On The Floor with Wayne and Rob

Markups vs. Margins - Part 1

Episode Summary

Wayne and Rob discuss the difference between markups and margins and how it effects your bottom line. Follow Bona US Professional online: Website: https://www1.bona.com/en-us/professional/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BonaProfessional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonauspro/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonapro.us/

Episode Transcription

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Hello and welcome to another episode

 

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of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.

 

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I'm Wayne Highlander with Bona Adhesives.

 

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We're doing Rob.

 

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Oh, I got a text message from you,

 

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and I'm sorry I didn't respond

 

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till the next day.

 

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Especially after you sent me a message

 

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like that.

 

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Can I read your.

 

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What happened?

 

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Oh, the the the.

 

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Are you talking about the hockey game?

 

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Yeah.

 

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That was pretty awesome.

 

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You know, I did, and I and, here's how.

 

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How much of a hockey fan I'm not is.

 

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I just was watching TV

 

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and came across him. Oh.

 

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The hockey game, I suppose.

 

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It's,

 

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Oh, that's right, it's a gold medal game.

 

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So, and, it was 3 minutes

 

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or 4 minutes into the game

 

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when I turned it on

 

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and it was incredible.

 

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There's a,

 

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And it says so much

 

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about the Canadians that, you know,

 

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it means more going

 

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through the Canadians than anybody else

 

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because they're so good.

 

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They're so talented.

 

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There's a team.

 

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And I, man,

 

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it was both played

 

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their their hearts out

 

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and could have went either way,

 

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but it went, the USA's way.

 

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And, I thought it was a fantastic game

 

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and just the spirit of the game, the.

 

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You know what I mean?

 

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That's the way sports is.

 

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There's no money,

 

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and it's just this love of the sport

 

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and the competition. It was awesome.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Well.

 

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Of course.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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I don't think you can say that.

 

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That was like.

 

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Okay, that

 

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that led to the strategy of why we won.

 

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You know what I mean?

 

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Because it the game is so close.

 

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I mean, after

 

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it was tied after three periods, right.

 

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Okay.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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I mean, it's a hit.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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That's a.

 

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A lot of shots on goal for sure.

 

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I, when they brought out

 

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the two kids at the end,

 

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that was pretty damn special, man.

 

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And, I don't care what side of the coin

 

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you're on.

 

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Yeah.

 

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That was pretty special.

 

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The, vaguely guy.

 

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And I'm going to take this thing off

 

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my head now, cause

 

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I don't know where it's too.

 

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I don't know where.

 

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Headbands, but

 

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but no, we go ahead and tell me.

 

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Man.

 

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Oh my gosh.

 

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You kidding?

 

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Yeah.

 

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Well, I know he.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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100%.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah. Good deal.

 

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Hey, you sent me a text message.

 

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Go ahead.

 

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Right.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Sports illustrated now, that from 1980.

 

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And you.

 

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You. I'll be darned.

 

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Wow, that's pretty cool.

 

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And you saved that from then?

 

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From that date, you didn't. Wow.

 

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Pretty pretty slick.

 

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Wow.

 

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Wow.

 

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Even before it.

 

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I'll give you 30 bucks for it.

 

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Wow.

 

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All right, before you get.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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All right,

 

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before we get on to our show,

 

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we're going to get down

 

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real quick and everything.

 

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Do you mind if I share the.

 

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The text you sent with me

 

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sent me over the week?

 

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All right.

 

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Yeah, well,

 

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well, Rob sent me a, text message of him

 

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and a gymnasium floor being coated,

 

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and his text is.

 

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I think I'm

 

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one of the luckiest guys in the world.

 

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I get a wake up every day,

 

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put uncomfortable work boots in a clean

 

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pressed uniform,

 

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go to my job and teach guys how to do man

 

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s*** all day

 

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and get up and do it again.

 

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Yes, I know the wife and family too, but

 

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work wise

 

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and no one's got it better than me.

 

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Trained a gym crew today on set.

 

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You went fantastic.

 

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So, Pretty.

 

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I love the guy.

 

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Loves the job. Man is awesome. Yeah.

 

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Pretty cool.

 

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All right.

 

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You and I never get it.

 

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We never go

 

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do a deep dive on stuff like this, and,

 

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I don't even know how

 

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we're going to do this.

 

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I think you just take it

 

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one step at a time, and it's going to be

 

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maybe complicated a little bit,

 

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but we'll try to, go slow here.

 

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And,

 

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I think one of the mistakes

 

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that contractors make sometimes.

 

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Listen, first of all,

 

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not giving advice.

 

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Me and Rob are not accountants, CPAs,

 

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financial advisors,

 

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and any stretch of imagination.

 

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But.

 

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And I think we've made all these mistakes

 

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that we're talking about here.

 

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So we're nothing.

 

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We're not preaching,

 

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you know, above anybody.

 

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But oftentimes contractors

 

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kind of get it backwards.

 

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And they, they,

 

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they want growth for growth sake.

 

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You know,

 

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I want to get more business,

 

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more jobs, more crews, more revenue,

 

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and then try to figure out

 

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if it's profitable

 

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or how to make it profitable.

 

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So I think we're going to talk today

 

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about, markup versus margin

 

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and your markup factor on jobs

 

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and that type of stuff.

 

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Okay.

 

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Okay.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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And, the book is called Profit First

 

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for contractors,

 

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and I'm holding it up now.

 

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And, profit

 

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first by by Sean Van Dike D wiki.

 

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And, that was it.

 

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International building,

 

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international Builder show last week

 

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and, I bought a couple

 

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books for the ride home.

 

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One of the other is, is called

 

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the Service Culture Handbook.

 

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Yeah. It's okay.

 

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But,

 

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this one I thought was really good.

 

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Then I started more.

 

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I started thinking about it.

 

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And what I like

 

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about what this guy is proposing

 

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is, really different than most

 

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anybody ever, that I've ever known.

 

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As approached

 

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how to make your company profitable.

 

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And one thing he says,

 

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and I'll get into this later, is,

 

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to open up five different

 

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checking accounts

 

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and, set up five different

 

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chain accounts for your business.

 

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One is your is for income,

 

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two is for profit,

 

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three is for the owner's compensation,

 

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four is for taxes

 

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and five is for operating expenses.

 

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But the one that for profit,

 

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even if you only start out at 1% profit,

 

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make sure that you pay that.

 

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And and you don't,

 

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you make sure you pay those in order.

 

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But.

 

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Well, I don't want to get too far ahead.

 

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I'll get into that a little bit later

 

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and stop me

 

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Rob that from from going

 

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too fast or whatever.

 

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So.

 

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All right.

 

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So, again.

 

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Well,

 

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you know, this is

 

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this is it's not that it's that exact.

 

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It actually is not complicated.

 

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It's really not that complicated.

 

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But we don't sometimes take the time to.

