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How to Build and Run a Construction Business
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Brian Arens
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By:
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Claudiu Fatu
About this listen
This incisive, practical audio guide provides a thorough breakdown of the ins and outs everyone needs to know when turning contracting skills into a business. From summoning the motivation to start your own business to the intricacies of being your own boss, Claudiu Fatu artfully turns his personal experiences and those of other successful contractors into advice on every aspect of building a business. The chapters focus on:
- Developing a business structure, including bank accounts, tax registration, insurance, and branding
- Handling legal and accounting hurdles
- Managing employees and dealing with clients
- Using marketing systems to find and book work
- Estimating and bidding on jobs
- Writing contracts
- Creating invoices and a billing system
- Controlling costs, keeping records, and understanding profit margin
- Planning retirement and other benefits for the self-employed
By teaching contractors to anticipate problems that can arise when dealing with clients, and to build a business plan that can support a contractor’s talents in the best way possible, Starting Your Career as a Contractor is the ultimate key to getting the job done right!
Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
©2015 Claudiu Fatu (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCListeners also enjoyed...
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If you are the owner of a home-improvement company of any kind and you want to make quantum leaps in the results you get from your life and your business - this book is for you. Inside this book, entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and host of The Wealthy Contractor podcast Brian Kaskavalciyan will share with you the seven “secrets” that drive the results of every wealthy contractor.
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great book !
- By Dylan L Villano on 03-02-22
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Markup & Profit
- A Contractor's Guide, Revisited
- By: Michael C. Stone
- Narrated by: Michael C. Stone
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Few construction companies fail because of poor building practice; they fail because of poor pricing practice. To succeed in construction, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material, and overhead expenses, pay yourself a decent salary, and make a profit that will keep your company thriving.
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SO MANY GOLD NUGGETS!
- By Anonymous User on 03-10-21
By: Michael C. Stone
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Profit First for Contractors
- Transform Your Construction Business From a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
- By: Shawn Van Dyke
- Narrated by: Shawn Van Dyke
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Construction industry business coach, speaker, and author, Shawn Van Dyke, has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz's Profit First and customized them to address the specific needs of the construction industry. Profit First for Contractors addresses the major struggles contractors face and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them. Shawn shows contractors how to go from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable.
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Not going to help you
- By Amazon Customer on 06-14-19
By: Shawn Van Dyke
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Well Built
- How the Top 2% of Construction Contractors Create Superior Value, Profits, and Excellence
- By: Chad Prinkey
- Narrated by: Aaron Parnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
After advising hundreds of contractors for fifteen years, author Chad Prinkey knows it comes down to having the right systems and culture in place across your business. In his book Well Built, Prinkey lays out the roadmap for contractors to make meaningful upgrades in how they operate, strategize, manage teams, win new business, and deliver for customers. You'll learn the step-by-step process contractors can use to join the top 2% and gain durable competitive advantages that increase profits for the long haul.
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Practical, understandable, and actionable info
- By Weaver Warehouse LLC on 03-06-25
By: Chad Prinkey
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Construction Genius
- Effective, Hands-On, Practical, Simple, No-BS Leadership, Strategy, Sales, and Marketing Advice for Construction Companies
- By: Eric Anderton
- Narrated by: Eric Anderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Construction Genius logically breaks down complex concepts into small components so any construction leader understands how to be more effective. Construction Genius covers topics as broad as how to structure a meeting so you reach an agreement on how to solve problems every time, to how to have tough conversations without ruining relationships, to how to build better teams that deliver profitable projects . . . and the one question that will save you $1 million, guaranteed.
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Some of the most solid construction career commentary available
- By Hunter R on 12-16-24
By: Eric Anderton
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Estimating Construction Profitably
- Developing a System for Residential Estimating
- By: Michael C. Stone
- Narrated by: Michael C. Stone
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Estimating the cost of a project is critical to your business success. Done correctly, your company is profitable. Done wrong, you lose money. Michael Stone, a successful construction business consultant and trainer, shares his years of experience estimating residential projects in this manual. Estimating isn't difficult when you have a system. The purpose of this book is to help you create that system. It's an approach that helps you estimate without having to think about the process. An orderly approach makes estimating easier and more accurate.
