Which Job Management Software Is Right For Tradies
GUEST ARTICLE FROM GEONEXT Our view on job management systems is that you should have one. If you haven’t got one yet go and get one, what are you waiting for? We’re in touch with a number of the players, here’s a great article from GeoNext about why Job Management...
Why You Should Use A Process When You’re Hiring
I've been talking about hiring all month and offering you the download (for free) of my hiring process so you can hire better. Now we sell business coaching for trades and building business owners and for us this is marketing. I'm hoping you'll like what I have to...
Tradesman Or Apprentice – Which One Should You Hire?
The theme of this series of videos is how to hire good people and this video is about who to hire in the first place. It's easy to get caught up in thoughts like: ‘I’ll get an apprentice - they're cheap and there’s a subsidy' without considering whether that’s the...
How To Find Good People – Put the Word OUT!
Have you ever had a man’s look? In my house, I'm often told I must’ve had a man’s look when I say something like “where’s the mustard? I can't find it, it's definitely not in here”. Of course, a man’s look is me, opening the fridge with my eyes closed and failing to...
How To Hire Good People In A Trades Business
Right now, everyone is finding it hard to find good people - pretty much everybody has a job, right? A lot of the people I'm talking to are finding it hard to find decent people. They put an ad out on SEEK or something and they either get no applications or no good...
How to Resolve Conflict With Your Customer
Conflict is ever present, isn’t it? Every trade hopes that every job will go smoothly. That customers will be happily delighted, every time. And yet, every trade has a horror story or few where it all went horribly wrong. As well as those frequent occurrences of it...
How To Measure Your Margins
How Much Margin Should Tradies Make?
How much margin should you make? Margins are important and if this feels like I'm making a whole video to make one tiny point I'm not even sorry. As a business coach, the number one problem I see people frustrated by, is having sh*tty skinny margins and the effects...
Virtual Assistant VS In-House Admin Person – Which is best for tradies?
Should you outsource or employ? As you grow your trades business you need to build and implement ‘machines’ into your business. There’s only so much work you can do yourself and if you’re going to grow you need to build these ‘machines’. One machine you need to build...
What To Do About The Price Increase
Prices are increasing everywhere, aren't they? Timber, steel, copper, gyprock - the price of all the materials seems to be increasing at the moment and, with them, the prices of many subcontractors too. I'm not going to rant about whose fault it is or the...
Business Coaching Program – Structure, Framework, Systems (Small Fish Process)
What does a business coaching program incorporate? What will I learn? And what will I get out of it? These might be some of the questions you have when you think of the term ‘business coaching’. Business coaching is a broad term and every coach has their own process....
Which Job Management Platform is Right for Your Trades Business?
There are lots of job management systems out there for trades businesses and lots of good ones. You should definitely be using a job management system. If you’re not using one you’re missing out on something that can save you time, reduce mistakes and frustration,...