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306 - What You Quoted VS What You Made

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305 - How Smart Tradies STOP Losing Money

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304 - Job Profitability

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303 - The Proper Hiring Process

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302 - How To Be More Of A Businessperson

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301 - Tradies, Don't Rely on Your Memory!

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300 - See you at the Bali Trade Conference

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299 - More Business, Less Tradie

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298 - How's Business Tradie?

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297 - Make a Plan to Hit Your Goals

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296 - Trade Business Goal Setting

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295 - How to be more of a Business Person and less of a Tradie

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294 - The Trade Business Lifestyle Ladder

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293 - Tradies Avoid This Christmas Pitfall

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292 - Christmas Cash Flow Crunch

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291 - How to Work Properly with a Bookkeeper

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290 - How to Check if Your Trade Business Is Making Money (Properly)

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289 - Are you being a turkey?

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288 - The True Cost of Your Tradespeople

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287 - The Problem with Bookkeepers & Accountants

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286 - Business For Tradies: Proper Business Plan

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285 - [BACK OFFICE] Problems with Bookkeepers and Accountants

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284 - [MARKETING] Marketing Is A Numbers Game - Are You Playing It Properly, Tradie?

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283 - [MARKETING] Business To Business Marketing For Tradies & Builder

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282 - [MARKETING] What Marketing Should You Do, Tradie?

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281 - [OPERATIONS] Why Would You Get a Business Coach?

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280 - [MANAGE YOU] My interview with Your Small Business

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279 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Work Less

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278 - [MANAGE YOU] Reflect, Refresh, Refocus & Recommit - Holiday Homework Part 2

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277 - [MANAGE YOU] Reflect, Refresh, Refocus & Recommit - Holiday Homework Part 1

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276 - [OPERATIONS] Where Can You Find The Good Tradespeople?

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275 - [MARKETING] Marketing & Sales Strategies For Tradies & Builders

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274 - [OPERATIONS] WTF is this Circle of Coaching?

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273 - [MARKETING] How Tradies Can Do Business Properly

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272 - [MARKETING What's The Intensive And Why Should You Come?

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271 - [BACK OFFICE] How to Collect on a Debt: A Bad Debt A Bad Payer

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270 - [MARKETING] Understanding the Trade-Off: What You Lose When Choosing Cheaper Options

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269 - [MARKETING] Effective Branding Strategies for Your Trades Business

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268 - [MARKETING] Your Competitors (Other Tradies) Are Not The Enemy – They Can Be Very Helpful

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267 - [OPERATIONS] Are You Doing Your Bookkeeping Properly and Who is Doing it?

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266 - [MARKETING] BJs for Builders - A Useful Metaphor

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265 - [MARKETING] The Importance of Language for Tradies

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264 - [MANAGE YOU] What Can You Do To Make Yourself Happier?

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263 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Be Successful - Mindset Part 5

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262 - [MANAGE YOU] Your Business Mindset Part 4

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261 - [MANAGE YOU] Your Money Mindset Part 3

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260 - [SALES] Your Pricing Mindset Part 2

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259 - [MANAGE YOU] Why Your Mindset Is Important Part 1

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258 - [SALES] What Do They Mean When They Say 'You're Expensive'

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257 - [MANAGE YOU] Too Many Hats

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256 - [MANAGE YOU] Why Putting Your Head Down And Churning Through Work Is A Pretty Bad Strategy (Actually)

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255 - [MANAGE YOU] Who Are You Accountable To?

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254 - [OPERATIONS] Unicorns & Normals – There’s Hope For Us

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253 - [MANAGE YOU] Business Is Primarily About Emotions - Even A Trade Business

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252 - [MANAGE YOU] Opportunity Cost Or What Else Could You Be Doing?

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251 - [SALES] How To Manage Your Customers Better

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250 - [SALES] Let's Talk Guarantees and Warranties

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249 - [BACK OFFICE] How To Grow Your Business's Capacity

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248 - [MANAGE YOU] Where Should You Spend Your Time As Your Business Grows?

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247 - [BACK OFFICE] What's A Job Management System And Why Would You Want One?

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246 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] Why Do A Company Get-Together

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245 - [OPERATIONS] How To Level Up Your Business

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244 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] How To Make Work Fun (For Your Team)

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243 - [MANAGE YOU] Comparing Yourself To Other Trades Business Owners (Benchmarking Is Good)

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242 - [MANAGE YOU] Comparison Is The thief Of Joy- So How Do You compare?

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241 - [MANAGE YOU] Why Are you In Business?

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240 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] Teach Your Team The Business Birds And Bees

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239 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Get Your Energy And Motivation Back, Tradies

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238 - [ MANAGE YOU] How To Make Money Without Being On The Tools

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237 - [MANAGE YOU] - Hang Up Your Toolbelt, Tradies

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236 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Prioritise Your time, Money And Capacity

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235 - [MANAGE YOU] Helpful Tips For Tradies To Stay Motivated

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234 - [MANAGE YOU] - How Much Is Enough For Trades Businesses

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233 - [SALES] - Why You Should Not Do Cost Plus Quoting

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232 - [MANAGE YOU] Don’t Give Up - You Need To Push Through

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231 - [BACK OFFICE] How much should you pay your tradies and how much should you charge them out?

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230 - [MARKETING] How to be a strategic tradie

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229 - [MANAGE YOU] Employees or subcontractors - which is better for your business?

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228 - [MANAGE YOU] How to decide if it's good business to buy an asset

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227 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] - How To Build Your Team

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226 - [OPERATIONS] How To Manage Your GST

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225 - [MARKETING] The Seven Essential Systems for Trade Business Success

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224 - [SALES] How to Survive the Coming Recession

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223 - [SALES] How to be Confident as a Tradesperson

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222 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] How To Delegate Effectively

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221 - [BACK OFFICE] How To Automate Your Bookkeeping

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220 - [SALES] The Tradie Profit Webinar

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219 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] Should You be Worried About The Great Resgination?

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218 - [MANAGE YOU] Stop Procrastinating - Get off The Hamster Wheel

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217 - [MANAGE YOU] How Do You Measure Success

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216 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Stop Procrastination

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215 - [MANAGE YOU] What Is Procrastination And What Are Ways We Procrastinate

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214 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Grow Your Business Garden, Tradies

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213 - [MANAGE YOU] How Tradies Can Learn To Let Go Of Control

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212 - [MANAGE YOU] How To Create A Business Identity For Tradies

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211 - [MANAGE YOU] When To Be A Tradie And When To Be A Boss

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210 - [ MANAGE YOUR TEAM] Why You Should A Process When Hiring

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209 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] Tradesman Or Apprentice - Which One Should You Hire?

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208 - [MANAGE YOURE TEAM] How Tradies Should Put The Word Out

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207 - [MANAGE YOUR TEAM] How To Hire Good People In Trade Business