Class 2 - SINK CRETE PART 1 TRAINING IN Sink fabrication and a completion in efficiencies in sink products that allows the end user more options on the install and design capabilities. Sinks can be installed as an over mount, under mount or high end Vessel. Monolithic sinks in counters can be saved for special orders, increasing efficiency. Sink Crete benefits range from higher densities & 100% stain free/chemical resistant mixes allowing quick and easy cleaning for all sink designs as well as long term newness. Sink Crete's material formulation ranges surpass all previous industry strengths & overall weights are significantly lighter than standard GFRC and other common mix designs. Another efficiency is that attachment brackets are no longer needed, simply attach adequate screws from underneath outer sink ring directly into counter for under mounts & screw through counter into bottom of sink rings for over mounts. Sink Crete also has spin off benefits that are extremely beneficial for high end oversized bath tubs. In addition to the Sink Crete fabrication systems, mold designs have an exclusive SBC design that allows a much faster and consistently stress free demold experience. Those interested in larger production runs will also be able to increase profit margins by using our extreme outer edging sink forms along with our 2 hour demold/polishing formulations.

Class 3 - ADVANCED COLORATIONS Compliments & is meant to go along side the Methods of Making Countertops & Methods of Decorative Concrete Overlays. This Class Focuses In On The Methods & Mediums To Achieve The Most Intricate, Yet, Most Profitable Marble, Granite Replications & Realistic Stone Coloration Effects.

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Class 4 - METHODS OF DECORATIVE CONCRETE OVERLAYS

Covers Start to Finish of All High End Interior & Exterior Concrete Overlays. (Our niche is Interiors over Tile at an average of $7,000 to $8,500 per job completed Monday - Friday with a 2 man crew and Material cost ranging from .25 to.50 cents a sq. ft.)

Covers All the Methods, Techniques and Trade Secrets used in the Decorative Concrete Overlay Industry as well as Our Own Exclusive Methods, and Raw Material Formulations to efficiently Install High End Overlay Finishes over Tiled Interior Floors, or any Concrete surface. Covers Basic Cements, Hydraulic Cements, Hybrid Polymers, Aggregates, Synthetic Aggregates, Colorants, & Sealant options for all Application Methods. Troweling, Stamping, Specialty Texturing, as well as our own exclusive methods of Replicating Textures, Creating Finishes that do not look man made and producing Dazzling Interior & Exterior Applications. Covers how to create High End Finishes through the use of Specialty Material Blends, Advanced Texturing, Multi-Colored Cements, Crushed Metals & Vast options of Color Stacking Procedures.

Also includes Instruction and Reference Manuals providing Procedures, Material Recipes, as well as Store Front and Raw Material Manufacturers pertaining to Producing High End Decorative Concrete Overlays. Truly replicating such Authentic Marble and High End Finishes as you will be taught, really are not attainable at these levels with any distributed or basic A, B, C ingredients being sold on the Market. This class is $697 for the Hands On & only $397 for the Mail Order Package.

Class 5, 6 & 7 - METHODS OF ROCK MAKING/WATER FEATURES, VERTICAL DECORATIVE CONCRETE AND STAMPING & CONCRETE TREES

Covers All Methods From Start To Finish In Creating High End Water Features & Artificial Rocks, Vertical Decorative Concrete Designs and Techniques and Unique Methods of Concrete Trees. (Our Niche is doing larger Boulders, 4 times faster than small rock groupings and much higher end pricing per sq. ft. Our starting point is $65 a sq. ft. for small rock groupings & $125 a sq. ft. for Large Boulders.)

Covers All the Methods, Techniques and Trade Secrets used in the Synthetic Rock & Water Feature and Vertical Concrete Industry as well as Our Own Exclusive Methods, and Raw Material Formulations to Efficiently Construct High End Water Features, Pools, Ponds & any size scale of Realistic Fake Rocks. Covers Basic Cements, Hydraulic Cements, Hybrid Polymers, Aggregates, Synthetic Aggregates, Colorants, & Sealant options for all Application Methods. Rebar & Metal Lathe, (Strong Hollow Rocks) All Solid Fill Methods, Metal Lathe over large throw away containers, (Large Rocks, minimal material & labor) all Methods of Skeleton Stacking, Fiber Reinforced Molded Rocks & Light Weight Cliff Panels. (large amounts of square footage for minimal amounts of material & labor) Troweling, Stamping, Specialty Texturing, Sculpting Techniques, as well as our own exclusive methods of Replicating Textures & Creating Finishes that do not look man made. Covers how to create High End Finishes through the use of Specialty Material Blends, Advanced Texturing, Multi-Colored Cements & Vast options of Color Stacking Procedures.

Includes Instruction and Reference Manuals providing Procedures, Material Recipes, as well as Store Front and Raw Material Manufacturers pertaining to Producing High End Water Features & Artificial Rocks as taught in our In Depth Program. This class is $697 for the Hands On & only $397 for the Mail Order Package.

