by Jon Dale | Sep 15, 2024 | Back Office
Sometimes it happens – you do work in good faith and submit your invoice, but the payment never comes. I’ve talked before about how to protect yourself against this. This post is about what your options are if it happens. I know that what often happens is…...
by Jon Dale | Aug 4, 2024 | Back Office
I made this video for trades business owners on TikTok. Tradie Jon isn’t enjoying his business. My friend made a video in reply. Do you think he’s referring to me and what time I get up? While you enjoy Tradie Jon’s interview with the uppity interview, think about...
by Venus Dela Salde | Feb 5, 2024 | Back Office
Your business has capacity restrictions – actual physical ones. As a trade business, work gets done by real people out there on properties or building sites – so, since there’s only so much a person can do in a day, there’s only so much work your...
by Venus Dela Salde | Jan 29, 2024 | Back Office, Marketing, Operations, You, Your Team
This is an interesting question, isn’t it? I’m sure you’re pretty busy, but are you spending your time on the right work? Where is the right work? I know I’ve talked about this journey of a trades business’s growth before but...
by Venus Dela Salde | Jan 22, 2024 | Back Office
You can grow a trade business without one, of course, you can, but they bring significant advantages: There’s less paper to shuffle or fewer separate systems to enter stuff into (so mistakes are fewer and we know mistakes cost money). They make quoting and...
by Jon Dale | Nov 10, 2023 | Back Office
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.’