Starting Your Career as a Contractor: How to Build and Run a Construction Business

by Cladiu Fatu

This incisive, practical 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

Developing a business structure, 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 manual to getting the job done right!

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 3, 2015

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I listened to the audiobook of this and I thought it was interesting. The author provides solid advice on starting a business, and I can say a lot of what he says is spot on. I would definitely recommend this if you are looking to jump down the rabbit hole of working in construction, or perhaps just are curious as to what is involved.