1: Create a Vision

Craft a vision for your business and yourself and learn how to spread this goal to your employees so you're all moving in the same direction.

2: Think and Act Strategically

Wish you were building major subdivisions or huge commercial projects? Those guys think in a certain way. Master the principles that successful entrepreneurs use to create personal and professional success.

3: Plan the Time to Plan

Get off the jobsite, off the cellphone and really run your business. Learn to create and protect the time you need to work on your business. Rejuvenate yourself and maximize your productivity.

4: Build a Standalone Business

Nothing gets done right unless you're on site? Build the processes and procedures that allow your people to create outstanding results with or without you being there.

5: Lead with Courage

From day laborers to craftsmen, subs, foremen, and office staff. Learn how to recruit, train, motivate, and retain a top-notch team you can count on.

6: Always Know the Score

Costing, estimating, margins, collecting the checks. Discover how to use operating and financial data to eliminate surprises and sleepless nights. Learn how to see problems (and prepare solutions) far in advance.

7: Delight Your Customers

A contractor that does one simple, no-cost thing will immediately rise above his competitors. Do you know what it is? Create simple methods to amaze your customers and create a fabulous experience for them every single time.

8: Create a Low-Cost Marketing Engine

Is your business feast or famine? Do you take iffy jobs just to keep the crews busy? Instead, generate a steady flow of "perfect" new customers when you want them, without spending a fortune on marketing.

9: Refine Your Selling Skills

Learn how to ethically sell your services, shorten your sales cycle, and close more sales.

10: Achieve Work/Life Balance

After implementing the first 9 strategies, you'll be in the position to fine tune the balance of your life among Self, Family, Finance, Business, Social, Intellectual, Physical and Spiritual.