Tradie Business 101: Guide to Getting a Factory
Outgrown your home office and shed? Securing a factory can be a game-changer for your trades service business. However, the process of getting one can often feel like a biiiig step up. As a business coach specialising in strategies for ...
Tradie Business 101: How to Manage Subbies
Introduction: Understanding the Challenge If you're a small-to-medium business owner in the trades or service industries, managing subcontractors, or "subbies," can be a significant challenge. Whether you're a plumber, sparky, or builder, ensuring that your subbies deliver quality work ...
Tradie Business 101: How to Hire Employees
Introduction: Addressing a Common Challenge Hiring employees can be one of the most daunting tasks for small-to-medium business owners in the trades or service industries. It's a common challenge that many of my clients face: how do you find ...
Tradie Business 101: How to Improve Productivity
Productivity is a Common Challenge for Tradies If you're a small-to-medium business owner in the trades or service industries, you've probably faced the challenge of improving productivity. Whether you're a plumber, electrician, or builder, juggling heaps of tasks while ...
Tradie Business 101: How to Increase Your Pricing
Introduction: Addressing a Common Challenge If you're a small-to-medium business owner in the trades or service industries, you've probably faced the common challenge of pricing your work. How do you set your prices to ensure you make a good ...
Tradie Business 101: How to set prices to make good profit
Setting your Prices to Make Good Profit Everyone knows the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S. , the much-loved series about, as the name says, friends. As a business coach for tradies, I'd make a show called P.R.O.F.I.T. It would be a ...
Tradie Business 101: Managing Admin
Introduction Mastering administrative tasks is essential for running a successful tradie business. Effective admin management ensures that your operations run smoothly, allowing you to focus on delivering quality services and growing your business. It involves organising your schedules, managing ...
Tradie Business 101: Tips for Winning Tenders
Tenders can be lucrative for tradies. Long-term contracts that provide regular work and predictable recurring revenue can be the goose that lays the golden egg. Given the importance of tenders, I'm surprised that the topic doesn't get more air ...
Tradie Business 101: A Guide to Managing Employees
Remember your first job when you started as an apprentice working for a tradie business? You spent the day looking for left-handed spanners, doing the Dare iced coffee run and trying to remember what you'd learnt at trade school. ...
Tradie Business 101: A Guide to Marketing
Remember when you enrolled at trade school because you knew you wanted to be a... marketer? Wait, what? Nah. You signed up to be an electrician or a plumber or a landscaper or a chippy or to learn HVAC ...