EPISODE 253: How to Get a Check from the IRS for Your Employee Retention Credit with Catherine Tindall

Catherine Tindall is an entrepreneur, CPA and partner with Dominion Enterprises. She specializes in advanced tax reduction and is an expert on the employee retention credit, which is what this episode is all about.

What’s in it for you?  If you own a business, work for a business, or know someone who owns a business, this episode could be worth a lot of money.  

1. What is the Employee Retention Credit, and why does it exist?  
2. How the Employee Retention Credit is different from PPP or EIDL.
3. How to determine if you might qualify.
4. Some common misconceptions about ERC.
5. A few case studies of businesses that received substantial checks for the ERC.  
6. The deadline when the Employee Retention Credit will go away.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

See if you qualify for the Employee Retention Credit - https://dominiones.com/

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Apply to Work with Our Team to Systematize Your Construction Business: www.constructionleadingedge.com/apply

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually  use - https://www.rakenapp.com

EPISODE 252: Are you wasting marketing dollars?  How can you use your website as a “lever” to automate your sales process?  What’s the 80/20 on marketing activities you should be focused on now, even if you’re busier than ever?  Listen to my conversation with Spencer Powell to learn all that and more.

What you’ll learn about in this construction podcast episode with Spencer Powell:

• Using marketing as a lever for adjusting lead flow.
• What you could be wasting your marketing dollars and energy on.
• How people really find you online.
• The 80/20 on marketing activities, and the question you need to answer first.
• What you can focus on now to strengthen your position during the next downturn.
• The biggest group of people you want to market to, that no one else is talking to.
• How to use lifestyle content to build relationships with future clients.
• How to use your website during the sales process.
• How can busy construction business owners leverage automation?
• How to say “No” gracefully.
• How creating constraints can make you more effective.
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Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Apply to Work with Todd Dawalt’s Team to Systematize Your Construction Business: www.constructionleadingedge.com/apply

Delegate to Elevate: Free ebook from Belay Solutions - https://resources.belaysolutions.com/edge

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually  use - https://www.rakenapp.com

How to connect with Spencer Powell:

Builder Funnel Website: https://www.builderfunnel.com/

Builder Funnel Radio Podcast: https://www.builderfunnel.com/builder-funnel-radio

EPISODE 251: How do you know if you’re getting overcharged for your workers comp premiums?  If you are 100% happy with the checks you’re writing for workers comp, and feel great about how much you’re paying…you should probably skip this episode.

What you’ll take away from this construction podcast episode with workers comp overpayment recovery specialist Scott Priz:

• There’s a 30% chance you’re getting overcharged for workers comp, and what to do about it.
• What a “shock” audit can look like, and how it could bankrupt you.
• Some of the pitfalls to watch out for that can create gigantic increases in premiums.
• How insufficient documents open the door to insurance companies doing what they want.
• Red flags that you could be getting overcharged.
• The two most common reasons contractors get overcharged. (Time tracking) 
• The biggest errors made during an audit, that you need to know about.
• A few things your insurance company is allowed to do to you if you don’t cooperate.
• The importance of your experience modification factor, and how to get it lowered.
• One way your experience modification factor can prevent you from bidding on work, and in extreme cases put you out of business.
• How to get your hard earned money back.    

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Contact Scott and our overpayment recovery partners - www.constructionleadingedge.com/recover

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Apply to Work with Our Team to Systematize Your Construction Business: www.constructionleadingedge.com/apply

Delegate to Elevate: Free ebook from Belay Solutions - https://resources.belaysolutions.com/edge

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually  use - https://www.rakenapp.com

EPISODE 250: Garrett Moore is a former Navy SEAL, and the founder of Agorus, a company tackling the housing shortage, the labor shortage and using software and robotics to build houses in days instead of months.

Here’s what you’ll hear about in this construction podcast with Garrett Moore:

• How would a team of Navy SEALS build 500 houses.
• Misconceptions about being a NAVY SEAL.
• The biggest killer of teamwork.
• Amateurs train until they get it right and how pros train.
• How the Pareto principle applies to skilled trades training.
• Commander’s Intent and how you can use it.
• The North Star principle.
• Being stubborn on vision flexible on details.
• Risk avoidance vs. ownership, and which one creates a low trust environment.
• Trust allows decentralized command.
• Who goes first with trust?
• Why mantras are effective, and a few good ones to remember.
• What’s better than carrots and sticks?
• How being lukewarm hurts culture.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Systematize Your Construction Business Results Program - Apply to work with us: www.constructionleadingedge.com/apply

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually use - https://www.rakenapp.com

How to connect with Garrett Moore, founder of Agorus:

Company website: https://agorus.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-garrettmoore-/

EPISODE 249: Should you set company goals by yourself? What happens when a business acquisition goes wrong? How can a lack of SOPs kill a job instantly? How is Jeremy Flaten, owner of Jerco Construction, actually getting young people interested in the skilled trades?

