Secrets of Buying and Selling a Construction Business & Why Most Are Unsellable with Mark Powers | E384
The Construction Leading Edge Podcast
Release Date: 04/17/2025
The Secret to Building Client Trust and Team Loyalty with Brady Fry | E398
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🚀Join our Live Meetup this coming 16th of October. Register ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 398: Still struggling with chaos in your construction business? You’re not alone. A lot of construction business owners assume that chaos comes from rapid business growth, but that’s a myth and that’s what keeps you stuck. In this episode of The Construction Leading Edge Podcast, I sit down with Brady Fry, the owner of Fry Classic Construction, who shares valuable insights on managing a construction business with efficiency and clarity. Today,...
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Build Your Business So You Can Sell It with John Warrillow | E397
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Downsizing Could Be the Key to Explosive Growth in Your Construction Business with John Wojtas | E396
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 396: Are you tired of dealing with constant delays, cost overruns, and frustrated clients on your construction projects? You’re not alone. Most construction problems can be prevented even before work begins. And this week’s guest has cracked the code. In this episode, we’re joined by John Wojtas, owner of PAXISgroup, a custom home building company based in Georgia. Today, John shares how his decision to downsize his business...
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What Most Construction CEOs Get Wrong About Success | E395
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 395: Most construction business owners believe that success is all about “getting it”. Getting that big contract. Hitting that revenue goal. But chasing milestones can feel exhausting and overwhelming. Around 70% of construction businesses shut down within five years. What’s even more alarming? Construction has the second-highest suicide rate of any industry. What if many of the deepest struggles owners face stem from one flawed...
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Built to Fail: Why Most Construction Businesses aren’t Sellable | E394
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 394: If you’ve ever felt trapped by your construction business, like everything will fall apart the moment you step away, you’re not alone. Meet Stan. After 35 years of building a thriving construction business, he was ready to retire. But there was a problem—his business couldn’t survive without him. All the systems, knowledge, and decisions lived in his head. Retirement? Impossible. The business wasn’t...
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6 Months to Skilled Labor? This System Proves It’s Possible with Mike Brewer | E393
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 393: What if the answer to your labor shortage isn’t in job ads or recruiters—but your warehouse? Today’s guest was done fighting for tradespeople. Instead of poaching skilled plumbers, he built a training program from scratch. Brewer Craftsman Academy turns complete rookies into $60-$80K/year professionals in just six months—and it’s working. His company now builds 23% of homes with workers who had zero experience just...
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How $10M Construction CEOs Think Differently | E392
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 392: Why do some contractors scale to $10M and beyond, while others stay stuck? Most construction business owners believe that working harder and saying “yes” to everything is the key to growth. But here’s the truth: saying yes to every job is how you build revenue, but saying NO to the wrong ones is how you build a profitable construction business. In this episode of The Construction Leading Edge, we’re unpacking the five key...
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How to Create a Killer Lead Generation System for Your Construction Business with Logan Shinholser | E391
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 391: You’ve built your construction business on word of mouth and referrals. Things were booming—until they weren’t. Now what? If your phone isn’t ringing as much, and you’re worried about what the future holds for your construction business, you’re not alone. Many contractors are facing the same challenge. But there’s good news—there’s a better way to generate leads (no cold calling required!). In this episode...
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The Missing Link That’s Draining Profit and Breeding Chaos | E390
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 390: Are you constantly up at night thinking if your team has ordered the correct items? How do you have the confidence that things are getting done? Most construction business owners spend their days chasing updates instead of leading their teams. If that sounds like you, then there’s a crucial piece missing from your operations: a single source of truth. In this episode of The Construction Leading Edge, I’ll share a powerful story...
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Exposed: Learning More ISN’T Helping Your Business (What You Actually Need) | E389
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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 389: Are you constantly learning new business strategies, but nothing ever changes? A lot of construction business owners are stuck in a loop—chasing the next strategy, the next big idea—hoping it will finally be the thing that works. But here’s the truth: if you keep trying the same thing that isn’t working, then there’s something that you believe that isn’t true. In this week’s episode, we’re diving deeper into the...
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EPISODE 384: Have you thought about the future of your construction business?
Most construction business owners don’t think about selling their businesses. But here’s the reality: One day, your business will either be sold, passed down, or shut down. And if you don’t plan for that right now, you risk walking away with nothing.
So how do you make your business sellable?
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Mark Powers, one of our Systematize Your Construction Business (SYCB) students who’s successfully acquired several construction companies.
With extensive experience as both an owner and investor, Mark shares key factors that make a business sellable and what to avoid when acquiring one.
You’ll learn:
⟶ What makes a construction business attractive to buyers
⟶ Common pitfalls in buying and selling a business
⟶ How to determine your business’s actual value
⟶ Smart acquisition strategies for rapid business growth
…and more!
Curious how to run your business without you and make it sellable?
Tune in now!
Key Takeaways:
Introduction (00:00)
Key considerations when acquiring a construction business (02:28)
Everything you need to know about business valuation (05:47)
How Mark Powers got into business acquisitions (09:48)
Common pitfalls in construction business acquisitions (14:29)
Employee retention strategies post-acquisition (17:03)
Acquisition vs. organic growth (21:34)
Why design your business to operate without you (23:45)
Mark’s journey through our SYCB program (31:43)
Advice for entrepreneurs considering business exit (41:57)
Additional Resources:
- Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team HERE
- Watch our FREE masterclass: Get Out of Your Construction Business: How to Make It Run Without You HERE
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