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What I’ve been looking for
- By Amazon Customer on 07-15-23
By: Michael C. Stone
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The 7 Secrets to Becoming a Wealthy Contractor
- How to Make More Money, Take More Time Off and Live Your Best Life
- By: Brian Kaskavalciyan
- Narrated by: Brian Kaskavalciyan
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If you are the owner of a home-improvement company of any kind and you want to make quantum leaps in the results you get from your life and your business - this book is for you. Inside this book, entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and host of The Wealthy Contractor podcast Brian Kaskavalciyan will share with you the seven “secrets” that drive the results of every wealthy contractor.
-
-
great book !
- By Dylan L Villano on 03-02-22
-
Markup & Profit
- A Contractor's Guide, Revisited
- By: Michael C. Stone
- Narrated by: Michael C. Stone
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Few construction companies fail because of poor building practice; they fail because of poor pricing practice. To succeed in construction, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material, and overhead expenses, pay yourself a decent salary, and make a profit that will keep your company thriving.
-
-
SO MANY GOLD NUGGETS!
- By Anonymous User on 03-10-21
By: Michael C. Stone
-
Profit First for Contractors
- Transform Your Construction Business From a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
- By: Shawn Van Dyke
- Narrated by: Shawn Van Dyke
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Construction industry business coach, speaker, and author, Shawn Van Dyke, has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz's Profit First and customized them to address the specific needs of the construction industry. Profit First for Contractors addresses the major struggles contractors face and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them. Shawn shows contractors how to go from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable.
-
-
Not going to help you
- By Amazon Customer on 06-14-19
By: Shawn Van Dyke
-
Well Built
- How the Top 2% of Construction Contractors Create Superior Value, Profits, and Excellence
- By: Chad Prinkey
- Narrated by: Aaron Parnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After advising hundreds of contractors for fifteen years, author Chad Prinkey knows it comes down to having the right systems and culture in place across your business. In his book Well Built, Prinkey lays out the roadmap for contractors to make meaningful upgrades in how they operate, strategize, manage teams, win new business, and deliver for customers. You'll learn the step-by-step process contractors can use to join the top 2% and gain durable competitive advantages that increase profits for the long haul.
-
-
Practical, understandable, and actionable info
- By Weaver Warehouse LLC on 03-06-25
By: Chad Prinkey
-
Construction Genius
- Effective, Hands-On, Practical, Simple, No-BS Leadership, Strategy, Sales, and Marketing Advice for Construction Companies
- By: Eric Anderton
- Narrated by: Eric Anderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Construction Genius logically breaks down complex concepts into small components so any construction leader understands how to be more effective. Construction Genius covers topics as broad as how to structure a meeting so you reach an agreement on how to solve problems every time, to how to have tough conversations without ruining relationships, to how to build better teams that deliver profitable projects . . . and the one question that will save you $1 million, guaranteed.
-
-
Some of the most solid construction career commentary available
- By Hunter R on 12-16-24
By: Eric Anderton
-
Estimating Construction Profitably
- Developing a System for Residential Estimating
- By: Michael C. Stone
- Narrated by: Michael C. Stone
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Estimating the cost of a project is critical to your business success. Done correctly, your company is profitable. Done wrong, you lose money. Michael Stone, a successful construction business consultant and trainer, shares his years of experience estimating residential projects in this manual. Estimating isn't difficult when you have a system. The purpose of this book is to help you create that system. It's an approach that helps you estimate without having to think about the process. An orderly approach makes estimating easier and more accurate.
-
-
What I’ve been looking for
- By Amazon Customer on 07-15-23
By: Michael C. Stone