Andi Gray, Author at Strategy Leaders

Finance

How to Measure Gross Profit for Construction Businesses

"Our construction company has commercial and residential clients. Commercial projects last longer and use up more resources. Forecasting profits can be a real challenge. Can you help?" Forecasting gross profit can be challenging, but there's an easy way to do...

Finance

How to Build an Equipment Budget for your Business

Each year we buy a fair amount of new equipment for our business. I usually just start buying what we need when cash is available, or use our credit cards when I find something at a good price. It usually...

Leadership

Plan for Next Year to Minimize Business Uncertainty

We're coming to year-end, and the last 2 years have been full of uncertainty and company stress. I know there's plenty of growth opportunity coming next year, but I'm not sure how to attack it full steam. Where I should...

Leadership

How to Set Realistic Business Goals and Expectations in 2021

Not sure how to plan for 2021 - I'm almost at the point of "what's the point?" since 2020 was so unpredictable. We've always made decisions based on intuition and gut feeling, but that's becoming pretty stressful. Expectations are sitting...

Human Resources

How to Calculate Bonuses for Employees

Our team has been working hard this past year. We're having conversations about what to give for bonuses or if we should give raises – or both. We know that not offering bonuses could be bad for morale. Still, we're...

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Press

PPP Loan Additional Funding

This article was originally published on the SCORE blog, find the original article here. By Andi Gray and Dalia Jennings, Strategy Leaders For businesses struggling amidst the COVID-19 pandemic – help is on the way, in the form of small...

Press

This Weekend Is a Chance to Save Small Businesses

This article was originally published on Entrepreneur.com - you can find that article here. by Andi Gray, President of Strategy Leaders There has never been a more crucial Small Business Saturday than this year's. Small Business Saturday is upon us again....

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Press

Small Business Struggles Don’t Bode Well For The Overall Economy

This article was originally published on Young Upstarts, you can find the original article here. by Andi Gray, President of Strategy Leaders The year 2020 can’t end quickly enough for most small business owners. Across the country, the pandemic forced...

Sales

What’s in the Sales Pipeline

Can’t give you specific numbers on what’s in our sales pipeline. Don’t know how that relates to what we need for business in order to be healthy. Seems too complicated to try and put it all together. Thoughts of the...

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