Class 8 - TECHNIQUES OF MAKING WEEPING WATER WALLS

Covers Making High End Weeping Water Walls, A Very Profitable Niche Home or On Site Business. Our Starting Point is, $5,500 to Build a 3' x 6' Water Wall. Total Material Cost is Under A $1,000 & Can Be Completed In 2 - 3 Days By One Person.

Covers All the Methods, Techniques, Raw Material Formulations and Trade Secrets used in making High End Weeping Water Walls. Class Teachings Include, Industries as well as Our own Exclusive Material Formulation Recipes, using Basic Cements, Hydraulic Cements, Hybrid Polymers, Aggregates, Synthetic Aggregates, Colorants, & Sealant options for all Construction Methods. Framing Options, Reinforcements, Plumbing, Adding Fiber Optics, Stamping, Specialty Texturing, as well as our own exclusive methods of Replicating Textures. Covers how to create High End Weeping Water Walls through the use of Specialty Material Blends, Multi-Colored Cements, Crushed Metals & Vast options of Color Stacking.

Includes Instruction and Reference Manuals providing Procedures, Material Recipes, as well as Store Front and Raw Material Manufacturers pertaining to Producing High End Water Walls. This class is $697 for the Hands On & only $397 for the Mail Order Package.

Class 9 - KITCHEN CABINETS REFACING

Covers Resurfacing of Kitchen Cabinets, A Very Profitable Niche Home or On Site Business.

You will Learn How To reface kitchen cabinets using real Copper, Cabinet Crete. SBC product "Cabinet Crete" is the Winner of the Most Innovative Products Competition at the 2009 World of Concrete Show in Las Vegas. Cabinet Crete is a High-Strength Cementitious Kitchen Cabinet Resurfacing System that offers the look of copper, marble, granite, bronze, or tropical colorations which can be achieved in as little as one hour from application. The cementitious resurfacing effects cost less than standard cabinet resurfacing and are faster to apply. With the Cabinet Crete system, a typical kitchen cabinet resurfacing project can be completed in one full workday.

This class teaches how to create effects mentioned above on existing Kitchen Cabinets rather than ripping out the old and replacing them with very expensive new kitchen cabinets. The video above will give many people an affordable option to buying New Kitchen Cabinets. This is another fun and profitable Decorative Vertical Concrete application that will save you thousands on any remodeling budget.

Primarily home owners and those with a new home under construction.

HOW MUCH INCOME CAN I MAKE IN A WEEK IF OFFERING ALL THE TRADES, AS TAUGHT IN THE BUSINESS PRO PACKAGE?

Conservatively, well over $4,000.00 per week working 4 to 6 hours a day with a 2 person team.

Travel saving TIP!!! Make samples of all the products you want to market and have them displayed at your home or office for others to see. By doing this you can save time sorting out the kind of curious shoppers from the serious shoppers who really want to get work done and are doing their do diligence to find out what their options are.

When potential customers call my office, I always listen to their needs and follow up explaining that most of the services we offer are charged by the square foot and if they know their measurements I can give them an exact cost over the phone. I also let them know that I will double check the measurements when I start the job. After that said I will also let them know that the best thing is for them to stop by my showroom so they can see exactly what all the finishes look like. At this point of a conversation I can usually tell whether the person is slightly curious verses really wanting to get work done and just not 100% sure of what they want it to look like. Once I have explained the showroom process, I also let them know that once they see all of the finishes it will be a lot easier for me to stop by their house to make my recommendations. Once I look at their surrounding colors I can make my recommendations based off of the patterns they liked at my showroom. By looking at their surrounding colors I can fine tune a pattern that they like by adding the perfect variety of colors to flow with what they have.

For those starting out there’s two ways of looking at going out for a free estimate when every phone call comes in. By doing so it’s not likely that every estimate will lead to the close of a sale, but over the long haul you will get extra work because some of the curious shoppers may get to a point where they really are ready or in the mean time they simply refer you to a friend because they liked your personality and your courtesy in sincerely trying to help them.

WHAT OTHER MEANS OF ADVERTISING HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE FOR GROWING THIS BUSINESS?

After Classified Ads my number one success for growth has always been existing customers (word of mouth). For long term success this should always be your number one focus!

The second best means of marketing for this business is Trade Shows. In Phoenix there are a lot of shows throughout the year but there are three solid shows put on by Maricopa Home and Garden Shows that I advertise in. These three shows bring in more than enough work for myself and the contractors who purchase materials from me. Trade Shows are effective for many reasons. First of all, it allows for you to bring a mini show room to the people, and it allows the people to get to know you and your traits first hand.

As long as you create a display that shows quality work and is better than what other competitors are offering your work will speak for itself. (Having a top notch display is definitely doable, even for starters.) One thing I do, even to this day is observe and consider those advertising at every show and throughout the world. By doing this I know what’s new and what’s a winning look or not. Then I can gauge my own efforts on how much farther ahead I must push in creating newer, neater and better overall finishes staying a comfortable step ahead.

If you create a display and samples of your work with cleanness and quality, people will be attracted and impressed, and want to find out more. As they look to you for information this is really your chance to instill in their minds of important reasons other than just your talents of why they should consider choosing you to spend their money with.

