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Small Electrical Jobs: How to handle your small jobs as an electrician and understanding risk vs reward!

How to be a successful electrical business owner in 2024: workload management, vision setting and hit the ground running!

Being on the right side of effort: money is made with your head not your hands.

Sparky Coach Podcast: The top things to watch out for in December as an electrical business owner.

The Sole Trader Conundrum: How to succeed as your own boss as an electrician and how to grow your electrical company without problems!

Lessons In Business #13: The Finale and ULTIMATE LESSONS IN BUSINESS FOR SPARKYS

Lessons in Business #12: CHRISTMAS IS COMING, how to survive the holidays as a sparky and tradie (or anyone!)

Lessons In Business #11: Good staff are the key, listen to your gut and remember personal relationships are everything.

Lessons In Business #10: Know that one ****head can ruin it for everyone, and know your numbers!

Lessons In Business #9: If you’re on time, you’re late and never assume. 

Lessons In Business #8: Don't walk past it and liquidation in an electrical business.

Lessons In Business #7: If you don't ask, you don't get!

Lessons In Business #6: Recognise your ceilings, get into asset mentality for your business, it’s all between the ears - control what and how you think.

Lessons In Business #5: Nothing emotional should be in writing, don’t go to court and the difference between a good and excellent job is often 5mins.

Lessons In Business #4: Be kind to yourself, the money is made or lost in the office and play the cards in your hand.

Lessons In Business #3: Know your new role as the boss in your own electrical company, If it’s not working - change it and communication matters.

Lessons In Business #2: Let go of insecurity, if it won’t matter in 5 years - it shouldn’t now plus staff and clients are people too!

Lessons In Business #1: Growing up, growing together, Greg Crowe talks about how he started as a sparky and became a successful electrical business owner.

Beers & Basics: Raze and Raise, how to step back and move forward.

Championing Small Business: Letting go of insecurity in your business by seeing the abundance of opportunity in the electrical industry.

Beers & Basics: Standard vs non-standard installs and do your staff know the difference?

Transparency: Why transparency in your business will increase trust and understanding, helping your electrical business grow and succeed. 

Beers & Basics: The boys enjoy Byron Bays finest, Stone & Wood, and discuss Closing The Day properly.

Be nice: Being kind and communicating with your apprentice costs you nothing but you, and they, can gain everything!

Beers & Basic: Invoicing - Do it every week, if not twice! Why and how to stay on top of invoicing do you get paid.

Cost Plus Work: The benefits of cost plus work and how to make it work for you not against you in your electrical business.

Beers & Basics: Mistakes - Can you make good ones? Yes. Can you learn from bad ones? Absolutely. Mistakes can help your business.

Putting Down Your Phone: That pesky device you can’t seem to live without but with it you aren’t living!

Beers & Basics: Criticising Competitors - you will always face competition as an electrician, focus on your strengths not the weaknesses of others.

Complain Or Complete: Sometimes there are only two option but we chose the one with no results! Let’s get you executing solutions and moving forward.

Beers & Basics: The “Cod-Cast” - this is a slight off-schedule podcast about scheduling your day as an electrician and trade business owner.

Numbers: They don’t lie, and if you manipulate them you’ll just damage yourself and your business so know the numbers in your electrical business!

Beers & Basics: Van Talks - is this a thing of a bygone era or has it just evolved? How can you maintain that all important camaraderie amongst your team on a daily basis?

Hiring The Wrong Person: Why you need a probation period and regular HR reviews in the first few months to make sure you and your newly hired electrician are both happy!

Beers & Basics Hard Conversations: When to have them (sooner is always better!) and how to have them with your team of tradies or electrical clients. 

Temperament: When controlling your emotions means everything to your business as an electrician or tradie!

Beers & Basics: The SWEAT to keep going - you've put in the hours now it's time to put in the logic, step back, slow down and work smart!

Job Notes: Why you need to get your job notes in order! Every electrician and business owner needs job notes, doing them right will save you a lot of problems down the track.

Beers & Basics: Bad Customers - we’ve all had them, or you will one day and sadly not every business relationship will be ideal!

Future Planning: What can you do now in your electrical business to ensure future success?

Beers & Basics: The SWEAT to start - what is it, what's it worth and why putting in the hard yards as an electrician can change your life down the line.

Invoicing: The most forgotten AND the most important part of your business! Sending invoices on time and accurately is critical for any electrical business!

Beers & Basics: Professionalism from start to finish, why a little effort at the start gets you the W at the end!

Hiring: It's not just about the who and how but the WHEN, so what are the indicators to hiring?

Beers & Basics: Being Thankful! Being critical, picking up mistakes and just going about your day is what we all do, but how often do you act with kindness, thanks and gratitude?

Variations: They are inevitable, unavoidable and going to happen on you electrical job. So how do you manage variables on a job?

Beers & Basics: Have you made a bad hire? How can you make great hires? Where can you find more staff? These are basic questions with a lot of answers.

Getting More Work As An Electrician: How to find more work using your existing work, your community and who you already know!

Business Growing Pains: How to transfer knowledge in your team of electricians, step back from your business and make someone else the hero! Experienced Sparkys, this is for you!

Beers & Basics: The importance of trade wholesalers is incredibly underrated, do you know how wholesalers can help you and your electrical business?

Sparky Sole Trader vs Starting Your Own Electrical Company: What does working with a team vs working on your own have to do with YOUR definition off success?

Billable Hours: What to measure, how to measure and what every electrician should know but doesn't get taught. If you're a sparky or Aussie tradie - this is for you!