The Better Way

S4 Ep. 5: Ensuring customer satisfaction

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and establish processes that will make meaningful changes to your company and help you achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as host Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and our experts and consultants to teach best practices for sales and lead management.

 

The last episode of this season highlights strategies to ensure your clients are satisfied.

 

Listen to the full episode to hear from Megan Montoya, construction project coordinator at Better Choice Homes in Gilbert, Arizona, and learn how they’ve used software to enhance their customers’ building experience.

S4 Ep. 4: Marketing your business online

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and establish processes that will make meaningful changes to your company and help you achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as host Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and our experts and consultants to teach best practices for sales and lead management.

 

The fourth episode of this season highlights ways to get the word out about your construction company’s abilities.

 

Listen to the full episode to hear Courtney Mattern, Buildertrend’s director of content marketing, showcases ways Buildertrend can help you market your business and why social media is a marketing must.

S4 Ep. 3: Tools to attract more customers

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and establish processes that will make meaningful changes to your company and help you achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as host Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and our experts and consultants to teach best practices for sales and lead management.

This season’s third episode highlights how online tools help builders reach the right customers.

Listen to the full episode to hear Alex Suarez, Buildertrend’s web services sales manager, share his insight on how builders can win business through their websites

S5 Ep. 1: Managing documents with ease

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and organize the way you run your construction business and make meaningful changes to achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as hosts Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and Brett Jones, a Buildertrend onsite consultant, teach strategies to start projects the right way.

 

Brett and Zach kick off this season with insight into ways Buildertrend can enhance project communication and tee-up time savings through document management.

S5 Ep. 2: Getting started with Selections

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and organize the way you run your construction business and make meaningful changes to achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as hosts Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and Brett Jones, a Buildertrend onsite consultant, teach strategies to start projects the right way.

 

On this episode, Brett and Zach explore ways builders of all types can use Selections to their advantage and enhance the build experience for their clients.

S5 Ep. 3: Building accurate project timelines

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and organize the way you run your construction business and make meaningful changes to achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as hosts Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and Brett Jones, a Buildertrend onsite consultant, teach strategies to start projects the right way.

 

Brett and Zach highlight how to effectively craft project timelines and how to use them to improve collaboration and planning on future projects.

S5 Ep. 4: Planning costs and materials

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and organize the way you run your construction business and make meaningful changes to achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as hosts Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and Brett Jones, a Buildertrend onsite consultant, teach strategies to start projects the right way.

 

Brett and Zach discuss how to ensure your team has top-notch planning processes for materials and costs.

S5 Ep. 5: Optimizing the purchasing process

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and organize the way you run your construction business and make meaningful changes to achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as hosts Zach Wojtowicz, a corporate development strategist at Buildertrend, and Brett Jones, a Buildertrend onsite consultant, teach strategies to start projects the right way.

 

Brett and Zach finish the season with tips on how builders can fine-tune their purchasing processes.

 

S6 Ep. 1: Guaranteeing accurate estimates with Takeoff

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and establish processes that will make meaningful changes to your company and help you achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as Marge Haley, senior manager of customer success, chats with Buildertrend experts on how to master takeoff and ace pre-project planning.

 

Marge Haley and David Livingston, estimating and takeoff specialist, kick off this season with insight into how takeoff software improves the estimating experience for our builders. Say goodbye to hours of manual calculations riddled with mistakes, say hello to guaranteed accurate estimates.

 

How can Buildertrend Takeoff improve the estimating experience for construction teams?

 

David: With any cloud-based software, the unique advantage is you could do it from anywhere. You could be on a flight, if you have wifi, you could be in a hotel, or whatever the case might be, and not only yourself, but multiple parties involved can be running takeoff measurements and quantity calculations all at the same time. And the beautiful part about that is all the effort you're putting in as a team through the takeoff system is automatically populating an estimate in Buildertrend, which then you can use for both internal budget tracking purposes as well as an external contract.

 

How do the new Buildertrend estimating enhancements work with our takeoff software?

 

David: It works out really well. Probably what I'm the most excited about is the ability to not only send over takeoff data, but then what you can do with that data once it gets to the estimate. We have line item actions to be able to create a bid package directly off of quantity calculations. We have the ability to create purchase orders directly off of line items. We can invoice our clients off of those line items. And ultimately everything we're doing, whether you were in the old version of our estimate or now that you're in the new version, all of that's consolidated in a budget report based on your cost code structure. So really, in my opinion, the addition of Takeoff to the software creates a perfect harmony, so to speak, of our estimating experience from the very beginning all the way through the very end of accounting and job costing.

 

 

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Read this blog post to find out the 4 reasons you should be using takeoff software.

 

Schedule a demo to see Buildertrend Takoff in action.

 

Listen to “The Building Code,” Buildertrend’s biweekly podcast exploring people, technology and innovation across the construction industry.

 

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S6 Ep. 2: Winning more bids in less time

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and establish processes that will make meaningful changes to your company and help you achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as Marge Haley, senior manager of customer success, chats with Buildertrend experts on how to master Takeoff and ace pre-project planning.

 

On today’s episode, Marge Haley and David Livingston, estimating and takeoff specialist, discuss how using takeoff software can help you win more bids in less time. Stop relying on someone else to run your numbers and go from waiting weeks to just days by running your own takeoffs.

 

What are some ways that general contractors can benefit from running their own takeoff?

 

David: I'll give you an example. I spoke to a guy that had a lumber supplier that took six weeks to run a takeoff for him, and he was able to cut it down into one or two days once he learned and developed his understanding of our takeoff system. So, with that time savings, that allows you to sell jobs faster, you can get quotes out to your homeowner faster, and it allows you to get more competitive pricing. So, you're not stuck with one supplier that does your takeoff every single time.

 

How can general contractors get numbers to their subs quicker using Buildertrend’s estimating tool, Takeoff and Bids feature?

 

David: Every line item in Buildertrend has the ability to be populated as a bid, and you can choose multiple line items in the estimate to ask pricing for. So, you could ask for a lump sum price for drywall, or you could tell them, "We need 500 sheets. What's your price per sheet to install this?" So basically, using line item actions and using real-time data that's being created and calculated in Takeoff, you can then take those line items from Buildertrend and then line item action them to create bid packages and release those bid packages. Your subs don't have to be active in Buildertrend. It's just like sending out an email.”

 

LINKS AND MORE

 

Related content:

 

Read this blog post to learn about the new and improved Estimate feature.

 

Learn how to increase your profits with Bids and other financial tools in Buildertrend.

 

Listen to “The Building Code,” Buildertrend’s biweekly podcast exploring people, technology and innovation across the construction industry.

 

Follow us on social:

 

Instagram:

@Buildertrend

 

Facebook:

@Buildertrend

 

We want to hear from you! Reach out to us at podcast@buildertrend.com.