Our 2012 Thanksgiving 360 Difference 4 Special

by on November 5, 2011 in News

Celebrating our new web site design for 2012 (it’s a custom modification we did on top of the Inspire WordPress theme framework from the folks at WooThemes) for a limited time (or a limited number of new licenses) we’re offering a Special with our 360 Difference Estimating software. Purchase 360 Difference Estimating for the regular price of $365.00 (US) and we’ll give you:

  • Share Your ScreenUp to 4 hrs of FREE Real Time Live Support Training and Set-up Help up to new users on Apple 10.5 Leopard systems via Apple’s iChat AV Open Apple's iChat AV web page and to PC Users who have GoToMyPC Open the GoToMyPC web page accounts we can log into.
  • A 2 Year License that entitles you to FREE updates to not only the 360 Difference Estimating Module but get all the other desktop modules we produce ( CRM, Contract Administration, Production, TimeKeeping, Accounting, Human Resources, & Document Management) for FREE.
  • With the 2 year license get additional licenses for up to 9 users in a peer to peer sharing network for just $100 each so you company can grow. (More than 9 users requires the solution to be hosted via FileMaker Server, call for details).

Click here to download a demo of 360 Difference Estimating or if you ready to take advantage of this limited time offer (offer expires Dec 15th) you can go right to our store and Purchase a License Securely via Pay Pal.

Any questions? Please give us a call at 914-301-5838 8am to 5pm EST and we’ll be glad to talk with you and help you out.

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iOS: A visual history

by on December 14, 2011 in iOS, News

Found this via A Complete Illustrated History Of iOS Every Apple Fan Needs To Read | Cult of Mac

iOS: A visual history | The Verge

From this great article/history/guide, this is something I’ve discussed with several people and am excited about as I work on developing moving 360 Difference to the iOS platform :

…Theoretically, an iPad or iPhone could now become somebody’s sole computing device. That’s a significant change and while it could portend bigger things for the iOS platform in the future, for now it’s more of a necessary condition for a mobile computing revolution than a sufficient one…

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Running a Successful Construction Company by David Gerstel

by on February 17, 2010 in Books

Running a Successful Construction Company

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Running a Successful Construction Company by David Gerstel is considered by many to be a seminal classic book on running a building and/or remodeling contracting business in addition to giving us a great explanation and the definitive phrase "Capacity Based Markup".

Is in Chapter 5; Estimating and Bidding, and more specifically on pgs 167 through 168 that Gerstel talks about using what he calls a “Capacity Based Markup” which is the same thing as what is otherwise known as a PROOF or Indexed or Labor Allocated Markup which Irv Chasen, Ellen Rohr, and I all talk and write about and why it’s a safer better bet for a new contractor with a varied mixed of projects to use.

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How Much Should I Charge by Ellen Rohr

by on February 17, 2010 in Books

How Much Should I Charge?:
Pricing Basics for Making Money Doing What You Love

By Ellen Rohr
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While she never uses the phrase ‘Capacity Based Markup’ in plain simple language that anyone can understand Ellen Rohr lays out and explains the mechanics of setting a price for your work using what is essentially a ‘Capacity Based Markup’ methodology.

Also I highly recommend her companion book:

Where Did The Money Go?- Easy Accounting Basics for the Business Owner Who Hates Numbers Where Did The Money Go?- Easy Accounting Basics for the Business Owner Who Hates Numbers

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It a great book for gaining a simple understanding of the accounting basics as contractors we often seem to skip over when we first go into business and don’t really pick up on or get interested in until we’re inspired by a crisis.

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Our 2010 Web Site ReDesign

by on February 17, 2010 in News

In preparation for the release of 360 Difference 3.2 later this winter or early spring we’ve redesigned and reorganized our website.

The Evo4 CMS WordPress Theme
by Ray Gulick

We stepped away from the HTML table based design we had here and remodeled the site this time using CSS to format the presentation and WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). To do that we took the Evo4 CMS WordPress Theme developed by Ray Gulick of Evolution Web Development as a development framework and modified the CSS to look like another Macintosh inspired WordPress theme we’ve used before called iTheme design by Nick La (our design for the HowToDisposeOf.com website uses Nick La’s iTheme as a framework and we just we made changes there to the CSS too to get the right look for that site).

The iTheme design by Nick La

You can see from the screenshots on the right of the two designs that they have a very different look so when you see how the Evo4 theme can be CSS coded to look like iTheme you can begin to see the power and design flexibility that CSS gives to web designers.

Our choice of using WordPress as a Content Management System also enabled us to use the WP e-Commerce plug-in from GetShopped.org to organize and run The 360 Difference Store.

As we continue to add software products this spring and post training videos and answer support questions in our FAQ we hope you’ll all tell us how this new web design looks and works for you.

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