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Customer Contract Vigilance?

by Chris Arlen

Why would customers allow contractors to over promise in their bids and under deliver after receiving the contract? Customers’ only tool to look into contractors’ future performance is the bid process. The [...]

click to continue → February 19, 2008

Overcoming Recession Reluctance

by Chris Arlen

Is our economy in recession? Have we been, or will we? What’s a recession? Are these too many questions? Even if you may not be seeing recession’s effects locally, customers are hearing [...]

click to continue → February 14, 2008

Reversing Into Darkness

by Chris Arlen

You know what a reverse auction is. Leaving the light, moving into the darkness, and finally oblivion. From a contractor’s perspective anyway. I don’t like reverse auctions. They’ve been called zero-sum, power-based [...]

click to continue → April 10, 2007

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