- Estimating
- Audits & Analyses
- Organization & Operations
- Options Pricing, Sales Catalogs & Start Orders
- Market Strategy
- Product Valuation
- Color Selection Rooms
- New Business Guidance
- Proposals & Contracts
Affordable, Cost-Effective Consulting Services
The Common Sense Approach to Building in Profits!
Marti Ellebracht offers a variety of services to businesses specializing in Residential Construction. Whether you are a builder, a supplier or a subcontractor, Marti focuses primarily on your product, your numbers and your operating systems. Marti brings a fresh new perspective to business structure, organization and profitability.
- » Increasing your Profits is the Primary Objective.
- » Common Sense Approaches and Experience are the Primary Tools.
- » Simplicity is the Key.
Marti Ellebracht's primary objective is always about increasing your profits. From cost controls to competitive sales pricing, and from office systems to start orders, Marti can make all the complexities of your organization seem simple and manageable!
Marti Ellebracht has years of experience restructuring internal company processes, developing and managing estimating and purchasing departments, creating or redesigning forms, policies & procedures, implementing accounting and purchasing software, creating options pricing & sales catalogs, designing business offices, displays and color selections rooms and has restructured operations for dozens of companies during her career. She has found that systems that are simple in their design are the most successful in their implementation. Tailored for your unique needs, Marti brings a fresh new approach to building in profits for your organization!
Some areas where Marti can be helpful to your company...
When you need an estimator without the overhead of a full time employee, outsourcing is the smart choice.
Whether you are launching a new product line or simply needing to update your sale prices, a complete and accurate budget can mean the difference between profits and losses. Finding cost-cutting alternatives, clarifying standard specifications and negotiating competitive contracts will strengthen your bottom line. Complete budgets, sale pricing & profit margin reporting keeps you in the know about your profitability. Marti Ellebracht has the knowledge, tools and expertise to help you reap the highest returns on your construction investments.
Sometimes you know your budgets are blown, but you can't put your finger on the cause. Even worse, you can't stop the bleeding!
Through careful auditing, many of your job cost overruns can be recoverable. Most of the time, the amounts recovered far exceeds the audit fees - that's a win-win situation! Even more importantly, necessary corrections can be made to stop future unnecessary cost overruns. Recognizing common problem areas, Marti Ellebracht can show you where these budget breaches are occurring, and help you find the correct solutions.
When the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, chaos rules the day.
Structure and organization is an ever evolving process within any business. Employees come and go, layoffs or new hires are occurring, but all the work must still be done. And the more efficiently you work, the more money you make. Setting up systems with safety nets in place assures that the ball does not get dropped. When policies and procedures are correctly designed and implemented, your company does not suffer chaos when job responsibilities shift. Simplicity is the secret to efficient operations, and Marti Ellebracht has a gift for systems design that will keep everyone working together towards the same end goals - meeting budgets & schedules, avoiding costly mistakes, increasing sales and boosting profits!
If you think that selling options and upgrades only creates problems, you are missing out on your greatest opportunity to reap big profits!
The key to a smooth and profitable construction process is making sure that everyone is on the same page. This is easily accomplished by defining the specifications of your standard product, as well as your options and upgrades. Once this information is documented, the buyer knows what he is buying, the seller knows what he is selling, the supplier knows what they are supplying and the builder knows what he is building! Smooth, effortless and profitable! Marti Ellebracht creates complete Specifications Guides and Sales Catalogs and designs Start Orders, Change Orders and Sales Addenda that will eliminate confusion and boost your sales! Using your software, or the programs she has developed, Marti sets into place processes that won't allow costly communication errors to rob you of your profits.
As the market changes, so must your marketing strategies, and so should your 'product package' reflect new market demands.
This does not necessarily mean you have to change your product line. Whether it is about energy efficiency or ultimate luxury, repackaging your existing product to satisfy changing buyer attitudes just makes good sense! (Every other industry does this.) Your product becomes more desirable, more salable, and more profitable. A simple analysis of standard features and specifications and sales pricing can reveal new and innovative ways to represent your product for today's buyers. Marti Ellebracht can help you market your homes in a fresh new way!
Your Color Selection Room is a reflection of your company. It is a part of that all important "First Impression"
When your buyers make their color selections in a garage or basement area with cabinet doors on the floor leaning against a wall, carpet samples strewed about, granite samples in plastic tubs, and little marble boards leaning here or there, your company does not exude the level of professionalism that builds buyer confidence. Your color selection room is an important extension of your display model, and should be just as beautiful. The proper use of space and incorporation of your vendor's materials into the design of your color room creates an environment that is both pleasing to the eye and comfortable for your buyer. Using vendor samples and materials, Marti Ellebracht can design your color selection room to be a functional yet inviting space that makes your buyers' selections process fun and exciting!
Your buyers want to know they are making a good investment. Your agents need to know this, too!
When a buyer considers the purchase of your property, they want to know the value of their purchase. This does not mean you have to give them your costs, but when your sales agent can give honest values to your standard features or upgrades, it gives your buyer confidence that they are making a good decision to buy your home. Pointing out the excellent features of your product is better when your agent can quote the actual dollar value of these features. Marti Ellebracht knows building standards and options pricing and can help your agents understand the value of the products they are selling.
Sometimes you just need to know where to start . . .
If you are a new construction related business, sometimes the 'business' part is daunting! Your accountant may help you avoid problems with the IRS, but do you know how to track the information that will help you maximize your profits? You might be charging the 'going rate' but do you understand what your costs really are? Do you understand your overhead to labor ratio? Do you have a plan for taking your company to the next level? Where do you start, what do you need, and how will you get there? Without some guidance and structure, you may find yourself working long hard hours but not reaping big rewards. Don't give up yet. Marti Ellebracht can help you understand where you really are in your business, and create a plan for getting where you want to be.
Professional and complete proposals win contracts.
If you are a subcontractor or supplier, you want your proposals to be user-friendly for your builder. When your proposals are clear and complete, your builder can more quickly make a decision about a contract. Your builder needs to stay tight to the budget, and wants to know that everything is included in your base price. Pertinent information about your product or services eliminates misunderstandings. Legal clauses are absolutely necessary and should always be reviewed by an attorney. Marti Ellebracht has read through thousands of vendor proposals and contracts, and can help you design your proposals to be professional, complete and builder-friendly.
Common Sense - Simplicity - Profitability
Win! - Win! - Win!
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