For Custom Residential Building Company Owners
Based on the 3,200+ successful residential building companies we've helped grow since 2004.
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This book shows you, step by step, how to build a residential construction business that gives you more money AND more time.
Result: Tip #1 is putting your crew on a 44-hour week, with a small weekly bonus for doing it. That's about 1,000 more billable hours a year, and at $50 an hour, $50,000 in gross profit.
Result: Hayden, a high-end home builder in New Zealand and one of our members, ran this exact process, questionnaire and WOW Info Pack included. In six weeks he got paid $3,500 each for three Prelim Budgets and signed four projects worth $4.1 million.
Result: Ben Templeton of Templeton Construction in Twizel used these systems to cut back to a four-day week.
Result: Cary and Peter Niven of Niven Builders were struggling with cash flow. Now they schedule work months in advance and make a multiple six-figure profit.
Result: On a $500,000 build that's $5,000, so past clients have a real reason to bring your name up.
Result: Jim Beaulieu of Fort Sask Reno in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta went from $1.3 million last year to on track for $1.5 million this year.
Result: Justin Cook of CBI Construction in Sydney put a marketing and sales workflow in place and went from 80 hours a week to 38.
Result: Ken Longshaw of Longshaw Construction in the Southern Highlands was projecting about 8% profit for the year and finished just over 20%.
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When you started out, everyone told you the same thing.
It used to work, and referrals are great when they come. But they don't turn up just because you've got a crew to keep busy next month, and hope is not a strategy.
So maybe you've been making up the difference with effort:
And even when you're home, your head can still be on site, wondering if the concrete will show up tomorrow and when that siding will be back in stock.
You do great work. 87+ of our members have House of the Year awards to prove it. But great builds and hard work don't add up to a business that pays you properly.
The business is here to serve us, not for us to serve the business.
Marti Amos, The Profitable Builder's Playbook
We've spent 22 years working it out with residential construction companies in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, testing 400+ strategies for marketing, sales, pricing, cash flow, hiring, site systems and leadership along the way. The Profitable Builder's Playbook is what worked, written down.
It walks you through the process step by step, so you can:
More money on its own just gets you a bigger business to babysit. What our members are after is a company that makes 20% or more and runs without them on site every day. Here's what that looks like by the end of the book:
Work out your Professional Builder's Rate and which tasks are worth $1,000 an hour of your time.
Your Stop Doing List, and the "My Last Day" method for putting a date on your last day pricing or doing payroll yourself.
Hire on values, run meetings that hold people to account, and give your superintendent ownership of the job.
The Golden Ratios, and why your 20% markup is only a 16.6% margin.
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Price every job so the margin you quoted is still there at the final walkthrough, with signed-off change orders and labor hours checked against forecast while the build runs.
The TPB 1% Referral System and the marketing that keeps potential clients calling while the current jobs are still going up, so the phone doesn't go quiet once they're finished.
How One of our members got paid $3,500 each for three Prelim Budgets and signed four projects worth $4.1 million, all in six weeks.
Set your Business Maturity Date, and how to let a key team member buy a share of the business so they're the one running it when you step back.
One of our coaches will look at where your margins and time are going, then show you what our members have put in place to fix the same problems. You might see how they charge for the Prelim Budget or run their Stop Doing List. You'll leave with a 1-page 90-day plan that's yours to keep either way.
Marti Amos, founder of The Professional Builder
I know how it feels to lie in bed at night wondering how to pay the wages and the bills, with the weight of the world (and my team) on my shoulders.
For me it was a cleaning company called Life Maid Easy. I grew it to $150,000 a month, and I nearly went bankrupt doing it. From the outside it looked like it was flying.
A lot of people depended on me, and I was fighting a losing battle. One step forward, two steps back.
It was a dark time in my life, and I don't want anyone else to feel the way I did.
I've never been a builder. But building company owners have been my whole focus since 2004, and I see the same thing every week: the owner's flat out, the jobs keep coming in, and the money still doesn't add up at the end of the month.
It kills me to see building company owners struggling, because there's a better way.
Look, you've got a choice to make while you're reading this page.
You can keep running it the way you are, with the job schedule living in your head and every question from site coming to your phone.
Or you can run it the way our members do, where the team follows written systems on site and every job is priced against their minimum target margins.
This book is the playbook for the second one.
After all the hours you've put in, you deserve a business that pays you properly and gives you your weekends back.
It does take work. If you study this book and put even a few of its strategies in place, you can add revenue and make more profit.
The majority of the builders we've worked with have only put about a third of what's in here into practice. Many of those who did the work grew their revenue and their profit, and got their time back.
