How important, we may wonder from time to time, is regular equipment maintenance to the functioning of a shed shop and its delivery equipment? The answer definitely varies in the details from shop to shop, but the bottom line ultimately reflects the solid results derived from ongoing maintenance.
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Planning Your 2020 Marketing Budget?
If you’re like most shed builders, you don’t have an unlimited marketing budget. Here’s how to plan your marketing campaign to have the best impact.
Q&A: Looking at Lumber
Lumbermen Associates is a wholesale distributor with locations in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and Crewe, Virginia. At its 21-acre location in Bristol, the company ships 35 truckloads of lumber and sheet goods each day to a variety of customers, including lumber retailers, box, pallet, crating manufacturers, and shed builders. Lumbermen’s has remanning[Read More…]
What’s Your Unique Selling Proposition?
Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Definition: The factor or consideration presented by a seller as the reason that one product or service is different from and better than that of the competition —Entrepreneur.com As a shed professional, you like to think you have the best product out there. After all, doesn’t[Read More…]
Workplace Safety as an Everyday Concern
Building a shed properly involves the same mechanics and familiarity with tools of the trade as does erecting a home, but on a smaller scale. However, that does not necessarily mean there are fewer risks involved in building a shed. Hammers, nails, saws, and more are among the tools of[Read More…]
Go Big with Barns
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen says 30,000 new consumer products hit the market each year and over 90 percent of them fail. That’s staggering odds when launching a new product that costs tens of thousands of dollars. Scaling your backyard shed business to offer large buildings like two-story garages[Read More…]
Report from the Floor: The Big Shed Show
The Big Shed Show headed to the Cincinnati area and the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky, October 3. And, boy, was it big. The one-day event, co-hosted by Capital Forest Products in Annapolis, Maryland, and Union Grove Lumber in Harmony, North Carolina, attracted more than 2,000 attendees from nearly[Read More…]
Log Cabin Kits
David Schrock, owner of Back Country Optics in Missouri, is one of those lucky people whose professional calling came knocking on his door. Twenty-two years ago, Schrock began working for his brother’s log cabin supply company, which he bought two years later. The business sold stains, fasteners and offered custom[Read More…]
The ABCs of Shed Building Kits
Selling shed building kits is the bread and butter of Domenic Mangano’s existence. That’s because as president and senior designer of Vermont-based Jamaica Cottage Shop, Mangano sells 1,500 buildings annually, with 80 percent in kit form. To what does Mangano attribute those transactions? “When you look on the internet for[Read More…]
Material Pricing Strategies
You’ve been working at improving your shop processes and employee morale, and things are going smooth. Sheds are flowing out the door and materials are flying off the racks. You pick up the phone to order some more OSB and get the bad news: “A hurricane is headed toward the[Read More…]
