Eric Colburn, PLS

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  • 4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence

    4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence

    4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence I was speaking with a fellow professional land surveyor about a property survey he is conducting for land next to a property I recently surveyed, when he said, “Later, I’ve got to ask you what is your secret?” Are you struggling to build a…

  • 5 Easy Website Improvements To Build Your Professional Land Surveying Business

    5 Easy Website Improvements To Build Your Professional Land Surveying Business

    5 Easy Website Improvements To Build Your Professional Land Surveying Business Your professional land surveying company’s website is often the first point of contact your potential customers have with you, your company, and your professional land surveying services. First impressions matter – so, what impression is your website making? First, if you don’t yet have…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-How to Develop Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-How to Develop Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    If you’ve followed the last few Premium Posts, then you know that I’ve been working through the “Knowing Your Numbers” series of posts, describing how to use Metrics in your professional land surveying business. To date, I’ve written Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    In earlier Premium Posts, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use to run your land surveying business, and Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success.…

  • 3 Tips For Managing Land Surveying Workloads as an Independent Solo Surveyor

    Last June I wrote 5 Tips For Working as an Independent Solo Surveyor where I shared a few tips I’ve learned about what works best working as an Independent Solo Surveyor. When considering working as an Independent Solo Surveyor and getting up and running with your robotic land surveying equipment, as an example,  it’s very easy to focus too much…

  • What if LightSquared is Right about GPS?

    LightSquared Files with FCC: GPS Industry’s Failure to Comply With Department of Defense and International Standards for GPS Receivers Cause of Interference So, I’ve been thinking lately about how the land surveying industry has not demanded and been stewards for improvements, necessary and long overdue improvements, in various aspects of the resources and technologies we…

  • Exploring Google Plus for Business and Networking

    You very well may have heard of the new Social Networking platform from Google lighting up the interwebs, called Google Plus (aka Google+). If you have not yet heard of Google Plus, you no doubt will soon. Google Plus is an uncluttered answer to Facebook featuring innovations, such as Circles, Sparks, Hangouts and Huddles. Google…

  • 5 Tips For Working as an Independent Solo Surveyor

    I’ve now been working as an independent solo surveyor for a few years, and I can’t imagine going back. In large part, this is  because of financial issues involving: hard economic realities, reduced overhead, greater efficiencies, and greater professional freedom. What does Independent Solo Surveyor mean to you? For me, independent solo surveying involves using specific…

  • Visualize Your LinkedIn Network with InMaps

    LinkedIn, the business-oriented and world’s largest professional social networking site (over 90 million members), has unveiled a cool mapping tool called InMaps. This online mapping tool uses color coded associations to map your entire LinkedIn social network. Being able to visualize your professional LinkedIn network allows you to identify your prime connectors and areas where you…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics: Creating a New Description Key Set

    In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, I’d like to discuss how to create a Description Key Set. This is the second in a series of Premium Posts about description keys. In this post I’ll show you how to create Description Keys Sets and where to find your Description Key Sets for land surveying using AutoCAD…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics-What to do Before Creating a New Description Key Set

    In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, I’d like to discuss what to do before creating a Description Key Set. This is the first in a series of Premium Posts about description keys. I’ll start here with what to do before creating a new Description Key Set, then move on to how to setup Description…

  • 5 Tips for Successful Independent Solo Surveyor Workload Strategies

    In today’s Premium Member post I’d like to discuss effective strategies for effectively mastering your workload. Three years ago this month I transformed my professional land surveyor practice from your typical land surveying company with multiple crews and back-office personnel to that of being a solo surveyor. Here’s what I’ve learned regarding workload strategies.

  • Premium Membership Newsletter-Will Technology Efficiencies Be Enough For You To be Efficient?

    A quick note for the Professional Land Surveyor Premium Members, that my Premium Newsletter was published this weekend. In this edition of my Premium Newsletter I ask, “Will Technology Efficiencies Be Enough For You To be Efficient?” Part of what I discuss is how if you’ve successfully invested in technology for improvements in accuracy, precision,…

  • Land Surveying “Without All The Bells and Whistles”-Strategies For Price Objections

    What I’d like to talk about with you today is not a new occurrence, by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s happening more often now than, let’s say, during the “boom” years. What I’m talking about is when a prospective client request a quote for land surveying services, and then when presented with the…

  • Announcing Premium Membership with Premium Benefits Including Free Downloads

      Please join me, Eric Colburn, PLS, and become a Premium Member, where you’ll enjoy many Premium Benefits including Free Valuable Downloads. If you’ve visited this site in the last few weeks you’ve noticed a new design, including a whole new and creative professional Premium Membership community. If this is your first visit, than welcome!…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D: 10 Tips for Setting it up for use in Land Surveying

    In the Beginning This is the beginning of a series of posts about setting up and using AutoCAD Civil 3D in your land surveying work. I know from the many conversations I’ve had with other professional land surveyors and mapping professionals that there is some confusion, and certainly a lot of frustration, with setting up…

  • Professional Land Surveying Business – 5 Steps to Get More Work

    In these tough economic times new work is harder and harder to come by. While cost cutting is so very important, you shouldn’t cut back too much on your marketing efforts, if you can afford it. Some of the following strategies to get more work, however, cost very little and can be implemented quickly. Call…