TheContractor411 Contractor Management – Review – Construction Job Leads
Thomas Crown Copyright (c) 2009 Thomas Crown
http://www.thecontractor411.com
People have been throwing comments back and forth about weather Contractor Management www.thecontractor411.com is worth the time. I wanted to take a non-bias approach in reviewing this company and its opportunity and see if the supposed thousands of contractors and handymen all around the US that have reached increased contract volume with this program are really reaping the rewards that the network and its clients boast about.
What is Contractor Management thecontractor411 all about? How does it work?
Basically, to become a member of the program, you must pay the insurance company for your background check and bank certs plus very inexpensive administrative fees equaling a total of bucks. While most programs will misguide you and lead you to failure, I have found TheContractor411.com to be very upfront in their communications answering all questions in order for the prospective contractor handyman or crew to feel safe and secure about getting started.
I have researched all levels of construction lead agrigators and it appears through asking other contractors on message boards and insiders in the industry that thousands of people are using Contractor Management LLC to ad to there steady income from construction jobs, REO properties as well as commercial and residential hot leads provided weekly for FREE.
Why Do some people Fail?
I have found that the 2 main reasons people don’t succeed with thecontractor411.com is;
#1 because they don’t follow the companies directions given in emails after they pass the background check, or #2 they are just on “just looking” autopilot with out ever committing to any one lead or job to give it a shot.
Motivation will be a key component to any online venture and if you don’t have personal motivations it will be hard to get it from others.
So whats the best construction jobs lead site?
One that WORKS! I know that seems obvious, but many do not work, or they will have you spending THOUSANDS with little or no results.
Depending on your starting budget, and how quick you need an income will determine the level of success. The slower programs can make you nearly just as much for less money upfront, only at a much slower pace (typically months compared to weeks).
TheContractor411 Contractor Management has earned my seal of approval for anyone with bucks to put into action immediately. Follow their tried and true approach and I will personally guarantee your success. The foundation of TheContractor411 is one that is NOT used in other programs on the internet. They have a 13 year reputation with the banks and homeowners they have relationships with. If you earn your stripes with Contractor Management I can ensure you will be on the fast track to massive gains in no time in your construction or handyman business.
What if I don’t have the money?
When I first got started in construction many years ago I not only couldn’t afford to get started, I couldn’t afford for a positive change not to happen in my life. I personally had to sell one of my very cherished treasure’s to get started initially, but the rewards have far exceeded my expectations.
If you find a good lead company, stay true to yourself, and commit to a solid program there will be no other experience to witness but success. Listen to your heart, do your homework, and know that buying into a program is the easy part, the rest will be left to you and your chosen network to make your construction business a successful reality. You deserve success!!! Seize the day, and enjoy a life of abundance!
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The dictionary states that accountable means to be responsible for
your own actions. When it comes to building a career working from home, the buck stops with you. You may be tempted to initially try self coaching. You might want to
create systems for daily, weekly, monthly and annual goal tracking.
You need to identify your highest activities that put you in the best
position to achieve your goals, and then do those things first .
Reading books about coaching might also be a good place to help you
get started.
Be Accountable in Your Business Career At the end of every week, before working on the next week, it is
important that you conduct a Personal Assessment of how you have done
the previous week. Have you been true to your Objectives, have you
fulfilled your priorities. In what areas do you need to make
adjustments so that you can do better in the upcoming weak. Some people may not be suited for certain careers. They need to have
someone looking over their shoulder telling them what to do in order
to hold themselves accountable for getting the work done. Tips for holding your self accountable: 1. Set achievable goals. Write them down, and check them every day
to see your progress. Do not try to accomplish all your goals at once.
Start small and you will get to the big ones. 2. Track your progress. Make yourself a calendar. Write down
everything you have done for the day. Check it at the end of the week
and see if you have been on track. If not, do not worry about it, you
are exactly where you should be. Move ahead. 3. Give your self incentives. Write down something that you would
love to do. Post it where you always see it. When you finish your
first goal, go do it, do not wait, celebrate right now! 4. Get your self a running buddy. Someone that will hold you
accountable for your actions. Make a commitment to talk to them at
least once a week on your progress. Remember, Personal accountability is the willingness to claim 100%
ownership for your results!
