Profit First for Contractors
Transform Your Construction Business From a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
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Shawn Van Dyke
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Shawn Van Dyke
About this listen
Construction industry business coach, speaker, and author, Shawn Van Dyke, has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz's Profit First and customized them to address the specific needs of the construction industry. Profit First for Contractors addresses the major struggles contractors face and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them. Shawn shows contractors how to go from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable. This audiobook is for every construction business owner who dreams of prosperity.
Using Van Dyke's Profit First for Contractors system, listeners will learn how to break out of the "craftsman cycle" - the seemingly never-ending loop of urgent tasks and responsibilities that keep contractors from gaining traction toward their important goals. He guides construction business owners how to understand their financial statements and how to use them to determine the markup and margin that lead to profits. You will also learn how to develop solid rules of thumb for the operation of your construction businesses, and how to implement an effective cash management plan that simplifies accounting and leverages normal human behavior. Using real-life stories from actual construction business owners, step-by-step advice, and his conversational twang, Van Dyke puts permanent profitability within reach of every construction business owner.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-03-02
money management
Great simple plan to manage cash flow and figure how your business is doing. Every contractor should read and implement Profit First for Contractors.
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- Deren Sentesy
- 2019-04-24
Changed my way of thinking
Shawn has really changed the way I view cash management of my small business. I have downloaded his extra packages and bought a few extra copies of is book for my friends but I listen to the audiobook on my drive to and from work. Thanks Shawn for changing my life. Deren in Kelowna BC, Canada
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- Ready D&T
- 2021-09-04
Thankyou, Shawn Van Dyke
Great info, going to check out the resources the book provides now. Also thanks to the people from The Contractor Fight for highly recommending this book.
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- Bryan McInnis
- 2020-08-16
excellent book for Contractor
no matter if you are in the first year or tenth year, this is an excellent book to help you set up your company properly. It is a great listen and has gifts that will keep giving for years to come
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- Jonathan Edwards
- 2023-02-01
Great job with this book.
Fantastic adaptation of the original Profit First Book. Contractor accounting is different and this book explains why. All the best to your wife. I hope she is happy and healthy.
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- steve mackay
- 2022-06-26
not much content
i suppose if you’re totally new to these concepts it might be useful but if you have been reading business books this is below average for anything different or interesting. this could have been a thick pamphlet or 15 min youtube video.
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