EBITDA Is Up, but Cash Is Tight: What Countertop Fabricators Should Track
EBITDA can improve while payroll pressure and cash constraints get worse. Rick Phelps explains which financial measure should lead in survival, growth, and sale or refinancing decisions.
Why Countertop Fabrication Shops Lose Margin as They Grow
The technology that helped build a fabrication business can eventually bury it in complexity. The next stage of profitable growth requires a better way to judge every investment.
Are You and Your Team Learning Every Day?
A busy team is not necessarily a learning team. Learn how stone fabricators can turn recurring problems into better operating knowledge, stronger managers, and a system that improves from what happens each day.
Is Your Front End Keeping Up with Your Back End?
Seasonal valleys do not have to control a fabrication business. Learn how to calculate the demand your shop needs, work backward through the sales funnel, and align marketing timing with the capacity of the Design Constraint.
Will This Job Actually Be Profitable?
See why traditional margin estimates can miss the capacity economics that determine whether a job will improve total profit.
What To Consider When Considering AI
A practical framework for using AI to amplify good decisions without accelerating bad assumptions.
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