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If you are a business owner in the construction industry, Construction Programs & Results is for you.

We offer products and services to assist you with your business, including...

  • General business management information.
  • Help with marketing and sales.
  • Tools to improve your estimating skills and accuracy.
  • Advice on how to price your jobs to ensure you can pay your overhead and make a profit.
  • Knowledge on how to write a contract.
  • Day-to-day support and encouragement as you continue the difficult task of running your own business.

Whether your construction-related business has an annual volume of $150,000 or $15,000,000, we can help.

Discover who we are and what we teach on our blog. Receive Free Priority Mail shipping on any order by using coupon code MOTB at checkout. Sign up for our free email newsletter, and please don't hestitate to contact us!

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We have already helped thousands of construction-related business owners operate a more profitable business.

Business Management
Many construction-related business owners know their trade but struggle managing their business. Our "Guidelines to Success" article will get you started.

Marketing and Sales
Nothing happens until someone sells something - for a profit. Discover how to successfully and profitably market and sell your services.

Estimating
Without an accurate estimate, you can't know the correct sales price for the job. Get the tools you need to generate more accurate estimates.

Markup and Margin
Using the correct markup (or margin) will give you a sales price that allows you to pay all your job costs, cover your overhead expenses and make a profit - and that's vital to success.

Contracts
Learn why Cost plus contracts and T&M contracts (time and material) are bad for your business and your clients - and what to do instead.

 


You have to market your business, make sales calls, build estimates, supervise jobs, manage employees, schedule suppliers and specialty contractors, keep clients happy and maintain the books. Or hire and oversee competent professionals who can do it for you.
Regardless of your specialty, your business has the same need as every other construction-related business - you need to price your work so you can pay all your bills and make a profit. If you don't, you won't stay in business.
Every new business owner has two options - just get started and learn from your mistakes, or find out what mistakes others have made so you don't repeat them. If you're reading this, you are smart enough to choose the second option.

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