 

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Yeah, it's it's.

 

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And if

 

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and if none of this works out,

 

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I do have a separate retirement plan.

 

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We can talk about.

 

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So don't let me forget to go over there

 

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to go over that plan, okay?

 

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No.

 

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All right.

 

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Mark up in and, margins.

 

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They're not interchangeable words

 

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for one.

 

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And I'm just I'm just going to read off

 

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the bullet points

 

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of the notes that I took. Okay.

 

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And actually, somebody,

 

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if they wanted to email me,

 

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I can just send them these notes.

 

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If it if it helps.

 

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This gentleman says if you could

 

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teach only one thing

 

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that would make a difference.

 

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It would be the difference

 

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00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:54,927

between these two.

 

271

00:14:54,927 --> 00:14:56,996

If you just teach one thing in business,

 

272

00:14:56,996 --> 00:14:58,097

it would be the difference

 

273

00:14:58,097 --> 00:14:59,598

between markup and margin.

 

274

00:15:01,033 --> 00:15:01,734

Markup is the

 

275

00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:02,468

amount of money

 

276

00:15:02,468 --> 00:15:04,770

you add to your cost of goods.

 

277

00:15:04,770 --> 00:15:05,337

Whenever you see

 

278

00:15:05,337 --> 00:15:06,105

cost of goods

 

279

00:15:06,105 --> 00:15:07,072

in a business book,

 

280

00:15:07,072 --> 00:15:09,141

it's usually, expresses,

 

281

00:15:09,141 --> 00:15:10,376

just cogs

 

282

00:15:10,376 --> 00:15:12,811

and capital letters, cost of goods.

 

283

00:15:12,811 --> 00:15:15,814

So markup is the amount of money

 

284

00:15:15,814 --> 00:15:17,416

you add to your cost of goods

 

285

00:15:17,416 --> 00:15:19,585

to determine your price.

 

286

00:15:19,585 --> 00:15:22,888

Margin is the space between your price

 

287

00:15:22,888 --> 00:15:25,891

or income and your cost of goods.

 

288

00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:28,527

So on your profit and loss statement,

 

289

00:15:28,527 --> 00:15:30,162

it will get into profit and loss.

 

290

00:15:30,162 --> 00:15:31,330

A little bit later,

 

291

00:15:31,330 --> 00:15:34,633

you'll see a line before your line

 

292

00:15:34,633 --> 00:15:35,501

below your total

 

293

00:15:35,501 --> 00:15:38,504

cost of goods, called gross profit.

 

294

00:15:39,905 --> 00:15:42,908

Gross profit equals income

 

295

00:15:44,109 --> 00:15:46,745

minus your cost of goods

 

296

00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:47,813

and even cost of goods.

 

297

00:15:47,813 --> 00:15:48,347

We'll get into

 

298

00:15:48,347 --> 00:15:49,982

what is actually cost of goods versus

 

299

00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:51,216

what is an actual expense

 

300

00:15:51,216 --> 00:15:51,951

for your business.

 

301

00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:53,185

Okay,

 

302

00:15:53,185 --> 00:15:55,220

so the gross profit is all the money

 

303

00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:57,790

you have left to pay for your expenses

 

304

00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:02,328

and have a net profit left over.

 

305

00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:03,429

It's going to get a little bit

 

306

00:16:03,429 --> 00:16:05,197

more interesting here in a minute.

 

307

00:16:05,197 --> 00:16:07,466

The.

 

308

00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:10,469

So.

 

309

00:16:16,075 --> 00:16:16,608

Yeah.

 

310

00:16:16,608 --> 00:16:16,976

Yeah.

 

311

00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:19,979

 

 

312

00:16:21,847 --> 00:16:24,850

Yes.

 

313

00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:28,854

Oh there you go.

 

314

00:16:28,854 --> 00:16:31,857

 

 

315

00:16:35,527 --> 00:16:36,829

That's,

 

316

00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:38,797

 

 

317

00:16:38,797 --> 00:16:39,398

All right,

 

318

00:16:39,398 --> 00:16:42,067

so the gross profit is all the money

 

319

00:16:42,067 --> 00:16:44,269

you have left to pay for your expenses

 

320

00:16:44,269 --> 00:16:46,271

and have a net profit left over

 

321

00:16:46,271 --> 00:16:49,274

the gross profit is your gross margin.

 

322

00:16:49,308 --> 00:16:50,142

Whether your gross

 

323

00:16:50,142 --> 00:16:51,977

margin profit is enough to pay

 

324

00:16:51,977 --> 00:16:53,579

for all your expenses

 

325

00:16:53,579 --> 00:16:56,048

and leave you with enough profit.

 

326

00:16:56,048 --> 00:16:56,648

Excuse me?

 

327

00:16:56,648 --> 00:16:58,684

Leave you with

 

328

00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:00,419

enough of a net profit to run

 

329

00:17:00,419 --> 00:17:00,953

a sustainable

 

330

00:17:00,953 --> 00:17:02,287

business is yet to be determined.

 

331

00:17:02,287 --> 00:17:03,956

Okay, so we'll look at that.

 

332

00:17:03,956 --> 00:17:04,523

So listen to

 

333

00:17:04,523 --> 00:17:05,657

what your margin needs

 

334

00:17:05,657 --> 00:17:06,759

to be in the markup that

 

335

00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:08,093

will yield that margin

 

336

00:17:09,595 --> 00:17:11,663

if you take a look it's simple math okay.

 

337

00:17:11,663 --> 00:17:15,467

So let's take $100 for example.

 

338

00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:19,038

You buy something that costs you $100.

 

339

00:17:19,438 --> 00:17:22,441

You mark up the cost by 20%.

 

340

00:17:22,808 --> 00:17:23,042

All right.

 

341

00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:23,876

So let's say that

 

342

00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:25,778

that you wood flooring for instance,

 

343

00:17:25,778 --> 00:17:26,879

it's it's $100.

 

344

00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:27,913

Now we know that

 

345

00:17:27,913 --> 00:17:29,214

you know what's more expensive than that

 

346

00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:29,748

blah blah blah.

 

347

00:17:29,748 --> 00:17:30,749

But let's take hundred dollars

 

348

00:17:30,749 --> 00:17:31,984

for example.

 

349

00:17:31,984 --> 00:17:33,519

You buy something,

 

350

00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:35,921

your wood flooring costs 100 bucks,

 

351

00:17:35,921 --> 00:17:38,891

and you mark up the cost by 20%,

 

352

00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:41,393

and you sell that for $120.

 

353

00:17:41,393 --> 00:17:42,594

Okay?

 

354

00:17:42,594 --> 00:17:45,597

So.

 

355

00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:51,703

Well maybe maybe not.

 

356

00:17:51,703 --> 00:17:52,704

You don't know what your markup

 

357

00:17:52,704 --> 00:17:55,707

factor is yet. Okay.

