The coordination between builder, dealer or retailer, rent-to-own company, and hauler is a delicate balancing act that happens thousands of times every week across the country.
Best Practices
How to Keep from Getting Rear-Ended by Your P&Ls
P&L in any business is vital. In the shed hauler’s world, it is imperative to know where you stand. Numbers can look really good for even a couple years, but if you don’t know the pitfalls that lie ahead, you can find yourself in a bad situation with you wondering what happened.
Monitoring and Accounting
Assessing, reviewing, and addressing certain elements during this time of uncertainty will put you in control of your shed business.
Expanding Your Operation
Before plunging headlong into anything, there are a few things to look at, besides the recent spring rush. Here are five ways to tell if your shed business is ready to grow.
One Foot on the Gas, One Foot on the Brake
Our economy has been broadsided by an unforeseen force outside our control. What can we do as owners, managers, and shed builders? Here are a few ideas that I focus on during periods of business stress and external forces beyond my control.
Successful and Unprepared
In this second column in a series on business planning and growth from Blythe CPAs & Advisors, we’re getting personal. The link between your personal and business financial life is inseparable, and they need to work in concert.
Software Organization for Sheds
Lost information, inventory that disappears, and orders that go over budget are signs that you need a software package to run your business. From customer relationship management (CRM) and 3D configurators to project management and inventory control, there’s a software for that. And the benefits are out of this world.
Maintaining Business Through Maintenance
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.
Focus on the Future to Maximize Business Value
“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” — Walt Disney I came across this quote on a recent family vacation to Disney World and thought it was an appropriate introduction for a series of articles on the financial aspects for[Read More…]
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…]
