How to Start & Grow a Successful Construction Business | Full Step-by-Step Course. Video #00 of 32

Welcome to my YouTube channel, I'm Tom Stephenson and I'm a professor of Construction Management, are you thinking about starting your own construction business? Whether you’re planning to launch a small renovation company, build custom homes, or scale up to large commercial projects, this 33-video course will guide you through every step of the journey!

In this introduction, I’ll give you an overview of the course and how it can help you start, grow, and manage a profitable construction business.

What You’ll Learn in This Course:
✅ Business planning & strategy
✅ Legal structures & licensing
✅ Financial management & pricing strategies
✅ Marketing, sales, and customer acquisition
✅ Cash flow management & financial ratios
✅ Hiring, training, and employee motivation
✅ Project operations, leadership, and regulations

Each lesson is designed to provide practical, real-world insights that will set you up for success.

🔗 Watch the full course here or go to my playlists:
Tutorial 00 Construction Business Intro    • How to Start & Grow a Successful Construct...  
Tutorial 1A Entrepreneur & Change    • Construction Business Management, Entrepre...  
Tutorial 1B Business Structure    • Construction Business Management, Business...  
Tutorial 2A Bus Plan Mission    • Construction Business Management, Business...  
Tutorial 2B Goals, Grit    • Construction Business Management, Module 2...  
Tutorial 3A Bus Plan details    • Construction Business Management, A detail...  
Tutorial 3B Strategy    • Construction Business Management, How to d...  
Tutorial 4A Financials Part 1    • Construction Business Management, Understa...  
Tutorial 4B Financials Income Statement    • Understanding The Income Statement and Mar...  
Tutorial 4C Markup Case Study    • Case Study on How To Use Markup to Success...  
Tutorial 5A Break Even    • Calculate the break-even point and correct...  
Tutorial 5B Balance Sheet    • The Balance Sheet represents the net worth...  
Tutorial 6A Cash Flow    • Learn how a cash flow statement for a cons...  
Tutorial 6B Reading Statements    • How to review and analyze financial statem...  
Tutorial 6C Financial Ratios    • How to Use Financial Ratios for Constructi...  
Tutorial 7A Cash Flow Case Study    • Do these 5 things to avoid a cash crisis i...  
Tutorial 7B Home Building ROI    • ROI $$ and the + and - of leverage used in...  
Tutorial 8A Marketing    • Develop a marketing plan for your construc...  
Tutorial 8B Market to your customer    • Do you really know who your customer is?  ...  
Tutorial 8C 3 Purchasing Models    • Learn the 3 consumer purchasing models tha...  
Tutorial 9A Sales and Marketing    • Marketing, Sales, and Advertising, Learn w...  
Tutorial 9B Sales 6 Steps    • Learn the winning formula, the 6 Steps of ...  
Tutorial 9C Sales & more sales    • 5 steps to SMARTER, FASTER, BETTER Ways to...  
Tutorial 10A Sales    • Learn how to Overcome the 5 Fears of Selli...  
Tutorial 10B Negotiating    • Learn how to Negotiate in the World of Con...  
Tutorial 11A Hiring    • Learn how best to hire for your constructi...  
Tutorial 11B Training and Rewards    • How to retrain, train and reward your empl...  
Tutorial 11C Motivation Employees    • Construction Business Management: Learn Ho...  
Tutorial 12A Flow    • Learn how to better engage your employees ...  
Tutorial 12B Regulations    • Regulations that you need to know about wh...  
Tutorial 12C Leadership    • Leadership versus Management? What is the ...  
Tutorial 12D Review    • Review of How to Operate a Successful Cons...  

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Tom Stephenson is a national award-winning professor (George Brown College, University of Toronto) and best-selling author whose background in education spans nearly three decades. His diverse teaching disciplines include construction project management, business management, human resource management, architecture, carpentry, and brick and stone masonry. As a dual-professional, Tom is called upon by industry leaders to translate knowledge, reinvigorate corporate culture, and inspire innovation in emerging and established companies across Canada. Before breaking into the academic realm, Tom acquired more than a decade of practical project-management experience, operating a mid-sized Toronto-based general contracting firm. He is also the author of the newly released Planning, Scheduling, and Control of Construction Projects with American Technical Publishers and the four best-selling editions of Understanding Construction Drawings for Housing and Small Buildings with Nelson Publishing Canada. Tom most recently received the Toronto Construction Association’s 2020 Chancellor’s Award for “helping his peers become more ethical, knowledgeable and professional.” A champion of change management, Tom takes pride in helping students and businesses navigate uncharted territories, take calculated risks and rise above the status quo. Some of the companies he’s worked with include Mattamy Homes, EllisDon, BIRD Construction, MCA, Maple Reinders, and Tucker HiRise, University of Toronto Project Managers.