Safer Social Media

By Robert Robillard

Image: teach-ict.com Stay safer on Social Media Sites Here are some tips for a safer social media experience: . 1. Never post any personal information. {cell phone number, address, or the name of your school, sports team, or pictures that could give away revealing info. like your your name, school, license plate or Town, etc]…

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Creating New Customers

By Robert Robillard

Developing New Customers Customers Won’t Tell You Unless You Ask When it comes to creating customers and promoting my carpentry business there are two major factors that I consider.  These business factors apply to most businesses both large and small. Goals for Creating Customers Making my current customers become repeat customers. Getting my customers to…

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The Hidden Value Of Small Remodeling Jobs

By Robert Robillard

Small Remodeling Jobs Lead To Bigger Jobs   Big jobs are harder to come by in this economy, but they still exist. Many contractors that I am familiar with would ONLY do large scale projects. Our current economy situation has forced many of the smarter contractors to re-think this strategy. What many of these contractor’s…

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Preventing Identity Theft

By Robert Robillard

Preventing Identity Theft There are no fool proof measures to prevent identity fraud but there are several common sense steps one can take to protect themselves. Yesterday I posted on identity theft and the many ways it is perpetrated. As a police officer I have advised many a person, often too late, on how to…

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How To Find Work

By Robert Robillard

Look to Your Past Clients For New work: In this economy of bankruptcy and unemployment it’s been very difficult finding new remodeling clients.  Now more than ever is a time for remodeler’s to take a step back and look and take steps toward learning how to find work. Past Clients are Most Lucrative and Successful…

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How to Get The Most From Your Day

By Robert Robillard

Time Management and Being Productive It always seems that there is never enough time in the day or days in the week to get things done. Time management for me its balancing a full time career, a part time job, estimates, carpentry billing, family, driving to sporting events, and home maintenance. So what gives? What…

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When To Ask For Help

By Robert Robillard

I’m usually the kind of person who doesn’t need a whole bunch of help with things, or at least that’s how I see myself.   I’m a self-starter and a self-motivator who can learn and do anything. Or so I like to think… The truth is that there are many times when I need help and…

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Using Customer Surveys To Improve Value

By Robert Robillard

                  Using Customer Surveys Is it me or is everyone jumping on the bandwagon and using customer surveys? About a year ago I found a website called Survey Monkey. This site has a very basic version that is free. In today’s business environment companies cannot afford to…

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