Category: Tradie Tips

Choosing a Scheduling Software App: The Checklist for Trades

Fergus April 8, 2025 No Comments

No matter what industry you’re in, the ability to complete tasks quickly and efficiently helps to streamline your business and improve productivity around the board. Manually building employee schedules takes…

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How to Get Customer Quoting Right

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

On quoted jobs, we have to assume you know how long a job will take and what materials will be used. Think of all the jobs that you’ve done over the years I can’t…

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Fixing the tradie shortage in AU and NZ

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

What’s behind the high demand for trades and service businesses? Here are the causes, along with four ways you as a business owner can cope with the demand If you’re…

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Why Tradies Should Never Use a Loss Leader Strategy

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

Have you heard about the loss leader pricing strategy? Tried it yet? I have and let me tell you, never again! When I had my trade business I heard about loss leader…

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4 Tips to Conquer Your Fear

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

Growing a trade business can be terrifying. The idea always sounds great, but the reality can be a bit of a sweat fest. Growth will mean you are suddenly playing with…

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How to Manage Job Labour & Material Cost

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

Imagine for a second that your trades business is a bucket with holes in it. The only time you make money is when the bucket overflows, so the holes have…

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Getting to Grips With Gross Profit in a Trades Business

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

Straight off the bat, I want to put a real stake in the ground and say a trades business should always work on a gross profit basis, not net profit.…

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Recap of 2020 & 2021 Forecast for Tradies in AU & NZ

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

Out with the old, in with the new – never has this sounded more appealing than now, with the difficult 2020 finally behind us. Let’s take a moment to review the…

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How to Set Up Google Ads for Tradies

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

As a tradie, you understand that the market is highly competitive, and you’ve probably thought about using Google Ads to gain an edge over your competitors. You might have even…

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The Importance of Cash Flow & Our #1 Tip For Improving It

Fergus April 7, 2025 No Comments

Cash flow is one of the four levers that need to be mastered in order to build a successful high-performing trades business. For something so simple, cash flow is one…

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