 

358

00:17:55,808 --> 00:17:56,375

All right.

 

359

00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:57,743

So all right.

 

360

00:17:57,743 --> 00:18:00,813

So again you take this example $100.

 

361

00:18:00,813 --> 00:18:02,047

You buy something for you buy

 

362

00:18:02,047 --> 00:18:03,515

the wood for $100.

 

363

00:18:03,515 --> 00:18:06,085

You markup that cost by 20%.

 

364

00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:09,088

And you sell that for $180 okay.

 

365

00:18:09,354 --> 00:18:10,189

So price

 

366

00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:12,224

price that price

 

367

00:18:12,224 --> 00:18:15,227

equals cost times markup factor.

 

368

00:18:15,227 --> 00:18:19,098

It's equals $120 as 100 times .12.

 

369

00:18:19,331 --> 00:18:20,933

Okay.

 

370

00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:23,936

If the if the cost of your thing was $100

 

371

00:18:24,203 --> 00:18:26,638

and you sold it for $120,

 

372

00:18:26,638 --> 00:18:29,308

then your gross profit is $20.

 

373

00:18:29,308 --> 00:18:29,575

Okay.

 

374

00:18:29,575 --> 00:18:30,776

So the gross profit equals

 

375

00:18:30,776 --> 00:18:33,779

a price minus costs okay.

 

376

00:18:33,879 --> 00:18:36,882

So the price is $100 minus the cost,

 

377

00:18:37,216 --> 00:18:40,986

equals $120 is $100.

 

378

00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:43,155

Okay.

 

379

00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:44,223

But here's a mistake.

 

380

00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:45,090

And this is what I'm getting

 

381

00:18:45,090 --> 00:18:46,558

at right here.

 

382

00:18:46,558 --> 00:18:48,060

Here's a mistake that most construction

 

383

00:18:48,060 --> 00:18:49,895

businesses owners make.

 

384

00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:50,996

They say something like,

 

385

00:18:50,996 --> 00:18:53,899

I marked up my cost by 20%.

 

386

00:18:53,899 --> 00:18:56,902

Therefore I made a 20% profit.

 

387

00:18:57,035 --> 00:18:57,803

All right.

 

388

00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:59,071

That sounds very reasonable, right?

 

389

00:18:59,071 --> 00:19:01,707

I've marked up my cost by 20%.

 

390

00:19:01,707 --> 00:19:03,475

All right. He took the wood. Is $100.

 

391

00:19:03,475 --> 00:19:04,743

He marked it by 20%.

 

392

00:19:04,743 --> 00:19:07,112

So he thinks I made a 20% profit.

 

393

00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,916

This is not correct.

 

394

00:19:10,916 --> 00:19:11,617

This is wrong.

 

395

00:19:11,617 --> 00:19:13,352

You didn't make 20% profit.

 

396

00:19:13,352 --> 00:19:16,355

You made a 16.7% gross profit,

 

397

00:19:17,089 --> 00:19:18,624

okay?

 

398

00:19:18,624 --> 00:19:20,425

You don't sell your cost.

 

399

00:19:20,425 --> 00:19:23,395

You sell your price.

 

400

00:19:24,062 --> 00:19:25,464

Okay.

 

401

00:19:25,464 --> 00:19:25,898

In order

 

402

00:19:25,898 --> 00:19:27,499

to determine the margin

 

403

00:19:27,499 --> 00:19:29,635

in this $100 example,

 

404

00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:32,604

you take your gross profit of $20

 

405

00:19:33,005 --> 00:19:35,274

and divide by the price of 120,

 

406

00:19:35,274 --> 00:19:38,277

not the cost of $100.

 

407

00:19:38,343 --> 00:19:41,280

See the difference?

 

408

00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,116

Okay.

 

409

00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:46,885

Okay.

 

410

00:19:46,885 --> 00:19:49,855

So you're taking the hut?

 

411

00:19:50,889 --> 00:19:51,924

Yeah.

 

412

00:19:51,924 --> 00:19:54,593

You're marking up your market up to $100

 

413

00:19:54,593 --> 00:19:57,563

by 20%, right?

 

414

00:19:58,230 --> 00:19:59,298

Yeah.

 

415

00:19:59,298 --> 00:20:02,834

So in this case,

 

416

00:20:03,068 --> 00:20:04,970

what you do is you take,

 

417

00:20:04,970 --> 00:20:07,973

you take the $120.

 

418

00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:11,910

Okay.

 

419

00:20:11,910 --> 00:20:14,913

And then do your math on that instead.

 

420

00:20:17,783 --> 00:20:20,786

Makes it.

 

421

00:20:21,820 --> 00:20:23,889

So.

 

422

00:20:23,889 --> 00:20:24,323

Okay.

 

423

00:20:24,323 --> 00:20:27,326

So so.

 

424

00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:28,660

Okay.

 

425

00:20:28,660 --> 00:20:31,663

Do 120 divided by divide

 

426

00:20:31,730 --> 00:20:34,733

by, 100.

 

427

00:20:54,386 --> 00:20:56,488

No no no no.

 

428

00:20:56,488 --> 00:20:59,491

So.

 

429

00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:02,394

You do, you do, you do.

 

430

00:21:02,394 --> 00:21:05,731

In order to determine it, you take your.

 

431

00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,269

Hold on.

 

432

00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,336

No.

 

433

00:21:11,336 --> 00:21:12,771

You.

 

434

00:21:12,771 --> 00:21:14,172

In order to turn the margin

 

435

00:21:14,172 --> 00:21:14,906

in this hundred dollars

 

436

00:21:14,906 --> 00:21:15,274

example,

 

437

00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:18,176

you take your gross profit of $20

 

438

00:21:18,176 --> 00:21:20,512

and divide by the price of 120,

 

439

00:21:20,512 --> 00:21:23,515

not the cost of $100.

 

440

00:21:23,715 --> 00:21:25,651

Okay,

 

441

00:21:25,651 --> 00:21:29,955

so you do $20.20 by $120.

 

442

00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:30,922

Do that.

 

443

00:21:30,922 --> 00:21:33,925

You should be 16.7.

 

444

00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:35,761

Yeah.

 

445

00:21:35,761 --> 00:21:38,764

Okay.

 

446

00:21:38,897 --> 00:21:39,264

Yeah.

 

447

00:21:39,264 --> 00:21:41,366

Which is 16.7.

 

448

00:21:41,366 --> 00:21:43,869

So that 20% markup you did yields

 

449

00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:46,872

at 60.

 

450

00:21:47,005 --> 00:21:49,975

It's 16.7.

 

451

00:21:52,244 --> 00:21:55,247

Yes.

 

452

00:21:57,115 --> 00:21:57,416

Hang on.

