It's been a while since I've seen one of these on Veeky Forums.
Any business owners/prospective business owners care to share what they're going through atm? Hope everyone is staying busy and making money so far this year.
I'm in my second year of business on my own. I run a small construction restoration company (by myself as of now) and am on track to pull in close to $100k gross this year. Overhead is about $12-15k annually and material is about 10-20% of job cost.
Getting customers was slow but I hit the right markets and am only doing commercial work for large repeat clients. I'm not looking forward to the hiring process but will be bringing someone on board within the years end. Craigslist is full of junkies, and un-motivated flakes. Indeed just seems like the wrong place to look for blue collar type employees. I am thinking about trying a temp labor agency to find someone worth training. Anyone have any experience hiring an employee from a temp agency before?