What you’ll take away from this construction podcast episode with Jeremy Flaten, owner of Jerco Construction:

• One of the greatest perks of being a business owner that might surprise you.
• How Jeremy uses hockey to get young people in the skilled trades.
• Why you should never set goals by yourself.
• How Jeremy is using Execution Plans to create a path to success with his team.
• How to use social media, even if you hate social media.
• How a business acquisition went wrong, and what Jeremy learned from it.
• The business case for a clean jobsite.
• What happened when Jeremy’s team started putting systems in place.
• Not having SOPs can kill a job instantly.
• If you’re not trying to better your business every day, you shouldn’t be in business.
• Running a business is like coaching in real life.
• How life is different after working in our coaching program.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually  use - https://www.rakenapp.com

How to connect with Jeremy Flaten:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JerCoConstruction

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jerco2008/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP3T9cmOLxa9ylTcfVx97qw

EPISODE 248: Here’s what you’ll take away from this construction podcast episode with Brady Fry, owner of Fry Classic Construction in Nashville:

• What’s better than timely communication?
• How his experience in the music industry helped him deal with construction issues.
• How to pave a wide path to success for your team.
• Why Brady strategically stopped using the word “estimate.”
• Don’t negotiate against yourself during a project.
• There are no casual conversations with clients.
• Talent wants to be on a winning team.
• The first person guy to get mad usually loses.
• Figuring out the people is a lifetime endeavor.
• How important psychology is to being a business owner.
• Why a really talented person may not want to start their own business.   
• The virtuous cycle of hiring talented people.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

3 Questions To Get Paid for Estimates:  Don’t write up another free estimate until you watch this free training video - www.buildermasterclass.com/script

How to connect with Brady Fry:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fryclassicconstruction/ 

Website - www.fryclassicconstruction.com

EPISODE 247: What you’ll learn about in this construction podcast episode with Todd Dawalt and our Director of Customer Success, Leyah Valgardson:

• Top 5 fears you’ll need to push through to grow your business.
• How business owners tend to get in their own way.
• Are you “shoulding” all over yourself?
• Harmony vs. Balance.
• Practical tips to stop screwing yourself over.
• What’s in it for you in the Systematize Your Construction Business program.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Delegate to Elevate: Free ebook from Belay Solutions - https://resources.belaysolutions.com/edge

EPISODE 246: How do you feel about the amount of hard earned money you pay to the federal government in taxes?  If there was a federal program designed to reduce your tax liability, but you didn’t know about it, would you want to take advantage of it?

This episode is about overpayment recovery and will pull the curtains back on federal tax credits that could be available to you.  Credits that a lot of CPA’s don’t know about, or won’t dig into. Tax credits that a lot of small and medium sized construction businesses are taking advantage of.

In this construction podcast episode, you’ll hear my interview with Justin Rupple, a Tax Incentive Specialist answer a few questions, including:

• What are some of the little known tax credits that are available to construction business owners?
• How much money is being left on the table every year by the average construction business?
• Why is it that a lot of CPAs don’t know about, or go after these tax credits?
• Who are some of the construction businesses who have recovered their overpayments, and how much did they get back?
• How does the process of recovering your overpayment work, and what’s the first step?
• What is this tax credit program, and why does it exist?
• What is the biggest reason most small businesses miss out on these tax credits?

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Take the first step to recover your tax overpayments - www.constructionleadingedge.com/recover

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

EPISODE 245: What you’ll learn about in this construction podcast episode:

• If you’re delegating tasks, what you should be delegating instead.
• How to use the DOA concept to speed up decision making
• What can cost more than a wrong decision
• One of the myths that needs to be debunked about delegation
• Why you should divorce communication and accountability
• The 5 levels of delegation
• What good delegation will allow your team to find, that’s probably been there all along
• A lesson from a 1990’s hip hop song

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

CompanyCam - The photo app every contractor needs - https://companycam.com/cle

EPISODE 244: What you’ll learn about in this construction podcast episode:

• The “second set of eyes” concept.
• Advice for second generation business owners.
• What is exponentially more important in a family business.
• How a train is always failing.
• Why and how to depersonalize failure, and even celebrate it.
• Problems caused by having the company vision and process locked away in his head.
• When the best way to be profitable is not to focus on profitability.
• The “Flex Track” and the problems it can solve for you.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

CompanyCam - The photo app every contractor needs - https://companycam.com/cle

How to connect with Mikhail Gannage:

Company website - https://www.gannageconstruction.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gannagedesignconstruction

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gannageconstruction/