 

453

00:21:57,416 --> 00:22:00,419

Let me get my calculator.

 

454

00:22:05,524 --> 00:22:09,895

61.8.166667

 

455

00:22:09,895 --> 00:22:12,898

which is basically 16.7.

 

456

00:22:15,434 --> 00:22:16,568

Don't get hung up on a

 

457

00:22:16,568 --> 00:22:19,705

on a on a on a fraction of a percent.

 

458

00:22:29,114 --> 00:22:32,117

For.

 

459

00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:35,253

Oh, gosh.

 

460

00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:39,858

You got second.

 

461

00:22:41,293 --> 00:22:44,296

So this is telling you that

 

462

00:22:48,834 --> 00:22:51,203

Yes.

 

463

00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:52,003

Yeah.

 

464

00:22:52,003 --> 00:22:52,304

All right.

 

465

00:22:52,304 --> 00:22:55,273

So so great.

 

466

00:22:55,273 --> 00:22:56,141

Okay.

 

467

00:22:56,141 --> 00:22:57,542

But here's the thing.

 

468

00:22:57,542 --> 00:22:58,844

That might be okay.

 

469

00:22:58,844 --> 00:22:59,644

That might be all

 

470

00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:01,713

your business needs to pay

 

471

00:23:01,713 --> 00:23:03,949

for your cost of goods and your expenses

 

472

00:23:03,949 --> 00:23:05,517

and all the other thing, your taxes

 

473

00:23:05,517 --> 00:23:07,619

and everything, all your overhead

 

474

00:23:07,619 --> 00:23:08,453

and make a profit.

 

475

00:23:08,453 --> 00:23:11,089

But you don't know that. Yeah, okay.

 

476

00:23:11,089 --> 00:23:14,059

But at first you have to determine

 

477

00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:14,726

how to figure

 

478

00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:15,961

what the what

 

479

00:23:15,961 --> 00:23:17,496

the difference between markup and margin

 

480

00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:19,564

and how to get it. Okay.

 

481

00:23:19,564 --> 00:23:21,199

So in the first example he goes

 

482

00:23:21,199 --> 00:23:23,602

oh I'm just going to mark it up by 20%.

 

483

00:23:23,602 --> 00:23:26,605

And he thinks, oh I've got a 20% profit.

 

484

00:23:26,805 --> 00:23:28,039

Okay.

 

485

00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:31,009

So now to

 

486

00:23:31,276 --> 00:23:31,977

to determine

 

487

00:23:31,977 --> 00:23:33,178

what the difference

 

488

00:23:33,178 --> 00:23:33,612

between that

 

489

00:23:33,612 --> 00:23:37,249

and margin is, it, you take the $100

 

490

00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:38,016

in this example,

 

491

00:23:38,016 --> 00:23:39,418

take $200,

 

492

00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:42,087

you take the gross profit of $20

 

493

00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:42,621

and divide

 

494

00:23:42,621 --> 00:23:44,756

that by the price of $120,

 

495

00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:46,892

not the cost of $100.

 

496

00:23:46,892 --> 00:23:47,359

Okay.

 

497

00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,061

So now you're sitting with a 16.7 margin.

 

498

00:23:50,061 --> 00:23:51,329

Okay.

 

499

00:23:51,329 --> 00:23:52,497

If you make the mistake

 

500

00:23:52,497 --> 00:23:54,433

dividing by the cost

 

501

00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:55,634

instead of the price.

 

502

00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:58,203

So that's what we did. You divide it

 

503

00:23:59,304 --> 00:24:00,839

when you just do the percentage.

 

504

00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:01,973

You just did it by the cost

 

505

00:24:01,973 --> 00:24:03,175

instead of the price.

 

506

00:24:03,175 --> 00:24:05,944

When you determine your what's required,

 

507

00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:06,778

markup for your work,

 

508

00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:09,181

then you'll be losing money.

 

509

00:24:09,181 --> 00:24:09,381

Okay.

 

510

00:24:09,381 --> 00:24:11,383

Let me say that again a little bit better

 

511

00:24:11,383 --> 00:24:12,951

if you make the mistake

 

512

00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:15,954

dividing the cost instead of the price

 

513

00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:18,056

when determining the required markup

 

514

00:24:18,056 --> 00:24:18,824

for your work,

 

515

00:24:18,824 --> 00:24:20,525

then you will be losing money.

 

516

00:24:20,525 --> 00:24:21,393

Okay?

 

517

00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:24,129

A 20% markup does not yield

 

518

00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:27,132

a 20% margin.

 

519

00:24:27,699 --> 00:24:30,702

I think that's the biggest takeaway.

 

520

00:24:30,735 --> 00:24:32,671

Okay.

 

521

00:24:32,671 --> 00:24:35,607

If you if you need a 20% margin

 

522

00:24:35,607 --> 00:24:36,908

to pay for your expenses

 

523

00:24:36,908 --> 00:24:38,877

and leave you with a net profit,

 

524

00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:40,078

then you will need to markup

 

525

00:24:40,078 --> 00:24:43,081

the cost of goods by 25%.

 

526

00:24:44,449 --> 00:24:47,419

Okay, so.

 

527

00:24:47,819 --> 00:24:50,822

Okay.

 

528

00:24:50,956 --> 00:24:51,289

Okay.

 

529

00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:52,724

So

 

530

00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:55,727

okay.

 

531

00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:56,862

Yeah.

 

532

00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:59,865

That's a.

 

533

00:24:59,865 --> 00:25:00,131

Yeah.

 

534

00:25:00,131 --> 00:25:02,467

So so so that the markup factored.

 

535

00:25:21,887 --> 00:25:24,122

There you go.

 

536

00:25:24,122 --> 00:25:27,125

So.

 

537

00:25:29,895 --> 00:25:32,063

Yeah.

 

538

00:25:32,063 --> 00:25:32,864

Okay.

 

539

00:25:32,864 --> 00:25:35,867

So the cost of goods equals $100.

 

540

00:25:35,901 --> 00:25:36,501

In this case,

 

541

00:25:36,501 --> 00:25:39,538

your markup factor equals 1.25.

 

542

00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:41,506

So price equals

 

543

00:25:41,506 --> 00:25:44,676

$100 times 1.25 is hundred and $25.

 

544

00:25:45,176 --> 00:25:46,344

Gross profit

 

545

00:25:46,344 --> 00:25:49,347

equals price minus cost of goods

 

546

00:25:49,581 --> 00:25:52,350

equals a 125 -$100.

 

547

00:25:52,350 --> 00:25:54,219

Equal 25 margin.

 

548

00:25:54,219 --> 00:25:57,289

Equal gross profit divided by price

 

549

00:25:57,289 --> 00:26:00,292

equal 20%.

 

550

00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,669

Well, yes.

 

551

00:26:10,669 --> 00:26:11,870

Yes. You got to know what?

