USDA Food Insecurity Data and U.S. Egg Production Higher
USDA’s Economic Research Service monitors the extent of food insecurity in U.S. households, and U.S. egg production totaled 9.3 billion during November, up 4% from November 2022.
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Explore "estimating" with insightful episodes like "USDA Food Insecurity Data and U.S. Egg Production Higher", "Legislation to Support Florida Agriculture and U.S. Egg Production Higher", "25. Bryan Mitchell | Your Guide to Commercial Roofing Service", "Estimation Tools with Neil Benson" and "Ep 181 – Verisk President, Property Estimating Solutions, Mike Fulton" from podcasts like ""The Agribusiness Update", "The Agribusiness Update", "Commercial Roofing Radio", "XrmToolCast" and "FNO: InsureTech"" and more!
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Legislation to Support Florida Agriculture and U.S. Egg Production Higher
Florida Ag Commissioner Wilton Simpson, Senator Jay Collins, and Representative Danny Alvarez announced the filing of legislation to support Florida agriculture, and U.S. egg production totaled 9.3 billion during November, up 4% from November 2022.
25. Bryan Mitchell | Your Guide to Commercial Roofing Service
Our next guest is all the way out of South Africa! Bryan helped build the service department at Best Roofing who was awarded Commercial Roofing Contractor of the Year by Roofing Magazine. He then became VP of the company. Today, he is the Lead Estimating Coach at Sales Transformation Group where he built their service program based on his extensive experience in the industry. If you’ve been thinking about kick-starting your service program, this is an amazing place to start! You’ll be inspired as Bryan lays out his clear-cut tips for getting your service department in gear.
Estimation Tools with Neil Benson
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Neil Benson who is a host of his own podcast, Amazing Apps, about tools and suggestions for estimating projects.
Some of the highlights:
- Estimating Business Applications
- Estimating in time sucks
- Neil's Favorite tool for estimating? His phone calculator app
- Neil wants Daryl to run 10km uphill, in the rain, over a bridge with holes...
- Managing Work Items/Sprints using Azure DevOps (SpecMap, StoriesOnBoard)
- Jira with precious user interface
- Estimating projects for RFPs
- Neil has multiple birthdays
- Drink driving vs Drunk Driving
- AmazingApps.Show
- People that have built amazing apps
- Answer questions on topics
- Why Neil still plays with LEGO
- CRM Lady and stock images
Neil's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilbenson
- @customery
- The LinkedIn post about painting your house that triggered Scott: Do you estimate projects in days? I did, and my estimates sucked.
- Customery Academy website: https://customery.academy
- Customery Academy YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/customeryacademy
- Join Estimating Business Apps free mini-course: https://customery.academy/courses/estimating
- Amazing Apps podcast: https://amazingapps.show/111
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.
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Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
Ep 181 – Verisk President, Property Estimating Solutions, Mike Fulton
Rob and Lee talk with return guest Mike Fulton, President of Property Estimating Solutions at Verisk.
Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy, and specialized markets, and financial services. In the annual tradition, we talk with Mike again, discussing Xactware, Elevate, post-pandemic workplace, and even some alma mater talk!
Learn more about Verisk at https://www.verisk.com.
Like what you hear on FNO: InsureTech? Know someone who would be a great guest for the podcast? Let us know: Email our Technical Producer at amuya@alacritysolutions.com.
How To Tighten Your Estimates And Land More Work With Paul McKeon
What’s the secret to successful companies in the construction space? It’s being able to tighten your estimates and make the right bids. Joining Eric Anderton is Paul McKeon, CEO of B2W Software. Paul’s visionary leadership has driven continuous, cutting-edge product development and revenue growth. In this episode, he shares key tips on how to land more work and make bids that feed your growth. Paul also shares valuable insights on how to incorporate software successfully to optimize your systems and make better estimates. Stay tuned!
Bidding a Chick-fil-a Full Service Lawn Care + Landscape Contract w/ Jacob Bishop From Pro-Mow Lawn Service and Landscaping
In today's show we air a coaching call where Paul Jamison walks Jacob Bishop through assembling a bid for a Chick-fil-a in Jacob's service area. The bid includes lawn mowing, edging, fertilizer and weed control, seeding, tree pruning, irrigation monitoring and much more. Paul and Jacob go over the details as they put together the bid for this job.
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126 – How an installer takes care of his customers with John Langan
In this episode of the Cabinet Maker Profit System podcast, Dominic Rubino speaks with John Langan, owner of JL Molding Design, about satisfied customers, listening to customer feedback, dealing with negative reviews, encouraging word-of-mouth, dealing with pets, material price increases, charging for estimates, and more.
126 – How an installer takes care of his customers with John Langan
In this episode of the Cabinet Maker Profit System podcast, Dominic Rubino speaks with John Langan, owner of JL Molding Design, about satisfied customers, listening to customer feedback, dealing with negative reviews, encouraging word-of-mouth, dealing with pets, material price increases, charging for estimates, and more.
