Where GC Profit Actually Comes From

Show Answer What can I learn in one day?
• To spot the top six profit leaks that affect most residential builders and remodelers
• The three critical, common mistakes most General Contractors make in their job pricing strategy
• How to increase your earnings without taking on more work or raising prices
• Simple methods that will allow you to get higher-quality jobs
• Powerful, field-tested tools and techniques that let you easily differentiate your business from the competition
• How to get out of the multiple bid wars
• Five factors that often result in taking bad jobs you’ll later regret and how to avoid them
• A proven path to take on fewer projects while making the same or more profit
• The difference between reactive and targeted leads and how to reach the right prospects at the right time for maximum sales success
• Proven strategies to insulate your business from economic uncertainties
• Strategies to protect you from cost escalation
• Evolving strategies to attract, hire and retain top talent in a difficult labor market
Show Answer I'm too busy. Can you help me reduce the chaos?
Been in the construction business long? If yes, then you have survived both Boom and Bust times. Did you enjoy either? Certainly, periods with an abundance of work are preferable to periods of work shortage.

However, even the go times of a Boom period often exact a high price on the contractor’s quality of life with long hours, stress, and chaos, with less banked results than the available potential gains.

In this workshop, we won’t repeat recycled advice such as “be sure to save money during the good times”, but instead, we dig down to a deeper, to a more granular level with real tools and techniques that you can use now.

We will explore how the cycles really work so that you can chart a better course through them. You can minimize the negative impact of these cycles, maintaining a healthy balance in income and workload throughout each part of the Boom and Bust cycles.
Show Answer Do you help with hiring strategies in tight labor markets?
Yes. We know there are times when it seems impossible to fill necessary positions with quality candidates—or any candidates at all.

The Aspire Institute for Contractors is not a recruiting or employment agency but a business consultancy that has one purpose: to help contractors become more prosperous. We have helped thousands of small businesses like yours with all aspects of their business, with an unwavering focus on increasing real profits.

In that process, we have helped many businesses find and secure the right people, even in very tough recruiting markets. Much of the hiring and team-building challenge is linked to the overall health of your company. If your cash flow is tight and your profits are small, the job of attracting and maintaining a team is made far more difficult, if not impossible.

So good hiring must start with a solid business footing. That is what we do at Aspire — guide you through the challenge of attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent in a difficult labor market.

What's the value behind our classes

PRESENTED BY FRED FARRIS

Get 3-5% More Profit!

From our one-day local in-person Business Owner Workshop and one on one consultation.

At our General Contractor Business Owners Workshop, you will learn the solid business process to improve your profitability by 3-5%, making your business more resilient to economic fluctuations. The construction industry’s average profit margins are much too low considering the life-changing value and customized service you deliver to homeowners. We help you keep far higher profits without increasing prices or taking on more jobs. Make it a priority to remodel your business model with the right mix of jobs, high-value customers, and process efficiency so that you aren’t leaking potential profits.

Business Owner One-Day Workshop

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