by Jon Dale | Sep 10, 2019 | Operations
You run your trade business. You want to be successful. You work pretty hard. And you want to know what the secret is, don’t you? Of course, you do. Sadly, I don’t really think there is one, at least not in the way we think of a magic secret. And certainly...
by Jon Dale | Aug 21, 2019 | Operations
Trade business growth path choices. If you own and run a trade business, you’ve got some choices about what that looks like, don’t you? You could be self-employed, that’s a business. You can just find work for yourself to do and do it yourself. You can...
by Jon Dale | Apr 29, 2019 | Operations
So You Want To Step Back From The Tools? The Short Read: You need to spend time off the tools or off the job site so you can do the work that will give you a good business – marketing, sales, understanding your numbers – all that stuff. But you’re scared...
by Jon Dale | Dec 17, 2018 | Operations
Know Your Value Episode 3: Rogue Tradies. (I think that’s quite funny, nice, little joke there.) News about Rogue Tradies I saw an article in one of the sh*t newspapers the other day about a bunch of rogue tradies running around Sydney, knocking on people’s doors and...
by Jon Dale | Dec 10, 2018 | Operations
Know Your Value. Episode 2 – Structure The reason I’m making this little series of videos about knowing your value is that I come across lots of people who understand “I’m a good trade,” or “We’re a good trade business, and we do a good job,” but don’t understand how...
by Jon Dale | Aug 21, 2018 | Operations
There’s a lot of difference between a small and informal trade business, and a structured and systematized one. I’m Jon, from Small Fish Business Coaching and my coaching program helps people take their business from small and informal to bigger and structured and...