122 – Why am I BUSY but LOSING MONEY? with Eric Fortenberry
In this episode of the Profit Tool Belt podcast, Dominic Rubino speaks with Eric Fortenberry, founder and CEO of JobTread Software, about paying attention to key numbers, proper estimates, margins versus markup, incentivizing quality work, building winning teams, accounts receivable, negotiation, and more.
122 – Why am I BUSY but LOSING MONEY? with Eric Fortenberry
In this episode of the Profit Tool Belt podcast, Dominic Rubino speaks with Eric Fortenberry, founder and CEO of JobTread Software, about paying attention to key numbers, proper estimates, margins versus markup, incentivizing quality work, building winning teams, accounts receivable, negotiation, and more.
Agile estimating and planning
Agile teams often think differently than more traditional project planning efforts. Gone are months-long project schedules with tasks, milestones, and resource plans. In place of that are autonomous teams that define a value-driven backlog of work, and they schedule that work in short iterations (or sprints) over 1-4 weeks.
Those teams will estimate the work and determine what can be done based on value and capacity for the upcoming iteration. Rather than detail the hours the teams work, they plan with story points.
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An introduction to agile team planning and velocity
In today's lively conversation with Adam Jennison, Enterprise Agile Consultant, you will learn how agile teams estimate their work and track how well they performed based on the estimate. You will also learn how to implement these concepts in your team, no matter what type of work you do.
If you come from a traditional project management background, you are likely familiar with the process of defining tasks, assigning resources, and estimating hours.
As organizations continue their shift to product-centric work, agile teams will define what they can accomplish in short iterations (or sprints). Those iterations typically run 1-4 weeks. An agile team will look at the backlog of work and determine what they will do based on criteria like value, risk, and hours to complete. Rather than estimating individual hours for each person, the team will agree to story points. When the iteration is complete, you can use a velocity metric to determine how well they did against the plan.
If you are unfamiliar with story points and velocity, do not fret. Adam explains it all with ease and shares some great stories along the way.
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96 – A WISE and REAL-WORLD look at Estimating and Building with David Gerstel
In this episode of the Profit Tool Belt podcast, Dominic Rubino speaks with best-selling author David Gerstel about his books, estimating and bidding (and keeping those processes separate), using time wisely, selecting clients, turning down work, growing with caution, being true to your values, and more.
96 – A WISE and REAL-WORLD look at Estimating and Building with David Gerstel
In this episode of the Profit Tool Belt podcast, Dominic Rubino speaks with best-selling author David Gerstel about his books, estimating and bidding (and keeping those processes separate), using time wisely, selecting clients, turning down work, growing with caution, being true to your values, and more.
170. A Guide to Bidding Your Work w/ Marshall Whitney
Today I am talking with Mashall Whitney owner of Raum furniture in Houston Texas. He runs two different shops, the first is an ASME pressure vessel shop and the other is a custom furniture shop, today we’re talking about how to price out work and Marshall gives us a couple secrets to help out with developing your material take-off’s and pricing out your work so you don’t lose your ass starting out.
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How long is that going to take?
The eternal question that every developer hears: How long is that going to take? Aaron and Joel discuss some ways to frame that question, and how to provide an estimate that will avoid unnecessary disappointment.
- 00:00 Accurate estimates can be difficult
- 02:00 Disconnect between a developer and a stakeholder
- 03:00 How Aaron approaches an estimate
- 06:05 Pad the estimate? Ranges?
- 07:38 The importance of open communication
- 08:12 Translating "hours" into real world time
- 09:50 Planning not pricing
- 11:56 Silly bit
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Scheduling the One Man Band
Anthony Keenan rejoins Chris to discuss how to schedule work as a one-man band, having made the jump into self-employment.
TOPICS
* Managing multiple clients
* Overbooking work
* Managing time
* Estimating
* Scheduling
* Working “overtime” to meet client’s demands
* Importance of an SoW / scope
* Expectation management
* Saying “no”, but keeping client’s happy
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Snazzy Intro: On Top of the World by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/texasradiofish/50478 Ft: John Fletcher, Patricia Edwards, ElRon XChile, Speck, alexplaysguitar
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Ep. 80 – Estimating Annual Waterfowl Harvest, Part 3
In the final installment of this special series on waterfowl harvest estimation, Drs. Kathy Fleming and Paul Padding discuss the 2 critical surveys that are part of this process: Migratory Bird Hunter Survey and Parts Collection Survey. This episode sheds light on how these data are collected and used, and why none of this would be possible without the interest, cooperation, and participation by hunters. www.ducks.org/dupodcast
Ep. 78 – Estimating Annual Waterfowl Harvest, Part 2
In part 2 of this series on waterfowl harvest estimation, Drs. Kathy Fleming and Paul Padding go in-depth on the Harvest Information Program, known to most people simply as “HIP,” to explain how it works and how the data are used to select hunters for participating in the core surveys from which harvest is estimated. We also discuss additional uses of waterfowl harvest data. www.ducks.org/dupodcast