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Is Your Contracting Business Growing on Purpose, or on Luck?
Fri, Oct 30, 2026 | Posted by Per Ohstrom
Most successful subs know their operations cold. You know your backlog, which jobs are on schedule, where labor is tight, and which estimates are due this week.
Most of you also don’t have a sales department. Business development belongs to the owner and the project managers who are already running projects, so growth work happens in whatever time is left over.
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