Construction Estimating Software...
What Contractors Like You Need to Know

Estimating is the heart of every contractors construction business. Consistent construction estimating is what's required if you want to profit on each of your jobs. Using specialized software for your construction estimating is the best way to make sure you make money each and every time.

If you're a contractor who wants to make money on all your jobs, you need to estimate accurately on each and every one. Using Construction estimating software is important to you because it will allows you to estimate your jobs consistently and accurately every time. It reduces the many kinds of errors you make when you estimate manually. That's the name of the game.

A major part of estimating for construction is taking off items in measurable units, like linear feet, square feet, cubic yards, and so on. This is absolutely crucial because if you can't measure it you can't estimate it consistently.

Contractors that want to bid their jobs accurately. Construction estimates the are created with software tend to be more accurate that construction bids that are done by hand.

Contractors that use construction estimating software frequently do job cost as well. If they do job cost they can feed back adjustments to the estimating software so their construction estimates are more accurate.

Virtually every contractor that's ever prepared a construction estimate has bid the job wrong at one time or another.

Some contractors today are still doing their construction estimating on the back of an envelope. That's absolutely dumb if they want to make money.  In today's competitive world of construction estimating, a contractor that's not using construction estimating software is not going to thrive. There's a good reason for this. Most contractors competition is using some form of construction estimating software. It may be using the "estimating" in QuickBooks, which is a joke for contractors that are doing more than handyman jobs. up to construction estimating programs that cost thousands of dollars.

What a contractor needs in the way of construction estimating software today is really based on how he does business and how big his company is. If the company is big enough to have one or more estimators that do nothing but estimate construction projects all day, every day, then an expensive construction estimating program with all the bells and whistles is appropriate.

However, if the company is like 95% of the construction companies in the US today, a simpler, easy to use, construction estimating program is more appropriate. Let me tell you why I'm saying this.

The big expensive construction estimating software systems are difficult to learn because they have lots of esoteric features. If you don't use these features on a daily basis you'll forget more than you ever knew. That's why they're appropriate for construction companies that have dedicated estimators that do the estimating all day, every day.

Smaller contractors, probably like you, don't spend all your time using a construction estimating program. You're out on the job, frequently working on the job, making sales calls, following up on material suppliers and sub contractors, and working in the office.

If a construction estimating program is too difficult to learn or use you won't be able to put out your construction estimates as quickly and easily as you should. As a result, if you're like a lot of people, you'll get frustrated with the software and wonder why you spent all that money.

LiteningFast™ Estimating is an easy to learn and use construction estimating program that used every day by thousands of contractors around the US, Canada, and the world. It's part of the Contractors Profit System™ that's designed to help small and medium sized contractors make profits consistently job after job.

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