To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Your business is a “For-Profit Entity”.

Profits are a slippery business though.

Sometimes it can feel like what you made on paper and what is in your bank account don’t quite line up.

Sometimes top-line growth...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

“Create Content” is such an easy thing for some marketing guru to tell you to do.

But those people are the ones that sit in front of a screen all day and have no realistic clue what goes into running the average co...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

As you might have guessed by the subject line of this email, we’re talking about books in this episode of Contractor Evolution?

Why?

Because someone way smarter than you has devoted DECADES of their life mastering...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Do you ever feel like a fraud?
In certain situations do you ever feel like you are one minor mistake, one missed detail away from being found out by everyone as a phony?

Do you sometimes feel totally under qualifi...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA64

Our guest in this episode, Paul Akers, runs a company called Fastcap who’s workers now output $500-$700 a day and are happier than when the company started. He’s been so re...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA63

Misaligned expectations between contractor and client are the route of all evil when it comes to:

-Hitting or missing budget
-Finishing the project on time or way behind s...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Just 13 years ago, Barrett was working as a bags-on carpenter fresh out of school.

Since then, he has not only built an extremely successful construction company but has also become a full-blown multi-family develo...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

This painter crushes it by buying into his competition

You may have, at some point, pondered the idea of supercharging your growth by buying another business.

Entrepreneurs naturally see opportunity all around them...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

If you have ever wondered what it takes to expand into a new market, begin operations in a new city, or even a new state, this episode is a must-listen. Our guest for this episode is Kory Ballard, founder of Perficu...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

One situation you are inevitably going to face at some point, or many points, is an economic downturn. Or Recession. Or Meltdown. Whatever you (or the media) want to call it.

You get what I’m saying though. Business...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Today’s episode is a case study with Curtis and Channell Murray of 180 Kitchens: A kitchen cabinet refacing business based in Vancouver BC. Listen carefully now okay? In one short year, they accomplished the follow...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA57

About 2 months ago we put on our first digital Contractor Evolution Summit where we focused on recruiting and hiring.

We had so many questions during the live event that w...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA56

When it comes to solving business problems there will always be hundreds of theoretical or formulaic sounding answers floating around out there.

There is certainly value...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

If you took a survey of contractors right after the implementation of their first CRM or Project Management tool, many of the responses you’d get would sound something like:

- That was awful
- My head nearly explode...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA54

When people know and trust each other they’re more likely to collaborate together on important work, they’re more likely to be honest with each other when it counts, and yo...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA53

You want to keep your A$$ out of trouble.

All ventures, big and small, face some form of a legal risk. Whether you realize it or not, the business of contracting is on the...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

In this episode of Contractor Evolution, we sat down with a guest we've been trying to pin down for a while, Luke Hansen.

Luke is the founder and CEO of CompanyCam, our favorite photo storage, and site management ...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA51

There is one skill out there that very few people try to engage in. But, well execution leads to stronger social connections and increases your ability to solve. That makes...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA50

Have you ever considered bringing in skilled workers from abroad?

Think about it… you as an entrepreneur can’t find the people you need at home, so the next logical step ...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA49

The Los Angeles Rams have a mantra on the wall of their locker room. That mantra is- The standard is the standard.

It serves as a reminder to the team that the standard i...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

While business tactics, skills, and systems make up a big part of our discussions on the show, we’d be remiss to not also talk about the importance of having a balanced life outside the walls of your business.

A l...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

In a chess match, a player’s first sequence of moves is known as an “opening”. The opening is a memorized series of 8 to 12 moves that, ideally, sets up the chess game in an advantageous way for the player.

Execu...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA46

James is the Director of Training and Development at Breakthrough Academy who trains over 450 contractors. He’s hired and conducted expectations meetings for 100’s of staf...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/pca-ce

Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA45

James is at the helm of 1-800-Got-Junk, a brand doing 490 million dollars a year in revenue, and has done literally thousands of interviews to build power house teams.

In ...