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Mark has been featured in

38 newspapers nationwide
  • The New York Times
  • USA Today
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Houston Chronicle
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • Akron Beacon Journal

The Free Overhead Masterclass

You have been at this for years. Maybe you wire buildings and run crews. Maybe you run a practice, a shop, or a service company. Either way, you can do the work. But nobody ever taught you the numbers, and the numbers decide whether the work makes you money. This free masterclass fixes that. I walk you through your real costs, start to finish, the way that keeps you from working a whole busy year for nothing.

Mark, founder of Astra Estimating, holding the framed Houston Chronicle plaque
That's me, Mark. I'm the guy who lost a business, a marriage, and just about everything else to bad numbers before I figured this out.

The Record

The overhead method in this training has been written up in 38 newspapers, including a Houston Chronicle story that ran under a headline about the real secret to making money being your overhead.

Proof

One contractor I worked with, Morgan Electric, went from paying himself twenty five thousand a year at one percent net profit to over three hundred thousand at 15.1 percent, and grew four and a half million dollars in under eighteen months. Same company. Different numbers.

25 years of teaching contractors and service business owners this exact thing.

Before and after: overhead eating profit, then controlled overhead leaving real profit margin

What You Will Learn

  • Secret 1: Overhead, Finally Made Simple. How to easily grasp overhead, in plain language anyone can follow, and why it is the key to unlocking immediate profit margin increases.
  • Secret 2: The Breakeven Blueprint. How to quickly reveal your precise breakeven rate so every cost gets recouped. This one is easier than you think.
  • Secret 3: Stop Profit Erosion, Guaranteed. How to stop profit margin erosion with one simple fix, done in under a minute.

Want your number before you watch? Run the free True Overhead Rate Calculator first. It takes thirty seconds, and the masterclass will show you everything that number depends on.

Want Mark to Look at Your Overhead Numbers?

You just watched the method. The fastest way to make it real is ten minutes on the phone with Mark, walking your overhead numbers together. No pitch, no pressure, and nothing starts unless you say so. Have not run your number yet? The free overhead rate calculator takes thirty seconds. Run it first and bring the result to the call. And if you are a contractor who wants the bidding handled for you, that is what Astra Estimating does all day: your estimate, on your letterhead, built on your real numbers.

Free Consultation with Mark

Pick Your Time. Mark Calls You to Go Over Your Numbers.

Your overhead number, your rates, your margins, whatever is on your mind.

Best Time to Call

Do not want to wait? Call and talk numbers right now.