#136: Smarter Business for Builders
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Join Justin for the first episode of a two-part series in which he interviews friend, Fine Homebuilding ambassador, and building-industry business consultant Shawn Van Dyke.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of the Fine Homebuilding podcast is brought to you by the Home Depot. |
| 0:04.8 | There's a difference between do it yourself and do it for a living. |
| 0:08.6 | At the Home Depot, they get that, and they're here to help pros get the whole job done better and faster. |
| 0:15.3 | Get the lowest price in the things you need with bulk and volume pricing. |
| 0:19.3 | Then get it all where you need it and when, with buy online, pick up and store, or job site |
| 0:25.7 | delivery with text notifications. |
| 0:28.0 | You save time and money. |
| 0:30.0 | When you've got a job, they're on the job. |
| 0:32.7 | The Home Depot. |
| 0:33.7 | More saving, more doing. |
| 0:41.0 | So, more doing. So you can get there by 10 different ways, meaning we're going to take one piece of this cost and market up by this percentage, another piece of the cost by this percentage. |
| 0:50.3 | But the math works out. You could just total all of that up and take your price and divide it by that it's the same thing |
| 1:01.9 | welcome everybody to a special episode of the fine home building podcast it's special because we are doing a two-part series with our friend and |
| 1:11.9 | fine home building ambassador, Sean Van Dyke. Say hello, Sean. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello, everybody. Giving that nice gravelly voice down in, uh, where are you at? Knoxville, |
| 1:21.8 | Tennessee. Yeah, Knoxville, Tennessee. Yeah, I see. We got Sean on Skype so I can see his |
| 1:27.1 | office setup. He's got his little, uh, his guitars inone on Skype so i can see his office set up he's got |
| 1:27.9 | his little uh his guitars in the background it's like his little couch where he hides out from |
| 1:31.8 | his wife and kids um yep so yep futon is very important in an office so we got sean on Skype |
| 1:39.6 | for two episodes where we're going to dive into all things business and Sean if you don't know if you |
| 1:45.8 | haven't heard them on past episodes is a business consultant who specializes um in helping out |
| 1:52.6 | builders remodels and everybody in the in the residential construction trade um so he's going to |
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