Contractor Evolution

Book an implementation call and join thousands of contractors like Jason in running a better business while working less: https://trybta.com/DI1026 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP296 Get the free templates from this session here: https://trybta.com/DL296 Winter is the season most contractors brace for. These four have stopped bracing. This is the replay...

Book an implementation call and join thousands of contractors like Jason in running a better business while working less: https://trybta.com/DI1026 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP295 Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL295 There are two levers that move gross profit on a job: labor and materials. M...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP294 Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL294 On the surface, a subcontractor model seems like a good idea. That’s what Red Branch Construction business owner Jacob Toler thought. Higher margin, lower overhead. It worked great for him, until it didn’t. His reputation wa...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP293 Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL293  Talk to enough contractors and you hear the same sentence. "This isn't fun anymore." Sometimes it comes from the guy who is grinding to make payroll. But just as often it comes from the guy whose business is finally work...

Get a copy of our AI Guide For Contractors and learn the 4 highest leverage AI workflows for trades businesses: https://trybta.com/DL292 Get Grant’s free Claude skills for your business here: https://skillmatch.zite.so/ Most contractors are drowning in AI options. New tools every week. New features buried inside the tools you already pay for. No clear answer on which ones are worth your time. Gran...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP291 Get a copy of our AI Guide For Contractors and learn the 4 highest leverage AI workflows for trades businesses: https://trybta.com/DL291 Tyler Folkman has been working in the AI space for nearly twenty years. You read that right. While most of us were just getting used to having a website, Tyler was working on next leve...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP290   Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL290 There's a lot of noise about selling to private equity in the trades right now. Some of you may even be considering this as your exit strategy. But how much do you REALLY understand what’s involved in arguably one of...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP289 Get a free contractor Lead Source Attribution template and example here: https://trybta.com/DL289   While contractors and construction business owners are busy scrambling to get our websites ready for AI search, Phil Risher is asking a much bigger question: Will your website even matter in 3 years? Phil is a digita...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP288 When ChatGPT released in 2022, we all knew the start of a new era in tech was coming.  But we couldn't possibly comprehend just how much our industry was about to change. Although robotics are a few years away from replacing field labor, pretty much every other area of a contracting business has been totally disrup...

To get the Project Management resource bundle, click here: https://trybta.com/DL287 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP287 Caleb George produces $34M in projects with just three project managers. Scott Kelley’s team can run a million dollar project without asking him a single question. What do these two builders have in common? Exceptional project management...

To learn more about becoming a Member, click here: https://trybta.com/EP286    Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL286 At just 30 years old, Riley Rivers owns a $7M dollar landscaping business, pulling in $120K in profit every month. Multiple divisions. Massive contracts. Complex operations. And he does it all in less than 40 hours a w...

Grab a copy of Bob's Top 10 Tax Tips For Self-Employed Contractors: https://trybta.com/DL285 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP285   Ever run out of money despite making millions of dollars? This is the situation Bob Gauvreau has seen hundreds of contractors fall into. Revenue is up, profit may even be up. But they run out of cash unexpectedly and when...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here:  https://trybta.com/EP284 Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL284 Joel Retherford made an extra $1.6 MILLION in the first four months of this year.  How? By hiring for one simple role.  In today’s episode, I’m talking to Joel to understand: How hiring a project manager help...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP283 Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL283 Eric Olson found a way to squeeze an extra 200 thousand dollars of profit out of work he was already doing. His secret weapon? Change orders. In today’s episode, Eric is going to talk us through: - The exact strategy he used...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP282 Ready to build smarter? Meet Breakthrough Academy at Build Show Live in San Antonio, Sept 10–12. Use code BTA26 for 25% off . Click the link to register: https://www.buildshowlive.com/ Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL282 Most contractors struggle to build four...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP281 Ready to build smarter? Meet Breakthrough Academy at Build Show Live in San Antonio, Sept 10–12. Use code BTA26 for 25% off . Click the link to register: https://www.buildshowlive.com/ Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL281 When most contractors think about disas...

Ready to build smarter? Meet Breakthrough Academy at Build Show Live in San Antonio, Sept 10–12. Use code BTA26 for 25% off . Click the link to register: https://www.buildshowlive.com/ To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP280   Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL280 Most contractors become leaders...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP279 Download Rob’s AI Opportunity Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL279 AI is exposing everything that's broken in your contracting business… …before it fixes anything. Everyone's racing to adopt AI right now. But here's what nobody's saying: if your workflows are messy, AI doesn't clean them up. It accelerates the chaos. Thi...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP278   Get a copy of Ryan’s Lead Follow Up Formula (The Revenue Engine) here: https://trybta.com/DL278 Most contractors assume the sale is dead after two ignored messages. The data says otherwise, and the money you're leaving on the table is staggering. Ryan Fenn, founder of CHIIRP, has analyzed massive volumes of real...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP277   Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL277 Your crew isn't lazy. Your processes are broken. In this episode of Contractor Evolution, process strategist Moustafa Moursy breaks down why most business systems collect dust, and introduces the OPTIMIZE Framework: a...

Register for Matt and Danny’s upcoming team accountability web class: https://trybta.com/DL276 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP276   If you're the only person on every jobsite who can catch a mistake, you don't have a team; you have a daycare. In this episode, Matt Risinger (from The Build Show) maps the exact path from babysitter to system-builder,...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP275   Download your free Cash Flow Resource Bundle here: https://trybta.com/DL275 You're winning jobs, billing strong — and still sweating payroll every two weeks. Cash timing slips. Payroll doesn't. Here's how to fix it. In this episode, Danny Kerr breaks down the exact cash flow management system BTA has used with 1,...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP274 We’re actively working with ~600 contractors, and a LOT of them are struggling — and it's not the economy. Breakthrough Academy coach Jason Alcott reveals the hidden mindset trap keeping contractors stuck, and the one framework that changes everything. Most contractors are measuring their success the wrong way. They're...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP273   Take our five minute quiz and get a custom Contractor Growth Scorecard: https://trybta.com/DL273 Have you ever pulled a 60-hour work week and felt like you got nothing done? Productivity researcher Chris Bailey ran a radical experiment—working 90 hours one week, 20 the next—just to see what would happen to his ou...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/EP272   Grab a copy of Megan’s OWN Your Contracts QuickStart Guide: https://meganshapiro.kit.com/590f12c899 Check out Megan’s Negotiation Style Quiz: https://meganshapiro.kit.com/81045b49f1 If you’ve thought about using AI to make the process of drafting, reading, and negotiating contracts easier, you’re not alone. But a...