The Accelerator
Blue Collar Business School Accelerator: Group Coaching for Trade Business Owners
You don't have to figure this out alone.
The individual courses give you the material. The Accelerator adds a structured coaching path on top of it — direct support from Josh, a curriculum backbone that covers every part of running a trade business, and the accountability to actually put it to work instead of letting it sit in a folder.
Who The Accelerator Is For
Built for owners who want guidance, not just more material
The individual courses work well for owners who are self-directed and just need the right roadmap. The Accelerator is built for a different kind of owner — someone who wants a person, not just a curriculum, holding them to the changes they say they want to make. It's the same $150K-$5M revenue range this school is built for, but the Accelerator is specifically for the owner ready to be coached, not just informed.
This is for you if:
- ✓Trade business owners roughly in the $150K-$5M revenue range who are ready to move past self-paced material alone
- ✓Owners who already know what they need to fix — pricing, hiring, marketing, systems, or leadership — but want direct guidance and accountability to actually do it
- ✓Owners willing to be honest about what isn't working in their business and open to changing how they operate
This isn't for you if:
- ✕Anyone looking for a passive program they can sit back and watch
- ✕Owners who aren't willing to apply what they learn between sessions
- ✕Anyone looking for a get-rich-quick shortcut instead of a real coaching relationship
What's Included
Every part of running a trade business, plus a coach in your corner
The Accelerator isn't a separate curriculum from the courses on this site — it's built on top of them. The eight courses form the curriculum backbone, and the coaching layer is what turns that curriculum into changes that actually happen inside your business.
The Full Curriculum Backbone
All eight Blue Collar Business School courses — sales & estimating, pricing & cash flow, hiring, marketing, operations & systems, leadership & scaling, customer service, and business foundations — bundled as the structural spine of the program.
Live Coaching & Accountability
Direct access to Josh for coaching on your specific business, not generic advice. The curriculum tells you what to build; the coaching layer holds you accountable for actually building it.
A Peer Environment
You're not the only trade business owner working through this. Being around other owners wrestling with the same pricing, hiring, and systems problems keeps the work honest and keeps momentum going when things get busy back at the shop.
The curriculum backbone — all eight courses
Sales & Estimating
The Close Rate Blueprint
Pricing & Cash Flow
The Profitable Pricing Blueprint
Hiring & Team Building
Crew Builder
Marketing & Lead Gen
Lead Flow Machine
Operations & Systems
SystemizeIt
Leadership & Scaling
The Owner's Exit Ramp
Customer Service
5-Star Trade
Business Foundations
Contractor Business Foundations
How It Works
A structured coaching path, not a pile of homework
The Accelerator combines the self-paced course material with a live coaching and accountability structure. Instead of working through eight courses on your own and hoping you apply them correctly, you work through the same material inside a structured coaching relationship — with regular check-ins, direct feedback on your actual business (your pricing, your hiring process, your systems), and a group of peer owners working through the same shift.
Because every trade business is at a different stage — some owners are still doing every job themselves, others already have a small crew and are trying to build a management layer — the exact cadence of sessions, the mix of group coaching versus one-on-one time, and how a given coaching group is structured gets confirmed when you talk to Josh directly. That conversation is where we figure out whether the Accelerator is the right fit for where your business is right now, and what the path through it should look like for you specifically.
What stays consistent across every Accelerator cohort is the throughline: the Technician → Manager → Owner framework that runs through this entire school. Every coaching conversation ties back to moving you further along that shift — out of doing the work, and into running the company.
You should also expect the coaching to get specific fast. General advice is easy to find for free. The value of the Accelerator is in applying the curriculum to your actual pricing sheet, your actual job posting, your actual crew structure — not talking in the abstract about business principles. That specificity is also why the program isn't a fit for every business at every stage, and why the first conversation with Josh matters before you enroll.
Investment
Apply to learn if it's a fit
The Accelerator is a bigger commitment than any single course, and it isn't built for every business at every stage. Rather than publish a flat price that doesn't account for where your business actually is, we handle investment the same way a real coaching relationship should be handled: talk to Josh, tell him where your business stands, and find out together whether the Accelerator is the right next step.
If it isn't the right fit yet, that's a useful answer too — you may be better served starting with one or two individual courses first and revisiting the Accelerator once your business has grown into it. Either way, there's no pressure and no pushy sales pitch. Call 844-967-5247 or email josh@contractorschoiceagency.com and we'll have a straight conversation about it.
We'd rather have that honest conversation up front than enroll someone who isn't actually ready for a coaching-level commitment. Applying costs you nothing but a short conversation, and it's the only way to get real numbers instead of a one-size-fits-all price that wouldn't be accurate for your business anyway.
Your Coach
Coached by someone who's actually seen the pattern play out
Josh Cotner started as a contractor before founding Contractors Choice Agency, a commercial insurance agency that now serves 50+ contractor trades nationwide. That work put him inside trade businesses over the years — close enough to see which owners were building something that could run without them, and which owners were quietly stuck doing $30-an-hour work at the top of a business that should have been paying them like an owner.
The Accelerator is Josh coaching owners directly through the same patterns he's spent years watching play out — not abstract theory, and not a franchise coaching script. It's the pricing, hiring, marketing, systems, and leadership shifts that actually separate trade businesses that scale from the ones that stay stuck.
Read Josh's full story →Common Questions
Before you apply
What's the difference between the individual courses and the Accelerator coaching program?
The individual courses are self-contained curriculum you work through on your own. The Accelerator bundles the full curriculum with direct coaching and accountability for owners who want guidance, not just material.
Do I go through the courses at my own pace, or is there a set schedule?
Individual courses are built to work through at your own pace. The Accelerator coaching program follows a structured cadence — contact us for current details.
Is there a live coaching component, or is it all self-paced video?
The individual courses are self-paced. The Accelerator program adds a live coaching and accountability layer on top of the curriculum.
How much does it cost to enroll?
Investment varies by course and program. Contact us and we'll walk you through current pricing for the course or coaching track that fits your business.
Ready to find out if the Accelerator is a fit?
Call 844-967-5247, email josh@contractorschoiceagency.com, or apply below and we'll follow up within 1 business day to talk through your business.