The Builders Ladder: Business Growth Strategies for Residential Construction Businesses
Jul 2, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
Michele Bonola from Riviera Renovations found himself completely lost and ready to quit the building industry. Despite generating revenue, he was losing money on untracked variations, spending his…
Michele BonolaGuest
Marti AmosHost
So once we got there, started, then it all fell into place with TPP, the professional builder, yeah.

What was like the first system that you installed and what has been the most valuable system that you've installed for your business? What would you say?

At the moment, because if I didn't have a funnel, I'd take a call and that was it.

Now I've got a process, I've got a system from the initiation of actual phone call, log that date.

And it's a 12-step process, which has been... figured out by you guys and it works like you don't it's it's copy and paste realistically

oh it's not hard but until you realize that you're missing something or you're lacking something and you start sniffing around you'll be lucky if you've come across this i was very fortunate i came across it first go but i could see myself look in five six different places if this wasn't it I'm just fortunate that I found the right place at the right time.

So once we got there, started, then it all fell into place with TPP, the professional builder, yeah.

What was like the first system that you installed and what has been the most valuable system that you've installed for your business? What would you say?

At the moment, because if I didn't have a funnel, I'd take a call and that was it.

Now I've got a process, I've got a system from the initiation of actual phone call, log that date.

And it's a 12-step process, which has been... figured out by you guys and it works like you don't it's it's copy and paste realistically

oh it's not hard but until you realize that you're missing something or you're lacking something and you start sniffing around you'll be lucky if you've come across this i was very fortunate i came across it first go but i could see myself look in five six different places if this wasn't it I'm just fortunate that I found the right place at the right time.
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