7 Best Business Podcasts/Videos for Builders

Checkout these hand-picked podcast/video series for builders to help you grow your vision, your business, your profits and your team – successfully.

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Not everyone has time to read business books or attend courses so here are 7 podcasts/videos you can checkout at your leisure. You can listen to them onsite, driving between jobs, going for a walk or even lying on the beach.

So, here goes:

1 The Toolshed: Real Business Tactics That Work – Weekly

Mick Hawes interviews expert guests in the Builder’s Toolshed Podcast live every week (or catch up on the replays in your own time) for The Builder’s Business Success Podcast. It’s packed full practical advice and strategies on how to elevate your building business, be more profitable and reclaim your time for yourself.

2.  The Builders Show

Hosted by Kurt Hegetschweiler, hear about real life stories from the trenches. Includes business Insights and strategies for builders.

Available on Spotify or Youtube

3. Builders & Marketing Podcast

The Builders & Marketing podcast is a show about staying relevant as a builder in the ever-evolving internet world and how to best position your building business in your marketplace. Listen Here

4. The Builders Ladder

Most builders are taught how to build excellent homes… But not how to build amazing businesses. 

Follow the Builders Ladder podcast every Thursday for business best practice on hiring, recruitment, site and office systems along with pricing, financial management. 

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Youtube

5. Renovare Blog for Home Owners

We’ve included the Renovare blog in this list because it’s a brilliant example of the content marketing builders can do to attract, educate, qualify and position prospects. Strong content marketing is low cost and highly effective. Check it out here.

6. Professional Builders Secrets Podcast

The Professional Builders Secrets Podcast brings together some of the best minds in the industry along with professional builders to share their experiences in residential construction and provide insightful tips for builders on how to operate and grow their businesses. Check it out

7. Coffee with Glenn (OHS)

Hear from HazardCo’s Senior Health & Safety Advisor, Glenn Smith, and Head of Customer Success & Experience, Vanessa Lambert, as they cover a range of H&S topics in a simple, easy to digest way. Watch Coffee with Glenn

Naturally, if you come across a podcast/webinar/video series that should be on this list – let us know.

Richard Armstrong is a former registered builder who recently interviewed hundreds of experienced Australian builders to identify how they best manage clients, budgets and profitability.

Cost+ Contracts – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Roughly 1 in 8 builders currently use Cost+ contracts; primarily to manage cost escalation risks. We reveal their pros/cons – which might surprise you…

Builders Roadmap: Increase Margins & Prices in Competitive Markets

This is NOT advice about reducing costs & overheads in competitive times. Rather, it’s strategic advice about how to fast track bigger profits in a competitive environment based on what successful home builders do.

Builders, are you the victim or the victor?

In tough times, it’s easy for builders to feel helpless with no control over their future. See how attitude has helped builders not just survive but flourish in tough conditions.

5 Warning Signs Mistrust is Killing Your Sales

If clients don’t trust you, they’re unlikely to engage your services. Here are 5 signs to look for – and what to do.

10 Simple Rules to Make Builders’ Lives Easier

Building’s a challenging game to play so we’ve compiled 10 simple rules to make every builder’s life easier (from hundreds of builders we interviewed)

5 Client Fear-Driven Tricks That Hurt Builders

Clients start the project process at a disadvantage because they’re on a steep learning curve. Through fear, some of them employ ‘newbie’ tricks. Here’s how to help them.