“My career goals coming to business school were really to find out more about what’s out there. The Career Development Office is very involved from day one in understanding your specific needs. With the small class size, you become a face and name that are linked, as opposed to just one more person looking at a private equity job.”
Learn from the School of Hard Knocks to Gain Business Career Success
One of my college roommates had a brother who was a graduate business student and often visited our rooms. Since one of my possible career choices was to work in business, I asked this business student many questions about his studies and career choices. Everything he said expanded my knowledge and made me more interested in a business career.
This information meant a lot to me because I grew up in a small city where there were only two large employers, the Santa Fe Railway and the U.S. Air Force. Neither organization provided opportunities to learn about executive success in a large corporation.
When I began graduate business studies, I was pretty smug, thinking that I knew just what needed to be done: Get a prestigious degree and wait for highly attractive employers to bid for my services.
Talking with the other business students made me realize that I had a lot to learn about career success. I didn’t even understand what executives did in different industries.
My complacent eyes were opened wide one day when a management consultant from the famous McKinsey firm made a presentation. At the end of the discussion, I asked one of the other students who got to do what this presenter did for a living. My classmate quickly responded, “Strategy consultants.” I asked, “What’s a strategy consultant?” He responded that these were people who worked for McKinsey or The Boston Consulting Group. I remembered those answers and later applied to both firms, not quite knowing what to expect.
Even with all of this knowledge, I was totally unclear about how you went from being a management consultant to having a successful business career working for a large corporation. I guessed that someday a client might hire you. And that’s what did happen to me after I became a strategy consultant.
The key lesson from my experience is that you can have a wonderful education at a university and still lack important knowledge about the most fundamental elements of developing your business career.
Students typically prefer to get information about potential careers from fellow students and professors, but research shows that students and professors provide incomplete information. It’s better to also speak with people who have been developing a career for a decade or so to find out what lessons they learned in the school of hard knocks.
I was recently reminded of this source of information to make more effective business career plans when I corresponded with Dr. Robert Hartinger, a banking executive in Germany who is a Ph.D. graduate of Rushmore University. Dr. Hartinger kindly agreed to share his career experiences and lessons with me so that I could pass them along to you.
Dr. Hartinger started off presuming that the quality of your education was very important to career success. After graduating from his business program at a German university, he soon learned that you have few occasions to apply any of the theoretical knowledge that most schools provide. As a result, new graduates are stuffed full of knowledge and theory that has little relevance to what their employers need.
Instead, degrees qualify people to be considered for certain jobs. Many employers pride themselves on hiring from certain schools and restricting top jobs to those with the most advanced graduate degrees.
Traditional schooling provides few insights into what various industries and types of jobs are like. If students aren’t careful, they’ll seek a type of work that they won’t like. There are two alternatives available:
1. Examine industries and jobs carefully to set the right objectives.
2. Study at a school where you get practical experience in applying theoretical knowledge which gives you a sense of what a career doing that work might be like.
Dr. Hartinger doesn’t rule out the first alternative, but he’s confident that the second one is essential. If possible do both, but at least do the second. From what you learn, he also recommends that you focus on just a few opportunities. Otherwise, your attention and energies will be too widely scattered.
A lot of business success depends on your personality. That’s something that graduate schools often ignore. Outgoing people with pleasing, helpful personalities will do a lot better than grumpy, self-absorbed geniuses who rarely talk to anyone.
Many studies show that the ability to connect to other people in the organization greatly helps both job effectiveness and advancement. Why? It’s simple: You can’t know all of the answers, but with help from others you can do a great job.
But it’s not enough to simply be a connection point within the organization. You also need to add skills that improve your effectiveness.
Here’s where online learning can make a difference. People don’t care where you learn a skill; they are just pleased when you add one that’s relevant to your situation.
Today, many companies offer financial assistance for those who wish to learn new skills. When that assistance is provided over the Internet, costs are reduced and you can take more courses than those who enroll in classroom-based courses. In addition, learning while you work allows you the chance to apply what you are learning. In that way, you can sift through lots of theoretical knowledge to get just what you need. Dr. Hartinger also notes that if an online school offers flexibility in designing courses, your skill improvement can be even greater.