Helpful tip to grow your business with less advertising cost: The day I quit focusing on mass production and getting through as many jobs as possible in a year, verses creating a solid friendship on each job has been night and day in our business. By creating friendships, customers have more appreciation for my efforts and also get to know what I’m about on a more personable level, even the direction I am aiming at with my business. Through the years I have been blessed with talents to do many kinds of projects, but trying to do everything makes it harder to stay organized and efficient day to day. A friend is more likely to consider what type of word of mouth advertising will be helpful rather than a distraction.

As you grow your own business you will also be able to place your own value system on what niches are the most profitable and enjoyable for you to be the most efficient at.

When people are shopping for a service to be done they have a few major concerns. Finding someone they can be confident in to do quality work at a reasonable price and someone who is trustworthy to do and be what they say. If you’re serious about making people your friend even before their your customer then you will have separated yourself from the masses. If you’re sincere in wanting to be helpful to others, everything falls into place and without all the headaches that are associated with those focused on just making money.

Most people will pick up instantly on the hard core salesman mentality verses someone who is selling but actually see’s them as more than just a sale. I liken this point to a quote about materialism in one of my books Calculated Life Planning & Goal Setting. “GOODS AND BADS OF MATERIALISM: in attaining possessions, it’s o.k. if the things you get are used to enjoy life and love people. It’s not o.k. if you lose your concern for people and start using people just so that you can love things.” By mastering this principle you will also save a lot of time running all over town doing estimates. People attending Trade Shows will speak to a lot of advertisers and even so, they will have narrowed their choices down based just on personalities. By the end of a show people have a decent idea of what I’m about or not about.

Trade Showshave been consistentmaking salesto home owners, business owners and picking up helpful marketers such as Landscapers, Home Builders and many other businesses.

WHAT ABOUT BUSINESS LICENSING AND ALL THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF RUNNING A BUSINESS LEGALLY?

My Home Study Course, Becoming An Entrepreneur covers every process for starting, developing, and running any business. Legalities are much easier than most would think. Most businesses can be set up with in one day.

HOW IS THIS BUSINESS PACKAGE BENEFICIAL COMPARED TO ANY OTHER BUSINESS PACKAGES?

The most important factor is that of all the services I have done through the years. It’s a Niche Business. Uniqueness, in demand, efficient in drastically lowering labor times, learnable and duplicate able, and conservatively way more profitable and realistic than common business packages that usually are to well known and over saturated with competition. This package is not known nor will be known of by the masses. Our only means of advertising for this and other business packages is the Internet & Trade Shows, primarily to people who are ready to start their own business or achieve in house manufacturing for their existing business.

WHY WOULD YOU OFFER THESE TRADES TO OTHERS RATHER THAN JUST DOING THEM YOURSELF?

At this stage in our business we have multiple thousand dollar trails that work locally and also worldwide by offering everything we do in Arizona to people elsewhere. And the great thing about everything we offer is that none of them are pie in the sky get rich without any work opportunities, but rather realistic and proven trades that I have worked very hard at in making learnable and duplicate able for others. Multiplication works better than addition! This is a solid business that works best on a local level. In one of my books I have a chapter titled: Money Trails. I explain the differences between penny trails, dollar trails, 100 dollar, 1,000 dollar and 2,500 dollar trails. Some people may spend 8 hours a day picking up 10,000 pennies, also consumed with total concentration which may blind us from seeing other trails with less bending over and less hours to equal more money in a day. For example, while pennies are being picked up, others may be spending 5 hours picking up dollars. Also consider that instead of picking up a penny every step, one can pick up a dollar every 100 steps which allows more freedom to see and consider larger scenario’s, such as what this business is, a thousand dollar trail.

SHOULD I QUIT MY JOB AND TAKE A CHANCE WITH THIS OR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES YOU OFFER AS MY NEW MEANS OF INCOME?

No, think Temporary Saturday Sacrifices. Prior to starting my first business at 19 I worked 40 to 60 hours a week for a high production concrete company. Not to long after word got out of what I did for work I soon found myself doing side jobs on Saturdays and making more money in one day than all the other hours in the week. Despite negativity from co workers against starting my own business, I pressed forward because in my mind it made more sense to make more in one day and have all the extra breathing space to handle any of the negativities the nay Sayers predicted would happen, if I tried.

So as with my story, the safest way in my opinion, to make a transition from the 40 hour or more weeks is to establish what you want to do full time into a consistent flow of weekend successes unto the point that full time makes sense. If you’re not afraid of a little manual labor hat pays well this Business Pro Package will help recession proof your income with diversity. As you grow your business you will also be able to narrow your services down to just your most Favorite & Profitable NICHES. By this I’m reminded of fishing, some use one pole to fish and that’s normal, myself I like to use two just for upping the odds. Plus using different baits help when emotions change. To a fish, a worm may have sounded yummy yesterday, but unless it finds someone offering corn today it’s not buy-ting.