#150 Bram Weitzman a GC with 16 years of experience and it wasn’t until his 14th year he finally figured it out.
We open the show with a massive Beastie Boys track, thanks Bram. Bram got started in construction because he owned a frat house and his friend/partner was moving out and Bram was getting married and they needed to fix the place and sell in. Picked up a hammer and that was about 15/16 years ago. Before construction and before tending bar Bram was a licensed auto mechanic. Then life kick in hard for Bram, back issues, left being a mechanic, went back to school for IT, at the start of his new career path plenty of work, by the time he graduated, no work, got a job as a bartender, worked his way up to management and then got laid off, restricting was the official description and then came construction.
The big talk about bad clients and who’s fault is it really when you end up with a bad client and how to avoid bad clients, we have a lot to say about bad clients. Bad client’s and bad situations is what got Bram to plan for his business and he began to give himself a salary, a proper and legit wage and all the deductions that come with that salary. Building is easy for tradespeople, building a business is the hard part, tackle the hard part every single day and you have many fewer problems with your business. The estimating and presenting bids gets detailed as Bram and Manny run the listeners through lessons learned and how best to set up the paperwork for potential clients. Bram introduces us to COPE – Cost Of Project Execution where you basically breakdown the entire project for your business and for your potential client. Bram also mentions https://grasshopper.com/# the best and easiest way to set up a separate business line that gives you so much more, check it out. Then the topic is Cash Jobs comes up and how recently Manny is being asked by subtrades and clients to do cash as part of the job, we discuss it. Shout out to https://www.facebook.com/remodelyourmarketing/ this group has helped Bram a lot, please check it out. Bram discusses all the of construction software programs out there and how they never worked for him but he tried https://www.uniteddesign.com/cs_compare.html and it’s helped his business, he loves it, check it out.
What an amazing show and thank you Bram so much for sharing so much, educating us and our listeners. Thank you. Find Bram at the following Bram Weitzman Renovations @bwrenos on IG and FaceBook www.bwrenos.com and contact him on his email at info@bwrenos.com for your next project.
Find Manny @hardcorerenos info@hardcorerenos.com info@theconstructionlife.com
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