Margins in the Fencing  rental – Fencing hire sector have been under pressure as sales have declined in recent months with the downturn.

But there are positive prospects on the horizon with construction projects being the major intent of stimulus packages in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

The key question for many is how to reduce operating costs

One area often neglected is to look at doing things more efficiently.  That is cutting out waste from the business operation.  Consider your business, reflect on each area starting with marketing.

How much time do you spend on marketing?

• Things such as preparing brochures,
• Paying for the outside printing costs,
• Updating the web site,
• Paying for the web site to be updated etc.
• Even how much your adwords costs

How long does it take your sales staff to gather the information to prepare a client quote?

• Checking product or solution set availabilities?
• Gathering product information?
• Preparing quotes?
• Enhancing quote appearance?
• Managing sales lead information?
• Converting quotes to sales?
• Providing sales reports on the pipeline and opportunities?

Contractor and Service Staff managing their availabilties, jobs and tasking

• How much clerical and management time is spent managing service staff and contractors?
• How many errors are made when contractors do not confirm jobs?
• How much time is spent contacting contractors about jobs and their availability?

How much time is spent by Accounts double entering Sales Orders, Returns etc

• If your scaffolding hire and rental operations system is not linked to your accounts how much time do you spend double entering data?
• How much time does the finance department spend trying to get sales forecasts as a guide to cashflow?

If answering these questions has provoked your thoughts, then consider this.  HireEzy has been shown to eliminate about 30 % of these costs.  Whilst giving you significant marketing advantages as well.

Want proof or more information, then arrange for an online demonstration of HireEzy, it could save you from making the harder choice of regarding redundancies.  Book a demo on line at www.makinglifeezy.com.au

It could be the best decision you make!

A construction site fence toppled onto pedestrians after the security guard opened the gate to let a truck leave the site.  A family was injured by the collapsed fence.

On behalf of the Hartwig Family, Berman & Riedel, LLP, brought suit against the responsible defendants claiming negligent erection, maintenance, and handling of the construction site perimeter fencing. (click on the quoted text to go to the full article)

Given the way the fence toppled and that it was a construction site, it indicates that the construction site had erected temporary fencing.
Litigation news like this is always worrying not only to Construction companies and but also to fencing rental and hire companies who supply such fencing.

Mitigating such risks requires good process.  BUT from a Director’s perspective of Scaffolding Rental or Fencing Hire companies, such good corporate governance requires that you can show such processes were followed.  This is where HireEzy is unique and can assist in risk Mitigation.
Imagine you were in court, can you provide documentation to your Lawyers on the following:
1. What Advise was given to and received from the customer during the sales process.
2. What was the actual version of any Safety data documentation provided to the customer at the time? Do you have a auditable trace history of the scaffolding safety eg (load limits, work methods) or fence erection  documentation and work methods.
3. Was such relevant Safety Data documentation sent with the Quote or Invoice?
4. Was the documentation provided to your erection staff or contractor staff?
5. Can you prove the last time that either your staff or contractors were trained on safety requirements and were they tested?
6. Did you schedule an on-site inspection, by a suitably qualified person, to assess the erected structure?

Note such information needs to be stored for years!

Builders can be sued up to 10 years after a project has been completed for a construction-defect issue, and often, no matter what the defect, the lawsuit involves every subcontractor involved from the landscaper to the company that provided temporary fencing,

If you can not answer these questions or are concerned that some of the information is missing, then you really need HireEzy!
HireEzy has the solution for not only efficient management of scaffolding and fencing hire or rental companies, but also the good corporate governance solutions to assist you in mitigating risk.  Remember in some jurisdictions, Directors can face criminal negligence charges for injury caused.
HireEzy will not stop human error or accidents occurring but it can help prove that you took all reasonable steps.
To book an online demo of HireEzy go to www.makinglifeezy.com.au

Audit proof that assembly instructions were documented, and issued is required.  That contractors used were provided with the correct assembly documentation

A survey of HireEzy clients and prospects revealed some interesting insights into the major sales lead sources for rental and hire companies.

Whilst there was a range of results, those that clearly lead in their rental or hire market segments all showed similar statistics.

The clearest result was that the leading hire and rental companies in Australia, UK and the USA now generate over 50% of all new sales inquiries from their web site. This can be a combination of direct web submitted inquiries or customers who have checked out their web site prior to calling.

Secondly that most now find Yellow Pages or Yellow Pages on Line a rapidly declining source of new business. One customer with a long established business, cited that his father use to spend $25 000 a year on Yellow Pages, they now spend less than $2000. The reason is that yellow pages is no longer the major source of new business for them, rather it is business from the web.

Compare yourself to the best performers from the survey!

If you are below these benchmarks, then here is what they were doing.

The websites of those that were successful in achieving more than 50% lead generation, demonstrated some common characteristics:

· Frequent changes to the content;

· Ability of customers to view their hire and rental catalogue;and

· Ability of customers to place orders.

Cost of website development to achieve this frequency of change and maintain catalogue updates was however cited as an issue.

Now this is where HireEzy comes in to its own, HireEzy enables you to make changes in your back end catalogue and have those posted straight to your web site. The Website provided by HireEzy also enables customers to create booking requests, these booking requests then appear as sales leads in your HireEzy system.

The attached brochure provides more information.

This solution is perfect for:

· Party Rental and Party Hire;

· Fencing Rental or Temporary Fencing Hire Companies

· Tool Rental and Tool Hire

· Equipment Rental and Equipment Hire

· AV rental and AV Hire

In fact most companies who hire or rent products or services!

No wonder HireEzy is the innovation leader in the global hire and rental market.

For more information go to www.makinglifeezy.com.au or download our brochure at the top of this post!

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