SFA: What's the Answer?
Biggest Business-Growth Problem?
Steve McKenna
Business owners and entrepreneurs: What are the biggest challenges you face in growing your business?
Asad Khan
Hiring people!
David Wong
Customers are exponentially bigger assholes year after year.
Jeremy Barker
Help.
David DiMaria
Employees with integrity.
Bob Schwager
New employee out there saying “I’m too good for this job,” while we’re all “you don’t even know how to do the damn job.
Amanda Celeste Jones-Bell
Amen!
Kathy Scarlata Frank
Finding quality people to work. I don’t mean experienced people, I mean non-dirtbags.
Bob Schwager
Communication.
Austin Green
Employees
Amanda Celeste Jones-Bell
Employees
Mike Rafter
Definitely the lack of eager workers.
Everyone wants to be a YouTube sensation these days.
Idiots.
Lito Arias
All of them.
Bob Schwager
New employee out there saying “I’m too good for this job,” while we’re all “you don’t even know how to do the damn job.
Amanda Celeste Jones-Bell
Amen!
Brian Knecht
Oh boy. Lots to unpack... First is employees. The younger generation either doesn't want to work hard and invest their time to learn a skilled trade or they don't accept authority or criticism well. They believe this trade is simple plug-and.play. And their pay is never enough (I pay competitive wages for the area). Customers have gone off the deep end. Everyone has a computer. They've "DONE THEIR RESEARCH" and know more than the experienced trades. Their expectations are becoming unbearable. Arrival time, scope of work, expectations .... Just off the wall extremes. Every Stoner here most likely loves this trade. We love the gift we give to that one customer who sings our praises. We're all prideful but appreciate a good craftsman's work. I wish the general population understood that we love to teach this trade and that we love our work. Kind of a shitty day here and sorry for the rant. But damn I love this trade and I hope all of you go home safe and with "less than normal" sore shoulders and backs. Stay safe out there.
King Johnson
What’s funny is about 20+ years ago we had 10-15 Redneck alcoholic fabricators with DUIs that rode mopeds to work but they weren’t like today's dirtbags. They worked hard and worked late. Now guys don’t show up for days or just never come back. 😡😭
Matt Pelton
Learning to ride the ebbs and flows.
Aaron McCaslin
Balancing sub-contracting and building my own client base.
Gerry Van Der Bas
Lmao! say what you really feel 🤣🤣🤣
Jerry Stever
It’s all about you, how you treat your employees, how you react and handle stress. If you do great work, when you say you’ll do it and have a positive enthusiastic view on life. Good fortune will soon follow. You are fortunate to be in a business with great possibilities and many customers desiring your products. Stop complaining and be that person everyone wished they worked for.
Dustin Aust
Good question to consider. The biggest challenge I face is myself. A closed mind. Not willing to face discomfort in the growing phase. Letting go of control. Trusting others. Learning new things. More risk. FEAR.
Gerardo Jimenez
Not enough hours in the day.
Ady Segura Andrade
Karens
Bailey Granite Works
Trying to balance work and family and … taxes!!!!
William Suarez
The amount of money it costs to make a true profit in our super-competitive industry paired with clients not able to digest inflation costs yet ….
Lee WhiteHorse
Here in Colorado it's trying to keep this business a true craft that makes a good living. You have all these bums slapping cheap granite in houses for pennies because they live off the government meanwhile bring down the entire industry for everyone else.
Mark Taylor
I worked with a guy who couldn’t measure anything. 😂😂 Completely incompetent.
Matthew Paul Schumann
Labor shortage.
Daniel Rivera
Finding talent is by far my biggest hurdle.
Matt Kraft
New hires passing drug screen.
Jeremy Schauer
Employees.
David Ervin
People expecting it to be done overnight.