Construction Development

Estimating the cost of a project is critical to your business success. Done correctly, your company is profitable. Done wrong, you lose money. Michael Stone, a successful construction business consultant and trainer, shares his years of experience estimating residential projects in this manual. Estimating isn't difficult when you have a system. The purpose of this book is to help you create that system. It's an approach that helps you estimate without having to think about the process. An orderly approach makes estimating easier and more accurate.

Few construction companies fail because of poor building practice; they fail because of poor pricing practice. To succeed in construction, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material, and overhead expenses, pay yourself a decent salary, and make a profit that will keep your company thriving.

This incisive, practical audio guide provides a thorough breakdown of the ins and outs everyone needs to know when turning contracting skills into a business. From summoning the motivation to start your own business to the intricacies of being your own boss, Claudiu Fatu artfully turns his personal experiences and those of other successful contractors into advice on every aspect of building a business.

Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble rouser. His tone is irreverent. His ideas are iconoclastic. And his approach is stubbornly, radically, empathic. The goal is to explode the well-meaning but misguided myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and most honest work, to awaken the joys of storytelling while also confronting how grueling the process can be.

📌 Do you wonder why your construction projects struggle to make money and your company is always in the red? 💩 Could it be that your estimating strategy consists of throwing a bunch of line items against the wall and hoping they stick? 😡 Poorly written estimates lead to all kinds of issues including low profits, stressed out production teams, unhappy customers and under-performing organizations. Stop the madness. 🎯 I believe my new book, Be Intentional: Estimating can help you and your team develop a better plan for approaching estimating and achieving your goals. 📚 You are ...

Whether you're a veteran property owner or just starting out, here you'll uncover the real estate expertise you need to select the finest land for your new home.

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

DJ Sbu is not your ordinary entrepreneur. He was born to be great and refuses to settle for less. Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a successful entrepreneur? How they come up with their ground-breaking ideas, how they turn them into flourishing businesses, how they deal with failure, and what drives and motivates them? Billionaires Under Construction answers these questions, and more, as it charts the rise and rise of Sbusiso Leope, one Africa’s most dynamic entrepreneurs.

Author Jon Isaacson, The Intentional Restorer, uses a unique blend of narrative, personal experience, and humor to bring life to otherwise dry concepts. His third book in the Be Intentional series, So, You Want To Be A Project Manager? is a primer on the mindset and habits for success as a project manager. If you are wanting to pursue a career in project management, this book will encourage and challenge you on your journey. If you are responsible for hiring and training project managers, this book will help you reinforce the roles and responsibilities of the position. If you are an owner ...

In this book, author Chris Penasa shows you how to attain consistency, profitability, and scalability in your construction or trade business. As the cofounder of the industry-leading coaching practice Small Business Growth Partners, Chris has helped develop a proven system for unlocking organizational growth. Whether you’ve been struggling with personnel issues, marketing, sales, processes, or anything in between, this book will help you transform your pain points into strengths.

Applying the dozens of lessons and practical advice will save you the time, energy, and cost of learning them the way I did—the long way and the hard way. Adopting these principles early in your business career will significantly improve your chances of success and move you ahead of your peers who are not as well informed.

This audiobook takes you on a journey as to what it is like to be a female electrician in a male-dominated construction industry. In this first volume, I take you along on my quest as an apprentice to become a journeywoman. I have a unique story to tell and many interesting coworkers you will meet with me along the way.

This audiobook is a discussion on how to choose and buy domain names. It includes a simple explanation of what a domain name really is and why a monetized blog needs to have its own domain name. Other important topics include how to choose the best domain name for a website or blog, registering one's chosen domain name, and what to do when the domain name is already taken.

What does everyone want? A good life filled with great family, friends, career success, and a wonderful partner. The real question everyone is looking for is how to get the life they want. The world is scary for most of us: increasing income inequality, social media distractions, economic and financial hardships that make it harder for the modern human to know what to do.

Vivendo em uma sociedade ansiosa e estressante, estamos sempre preocupados com nossos compromissos, em resolver milhões de problemas, em ser cada vez melhores nos nossos empregos. Tal rotina acaba nos forçando a deixar de lado o nosso próprio Eu, uma falta de atenção terrível cujos únicos prejudicados somos nós mesmos. Augusto Cury, a partir de sua teoria da Inteligência Multifocal e de conceitos que aos poucos vem desenvolvendo em suas obras, instiga o leitor a um autoconhecimento essencial para o desenvolvimento de uma mente saudável.

In this engaging, witty and inspirational memoir, Chrishell Stause shares her story of living an unconventional childhood in small-town Kentucky marked by periods of homelessness, family addiction struggles and dreams of one day being on a daytime soap, all while managing the local Dairy Queen. Through resilience and grit, she overcame obstacles and pushed past every barrier in her path to become one of the most envied luxury realtors in Los Angeles and buzzworthy cast members in reality TV.

Aunque muchos padres temen la llegada de la adolescencia, esta no tiene por qué ser necesariamente un periodo complicado, a pesar de que muchos jóvenes tengan a veces un comportamiento difícil. La adolescencia no es un momento de cambio sin más, sino que se trata de un complejo proceso de transformación biológica que lleva a la persona a transitar desde el niño que deja atrás hasta el adulto que llegará a ser.

Neste audiolivro falaremos sobre o treinamento dos treinamentos da mente humana: a gestão da emoção. Abordaremos os processos de construção dos pensamentos e de gerenciamento do estresse, e os fenômenos fundamentais que nos tornam a única espécie que pensa e tem consciência de que pensa. Precisamos entender quem somos e conhecer minimamente os bastidores da mente. Você deve se dedicar ao treinamento dos treinamentos, treinar seu EU para ser protagonista de sua história, capaz de escolhas inteligentes, e não um EU passivo.

Are you fed up running your construction company? Sick of not being paid what you are worth? Stressed out with poor cashflow and low profits? Would you like to have a proven strategy to give you more time, freedom and money? Building Your Future is a practical business guide designed specifically for business owners in the construction and service industry who want to grow a highly successful and profitable business while reclaiming more time and freedom.

In this section, you'll be taken through the basics of creating quality content. About 10 years ago, it was enough to have a mildly interesting site bloated with banner ads and links because of pay per click (PPC) advertising and spammy/blackhat SEO. Today, people are becoming more critical and vigilant of the sites they visit. It's easy to mislead people and trick them into visiting and viewing your blog, but as the cliché goes, you can fool people only once.