Business Sense: Identifying Value Added Activities

By Harry Hollander of Moraware Having trouble finding good help these days? Ed Young (WeReduceChaos.com) recognizes that pretty much everyone is struggling with this issue. In a growing economy, growth in jobs outstrips the supply of good labor. In addition to getting more creative in finding and attracting new employees, … Read more

Business Sense: Identifying Value Added Activities

By Harry Hollander of Moraware Having trouble finding good help these days? Ed Young (WeReduceChaos.com) recognizes that pretty much everyone is struggling with this issue. In a growing economy, growth in jobs outstrips the supply of good labor. In addition to getting more creative in finding and attracting new employees, … Read more

Business Sense: Appraising the True Value of Fabrication Equipment

By Harry Hollander of Moraware It takes machinery to fabricate countertops in the stone industry: big, heavy, expensive pieces of equipment. From an accounting perspective, the value of the equipment on the shop floor is determined by a depreciation formula, which may or may not reflect its true replacement value. … Read more

Business Sense: Appraising the True Value of Fabrication Equipment

By Harry Hollander of Moraware It takes machinery to fabricate countertops in the stone industry: big, heavy, expensive pieces of equipment. From an accounting perspective, the value of the equipment on the shop floor is determined by a depreciation formula, which may or may not reflect its true replacement value. … Read more

The Best Stuff Vs. The Right Stuff: What Quality Has To Do With Getting Full Price, Rate or Fee

By Bill Brooks “But I Can’t Sell on Quality … Ours Aren’t Really the Best on the Market.” Most salespeople believe that quality means “best,” but quality does not really mean best. Quality means conformance to standards and expectations – your prospect’s standards and expectations. Quality means the right stuff – not the … Read more

The Best Stuff Vs. The Right Stuff: What Quality Has To Do With Getting Full Price, Rate or Fee

By Bill Brooks “But I Can’t Sell on Quality … Ours Aren’t Really the Best on the Market.” Most salespeople believe that quality means “best,” but quality does not really mean best. Quality means conformance to standards and expectations – your prospect’s standards and expectations. Quality means the right stuff – not the … Read more

Price Vs. Value

My editorial in our latest countertop newsletter received so many responses, it only seemed right to post it here, in our blog, and share it with the broader audience: In a recent conversation I had with a fabricator in the South, he mentioned that he was having a hard time … Read more