by Venus Dela Salde | Feb 5, 2024 | Back Office
Your business has capacity restrictions – actual physical ones. As a trade business, work gets done by real people out there on properties or building sites – so, since there’s only so much a person can do in a day, there’s only so much work your...
by Venus Dela Salde | Jan 29, 2024 | Back Office, Marketing, Operations, You, Your Team
This is an interesting question, isn’t it? I’m sure you’re pretty busy, but are you spending your time on the right work? Where is the right work? I know I’ve talked about this journey of a trades business’s growth before but...
by Venus Dela Salde | Jan 22, 2024 | Back Office
You can grow a trade business without one, of course, you can, but they bring significant advantages: There’s less paper to shuffle or fewer separate systems to enter stuff into (so mistakes are fewer and we know mistakes cost money). They make quoting and...
by Jon Dale | Nov 10, 2023 | Back Office
We had our final Quarterly Intesive for 2023v on Monday and our coaches chatted about an assortment of interest topics one of which is proposals and how to write them well so you win more clients consistently.’
by Jon Dale | Dec 14, 2022 | Back Office
Organisation An overused word in this day and age. Something constantly on the minds of the populace as we try to cram and fit every little thing we can into our packed lives. People are always asking – how do you organise yourself? What’s the secret to...
by Jon Dale | Nov 14, 2022 | Back Office
This is important, isn’t it? I know there are no real rules to either of these things and I also know that you face upward pressure from your tradespeople to pay them more and downward pressure from your customers to charge them less. So, if you get this wrong...