Starting Your Career as a Contractor

How to Build and Run a Construction Business

De: Claudiu Fatu

Narrado por: Brian Arens

Duración: 4 h y 54 m

Resumen del Editor

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. The chapters focus on:

• Developing a business structure, including bank accounts, tax registration, insurance, and branding
• Handling legal and accounting hurdles
• Managing employees and dealing with clients
• Using marketing systems to find and book work
• Estimating and bidding on jobs
• Writing contracts
• Creating invoices and a billing system
• Controlling costs, keeping records, and understanding profit margin
• Planning retirement and other benefits for the self-employed

By teaching contractors to anticipate problems that can arise when dealing with clients, and to build a business plan that can support a contractor’s talents in the best way possible, Starting Your Career as a Contractor is the ultimate key to getting the job done right!

©2015 Claudiu Fatu (P)2022 Echo Point Books and Media, LLC

New to contracting and contemplating tradesmen

This book thoroughly goes over every aspect that you need to consider for those thinking about becoming a contractor and helps new contractors cover their bases. I like the details that the narrator goes into on each and every subject he doesn’t miss a beat. I would recommend this book to new contractors and contemplating tradesmen, this thinking about becoming a contractor or going into business for themselves. I’ve been in business for myself doing home remodeling for quite some time now and I love the pick up new reads. This was a good one.

Great book!!!

The author did a great job explaining the ins and outs of being a contractor!

Great practical advice

As a contractor with many years of experience I read this book just to see if there were things I had missed along the way and I really enjoy the authors perspective. I especially like how he ventures in to taking care of your own retirement and some financial advice that is definitely overlooked by many in the field. I don’t run my business exactly like he suggests but he offers a lot of really good advice for getting started, and it was really funny when he was talking about all the schools in his New York apartment, because my house looks very similar haha😂

Easy to follow and Insightful

I would recommend this book in the future. Great starting info and easy to follow.

Good listen/read

Great information and presentation. I appreciate the tips and knowledge that is passed in this book.

Great listen for experienced & inexperienced!

Im a fairly new contractor and trying to find guidance/mentorship in this business is not easy. This book gave me a lot of great tips to run a successful business and pointed out somethings I need to fix in my business!👍

head trash around money

there's a few nuggets in here around how to write up a contract and what mistakes to avoid when bidding jobs. it seems the author haves some self-limiting beliefs around money and the ability to thrive as a small business coming out of the gate. I didn't get much out of this book.