How To Think Through Growing Your Concrete Business

January 24, 2010

Something very important to keep in mind when starting your concrete block business is also a factor that most first time entrepreneurs overlook: the next stage. The effects of not considering this aspect can be crippling to your concrete block business, because it is like a house fire: by the time it exists, all the firetrucks in the world will only control the damage, not set anything right.

The next stage refers to what happens when people start buying blocks from you. You ideally should have some concrete block orders in place at the time you start your business. If this is the case, and people like you and trust you, and if you have hired good people, your business should start to grow. Now what? How long can you keep making enough concrete blocks with your one single concrete block making machine to keep up? Well, this is where “the next step” comes into your planning.

You should have several sets of numbers figured as concretely (no pun intended) as possible: how many concrete blocks you can make in a day, how many blocks you can store at any one time, how many blocks you are set up to deliver in a day (be sure to factor in rush hour and hard to reach destinations), among others that will be specific to your demographic area. The answers to these lead you naturally to your next step. When I need to double, or triple, my concrete block orders, where can I go? Do I contract with someone for block delivery, or make the leap of purchasing trucks and trailers?

Hopefully, these questions and ideas are beginning a thought process that will keep your concrete block business thriving for years to come.

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