I wanted to tell you guys about the success we've been having with the tile inspection side of our business. For years, people would call us and ask us to check out crappy tile. You guys know how it is. You run out there acting like the hero, spend a lot of time giving out valuable info, you make up a bid and CRICKETS. Especially when you're wanting real money for your work. So, now, when the multitudes call me about bad tile work, "my contractor just got done and it's horrible" type of stuff, I mention our "inspection service"... I tell the homeowner that most of the contractors see them as "dumb homeowners" and when we get involved it's a different story. I explain the value of the service.... Here's what it looks like: A written report where we break down the national standard violations. There are always at least 3 from a VISUAL inspection. I produce a video with Jason talking about the standards and proper installation practices and what our findings are, while he's standing in the failed shower. We've done 10+ of these and we've had success with helping 2 homeowners get the contractor to the table to make things right...our most recent one, she had a contractor that is going to pay to have us re-do the entire shower to the tune of 20k! We had another where the contractor replaced all of the showers in her house. We have one right now, in the court system. Now, if this one is a winner for the homeowner...I feel confident saying we are on to something. This is a $100k+ job that the homeowner got ripped off on. It's in court now and our report was requested by the other side during the discovery process, so it's a real thing! Here's examples of the videos we make and these are the two winners:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7pW5nHrgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKJs-i7aanE There's a PDF of the report we make at the bottom. So, essentially, we are not giving away our expertise anymore. I've made a product to sell to people. We started selling these at $400 now we are up to $600 and eventually I hope to get these up to $2000, I feel like that would be a fair price for what we do.

I will be using this thread to upload various business documents that have been shared by some of the members of this community &/or the Tile Money FB group.

It's interesting to see the sharp contrast between my ideal client type and the not so ideal ones. I recently went back to a GC I had down a lot of work with years ago. Over a year of working with them in the past, I basically priced myself out of getting any work from them. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. Work has been slow through the beginning of the year, so I decided to give them a try again. I knew that my pricing would be way above their heads, so I came up with a reduced price that is still profitable for me. I priced the first project for them and they didn't hesitate to hire me. The project manager tells me he has a bunch of projects in that area and wants me to price them. I price the next two jobs for him, and he comes back with "your price is pretty high, I will have to keep these in house". A little digging gets me the answer for them accepting my first estimate. The project I was hired for doesn't have a budget. The rest of them are priced the same way they were years ago. Too low. These projects are all lake houses with property values over 1 million. As a side note, the tile subcontractor they use a lot has a tendency to screw up installs, causing them to have to be torn out and redone..... My solution? "Let me know when the next project with a realistic tile budget comes up and I will be happy to give an estimate."

When looking to use subs what mistakes have you made? What critical things should be done? Getting a lot of phone calls recently and I've got a couple of guys I've worked with previously who are now out on their own. I'm looking to use them on splash backs first to see how it goes. But have a large job coming up that I will need then on. Obviously a contract will be written up but if there any other points I should be made aware of? Cheers lads

Howdy all. What does being a conscious contractor mean to you? I'm early on the road to my comprehension of "consciousness". I'm sure my grasp of what it is and what it means is rudimentary and might even be wrong. But, to me...(this is my outlook generally on such things) as long as it's doing good who cares if I'm what others would think of as an expert? In my past I was a bit of an A-hole, or some would say D-bag...so all this has been MASSIVE. Being a conscious contractor is an awareness of my surroundings and a self awareness. It means I'm on a journey to unplugging from the matrix. It means I have the ability to think conceptually. I'm not just putting tile on the wall, but I can put a meaning on the things that I do. It means I'm not just a tradesman or a worker. I'm a sovereign. I stand outside myself and my business and observe. It feels like if I wasn't a construction worker at heart and a BEGINNER at all of this, I'd say something like..."it means that there is no "I" and time and space doesn't exist" lol....that's coming, I'm not there yet.... It means I'm not just droning around someone's house and there's a deeper motive. Somewhere in there is my relationship with others, how I think about men and women and the world, but I haven't figured that out yet. This is the first time I've ever written this out, which seems to be part of an effective process for working things out. I want to develop simple ways of explaining this to Joe and Jane Public, why it's important for THEM to hire conscious contractors, OR explain to other men and women, who are at a different stage, GENERALLY... that's what I'm good at, is distilling the information and "scripting" it in a relatable way... and having the courage to speak. Or do we not even talk about consciousness? lol Still developing in all of this. I've only started doing meditation/prayer and breathwork; shadow work and journaling; acts of charity and kindness (giving of myself/ service); Thankfulness/being grateful; dragging the future into the present and getting out of the past; leadership; being my higher self, relationship building; sun gazing; sovereignty, conscious language and speech; hollistic health, self love; love generally.... over the last year...so bear with me...