All organizations go through phases and chapters of their lives. Roofing contractors are no different. For years, I’ve spoken about the four stages of business: wonder, blunder, thunder and plunder, and offer some guidelines to correct business-culture problems before it’s too late.
Almost all roofing contractors start here but I doubt many at IRE 2018 fall into this stage. Still, many employees who went out on their own might fit this description. For many blunder contractors, their side jobs grew to the point where they decided to start their own business. Startup costs were minimal. They owned a truck that was driven back and forth to work, little marketing was needed as they stole customers from their boss and they probably had “borrowed” enough miscellaneous material and tools from their former employer to get started.