The Builders Ladder: Business Growth Strategies for Residential Construction Businesses

One of our members had his business valued at $150K with a 1.5x multiple when he first came to us. Just 18 months later, after systemizing and improving profits to $500K, that same business was worth $1.5M with a 3x multiple. The difference between building a job and building a business asset is worth millions.

Join Marti Amos for the final episode of our eight-part series covering the biggest takeaways from The Profitable Builder'...

Join Marti as he breaks down Chapter 7 of The Profitable Builder's Playbook: The 10 Step Sales Process That Consistently Converts. Discover why a good target conversion rate is 50%, yet most building company owners are only winning 20-30% of the jobs they quote.

Learn the complete systematic sales process that converts 60% of qualified prospects, why you should be charging $1,500-$5,000 for detailed pricing, and how to eliminate ti...

Mark from Tauranga went from chasing any work to being fully booked out for a year in advance at 20%+ margins after building a great marketing machine. The secret isn't necessarily spending more on marketing - it's answering the four key questions that make clients want to choose you before they even meet you.

Join Marti as he breaks down Chapter 6 of The Profitable Builder's Playbook: Marketing and How to Keep Your Pipeline Full. ...

Brian just signed a $750K contract at 25% margin using the Pricing for Profit system. The secret isn't just raising prices - it's knowing what to include that most builders give away for free.

Join Marti Amos as he breaks down Chapter 5 of The Profitable Builder's Playbook: How to Price Your Projects Profitably. Discover why pricing is by far the biggest tool for earnings improvement, and how building company owners are leaving $10...

This mistake costs builders over $100K each in lost profits - and most don't even realize they're making it. Lou thought he was profitable until he learned how to read his numbers correctly and discovered he was actually losing money on most of his projects.

Join Marti as he breaks down Chapter 4 of The Profitable Builder's Playbook: Knowing the Numbers That Drive Your Business. Discover why over half the businesses we see have the...

Building a winning team isn't about finding perfect people - it's about creating the systems that turn good people into great performers. Ben from Twizel keeps half his staff for over five years and runs a $10 million company because he treats his business like a sports team, not a family.

Join Marti as he breaks down Chapter 3 of The Profitable Builder's Playbook: How to Build a Winning Team. Discover why the difference between a ...

Fix Yourself First: Why Personal Problems Become Business Problems. Working 12-hour days, constantly firefighting, and having your team dependent on every decision isn't a business issue, it's a leadership issue that starts with you.

Join Marti for part 2 of the Profitable Builders Playbook series as he reveals why the secret isn't working harder on your business, but working harder on yourself first. Discover how Adam from Seattle...

Last year Andrew was stressed, dealing with rollercoaster cash flow and bad apples on his team. His books weren't up to date, he had no financial visibility, and despite having work, the cash wasn't there. Today, he's landing $400-500K jobs at 23% gross profit margin with completely different stress levels.

Join Owen Chambers and Coach Cole as they break down Andrew's 9-month transformation story. Discover how getting the right peo...

Mark works 60 hours a week running his building company while his foreman works 40 hours - yet Mark only makes $2 more per hour despite carrying all the liability, stress, and responsibility. Sound familiar?

Join Marty Amos as he breaks down Chapter 1 of The Profitable Builders Playbook, revealing why the top 5% of building company owners work just 35 hours per week while the bottom 25% grind through 65+ hour weeks. Discover the Pr...

Has your Building Company become a prison? Do you focus on making more money but ignore the systems that give them time, ending up trapped in a "busy job with overheads" instead of a real business.

This week’s episode we are sharing a recent podcast that Marti was featured on with Michael Creer from Straight Talk Builder. Marti shares The Professional Builder Rate formula that shows exactly what tasks you should stop doin...

People don't leave jobs - they leave bosses and opportunities. As your building company grows, your biggest challenge isn't finding good people, it's keeping them aligned and pulling in the same direction instead of operating like individual contractors under one roof.

Join Owen Chambers for the final part of the Builder to Business Owner series as he reveals the Four Ds of CEO leadership: Dollars, Decibels, Discipline, and Directi...

After 10 months as a one-man bathroom renovation business, Rob was trapped. When you're responsible for everything, you can't take time away - and when you do, you're still on the phone handling emergencies.

Join Owen Chambers and coach Carla as they break down how Rob transformed his Texas renovation business using TPB's hiring framework. Discover why his previous helper didn't work out, how the right job ad attracted A-plus talen...

Sitting in the office wondering "what does working ON the business actually mean?" You know you should be doing sales, marketing, and numbers - but where do you start when everything feels urgent and important?

Join Owen Chambers for Part 3 of the Builder to Business Owner series as he reveals the A to Z of Operations framework - your business blueprint that maps exactly how leads flow through your company from first inquiry to fin...

Stop Being Employee of the Month in Your Own Business

Most builders get trapped being the best employee instead of the business owner. They roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, and stay stuck doing $47/hour tasks when they should be building systems and leading people.

Join Owen Chambers as he breaks down Part 2 of the Builder to Business Owner series, revealing how to calculate your Professional Builder Rate (PBR) and cre...

When builders hit $1.5M, $5M, or $10M revenue marks, the same painful pattern emerges: what got them there becomes their biggest bottleneck. Most end up with a "busy job with overheads" instead of a real business.

Join Luke Kemeys on Keep the Change as he interviews our very owen Marti Amos (Founder of TPB) . Discover why 22% gross margin nearly destroyed Marti’'s cleaning business, the three critical areas every building com...

Ever wonder why successful construction company owners still struggle to make profit… even when their P&L “checks out”. Growth advisor John sees 10+ building company financials every week - and the patterns are shocking.

Join Owen Chambers as he interviews John, TPB growth advisor and former carpenter-turned-casino dealer-turned business coach, who reveals what happens behind the scenes of residential constru...

The bottleneck in your building business isn't your team, your subs, or your systems - it's you. When every decision runs through the owner, growth stalls and burnout becomes inevitable.

Join Owen Chambers as he breaks down the exact framework successful builders use to delegate effectively and buy back an entire day per week. Discover the three critical delegation questions that prevent miscommunication, the 10-80-10 rule for outc...

Paying top dollar is enough to keep good employees, right? Wrong! Competitive salary actually ranks LOW on the list of what workers really prioritise.

And without knowing these priorities, you’re at risk of losing top talent in your construction business

In this episode, performance coach Andy Ross and Owen Chambers discuss the systematic approach to building a high-performance team culture that attracts talent and keeps them...

Builders waste thousands on websites, ads, and "shiny object" marketing strategies that deliver zero results. But what if your entire marketing strategy could fit on one page?

Join Owen Chambers as he interviews Alan Dib, author of "The One Page Marketing Plan" (nearly 1 million copies sold worldwide). Discover why the most successful builders focus on just 2-3 marketing channels instead of trying everything, and learn the exact fr...