WHY ARE YOU IN BUSINESS?
It's an important question to ask yourself - why am I in business, rather than, say, having a job? Because, compared to a job, (say a job as your trade, working for someone else) a business comes with more stress, more responsibility, often more work or longer hours...
Teach Your Team The Business Birds And Bees
You dependent on your team for your success. It’s important to remember that. A trade business, in particular, more than many other businesses is a people business. You only make money when your people are out there in the world doing work, don't you? So it makes...
Group Coaching Highlight – How To Keep Tradies Motivated
How To Get Your Energy And Motivation Back, Tradies
How to get your energy and your motivation back if you've lost it for a bit? I know on a few occasions lately, clients of mine have said on our group coaching course that they're struggling a bit with their motivation and feeling...
Quarterly Intensive Highlight – How To Write A Proposal
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.'
The 10 Commandments for Trade Business Owners
1. Tradie Commandment #1 - Though shalt not make fair margins The biggest killer of a business is not having enough money and the only way your business gets money is the margins you charge on top of labours, materials and subcontractors. Too many people don't have...
Group Coaching Highlight – Generate Your Cashflow, Marketing And Leads
Keep cash flow coming in, and keep your people busy and focused. And existing clients are a great example. Just broadcast an email and say, “Look, we've got some openings that we can do, some small jobs - is there anything you want done?” Send it out to all your...
Group Coaching Highlight – Understand Your Variation
I had a conversation with one of our other tribe members this week and he was in a situation - it's a big reno of $700,000. This guy's done a number of these, it's a holiday house. I wish I could spend that much on a holiday house. But it's 15 months and over the last...
How to Conquer the Evident Trades Business Challenges in 2023
This year has been filled with a new barrage of challenges, has it not? Yes, COVID is in the past, for the most part, travel has picked up again and life seems to resemble something that can be clarified as ‘normal’ or somewhat. The demand that began as a result of...
Perfectionism and attempting to take on your inner Imperfectionist
A lot of people are concerned with perfectionism - striving to reach a level of flawlessness that seems to perpetually be a hairs breath out of reach… Now perfectionism can be both a positive and negative trait. The positive aspects of being a perfectionist are...
How To Overcome The Fear of change
Everyone fears change. It’s inbuilt in our genetic makeup. We fear the unknown as that is how we survived. Change will always feel scary, it’s threatening as it adds an element of uncertainty to your situation. Our brains are wired to resist this uncertainty and...
Making Money in Your Trade Business Without Being on the Tools
Do You Feel Like You're Not Making Money If You're Not on the Tools? This is a thing, isn't it? You feel like if you're not involved in doing a job, something’s not right, and you're not properly contributing to your business making money. Being on the tools is the...