Trade business coach shares top strategies for overcoming COVID-19 | Jon Dale

Jon Dale: Small Fish Business Coaching: I’ve never been a tradie except for one summer working as a lawnmower man’s sh*tkicker in Sydney in 1992 and an electrician’s sh*tkicker in Darwin in 1993. England were losing the Ashes – I copped it. I studied Chemistry at uni, realised I was more interested in people and went into sales & marketing. I saw big businesses all following clear rules for what to do to succeed – I went on some courses and I saw that small businesses didn’t. And I thought “I’ll show them – I’ll be a business coach.” I’ve made it my business to learn the detail, how to structure and systematise a business (specifically a trade business) so you don’t have to start from scratch. I know what to do and I know what not to do as well (buy me that beer and I’ll tell you the story – I failed, got very ambitious and lost it all). So I know business, not trade – you know your trade. I live near Byron Bay. I don’t surf but I do kayak. I like to cook, eat, drink and have fun. I don’t want to only work. And I don’t want that for you either. Almost every tradie I've ever spoken to spends time in the evenings on bookwork - quoting, invoicing, paying people and bills..... (When I say Tradie, by the way, I mean Trades Business Owner - you've got guys working for you and you're running a business not swinging a hammer) Almost every tradie I've ever worked with spends his days running around like a blue-arsed fly trying to keep everything going and everybody happy. It's stressful, they say. And almost every tradie I know is making less money than he wants or less than a lot of his customers. Sound familiar? It doesn't have to be like this - there are things you can do to change it (and there are tradies who have 1 or 2 or 3 of those problems licked). I built the Tradies Toolbox Coaching Program to help my tradie mates and my tradie clients fix these problems and make themselves (and their wives) happier. If you're a tradie and one or more of these things is frustrating you, then I can help. The coaching program will show you strategies to help you turn the moving parts of your business into smoothly operating machines and extract you from them, too. Imagine that! It all working perfectly while you direct proceedings. I help people build a marketing machine that finds the right kind of customers; a sales machine that turns those people into paying customers without loads of nighttime quoting and a delivery machines that completes jobs on time, on budget and without defects. And you'll build a slick back-end to hold it all together without stress, you'll work on yourself so you get out of your own way and you'll work on your team so they are the best they can be. Connect with me here to talk about whether I can help you or jump on our website and download the quoting worksheet a (below) to get to know us more slowly.