Good Leadership (For Tradies And Builders)
How to be a leader for Tradies (and Builders) You may have heard me say this before but for a trade business (and a building business) part of growing and making more money is growing your team - having more people doing that work. And part of having a team means you...
The Power of Branding – How It Works In Your Trades Business
The Power of Branding for Tradies I'm sure you know about the power of branding. The idea is that, the more your potential customers see your brand, the more ready they'll be to pick your business and enquire when they have a need for your services. Marketing works,...
Why Great Customer Service Will Pay Off In The End
Great Customers Service brings Customers Back I just bought a new lawnmower and whipper snipper to replace my shitty old ones. I bought battery-powered ones, quite cool - you've probably seen them. (Makita - there was a deal on). It’s lovely - the neighbours even...
Invest Now, Benefit Later – That’s Business!
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 hoping...
How Much Do Tradies Make?
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 seem to mix up...
Tradies, How You Present Yourself Matters
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 and commanding better...
Have You Benefited From The $25K Home Builder Grant, Tradies?
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 hay...
What To Do If You Get Ghosted Episode 2 – A Closing Message
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...
Tradies, Have You Ever Been Ghosted?
Have you ever been ghosted? It's a term usually used in dating especially online dating where you think it’s going well and then they vanish. It's never happened to me, probably because I've been with Michelle since before Tinder but a friend of mine has had it...
Tradie Growth Hack: Turn The Wheel
Tradie Growth Hack: Turn the wheel What am I even talking about? Growth hack: Turning the wheel? (I sound like an internet marketing wanker, sorry). Might be a wanker but I'm not an internet marketing wanker (I don't think). I thought it was fun for a minute to...
Loss Masking (With Your Own Hours) – Don’t Do It!
‘Loss masking’ with your own hours - don't do it. Loss masking - what am I talking about? It is a real thing. Don't try looking it up because I made the term up, but it's a real thing, and lots of trades business owners and builders do it. They don't do it on purpose,...
Best Trades Business Structure – Pty Ltd Or Sole Trader?
What's the best business structure for a trades business - is it sole trader or is it proprietary limited? It's a choice. You have a choice. I'm going to explain the differences between the two. I'm going to help you choose because you should. You should choose and...