Jacksonville is a big city considering it has a football team. Yeah it sounds cliché but there are only thirty-two teams in the NFL and thousands of cities. Did you know that there were over ten thousand residential permits pulled in two thousand and seven and there were over four thousand non-residential permits pulled totaling over one point nine billion dollars’ worth of work according to Duval County Annual Statistical Report for 2007. Now that sounds like a whole lot of work but if you ask a contractor in Jacksonville about their work load they will agree it is a constant struggle to land new jobs. Now if there is over one point nine billion dollars’ worth of work how do you as a contractor grab your part of that pie. First thing is to establish a brand. Establish your company as one of the best Building Contractors in Jacksonville. You need to develop a niche. You have to do something better and more cost effective than the competition. There are several niches in the construction industry. As a building contractor you have to become familiar with the market and what the current trends are. Design build contracts are now becoming the norm and are a good niche to develop. A larger number of the large scale projects are starting to become design build contracts. Over half the projects of two thousand and seven were non-residential projects. Meaning the big projects made up over a billion dollars’ worth of work. Considering that half of those were probably design build projects if you are not in the design build niche you are missing out on over a quarter of the work available in Jacksonville. The best way to develop a design build team is to start with the design team. The first thing you need to do is research engineering and architectural firms. Second start networking getting to know who is doing the design build projects and find out who is winning the work and why. Third bring your expertise to the table. In bringing your knowledge to the table you allow the designer to know your strengths. If they know your strengths they can design around them. By defining your strengths to the designer they can design a building accordingly. What this means is that if you are building contractor that works with concrete then you want your designer to design with concrete. If you are a building contractor that works with pre-engineered buildings then those are the designs you want to focus on. The design build is a good way to go because you build what you are comfortable with. Finally if design build is not your niche then you should pursue a niche that has limited competition. The less competition there is the better your chance of winning the work. With over one point nine billion dollars of work and thousands of contractors the competition is fierce and a niche is the best way to compete. Finding that niche is the vital to success. The Best Jacksonville General Contractor is about helping you find a contractor to match you and your needs. With our contacts in this industry we can do this and save you ton of time and hardship. You can also download our free report at http://www.bestjacksonvillegeneralcontractor.com
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