by Jon Dale | Sep 28, 2020 | Marketing
With a very few exceptions, that really is business, isn’t it? It pretty much sums up business coaching too – put the effort in now and you get the benefit down the track. I was talking to my daughter, Florence, about her English assignment and she was...
by Jon Dale | Sep 22, 2020 | Back Office
How Much Do Tradies Make? There’s a lot going on here and I’ll try to make it clear. It starts when newspaper articles put out surveys of what different trades ‘make’. The ranges are large (aren’t they?) and it’s not clear who makes what – they...
by Jon Dale | Sep 15, 2020 | Sales
Tradies – Presentation Counts – How’s Yours? Part of my business coaching program for tradies and builders (it’s called the Tradies Toolbox Coaching Program) is building a Sales Machine. That’s all about doing sales properly, using a process...
by Jon Dale | Sep 8, 2020 | Operations
With the exception of our friends in Melbourne who are locked down, everyone is busy, aren’t they? All my clients are busy, customer confidence rebounded pretty well and the trades and construction industries seem okay at this moment. My point is – make...
by Jon Dale | Sep 1, 2020 | Sales
I talked about being ghosted last week and what you can do to prevent it or at least to make it happen less. And I talked about when you send somebody a quote and they disappear and you get nothing more from them. They don’t take calls or return your calls or...