The Profitable Tradie Podcast

It’s too easy as a business owner to get pushed around in your dealings with other people.

And you often feel like you have to do what the other person wants.

Maybe it's a big client you're bending over backwards for.

A supplier who you're letting off the hook for not delivering materials on time.

Or a valuable staff member that you're trying not to disgruntle.

If you're guilty of anything like this, you're probably aware of how badly it is affecting your business.

And you know you need to make changes but taking back control can seem like a really difficult thing.

Well I've got two things to tell you.

1. Not having the power in your business is just a race to bankruptcy.
2. There are proven strategies out there to take that power back.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAY’S PODCAST:

• Focus on long-term leadership
• Use body language and personal power to convey confidence and conrol
• Build credibility and authority among your staff
• Control your environment

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Book a FREE 15-minute call to learn what coaching could do for you business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

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Mistakes are bound to happen from time to time. There are some howlers for sure. Like someone not installing a drain correctly in an upstairs bathroom. Free shower downstairs.

And I don’t think they can ever be avoided 100%.

But most owners don’t understand the financial implications of mistakes that require rework to be done.

The financial mistakes are huge and they can be calculated. But there are a bunch of other down stream issues that result that are harder to figure out.

If owners understood the real cost they would spend more time getting their teams working well and focusing on get it done right the first time.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAY’S PODCAST:

• An understanding of all the costs that you'll face from doing callbacks.
• How to motivate your staff to get the job done right the first time of asking.
• How to specialize your workload to make your business more efficient and profitable.
• An understanding that taking more time to do the same job is actually more profitable.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Book a FREE 15-minute call to learn what coaching could do for you business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating. If you think that’s too high, tell us why that is, we’d love to hear from you! Just shoot me an email with the word ‘PODCAST’ in the subject line to [email protected]

Remember when you were an apprentice...

Trying to learn how to do something.

You sat there staring at the workbook for an hour and a half.

And after that you still felt like you had no idea how to do it.

Then you’d go to site and the boss would have you shadow one of the older guys.

They’d talk you through how they did that job as they carried it out in front of you.

After 30 minutes you felt so much more confident that you could do that job.

Seeing how someone else does it, is a far easier way to learn for most trades people...

That’s why we’ve been interviewing some of our most successful members.

So you can hear from them how they’ve done it.

This chat is with Tim and Dylan.

What is it you’ll be learning from them...

• Building a 7 figure business
• Tripling monthly revenue
• Hiring to offload tasks
• Structuring a successful partnership
• Using culture to create a team that is engaged and accountable
• Using systems to control and weaponize your numbers

There’s something in here for everyone.

Let's get into it...

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAY’S PODCAST:

• The tools used to 3x revenue and improve profitability
• How to hire and develop staff so they can take on more responsibility
• How to structure a successful partnership
• Using culture to drive team engaged and accountability improve retention
• Using systems to control and weaponize your numbers

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Book a FREE 15-minute call to learn what coaching could do for you business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating. If you think that’s too high, tell us why that is, we’d love to hear from you! Just shoot me an email with the word ‘PODCAST’ in the subject line to [email protected]

What are you built for? The human body is a very complicated machine, with lots of moving parts, and pretty much everything serves a purpose, even stress. Stress is part of the ‘fight or flight’ response, basically your heart races, your breath quickens and muscles get ready for action. So in prehistoric times stress is what would get you away from a sabretooth tiger, but it was short term, either you escaped the savage animal, or you became its breakfast.

You’re not built to be stressed for hours, days, weeks or months. Being stressed long term can cause headaches, depression, heartburn, insomnia, weak immunity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, stomachache, heart palpitations, heart attacks, the list goes on. You need to be able to get on top of stress whenever it should arise... because eliminating it isn’t really an option, unfortunately its just part of being a business owner.

In this episode you’ll learn about dealing with the stresses of being a business owner, along with some coping mechanisms that will help you keep a lid on it. You’ll learn how to catch yourself in a stress cycle and break out of it. There is even a book recommendation for one of the best things you can read (or listen to) for teaching yourself to deal with stress. It’s important to take care of your body, you only get one... mental health is serious, stop pushing it to the side.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAYS PODCAST:

• An understanding of how stress effects the way you work
• A great book recommendation for dealing with stress
• Improved physical and mental health

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book
• Ready to take your business to the next level? Fill in this form to see if what we do will work for you and your business

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM LISTENING TO TODAY’S PODCAST:

1. Manage frustration without losing your cool
2. Spend less time training but still get great results
3. Build a high-performing efficient team

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Claim a Free Planning Session to learn what coaching could do for your business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating.