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I'll be watching, I'm watching the marathon now and letting the hate rise.

To be fair, that risk is always there anyway. But I've turned down several guys in the last couple of weeks that other companies would have hired. In my industry, every worker knows everybody else.

I'm not going to make major changes to our business model anytime soon. What we are doing is working. We are known for fair pricing, that's not going to change. The guys that started jacking up their rates are the ones that got in trouble. One of them started charging $100 per man and got a...

I'm a service based business, and have to tell people I can't do their work until 2014. I'm going to need to do something. The only negative thing you'll see on my company on the Internet is on responsiveness, it's an issue. I can stick my head in the sand, and look at my bottom line and say...

My profit margins are 10% lower, but total profits are way higher than in the last few years. It's because I'm spending almost $15k a month in advertising now, the previous owner didn't spend that in a year. I expected net margins to be lower, but that's because I've added new laborers and...

That seems un-American turning away business (that's OK, you are Canadian). Seriously, I'm going to keep increasing my backlog until I'm forced to get more equipment. We are already devising a plan to add another crew with the least amount of equipment possible. I'm not turning away shit...

I'd be OK with a 10% increase. I've been so busy today and didn't get a chance to talk to my Manager. I think I could raise prices 10% and not get complaints. 30%? Probably not. Another crazy sales day, $18.8k today between the Secretary, Manager and Estimator. I'm probably going to have...

I'd be OK with a 10% increase. I've been so busy today and didn't get a chance to talk to my Manager. I think I could raise prices 10% and not get complaints. 30%? Probably not.

Because we are known for our fair pricing. We've raised rates about 3-4% in the last couple of weeks. I don't want to do anything that will hurt us down the road, and I've already raised rates above national average. I've picked up a bunch of business from one of my major competitors who...

It is 10-8, and we've got only ten more days to book for 2014. I probably need to start looking at new equipment.

So...what's the problem? Most businesses only close 10% of their prospects. Other than having professionally done materials at the point of sale and a website (I paid a well known graphic artist to do mine), all you can do is stress to the salespeople about how important is to inform...

As someone who was born in Baltimore and has family there, the show in no way, shape or form, captures how much Baltimore sucks.

What percentage of people are you closing? You can't expect to close everyone, but I have internal goals and tell my people what I expect. We close 50% of the people we talk to, which is pretty damn stellar. Sometimes, it drops lower, and then I get my people together and we try to figure out...

If this were March, at what is considered to be the start of our season, I'd buy the equipment. But this is Winter. Every company in the area either lays off 50% of their staff, or goes to a complete shutdown. This work will get us to the start of that slow time, at 4k a day. Right now, I...

With $182,229 in backlog and only doing 4k a day, it's getting tougher to be responsive to customers. My Manager and Secretary were arguing with each other today, and it was over scarce resources, which crews would be on what screaming customers. The answer is, that for Monday, they have 6k in...

I know it's a different industry, but we closed 25/47 customers this week, and raised $25,189 in service fees by doing free estimates. As the old marketing axiom goes, if you find a way to help your customers, and fill a consultancy role, they are more likely to sign with you. I guess there...

That's a respectable profit for a business starting out, especially since that's after your wage. Most businesses, on average, take 1.5 years to turn a profit, if they ever do. So you apparently have good business acumen. Don't make the same mistake most business owners make starting out (I...

Which translates to a bottom line net profit of?

After playing DCUO, the combat for EQ2 seems too sluggish. I can't do it, it feels as if my character is fighting underwater.

Don't knock the Cheetah, in the new DC52, she beat the entire Justice League by herself.

I dunno, Forbes used to be seen as legit. Apparently, not so much any more.

This time of year, I have all of the power, as the other companies are all slowing down, and we have more work than we can perform. I'd rather just work harder to find new business, than to worry about post-Apocalyptic scenarios. We are booked until mid December right now, if we keep doing...

Am I the only one saddened to see Todd die? He was so creepy, I enjoyed watching him.

Awesome show, and it looks like I won the board title contest.

Whatever happened to the Cartel? Why did they just disappear?

Prediction: Walt: Kills Nazi's, saves Jessie, gets his $ to his family, turns himself in to protect family, dies in custody Jesse: rescued by Walt, goes on to live a boring life, takes the Mexican kid on as his own child Skylar: Reconciles with Walt, raises the kids while sitting on a...

Why does Forever Evil just read like a remake of Acts of Vengeance?

You know how it is with some Blue Collars, they don't see the value of what anyone else does but them. But in general, he's done what I've told him to do to gain respect in their eyes, and the complaints have stopped about him. My Manager has stopped complaining about him also. They actually...

Youngblood just sold me 63k in two contracts today! One of those was 60k, for a large company, that I assigned to him for almost a week to work on. With that coming in, we are pretty much guaranteed to get through the slow times without having to lay anyone off. I'm going to have to hire...

As a Giants fan, this season has been painful to watch, especially yesterday. Oh, well. I've been a Giants fan since I was a kid, I'll always be one. But I'll admit, yesterday was the first Giants game I've turned away from since I got the NFL package five years ago. I was so pissed, I...

Better Call Saul Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama First Aired: 2015-02-08 Overview: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling...

Title: Better Call Saul Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama First aired: 2015-02-08 Creator: Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael McKean Overview: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man...

Not to be snarky, but it's always good to do your own research, and this took less than five minutes to google. He may be OK if Forbes says good things about him. But a lot of his advice seems generic, so I'd take it as generic advice and not the gospel. I'm not sure what the investment is...

This man knows his shit.

As someone whose collected since the 70's, don't do it. The market has cratered. I have more longboxes than most, and a lot of the issues are no longer worth the time to take to sell. A lot of the cost in these issues was the cost to search, and the Internet has obliterated that.

Actually, if I'd lied and put it on my insurance, I would have put 4k in service fees in my pocket. Because their offer was for me to do this, and they'd add more work. The original contract was for 2k, they would have added more. I'm not real big on lieing.

I'm not sure I could have done anything different. It was a freak accident. I could have tried to talk some sense into them, but they weren't listening.

I feel really dirty signing the release. This goes against everything I believe. There's right and there's wrong. But pragmatically speaking, I'm not sure I want to drop $3k on this. It's sitting on my kitchen table and still unsigned.

I was really surprised that the lawyers were wanting in legal fees the same amount as the damage. They told me that we could recover the legal fees back later from the judge. I wonder what % of people fall for that. Every other time I've filed a case, I've argued it myself, but because this...

What would happen if I lost the case, and didn't do what the insurance company told me? Would they pay the claim? I'm telling you that when the guy was fired, we probably went from a 90% chance of winning to a 15% chance. Both sides had been lawyering up, and I was looking at spending more in...