Contractor Evolution
This is Contractor Evolution. Where we unpack the systems, tactics, and skills you need to take your fast-growing contracting business to the next level.
If you’re here to learn what it takes to scale up, work less, and increase profitability, you’ve come to the right place.
Stay tuned to learn what separates the new breed of contractor from the old school, and welcome to your ultimate guide on the business of contracting.
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Filter Out the Time Wasters
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA44
Danny is the managing director at Breakthrough Academy, a company that coaches over 450 Contracting Businesses to implement efficient systems and allows the owners to step ...
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Leverage Untapped Talent Pools
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA43
Asad is the CEO of Sales Talent Agency, an international recruiting agency that has helped acquire talent for over 1,500 companies including Harley Davidson, IBM, Salesforc...
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Writing a Job Ad for A-Players
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA42
Josianne Guadette runs Crew HR and over her extensive 18-year career she's been involved in the hiring of over 600 roles for her huge book of clients.
Episode 2 breaks dow...
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How to Build an Ideal Candidate Profile
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA41
Josianne Guadette runs Crew HR and over her extensive 18-year career she's been involved in the hiring of over 600 roles for her huge book of clients.
Episode 1 covers how...
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High Level Leadership
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Every once in a while, Igor and I like to go through listener questions and really get a grip on the challenges you’re going through daily.
So in this week’s episode of contractor evolution, I’ve sifted through a fe...
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Turbocharge Your Business Today
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Where your business ends up in 10 years depends on a few things. Your effort. The market. Your people. Some luck. The list goes on. The other predictor that may (or may not) be on your radar is the quality of a...
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Build Your Management Team
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A growing company needs people to step up and lead divisions, initiatives, and small teams.
While this may be plainly obvious to you, what is less clear is how to assess whether or not someone has what it takes to...
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Improve Your Sales Closing Ratio
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA38
When you add up all the quotes, estimates, proposals (whatever you call them) that you do in a year and consider the sheer volume of sales opportunities your business has e...
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Become a Professional Contractor
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Every business owner deals with a number of pain points on their journey to success. Whether that's recruitment challenges, stress and time management, or revenue and sales (to name just a few). Learning to navigate ...
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Team Building Based on Personality
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How are you managing personalities on your team? Or are you?
We’ve invited Dr. Ken Keis onto the show to discuss his methods for assessing personality, and how you can leverage your team’s innate ability to thrive b...
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Retain Your Best Employees
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA17
How do you build loyalty in high performers? It’s not pizza night, go-karting, or laser tag.
Another myth is that you need to pay them more.
While those things help, they...
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Tax Strategy For Contractors
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When it comes to taxes you’re going to have to pay them whether you want to or not. However, spending the time up front to establish a solid tax strategy could save you up to 40% AND lead to a much bigger investment ...
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Developing Organizational Focus
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Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that your team JUST DOESN’T GET IT?
It’s so clear to you what needs to happen within your organization - what problems need to be solved, what priorities should be front of ...
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Core Areas of a Lucrative Business
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Here’s a common scenario: Two contractors have worked equally hard over 20 years in their businesses.
At the end of the 20 years, one sells off their assets for $200K, while the other sells their business for $10M....
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The Fundamentals of Project Management
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In trades, the terms ‘project management’ and ‘project manager’ have become somewhat watered-down. The unfortunate truth is that in our industry most project managers are actually just professional firefighters.
Tha...
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Guide to Hiring Success
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As your contracting business grows you’re going to encounter an interesting and complex scenario (and you may have already) that you are recruiting for, and hiring, a role that you know very little about.
Here's a c...
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Build A Trustworthy Brand
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Branding has never mattered more than it does right now. People, the public, your customers, are busier than ever.
Not only that, but the competition for their eyeballs, their attention, has never been fiercer. Bet...
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Achieve Explosive Growth
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You’ve heard the expression “there’s more than one way to skin a cat”?
Sorry for the graphic intro, but the point is there is always more than one way to get a job done.
The same holds true for scaling your busines...
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The Power Of Grit
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Kim is truly one of our highest-performing contractors in the Breakthrough Academy Program. She’s an awarding-winning luxury high-performance home builder in Kelowna, BC, Canada.
Some people have grit, some have ... -
Contractors Must Read List
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As a great leader, you know you don’t know everything. More importantly, you’re totally okay with that, and you’re actively working to shrink those knowledge gaps and timeframes by tapping into the wisdom and experi...
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How To Pick The Best Marketing Agency
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Episode Resources: https://trybta.com/PCA27
If you’ve ever wasted money on marketing this episode of Contractor Evolution is for you.
The fact of the matter is that there are a ton of marketing agencies out there t...
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Performance Review and Goal Setting
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA28
So if you listen to this show with any regularity, it’s pretty safe to say the organism that is your business is evolving. And while that’s an exciting feeling, it also br...
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Recruiting Roundtable with the BTA Coaches
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA29
This conversation is a big one. If you’ve been following along and listening to our episodes each week you know we’re deeply committed to empowering you, the evolving cont...
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Labor Shortage Challenges and Solutions
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Episode Resource: https://trybta.com/PCA30
What is an employer brand? An Employer Brand, in case you are wondering, is a contracting business that attracts the best talent in the industry, regardless of what is goin...