“What you hold in your hands is the culmination of all my experience working with residential construction companies... We've made truckloads of mistakes along the way and refined our process to a scalable, sustainable system that anyone who is willing to put in the work can implement.”Marti Amos
And how it helps you make more on every job while your team runs the day-to-day.
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Simple, actionable advice for getting more profit (and more time) from a residential building company. The amount of free resources included is insane! Highly recommended for any building compnay owner, especially those who have a growing team and find themselves working long hours + wearing all the hats in the business.
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Valuable and insightful business book for builders that covers every tool, strategy and system a builder needs to grow a profitable & well-systemized building company. Awesome.
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Solid book. Highly recommend for builders - easy to read and super useful.
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Marti Amos has filled this book with fantastic insights, actionable advice and encouraging case studies. I would highly recommend this book to anyone in the construction industry, but especially those who are currently caught in the business hamster wheel doing heaps of work, but feeling like they’re going nowhere.
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I work with builders every day and this playbook hits the nail on the head. Straight to the point, practical and I’ve seen it work. If you’re a builder wanting to run a real business then read this.
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It would’ve saved me stress, money, and tons of sleep.
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10/10 - Marti is on the money with this one, super insightful and highly recommend to anyone in the residential construction space.
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The Profitable Builder’s Playbook is a game-changer for residential builders. It’s packed with real-world strategies, clear frameworks, and practical tools that actually work. Marti breaks down the complex parts of running a building business and make them simple and actionable. If you want to grow a more profitable, stress-free construction business, this book is a must-read
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Marti & THE TPB team have helped me grow my company to levels I never thought possible. Thnx guys.
Price every job for a 20%+ margin, hand the day-to-day to your team and get your evenings back. It's the same system we coach our members through, written down for $4.95.
Many of the builders we talk to have spent years building a business that needs them on every site, so the busier it gets, the less time they have.
Think back to why you got into business in the first place. Maybe it was to build homes you're proud of for great clients, and to see your family taken care of, then your loyal team too. Somewhere along the way, the business may have started running you instead.
The Playbook gives you the steps to turn that around. You'll price every job to a target margin and know it's still there at the final walkthrough, while your superintendent sorts problems out on site instead of calling you.
Your $4.95 gets you the whole thing. Even if you only put one system in place a week, that's 13 new systems running in your business within 90 days.
Mark Taylor from MLT Builders put these same systems in place when he joined TPB:
“Before I started with TPB, I was always just chasing the dollar, taking anything that came in because my cash flow was poor. I had no systems in place and I was just constantly chasing my tail… I used to work every day, including weekends. I would come home and do paperwork, payroll, then sleep and repeat.”
Mark Taylor, MLT Builders
Once the systems were in place, he took six days completely off the grid and “came back to all the sites running on track with no issues.” In his words: “now I’m fully booked until next year with margins around 20-25%.”
When you order, you get the whole book for $4.95 USD. No subscription and no hidden fees.
So why so cheap? In Marti's words:
We hope you'll get real value from it, pass it on to another builder, and one day want a hand putting the rest of it in place.
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Read it and use it. If you don't love the book, email us within 30 days and we'll give you your money back.
You keep your copy either way.
Every chapter ends with Action Steps you can put in place that week, so you don't need to finish the book to start. Pick the chapter that hits closest to home and start there.
It's how we find out whether we can help. One of our coaches looks at where your margins and time are going, and you leave with a 1-page 90-day plan that's yours to keep either way.
The methods come from coaching 3,200+ residential building companies across the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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We've coached 3,200+ building companies through the methods in this book. Here are three of them, before and after they joined TPB.
Matt FennTotal Renovations
BeforeOn-site all day, office work all night, and no idea whether a job had made or lost money until it was finished. Working 50-60 hours a week.
AfterPrices every job to a target margin and knows where he's at money-wise while the job's running. Working 45 hours with evenings free for family.
“Before joining TPB I was working late most nights, working 50 to 60 hours a week, and now I still work my 45 hours, but I can switch off after five.”
Ben Landaal
BeforeWorking 60 to 70 hour weeks, missing family time, and carrying the weight of the entire business on his shoulders.
AfterJust 6 months later, working 35-40 hours with clear systems in place. Scorecard meetings make it clear what the team needs to do, and he's bought back time with his family.
“I'm able to buy back my time with my family and not be a slave to the business.”
Cary & Peter NivenNiven Builders
BeforeEverything was in their heads, doing all admin themselves. Working weekends, clashing over responsibilities, and struggling with cash flow management.
AfterThey know what margin each job should carry and price to it, and the team handles most tasks without them. They're scheduling work months in advance, and father and son are finally on the same page.
“With the help of TPB, we've gone from a building business that was really making no profit at the end of the year to now making multiple six figure profit.”
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