 

552

00:26:11,870 --> 00:26:14,873

Yes, yes.

 

553

00:26:18,209 --> 00:26:18,710

Yes.

 

554

00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:21,313

If you go to

 

555

00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:24,082

that profit first contract, your.com,

 

556

00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:27,085

there's, there's a PDF you can download.

 

557

00:26:27,686 --> 00:26:28,520

You can take it with you,

 

558

00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,421

take a photo of it,

 

559

00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:30,922

print it out to your computer,

 

560

00:26:30,922 --> 00:26:32,490

what have you.

 

561

00:26:32,490 --> 00:26:35,493

So there you go.

 

562

00:26:36,695 --> 00:26:38,930

Dot profit

 

563

00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:41,933

first contractor.com.

 

564

00:26:48,907 --> 00:26:51,910

And no.

 

565

00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:54,613

That's right.

 

566

00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:55,180

All right.

 

567

00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:56,681

So again, your margin

 

568

00:26:56,681 --> 00:26:58,049

or your gross profit is the

 

569

00:26:58,049 --> 00:26:59,851

space between your price,

 

570

00:27:01,052 --> 00:27:02,988

your income and your cost of goods.

 

571

00:27:02,988 --> 00:27:04,222

This space needs to be larger

 

572

00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:06,057

than your expenses if it is.

 

573

00:27:06,057 --> 00:27:07,692

And you what's your net profit?

 

574

00:27:07,692 --> 00:27:09,861

Okay.

 

575

00:27:09,861 --> 00:27:11,363

So the most important equation

 

576

00:27:11,363 --> 00:27:11,930

you need to know

 

577

00:27:11,930 --> 00:27:14,299

if your business is price

 

578

00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:17,402

equals cost times the markup factor

 

579

00:27:18,770 --> 00:27:19,070

okay.

 

580

00:27:19,070 --> 00:27:20,205

So you got to know what all

 

581

00:27:20,205 --> 00:27:22,540

what all your all your overhead is.

 

582

00:27:22,540 --> 00:27:23,541

We'll get into that in a minute.

 

583

00:27:23,541 --> 00:27:25,910

All your expenses and everything.

 

584

00:27:25,910 --> 00:27:27,145

And,

 

585

00:27:27,145 --> 00:27:28,113

then you determine what

 

586

00:27:28,113 --> 00:27:29,681

your markup factor is,

 

587

00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:30,015

all right,

 

588

00:27:30,015 --> 00:27:32,350

the price of any of your projects,

 

589

00:27:32,350 --> 00:27:33,652

of any of your projects, you know,

 

590

00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:34,786

and you give a bin out to somebody,

 

591

00:27:34,786 --> 00:27:35,887

the price of your project

 

592

00:27:35,887 --> 00:27:37,722

is the sum of your cost

 

593

00:27:37,722 --> 00:27:38,990

of the project

 

594

00:27:38,990 --> 00:27:41,993

multiplied by the markup factor.

 

595

00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:45,096

The markup needs to be high enough

 

596

00:27:45,096 --> 00:27:46,731

to pay for your expenses

 

597

00:27:46,731 --> 00:27:48,199

and leave you with a net profit. Okay.

 

598

00:27:50,802 --> 00:27:51,536

So your cost of

 

599

00:27:51,536 --> 00:27:52,771

goods for your business

 

600

00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:54,839

is typically the cost of your labor,

 

601

00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:56,708

your material, your subcontractors,

 

602

00:27:56,708 --> 00:27:58,209

if you have them in equipment.

 

603

00:27:58,209 --> 00:27:59,544

These are things that you

 

604

00:27:59,544 --> 00:28:00,745

got out to the jobsite

 

605

00:28:00,745 --> 00:28:02,247

and you left them on the job site.

 

606

00:28:02,247 --> 00:28:04,449

The flooring, the finishes, the material,

 

607

00:28:04,449 --> 00:28:06,985

the sandpaper and all that stuff. Right?

 

608

00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:09,821

So if it's not a cost of goods,

 

609

00:28:09,821 --> 00:28:12,424

then it's classified as an expense.

 

610

00:28:12,424 --> 00:28:14,526

Those are two separate items altogether.

 

611

00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:15,260

Okay.

 

612

00:28:15,260 --> 00:28:17,362

The difference between cost of goods

 

613

00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:19,197

and an expense

 

614

00:28:19,197 --> 00:28:21,766

is a simple way to determine that.

 

615

00:28:21,766 --> 00:28:24,502

If you buy it, mark it up

 

616

00:28:24,502 --> 00:28:26,237

and sell it to your customers

 

617

00:28:26,237 --> 00:28:28,707

and it gets left out in the field

 

618

00:28:28,707 --> 00:28:29,908

like flooring, the in

 

619

00:28:29,908 --> 00:28:31,276

this case is always going to be flooring.

 

620

00:28:31,276 --> 00:28:32,343

What have you.

 

621

00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:33,478

It's it's it's

 

622

00:28:33,478 --> 00:28:35,714

most likely a cost of goods. Okay.

 

623

00:28:38,116 --> 00:28:39,517

Yeah.

 

624

00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:40,351

Yeah.

 

625

00:28:40,351 --> 00:28:41,853

For example you buy the material

 

626

00:28:41,853 --> 00:28:43,421

let's say some flooring for your work.

 

627

00:28:43,421 --> 00:28:44,089

You mark them up,

 

628

00:28:44,089 --> 00:28:45,623

you send your customers those materials.

 

629

00:28:45,623 --> 00:28:47,325

There's they're all cost of goods.

 

630

00:28:47,325 --> 00:28:49,260

Same things applies to your labor.

 

631

00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:50,495

It's the cost of goods.

 

632

00:28:50,495 --> 00:28:53,131

You air quotes by labor

 

633

00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:54,032

from your employees.

 

634

00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:54,999

You mark it up and sell

 

635

00:28:54,999 --> 00:28:56,167

to your customers.

 

636

00:28:56,167 --> 00:28:58,536

Labor is a cost of good, right?

 

637

00:28:58,536 --> 00:28:59,904

These things

 

638

00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:01,206

are the result of these things.

 

639

00:29:01,206 --> 00:29:02,540

Was subcontractors.

 

640

00:29:02,540 --> 00:29:03,141

Any equipment,

 

641

00:29:03,141 --> 00:29:06,144

whatever is considered cost of goods.

 

642

00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:09,247

Okay, what about cell phones?

 

643

00:29:09,347 --> 00:29:11,349

You don't sell your cell phones,

 

644

00:29:11,349 --> 00:29:12,684

but you certainly need a cell phone

 

645

00:29:12,684 --> 00:29:14,285

to operate your business

 

646

00:29:14,285 --> 00:29:15,286

since you don't buy it

 

647

00:29:15,286 --> 00:29:18,022

and mark it up and sell cell phones.

