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The Profitable Tradie Podcast

The Profitable Tradie Podcast

Tony Fraser-Jones

Are you the owner of a Plumbing, Electrical, or similar service business and looking to increase your profits and regain your freedom? If you answered yes to any of the above then follow/subscribe now, this is the podcast for you! Presented by Tony Fraser-Jones and Phil Smith from Profitable Tradie. We dive into what it takes to build a profitable trades business that gives you the time and freedom you deserve. We touch on topics like... - How to hire decent tradespeople. - What to do when clients don't pay their invoice. - How to get around people beating me down on what I charge. - Should I buy or lease my next van/truck? - How to get my team to get off their phones and be motivated for work. - The second easiest way to increase your profitability. Along with sharing a ton of free resources so you can get started on what we're discussing right away! We also talk with some of the world's most successful trades business owners and learn how they took their businesses from mediocre to multimillion. In short. We don't know what we don't know. Subscribe/follow now and join the global community of Profitable Tradie
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Profitable Tradie Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Profitable Tradie Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Profitable Tradie Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Profitable Tradie Podcast - How Your Friends Impact Your Business Success
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07/16/24 • 28 min

In 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in under 4 minutes.

Before him, nobody thought that was possible.

Today, more than a thousand runners have done it.

Bannister showed how far the bar could be raised, inspiring his peers to reach further.

Do your friends inspire you to take your business to new heights?

Do they stretch you?

Seeing their achievements inspires you to reach further...

Challenge you?

To be serious about your business and do the hard work to improve it...

Set an example to follow?

They’re bold... They do what they say they’re going to do... They’re constantly learning...

Or do they cut you down?

Make you feel guilty for earning good money, or taking a well-earned day off...

Hold you back?

From growing your business, increasing prices, or prioritizing more profitable work...

Make you feel bad for having ambition and drive?

They don’t really want you to have success, because it makes them feel inadequate...

The people you hang out with most have a huge impact on the success of your business.

If you’re not happy with the results you’re getting, taking a look at who you surround yourself with is an important step.

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

  1. HOW TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH SUPPORT AND CHALLENGE
  2. HOW TO STOP FEELING GUILTY ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS
  3. HOW LIFESTYLE CHOICES CAN HELP YOUR BUSINESS

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - How to Make Each Employee More Profitable with Labor Utilization
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11/26/24 • 32 min

I just recorded a new training session on Getting More Out of Your Team where I find out how to add $10K+ profit per trades-person for no extra effort.

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

  1. Stop your guys mucking around and keep them on task
  2. Make more money without ripping off your customers
  3. Add $10K+ profit per worker for no extra effort

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - I Will Die With $0 (Here’s Why You Should Too)
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01/09/24 • 28 min

I want to die with $0 to my name.

And so should you.

Think about your bank account and imagine how difficult your life would be if that was all you had until the day you died.

You’d probably be very shrewd with your spending.

So why don’t we do that with our time?

Right now, we have a bank account with a limited amount of time.

It’s great that we use some of that time to get more money.

But what is the point of using our valuable time to earn money that we’ll never live to use.

Now why am I telling you this?

After all, business is about making money.

But it’s also about freedom and living a better life.

And you can’t do that if your life is consumed by your business.

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

  1. Understand why freedom is just as important as money
  2. Value your time more efficiently
  3. Give you a fresh perspective of what your business goals should be
  4. Implement a Die with Zero lifestyle

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - Do You Still Have Control Of Your Business?

Do You Still Have Control Of Your Business?

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11/07/23 • 33 min

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

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - The Unbelievable Bad Effect of Rework on your Business
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08/03/23 • 21 min

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.

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - Interview with Tim & Dylan

Interview with Tim & Dylan

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06/01/23 • 44 min

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

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - Stress coping 101

Stress coping 101

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09/02/22 • 37 min

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

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - Leadership is hard work

Leadership is hard work

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04/08/22 • 26 min

You don’t get to choose whether or not you are a leader. The day you start your business you become a leader, and you’ve probably been one for a long time before that. While leadership can be pretty hard work, it’s something that can be easily worked on.

It’s definitely worth doing because the results that come with good leadership are absolutely killer. Leadership is a tricky topic because it can be quite easy to get it wrong and the ripples of how that effects the team, results and behaviors can run far and wide. With that being said, there are a heap of techniques that can be used to empower your team to be able to do a good job and make your life easier as a boss. Some of those techniques are covered in this episode, they can be put in place straight away and the results will follow swiftly after.

Leadership can be used to get a level of performance out of your team that you want to see, and by the end of the episode you’ll be able to do exactly that. Using the tips from this episode including one from the manager of the All Blacks, New Zealand’s world renown rugby team, will lift the standard of your business, make your staff more accountable, and will save you from having to be a superhero putting out fires whenever they should arise.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAYS PODCAST:

  • Understand the difference between values and standards
  • A culture that encourages taking initiative and accountability
  • A new idea of why your staff behave the way they do

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - How To Win Your Time Back

How To Win Your Time Back

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03/05/24 • 26 min

You and your team have knocked off for the week.

They’re off to the pub to have a few hard-earned ice-cold beers.

Whereas you trudge home to slug away at piles of paperwork and get a head-start on next week already.

That work spills over into Saturday and you feel you don’t have the time to watch your kids play sport.

And once in a while you’re putting in a shift in the office on a Sunday.

The alarm goes off on Monday morning and you’re shattered.

Last week (and just about every week before that) you spent between 60-70 hours working.

But you honestly ask yourself, where does my time go?

And to that question you somehow don’t have an answer.

Not having time is one of the biggest issues facing trades business owners.

It makes the businesses they run hopelessly inefficient.

So what do you do to win back time and do the things that matter?

Phil and I sat down to talk about how you can achieve exactly that.

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

  1. Learn to spend your time where it is most valuable
  2. Trust the team you’ve hired to do your job for you
  3. Win back your personal life

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The Profitable Tradie Podcast - 6 Steps to Improve Cashflow

6 Steps to Improve Cashflow

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11/19/24 • 35 min

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

  1. The #1 cash flow mistake trades businesses make - and how to fix it
  2. The bulletproof process that’ll get you paid on time, every time
  3. The easiest thing you can do to always have cash when you need it

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How many episodes does The Profitable Tradie Podcast have?

The Profitable Tradie Podcast currently has 152 episodes available.

What topics does The Profitable Tradie Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Education and Business.

What is the most popular episode on The Profitable Tradie Podcast?

The episode title 'Why Your Business Feels Bottlenecked' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Profitable Tradie Podcast?

The average episode length on The Profitable Tradie Podcast is 30 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Profitable Tradie Podcast released?

Episodes of The Profitable Tradie Podcast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Profitable Tradie Podcast?

The first episode of The Profitable Tradie Podcast was released on Feb 2, 2022.

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