Shark Attack! Margins Injured in Gruesome Shark Attack
Learn More Sharks ate your margins! There are 10 sharks out there swimming around on your building site, eating your margins, and taking them away from you. And if you’re not careful, all you’ll be left with is a fishbone. No meat on your bones at all. I’m joking about the Sharks obviously but there […]
Are Your Margins Shark Bait? 10 Simple Solutions to Save Them
Learn More We all know margins are important, don’t we? I hope you do 🙂 And yet for many of us, our businesses don’t make as much margin as we’d like. I’m Jon, I’m from Small Fish Business Coaching as you probably know. And I’ve written a workshop called the “Margin Maximiser” workshop because I […]
What’s Lurking Below Your Bottom Line?
Learn More Hey, its Jon again. I’ve had a bit of fun (haven’t I?) with the shark theme. Sharks taking bites out of your margins and leaving you with a surfboard which looks like a fish bone with no meat left on it. It’s no fun when when you are losing margins and it’s no […]
Brutal Attack on Margins. Will Your Trades Business Survive?
Learn More Would you like to retain more margin in your business? Of course you would, who wouldn’t? We all know that margins important. We all know that margin and profit is the fuel that runs our business and keeps us going. And yet I see builders and tradies, making these 10 kind of simple […]
Asset Builders: Margin Maximiser Workshop
Learn More Hi I’m Jon from Small Fish Business Coaching. I run a business coaching program for tradies and builders called the Tradies Toolbox Coaching Program and I’m a friend of Asset Builders. I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and imagine that you join Asset Builders to get better prices for […]
One Thing You Should Do Over the Christmas Break
Hey there! Jon here. This is a video about the one thing I’d like you to think about doing over the Christmas break. I’m not a big fan of holiday homework or too much work during the holiday. I think you need rest. I think life’s about more than work. But if you get some […]
Queensland Government Grant Available to Small Business (including Trades) for Digital Services
If you’re not in QLD, no need to read on but if you are, there may be some value in this QLD Govt grant. They are offering to pay half of the cost, up to $10,000 of your spend on digital services which is a broad subject, going from digital coaching through marketing (websites and […]
Hire A Business Coach and Build A Better Business
So who hires a business coach and who doesn’t? I was quite tempted to say that idiots don’t buy and sad losers don’t buy but I’m sure you’d see through that bullshit. So I’ll tell the truth instead. My name is Jon. I run Small Fish and I run a business coaching program for ambitious […]
Keep A Sales Forecast And Win More Jobs Tradies
Hi, it’s Jon here from Small Fish Business Coaching and today I want to talk to you about recording your sales opportunities. I call it keeping a sales forecast or a quotes register. And the point really is to keep you focused on that important way of bringing money into your business. Lots of tradies […]
Workshop in Byron – I made it for tradies but why not apply it to your business?
I made the workshop with trades businesses in mind but look what happened when I invited a non-trades business owner. This may just be the catalyst you need to take your business to the next level. If you’re stuck somewhere in between small and big, the tools I will give you in the workshop will […]
Business Automation: How we’re using it at Small Fish
I was recently contacted by a woman called Grace from Freshbooks who said “why don’t you write about how automation has helped your business. I’d love to see how you use technology to help you grow your business” It was a generous invitation – I don’t use Freshbooks, for a start – and I liked […]
The 5 Biggest Mistakes YOU might be doing in your Trades Business
How many of the 5 biggest mistakes are you making? Most of us make mistakes. Mistakes are inevitable when you try something new and mistakes are part of business. They also cost you money and it hurts if you keep making them. Especially if you keep making the same ones. So here are 5 you […]