 

648

00:29:18,022 --> 00:29:18,556

That money

 

649

00:29:18,556 --> 00:29:19,357

you spend on your cell

 

650

00:29:19,357 --> 00:29:20,458

phone is an expense.

 

651

00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,261

It's not a cost of good, okay?

 

652

00:29:23,261 --> 00:29:24,929

It's just an expense.

 

653

00:29:24,929 --> 00:29:26,231

Another example is food.

 

654

00:29:26,231 --> 00:29:27,398

For instance,

 

655

00:29:27,398 --> 00:29:29,167

if you take customers out for lunch

 

656

00:29:29,167 --> 00:29:30,335

or whatever

 

657

00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:31,603

those type of things,

 

658

00:29:31,603 --> 00:29:33,404

you know, you're not marking that up.

 

659

00:29:33,404 --> 00:29:35,173

You're not selling it to them, but,

 

660

00:29:35,173 --> 00:29:35,840

you know, it

 

661

00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,342

maybe generates

 

662

00:29:37,342 --> 00:29:39,177

business or income for your business

 

663

00:29:39,177 --> 00:29:39,644

or whatever.

 

664

00:29:39,644 --> 00:29:41,713

So, it's an expense.

 

665

00:29:41,713 --> 00:29:43,181

It's not, cost of goods.

 

666

00:29:43,181 --> 00:29:44,949

Okay.

 

667

00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:47,952

Got it.

 

668

00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:56,594

Yeah.

 

669

00:29:59,130 --> 00:29:59,397

That's.

 

670

00:29:59,397 --> 00:30:00,331

Yeah.

 

671

00:30:00,331 --> 00:30:00,765

That's an it.

 

672

00:30:00,765 --> 00:30:02,200

Oh it's an expense

 

673

00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,935

because you're not selling your,

 

674

00:30:03,935 --> 00:30:05,503

your your gas. Right.

 

675

00:30:05,503 --> 00:30:08,506

You're not marking it up and selling it.

 

676

00:30:08,540 --> 00:30:11,543

So at.

 

677

00:30:17,248 --> 00:30:20,251

Yes.

 

678

00:30:20,351 --> 00:30:23,354

Correct.

 

679

00:30:26,691 --> 00:30:29,694

Yeah.

 

680

00:30:29,794 --> 00:30:31,262

Yeah.

 

681

00:30:31,262 --> 00:30:34,265

Yeah.

 

682

00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:36,501

Okay.

 

683

00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:38,102

Now let's, let's define the markup.

 

684

00:30:38,102 --> 00:30:41,105

Now.

 

685

00:30:41,439 --> 00:30:42,941

The markup is the amount of money

 

686

00:30:42,941 --> 00:30:44,909

that you add to your cost of goods

 

687

00:30:44,909 --> 00:30:46,778

to determine your price.

 

688

00:30:46,778 --> 00:30:49,214

The markup is often expressed as an IT

 

689

00:30:49,214 --> 00:30:50,248

as a percentage.

 

690

00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:50,815

For example,

 

691

00:30:50,815 --> 00:30:51,783

let's say that your estimated

 

692

00:30:51,783 --> 00:30:53,484

your cost of goods to be $100.

 

693

00:30:54,752 --> 00:30:56,054

And you and you want to

 

694

00:30:56,054 --> 00:30:59,057

add a 50% markup to calculate your price,

 

695

00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:02,527

you would multiply $100 by 50%.

 

696

00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,828

And then the product

 

697

00:31:03,828 --> 00:31:04,429

of that form

 

698

00:31:04,429 --> 00:31:05,363

into your cost of goods

 

699

00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:07,665

and your price of $150.

 

700

00:31:07,665 --> 00:31:09,901

So basically you go to step one is $100

 

701

00:31:09,901 --> 00:31:12,904

times 0.50 equals $50.

 

702

00:31:12,904 --> 00:31:14,439

Step two is just do

 

703

00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:17,442

$50 plus 100 equals $150.

 

704

00:31:18,309 --> 00:31:19,777

That would determine your markup,

 

705

00:31:19,777 --> 00:31:21,446

but you don't have to do it

 

706

00:31:21,446 --> 00:31:23,047

in two steps like that.

 

707

00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:24,415

Maybe I've made it more complicated.

 

708

00:31:24,415 --> 00:31:26,184

It had to be,

 

709

00:31:26,184 --> 00:31:30,121

you could eliminate a step, and,

 

710

00:31:30,121 --> 00:31:32,390

see, instead of multiplying

 

711

00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:33,858

the cost of goods by the markup

 

712

00:31:33,858 --> 00:31:34,859

and then adding that number

 

713

00:31:34,859 --> 00:31:36,027

back to the cost of goods,

 

714

00:31:36,027 --> 00:31:37,762

which is a two step process,

 

715

00:31:37,762 --> 00:31:39,530

we can simply multiply

 

716

00:31:39,530 --> 00:31:41,532

the cost of goods by the markup factor.

 

717

00:31:42,834 --> 00:31:44,535

We haven't determined what that is yet.

 

718

00:31:44,535 --> 00:31:45,837

Okay.

 

719

00:31:45,837 --> 00:31:47,605

And get the same result in one step.

 

720

00:31:47,605 --> 00:31:49,240

For example, using the same numbers

 

721

00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,174

as we

 

722

00:31:50,174 --> 00:31:50,742

use earlier

 

723

00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,977

and the cost of goods is $100,

 

724

00:31:52,977 --> 00:31:55,813

our markup factor is 50%.

 

725

00:31:55,813 --> 00:31:59,384

All we have to do is do $100 times 1.5.

 

726

00:32:00,351 --> 00:32:01,653

Okay.

 

727

00:32:01,653 --> 00:32:04,289

This

 

728

00:32:04,289 --> 00:32:06,190

to get to the, the 150.

 

729

00:32:06,190 --> 00:32:08,359

That makes sense.

 

730

00:32:08,359 --> 00:32:09,794

Okay.

 

731

00:32:09,794 --> 00:32:10,595

So again, net

 

732

00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:11,930

profit is the money that remains

 

733

00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:12,997

after the cost of goods

 

734

00:32:12,997 --> 00:32:14,265

and expenses are deducted.

 

735

00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:15,600

So that formula is net

 

736

00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,368

profit equals income minus

 

737

00:32:17,368 --> 00:32:20,371

cost of goods minus expenses.

 

738

00:32:21,172 --> 00:32:22,473

Now there's something very interesting

 

739

00:32:22,473 --> 00:32:23,641

when you talk to an accountants

 

740

00:32:23,641 --> 00:32:25,643

that I got out of this book

 

741

00:32:25,643 --> 00:32:27,845

and that most construction companies

 

742

00:32:27,845 --> 00:32:30,548

get wrong when it comes to CPAs.

