and making few proactive updates can lead to increased profitability.
Benefits: How to keep your Chart of Accounts simple!
35 Minutes
The Many Faces of Job Costing Podcast
Job-costing can take on many forms based on business needs. For many construction businesses, it is essential to create the type of reports that will guide construction business owners to better decisions and higher profits.
Benefits: Find out how job-costing can improve your business decisions.
48 Minutes
Increase Your Profit With Effective Job Costing Reports
Way too many business owners just aren’t making the profits they should! In order to do so, you need to customize your accounting system so you can make the calls you need to. Learn which jobs are making money, which jobs are losing money, and what to do about it.
Benefits: Make more money with better analytics.
49 Minutes
How To Calculate Your True Labor Burden
You’d be surprised how much money most contractors are missing out on because they are not using their true labor burden before markup. In this podcast, we use a free tool to determine all the hidden costs that you need to include in your true labor cost to make your expected profit.
Benefits: Free Employee Labor Calculator
1 Hour 12 Minutes
Calculating & Controlling the Cost of Chaos
Having issues holding employees accountable for reducing errors and meeting goals? From our “Better Numbers Better Business” series, this webinar provides some insight into how to convey specific goals to employees for jobs and tasks and how to measure the results.
Benefits: Get more value out of every employee.
58 Minutes
Increase Your Gross Profits and Close More Sales
Need some help reorganizing your chart of accounts? Learn how your accounts need to be organized in a way that shows income, cost of goods sold, and company overhead. Get the right information by creating account headers, groups, subtotals, and adding percentages.
Benefit: Get better, more usable information from your reporting.
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QuickBooks Enterprise
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is specially designed to help you get accurate job cost reports. And because we are QuickBooks Solution Providers, we can help you order directly through Info Plus Consulting.
Benefits: QuickBooks can help you get accurate job cost reports and we’ll get you set up with the right version.
6 Minutes
Who Done It?
If you’ve ever wondered how to figure out who made an entry in QuickBooks and on which date, this video is the one for you! A little detective work can get you the background information you need within your accounting system.
Benefits: Get more detail out of your QuickBooks transactions and reports.
10 Minutes
Above vs. Below the Line Markups
Find out the most optimal arrangement for your chart of accounts by watching this short video. A few changes can have a drastic impact on your gross profit percentage.
Benefits: Get more accurate reporting by modifying your chart of accounts.
9 Minutes
Where is the Money I Made?
Have you ever wondered why your bank accounts don’t reflect the profit you see in your financial statements? You can utilize a few reports in QuickBooks to help you figure out why your ending cash balance differs from your profits.
Benefits: See exactly how profits track through to your current cash position.
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QuickBooks Items: The Secret to QuickBooks Job Costing
QuickBooks items allow construction businesses to track, report on, and ultimately get the financial detail they need on all of their jobs. Simplify your accounting and bookkeeping, save time and money, and get the reporting you need to run a more profitable business.
Benefits: Create the most effective items list for your construction company.
41 Pages
A Tale of 4 Companies: A Job Cost & Gross-Profit Percentage Drama
Failing to plan, track and monitor key financial results can seriously impact a company’s financial future. This story is designed to show how different companies handle their numbers and operations.
Benefits: Quickly identify the right and wrong ways to run a construction business.
57 Minutes
Achieving Profitable Returns on Employee Labor
Why you should care about your true costs of labor? If you’re not sure, take a peek at this webinar to explain how to price labor to get the gross profit percentage and dollars you need. Learn why you should track true labor costs for each and every job.
Benefits: More accurately calculate labor costs on each job.
39 Minutes
9 Secrets to Maximizing & Managing Your Gross Profits
Are you entering detailed cost estimates into QuickBooks? The results can help you improve internal procedures, create more accurate future estimates, and track which types of jobs are more profitable than others.
Benefits: Get better, more usable information from your reporting.
44 Minutes
9 The Roofer Show: The Cost of Chaos Podcast
If you’ve ever wondered how making a few changes could reduce cost and increase your income, this is a great resource to explore. Find out how to implement changes to improve your bottom line. There are an additional 56 benefits to being in control of your numbers.
Benefits: Improve your bottom line.
51 Minutes
QuickBooks + built (formerly lienwaivers.io)
Need to gain more financial control over each and every job? Learn how QuickBooks + built (formerly lienwaivers.io) can be integrated to provide critical job costing information and speedier cash flow.
Benefits: Improve your cash flow.
43 Minutes
Employee Retention Credit – Free Evaluation
If you continued to employ workers during the pandemic and you haven’t yet filed to claim your Employee Retention Credit (ERC), you could still be eligible for up to $26,000 in cash per employee!
Benefits: See how you can get a free ERC evaluation that could be worth a significant amount of money! (And there’s no cost to you to find out if you qualify for this credit.)
1 Hour 20 Minutes
QuickBooks + Co-Construct Integration
Get your staff in the field and in the office on the same page! Learn how QuickBooks and CoConstruct can be structured to use a “NED2 (Never Enter Data Twice)” approach to create useful, and critical, job-cost reports.
Benefits: Save time and money.