Hardscape/Landscape Estimating and Methodology

Whether you're contemplating a career in Hardscape/Landscaping or Renovations or you already have a business in motion, the most difficult part of this career/business is maintaining sustainability. It starts with knowledge and knowing your numbers and bottom line!

This course has been structured to fundamentally teach, and for some of you, review standard construction materials and labor fundamental knowledge and application to be able to manage or operate a successful, wealthy and healthy company and carrier.

This course will teach the necessary skills in every aspect of your projects in order to be successful from start to finish and beyond. Most importantly, you're going to learn how to properly estimate and quote a project in minutes, using our own custom made, Pro-Fit Estimator Dashboard.

This course is also great for an existing business to get staff and crew re-familiarized with terms and tasks, prior to your seasonal start-up and throughout as a training tool.

With over 20 years of experience as an owner of a Hardscape and Renovation construction company myself, I've applied my skills and knowledge into a course to teach "project estimating/quoting" in order to allow more peers on the playing field, a greater advantage for financial success.

Financial Success is achieved by creating a profit. The definition of profit is not determined by how much money might be left over once a project is completed, profit is determined prior to taking on a project that you have quoted, sold and finished. Profit is to be determined by a number of variables. These variables can only be realized by taking professional steps to determine your business overhead budget, your project time and costs of labor, cost of materials, all combined to enable and create a proper, suggested proposal.

The question to really ask is, "What Must Be" my suggested proposal amount"? or (what should I be charging?)

At the end of this course, you will be empowered with the knowledge of construction terms and a high standard of materials and labor fundamentals, along with a knowledgeable and professional standard on superior estimating and a means on mastering a profit, making for a healthy and successful business or career.

Course Outline

* Project stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities.

* Learn your business profit line for success by learning your businesses budget.

* Learn the "How To" industry standard practical construction and design knowledge. From onsite measuring and design to knowledge of materials and application for creating a proposal and quote.

* Learn to Estimate/Quote labor, materials and mark-ups to determine a profit, using our customized and preset formulas, estimating program.

* Download, learn and use our "Pro-Fit Estimator" Excel Estimating program suite/dashboard, completely yours and completely free, when joining this course, fitted to calculate Estimates, Job Tracking, Contract Creating with payment structures, Budget Template, Project Add-Ons and more to be added in the future.

Now let's get down to business!