 

743

00:32:30,548 --> 00:32:31,649

Worse.

 

744

00:32:31,649 --> 00:32:33,318

And, get to this a little bit later on.

 

745

00:32:33,318 --> 00:32:34,218

But it was, it was

 

746

00:32:34,218 --> 00:32:35,853

I found it to be very interesting

 

747

00:32:36,888 --> 00:32:39,891

where, you know,

 

748

00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:42,060

most owners take a draw from the company,

 

749

00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:43,828

not a salary,

 

750

00:32:43,828 --> 00:32:45,697

but at the end of the day,

 

751

00:32:45,697 --> 00:32:46,998

it does on the balance sheet.

 

752

00:32:46,998 --> 00:32:49,634

It doesn't give you a really accurate

 

753

00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:51,703

look at at your,

 

754

00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:54,005

but they do that for tax reasons.

 

755

00:32:54,005 --> 00:32:54,739

But at the end of the day,

 

756

00:32:54,739 --> 00:32:55,373

it doesn't give you

 

757

00:32:55,373 --> 00:32:57,308

a really accurate account of, of,

 

758

00:32:57,308 --> 00:32:59,610

what your costs are.

 

759

00:32:59,610 --> 00:33:00,545

And so we'll get into that

 

760

00:33:00,545 --> 00:33:01,279

a little bit later on.

 

761

00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:02,613

But I thought it was very interesting.

 

762

00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:04,615

Okay.

 

763

00:33:04,615 --> 00:33:07,618

So you with me so far.

 

764

00:33:07,785 --> 00:33:09,253

Okay.

 

765

00:33:09,253 --> 00:33:11,689

Okay. So

 

766

00:33:11,689 --> 00:33:12,991

and I think you have to let this

 

767

00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,192

go through this whole thing

 

768

00:33:14,192 --> 00:33:16,094

and it all kind of comes together.

 

769

00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:17,695

Okay.

 

770

00:33:17,695 --> 00:33:17,962

All right.

 

771

00:33:17,962 --> 00:33:19,664

So net profit is the money that okay.

 

772

00:33:19,664 --> 00:33:20,531

So I talked about this.

 

773

00:33:20,531 --> 00:33:21,833

So then for main areas

 

774

00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:23,501

that give us information to determine

 

775

00:33:23,501 --> 00:33:25,636

how the business performs

 

776

00:33:25,636 --> 00:33:26,971

are also known as a profit

 

777

00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:28,639

and loss statement okay.

 

778

00:33:28,639 --> 00:33:29,774

Number one it's income

 

779

00:33:29,774 --> 00:33:31,609

which is the total revenue.

 

780

00:33:31,609 --> 00:33:32,810

Two is the cost of goods.

 

781

00:33:32,810 --> 00:33:33,578

We talked about that

 

782

00:33:33,578 --> 00:33:35,146

being a laborer material, equipment,

 

783

00:33:35,146 --> 00:33:38,683

subcontractors, whatever three expenses,

 

784

00:33:38,983 --> 00:33:40,485

general expenses, office equipment,

 

785

00:33:40,485 --> 00:33:42,720

cell phone, shop expenses

 

786

00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:43,855

for your net profit.

 

787

00:33:44,822 --> 00:33:46,290

As income minus cost

 

788

00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:47,492

of goods, business expenses.

 

789

00:33:47,492 --> 00:33:49,394

Okay,

 

790

00:33:49,394 --> 00:33:50,895

so if you think about it, every proposal

 

791

00:33:50,895 --> 00:33:53,064

that you present in the form of a bid to,

 

792

00:33:53,064 --> 00:33:55,033

to one of your clients

 

793

00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:57,168

is a mini profit and loss statement

 

794

00:33:57,168 --> 00:33:58,102

for that project.

 

795

00:33:58,102 --> 00:34:00,271

In order to prepare a proposal,

 

796

00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:01,072

you estimated

 

797

00:34:01,072 --> 00:34:03,174

your cost of goods on the job.

 

798

00:34:03,174 --> 00:34:04,742

You play a markup factor

 

799

00:34:04,742 --> 00:34:06,210

to those cost of goods that pay

 

800

00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:07,412

for the portion of expenses

 

801

00:34:07,412 --> 00:34:08,679

that your project incurs

 

802

00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,215

and leaves you with a net profit.

 

803

00:34:11,215 --> 00:34:13,051

Okay, the only difference is hopefully

 

804

00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,385

you're not showing the customer

 

805

00:34:14,385 --> 00:34:16,154

your cost of goods.

 

806

00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:17,355

So,

 

807

00:34:17,355 --> 00:34:21,125

construction is a cost based business.

 

808

00:34:21,492 --> 00:34:22,560

In order to make a profit,

 

809

00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,327

you is calculate

 

810

00:34:23,327 --> 00:34:24,362

your cost of goods

 

811

00:34:24,362 --> 00:34:26,864

and apply the appropriate markup factor

 

812

00:34:26,864 --> 00:34:28,533

so you can pay for your expenses

 

813

00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,768

and have a net profit left over.

 

814

00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:33,237

I think

 

815

00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:34,672

one of the biggest mistakes,

 

816

00:34:34,672 --> 00:34:37,375

and I knew very early on

 

817

00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:40,378

that I, I estimated my costs

 

818

00:34:40,711 --> 00:34:42,613

rather than I really dialed down.

 

819

00:34:42,613 --> 00:34:45,583

And we had Chris is on the show one time

 

820

00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:46,784

and this is where he did.

 

821

00:34:46,784 --> 00:34:49,454

He did that exercise

 

822

00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:51,022

where he puts everything in a bag

 

823

00:34:51,022 --> 00:34:52,490

on a job. Well, he had your dish.

 

824

00:34:52,490 --> 00:34:53,091

You delivered.

 

825

00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:54,959

If you change a scraper blade out,

 

826

00:34:54,959 --> 00:34:55,893

throw that in the bag.

 

827

00:34:55,893 --> 00:34:58,262

If you use a file,

 

828

00:34:58,262 --> 00:35:00,631

everything, everything goes in the bag.

 

829

00:35:00,631 --> 00:35:03,501

Because I think we all.

 

830

00:35:03,501 --> 00:35:05,470

We want to

 

831

00:35:05,470 --> 00:35:06,370

we want to think that

 

832

00:35:06,370 --> 00:35:07,972

we made a lot of money on the job.

 

833

00:35:07,972 --> 00:35:09,974

So, you know, maybe

 

834

00:35:09,974 --> 00:35:11,909

don't put some of the stuff in there.

