Tradie Business Coach & Mentor New Zealand

Hey tradie, I’m a business coach & mentor for tradies and builders across New Zealand. Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, or anywhere in between.

I’m useful to you if you want to:

• Grow and make more money
• Build systems and structure into your business to grow it properly
• Build a business so it can operate without you having to be there ALL THE TIME (so you can have time off and holidays).

I know what it’s really like to run a trade business in New Zealand

Running a trade business in New Zealand is bloody hard work. In Auckland you lose half the day stuck in traffic, crawling across the city to get to a job. In Wellington you’re fighting the hills, the wind and tight sites you can barely get the ute near. In Christchurch you’ve ridden the building boom and then watched it tighten, and you’ve had to stay sharp to keep the work coming.

Most Kiwi tradies I talk to are flat out, with a busy crew and plenty of work on, and still quoting at night, chasing payments on the weekend and wondering where the money went.

You learned your trade. You can learn business too.

As a tradie business coach, my job is to help you sort that out with better systems, margins and people, so the business isn’t all on your shoulders.

I’ll teach you the structure and systems to use in my business coaching program for tradies, and I’ll help you implement them into your business.

I’ll show you how to:

• Do your marketing properly so you can find work
• Do your sales properly so you win work
• Do your operations with process and control so your people do the work on time and on budget
• Do your back office properly so it flows and money flows and your people stay safe and you keep a handle on your numbers
• Manage yourself, get yourself out of the guts of things so you work on your business
• Manage and lead your team so they work well and on the right things.

If it sounds complicated, don’t worry, it’s not. It’s a simple system, it works and it will work for you.

And you can try before you buy.

• You can download the workbook ‘Know Your Numbers’ and get a feel for how I work (and then get my weekly Toolbox tips delivered until you get sick of them)

• Or you can book a 10-minute chat with me. We’ll qualify each other and decide if we spend a further hour together before we decide if coaching is right for you. Even then, there’s a 30-day money back guarantee.

P.S. I’m not in New Zealand. I live in Byron Bay, just across the ditch. You can be in Auckland, Christchurch or Wellington. We can talk on video and share information on the internet. Isn’t the world a wonderful place?

FAQs: business coaching for New Zealand tradies and builders

Can an Australian business coach actually help a New Zealand trade business?

Yes. The business stuff doesn’t change when you cross the Tasman. Pricing, margins, quoting, cashflow, systems, hiring and leading a team all work the same in Auckland or Christchurch as they do anywhere. I already coach Kiwi tradies and builders over video, and it works. Your accountant looks after the IRD side. I help you run a business that actually makes a profit.

What kind of tradies and builders do you coach in New Zealand?

Sparkies, plumbers, chippies, builders, concreters, roofers and HVAC blokes, the lot. The trade changes but the business problems are nearly always the same: finding work, winning it at a good margin, getting it done, getting paid, and leading a team. If you run a trade business anywhere in New Zealand, the system works for you.

I’m already flat out. Won’t coaching just give me more to do?

Fair question, and no. The whole point is to build systems so the business runs better with less of you stuck in the middle of everything. Busy doesn’t mean profitable. We sort your pricing, your numbers and your team so you make more and work less, not more.

How big does my trade business need to be for coaching to be worth it?

As a rough guide, around $50k a month in revenue with at least a couple of tradies working under you. If you’re there or close to it, it’s worth a chat. Book a 10-minute chat and we’ll work out whether I can help.