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Business Tips
Set Yourself Up to Thrive in 2025: A Guide for Builders and Tradies

Let’s talk about a few essentials to help you get set up for a cracking year.

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Product Updates
Hidden Gem: Get Your Team on the Same Page with Digital Site Plans

A hidden gem in NextMinute is the ability to upload site plans and sketch on them right from the mobile app.

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Business Tips
How to Set Construction Labour Charge-Out Rates

Learn how to set the right construction labour charge-out rates with tips from pros, so you avoid underpricing and keep your business turning a profit.

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Product Updates
Feature Update: Add Photos & Charges On Your Timesheet

We’ve rolled out a feature update in NextMinute that’ll make life just that little bit easier when you’re adding timesheet entries.

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Product Updates
Product Spotlight: New Mobile App, Timesheet Break Improvements, And More...

Our team has been flat out making NextMinute even more useful for you and your crew. Check out what’s coming soon.

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Customer Stories
How Chris James Saved Money While Getting On Top Of Timesheets & Backcosting

Stepping Out on Your Own: Gain Valuable Insights from Chris James on Recognising the Signs to Expand Your Construction Business

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Business Tips
Better job quoting, estimating and tendering

Lack of insight into how jobs are tracking financially, until tools are downed and bank balances checked, is common. So are long hours spent catching up on paperwork at night or on weekends.

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Business Tips
Planning a way through the skills shortage in UK trade business

Critical shortage of labour and core materials

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Business Tips
10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Trade Job Management Software

Trade businesses are always looking for better ways to manage projects, teams, reports and quotes.

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Company News
We've teamed up with Saint Financial Group

Saint Financial Group powers UK construction businesses with their all in one solution to develop, stabilise and grow.

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Customer Stories
How Metier lowered stress levels managing over seventy open jobs and allocating costs of labour and materials every day

Our contract with Greggs is on a tight SLA and we must be able to prioritise the jobs and distribute them to mobile teams quickly.

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Customer Stories
How Richmond Developments Got Greater Visibility And Efficiency

We need to be able to book surveys, create quotes, part invoice, order from suppliers and both pay and receive varying amounts as the projects progress.

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Business Tips
Constructing a process to eliminate revenue leakage

Using job management software to control and profit from scope creep.

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