 

835

00:35:11,909 --> 00:35:13,411

You know, maybe,

 

836

00:35:13,411 --> 00:35:15,113

maybe you didn't put this,

 

837

00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:15,580

you know,

 

838

00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:16,380

that bundle of wood

 

839

00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:17,181

in there in the storage

 

840

00:35:17,181 --> 00:35:17,748

because it was left

 

841

00:35:17,748 --> 00:35:19,383

over on another job or whatever,

 

842

00:35:19,383 --> 00:35:20,485

you know what I mean?

 

843

00:35:20,485 --> 00:35:21,819

And I think I though

 

844

00:35:21,819 --> 00:35:23,154

I was probably guilty of that.

 

845

00:35:23,154 --> 00:35:25,256

I know I was guilty of that. If not.

 

846

00:35:30,161 --> 00:35:30,528

Yeah.

 

847

00:35:30,528 --> 00:35:33,531

No.

 

848

00:35:33,698 --> 00:35:36,434

Yeah.

 

849

00:35:36,434 --> 00:35:38,503

Yeah,

 

850

00:35:38,503 --> 00:35:39,003

yeah.

 

851

00:35:39,003 --> 00:35:40,004

And sometimes your employees

 

852

00:35:40,004 --> 00:35:41,639

think you made 12 grand, but,

 

853

00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:43,307

the fact that off that often would,

 

854

00:35:43,307 --> 00:35:44,041

let's say your employee

 

855

00:35:44,041 --> 00:35:45,776

picks up a check for me, you go, wow,

 

856

00:35:45,776 --> 00:35:46,844

we worked on this job,

 

857

00:35:46,844 --> 00:35:48,179

and, And Bob gets.

 

858

00:35:48,179 --> 00:35:49,881

It's $8,000.

 

859

00:35:49,881 --> 00:35:51,449

Well, and it's

 

860

00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:52,383

usually, like you

 

861

00:35:52,383 --> 00:35:54,252

said, it's a would was $5 is usually.

 

862

00:35:54,252 --> 00:35:55,987

That's not what gets you, though.

 

863

00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:57,989

It's all the small things.

 

864

00:35:57,989 --> 00:35:58,890

It's the gas bag.

 

865

00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:02,093

And for it to the jobs, it's all the,

 

866

00:36:02,093 --> 00:36:04,529

the smaller things that add up over time

 

867

00:36:04,529 --> 00:36:06,130

and all the trips to Home Depot

 

868

00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:07,365

that kill you.

 

869

00:36:07,365 --> 00:36:10,368

And actually, by doing this,

 

870

00:36:10,535 --> 00:36:11,536

it really tells you

 

871

00:36:11,536 --> 00:36:12,770

where you have to streamline,

 

872

00:36:12,770 --> 00:36:15,206

because when I told you,

 

873

00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:16,774

he, he tells you to open up

 

874

00:36:16,774 --> 00:36:18,643

five checking accounts.

 

875

00:36:18,643 --> 00:36:19,977

And when you get paid,

 

876

00:36:19,977 --> 00:36:22,480

you pay them sequentially.

 

877

00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:22,813

All right?

 

878

00:36:22,813 --> 00:36:24,148

The the money goes in the

 

879

00:36:24,148 --> 00:36:26,017

to you first it goes into the profit

 

880

00:36:26,017 --> 00:36:27,351

and it goes into the whatever.

 

881

00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:30,354

And at the very last thing is expenses.

 

882

00:36:30,755 --> 00:36:33,124

And when you find out you can't

 

883

00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:35,927

pay the expenses,

 

884

00:36:35,927 --> 00:36:37,094

you're not supposed to profit

 

885

00:36:37,094 --> 00:36:37,895

from the other things.

 

886

00:36:37,895 --> 00:36:39,130

It tells you that,

 

887

00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:40,097

okay, you need to

 

888

00:36:40,097 --> 00:36:41,432

you need to raise your prices

 

889

00:36:41,432 --> 00:36:44,368

or you need to cut cost of goods. Okay.

 

890

00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:45,469

So we'll get into that

 

891

00:36:45,469 --> 00:36:48,472

a little bit later.

 

892

00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:54,345

Confuse your forgot.

 

893

00:37:21,272 --> 00:37:24,275

That's I mean.

 

894

00:37:45,496 --> 00:37:45,930

Yeah.

 

895

00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:48,933

Nope.

 

896

00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:53,938

Yeah.

 

897

00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:02,880

Well,

 

898

00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,883

so.

 

899

00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:19,664

All right.

 

900

00:38:19,664 --> 00:38:21,198

Now I'm going to stop here

 

901

00:38:21,198 --> 00:38:22,933

for freaking commercial,

 

902

00:38:22,933 --> 00:38:25,836

because this is where,

 

903

00:38:25,836 --> 00:38:28,706

I swear to God, when I got me off oil

 

904

00:38:28,706 --> 00:38:30,441

based finish,

 

905

00:38:30,441 --> 00:38:32,443

they got me off oil based finish

 

906

00:38:32,443 --> 00:38:33,411

because I.

 

907

00:38:33,411 --> 00:38:34,812

You start looking at the amount of trips

 

908

00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:36,414

to a job

 

909

00:38:36,414 --> 00:38:37,415

and and you.

 

910

00:38:37,415 --> 00:38:38,716

Now you look at chroma stain.

 

911

00:38:38,716 --> 00:38:39,650

I don't care

 

912

00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:41,886

if anybody has any doubts or concerns.

 

913

00:38:41,886 --> 00:38:43,587

Talk to Jeremiah Strong and Boehner,

 

914

00:38:44,588 --> 00:38:46,957

about the experiences he's had on jobs.

 

915

00:38:46,957 --> 00:38:49,460

Words saved the guy's a ton of time.

 

916

00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:49,860

Yeah,

 

917

00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:51,062

they're a little bit of a learning curve.

 

918

00:38:51,062 --> 00:38:51,929

But,

 

919

00:38:51,929 --> 00:38:53,164

I mean, you know,

 

920

00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:55,333

if you can cut these expenses

 

921

00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:57,134

and, you know, one thing, Rob

 

922

00:38:57,134 --> 00:38:57,601

and I always

 

923

00:38:57,601 --> 00:38:59,203

we're not the smartest guys on the block,

 

924

00:38:59,203 --> 00:39:03,140

but if we can get you to that zone

 

925

00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:04,975

where you're making the most money,

 

926

00:39:04,975 --> 00:39:06,377

and and you're,

 

927

00:39:06,377 --> 00:39:07,378

you're as productive

 

928

00:39:07,378 --> 00:39:08,946

as you can possibly be,

 

929

00:39:08,946 --> 00:39:10,214

they use the marketing stuff

 

930

00:39:10,214 --> 00:39:11,615

and everything, man,

 

931

00:39:11,615 --> 00:39:14,618

and just streamline your business.

 

932

00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:18,022

Hopefully it helps somebody,

 

933

00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:20,591

not go through some of the hardships

 

934

00:39:20,591 --> 00:39:22,793

as we've all gone through. So. Okay.