Business
You've found my business page! Maybe it's by clicking on a link in my email signature or somewhere else on the web. How exciting!
Here's what I do:
I work with (mostly construction) businesses to standardize processes and create tools with software they already use. There are two goals. Either help them accomplish more or spend less time in the office.
I do this by speaking plainly and asking simple questions, and here's the key; I listen.
In the last five years I've worked mostly in construction and have learned to say what I actually mean instead of using jargon, though construction has its own. Ask any wood butcher.
The main software that I use is Microsoft Excel, most folks know how to enter data and use it, they just need a little help in having Excel do the heavy lifting. Entering data five times is never necessary.
Your business creates a lot of data, it's time you use it.
My Business Model
I work with people who I enjoy working with. I don't take every job. I've had clients who expect next day delivery with a boatload of changes, that usually doesn't work for either of us.
Pricing is simple, I create a list of milestones that are worth $500 a piece and, usually on a weekly cadence, I charge the client. If the total project isn’t worth at least one week’s worth of my time, we can talk about it, but chances are you don’t actually need my help, I’m happy to point you in the right direction though to do the work yourself.
Selected Projects
- A flexible 3-week schedule that's been used by dozens of superintendents.
- A tool using Power Query and Excel that portioned up quarterly revenue among each of the music artists based on unique contract percentages
- Projections sheet that reported weighted average margin for dynamic date ranges, using google sheets.
- Here's a dynamic annual calendar that works amazing. Put a date in the green cell and the next 12 months will be populated.
If you think we would work well together (even if you don't have a project right now), drop me a line, business@danielphayward.com