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106 - [YOU] Top Trade Jobs In Australia Earning A Fortune And Living It Up - Really?

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105 - [MARKETING] Stop Cleaning The Shed! Build A Marketing Machine

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104 - [MARKETING] The Cost Of Complexity And How To Avoid It In Your Trades Business

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103 - [OPERATIONS] Small Business Vs Big Business - Are You Stuck In Between?

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102 - [MARKETING] The Trades Business Growth Juggle - What Is It And How Can You Manage It?

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101 - [MARKETING] Word Of Mouth Marketing - Is It Enough To Grow & Scale Your Trades Business?

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100 - [MARKETING] My Girlfriend F*cked Up Her Website AKA How Not To Manage A Tradie Website

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99 - [BACK OFFICE] Cash Flow Episode 4: Managing Cash Flow - Money In Vs Money Out

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98 - [BACK OFFICE] Cash Flow Episode 3: Drag Your Money In!

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97 - [BACK OFFICE] Cash Flow Episode 2: It's Important To Know Your Numbers

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96 - [BACK OFFICE] Cash Flow Episode 1: How To Have Better Margins In Your Trades Business

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95 - [SALES] Price Vs Risk Episode 2 - The Building Game (Not Just For Builders)

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94 - [SALES] Price Vs Risk - Choosing Between Cheap Tradies And Expensive Tradies

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93 - [MARKETING] The Marketing Building Blocks For A Trades Business

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92 - [MARKETING] Jon's Journey Episode 9: Site-specific Marketing For Trades Business

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91 - [MARKETING] Social Media For A Trade Business: Is It Necessary?

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90 - [YOU] The Tale Of The Dog Sitting on the Nail

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89 - [YOU] Tradies Toolbox Tip: How To Build A Business That Works For You

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88 - [MARKETING] Trades Business Tip: What Is Google AdWords? Should You Be Doing It?

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87 - [SALES] Your Customers Tell Lies: Part 2

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86 - [SALES] Your Customers Tell Lies: Part 1

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85 - [MARKETING] Jon's Journey Episode 8: Why I would never call this plumber again

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84 - [MARKETING] Lead Aggregation Sites For Trades Business: Is It Worth Investing?

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83 - [MARKETING] Jon's Journey Episode 7: How do customers hire a tradesman?

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82 - [SALES] Should You Discount For Cash? How to say NO to discounting in 2018

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81 - [YOUR TEAM] Avoid Conflicts: Better Communication System For Your Trades Business (3-Step Process)

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80 - [MARKETING] Jon's Journey Episode 6: Is email marketing right for your trades business?

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79 - [MARKETING] Is your website performing well? Questions for your web people.

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78 - [YOU] Jon's Journey Episode 5: Are you good at DIYs?

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77 - [YOUI] Trades Business Hack: Managing Interruptions In The Workplace

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76 - [SALES] Jon's Journey Episode 4: Are you doing your sales process properly?

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75 - [MARKETING] The definition of insanity - could you be mad?

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74 - [MARKETING] Putting Your Head Down & Getting on With It

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73 - [OPERATIONS] Expecting a Quiet January? You don't have to

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72 - [MARKETING] What is 'Vanity' marketing? Are you guilty of doing it?

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71 - [MARKETING] Christmas Rush Projects For Trades Business - How to Beat Stress and Pressure

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70 - [YOU] Jon's Journey Episode 3: The Value of Integrity in Your Trades Business

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69 - [SALES] Do you follow up your quotes properly?

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68 - [YOU] Value Your Time - And Make Your Customers Value it Too

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67 - [MARKETING] Jon's Journey Episode 2: The Importance of Building a Good Customer Relationship For Trades Business

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66 - [SALES] Don't Undervalue Yourself - Don't Discount!

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65 - [MARKETING] Jon's Journey Episode 1: Improving your business through your customer's perspective

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64 - [SALES] How do you know how much to charge?

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63 - [MARKETING] Are you using upsell questions? You should be.

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62 - [YOU] Find Your Passion! I Call Bullshit

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61 - [BACK OFFICE] Small Changes, accumulated, make a big difference to your profit

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60 - [SALES] When Customers Go Quiet on you

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59 - [SALES] If your Customer is unhappy with your invoice - it's your fault! (sorry)

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58 - [YOU] The Secret to Success is not Talent but Grit - How to Be Grittier

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57 - [YOU] How to Hire Properly

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56 - [MARKETING] The Framework for Growing Your Trade Business

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55 - [MARKETING] The Difference Between a Tradesman and a Gifted Amateur

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54 - [MARKETING] Value Engineering - What is it?

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53 - [YOU] Jamie's story - Bottleneck - Delegation

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52 - [BACK OFFICE] A New Way to Buy Materials

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51 - [SALES] People Like Certainty Part 2

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50 - [MARKETING] People Like Certainty

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49 - [SALES] Hiring Tradies is Risky

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48 - [YOU] Magpie Syndrome - the danger of not sticking to your plan

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47 - [BACK OFFICE] Cloud Services YOU can use today to grow your business

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46 - [YOU] Slow Progress is Still Progress

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45 - [YOU] Toolbox Tips and Tradies Toolbox Coaching Program

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44 - [BACK OFFICE] True Cost of Employment (For Trades Business) Part 2

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43 - [BACK OFFICE] Outsourcing and the Miracle of the Cloud

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42 - [BACK OFFICE] True Cost of Employment

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41 - [MARKETING] Marketing is like Vegemite

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40 - [MARKETING] Value Proposition - Focus your marketing

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39 - [SALES] Mates Rates - It’s a Discount Request. How to say NO in your negotiation.

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38 - [YOU] Too Busy - There's no such thing (Hint: You're Procrastinating

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37 - [SALES] The Difference Between Mark Up and Gross Margin and Why Doing it Wrong is Costing you Money

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36 - [YOU] Managing Yourself Instead of Letting Everybody Else Be In Charge

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35 - [MARKETING] Find Me marketing and a Surprising Admission

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34 - [MARKETING] Site-Based Marketing

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33 -[OPERATIONS] ONE Thing You Should Do Over the Christmas Break

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32 - [MARKETING] Who buys Business Coaching and who doesn't?

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31 - [SALES] Tradies Win More Jobs Keep a Sales Forecast

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30 - [MARKETING] Old Fashioned Marketing and What to Do Instead

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29 - [OPERATIONS] Keeping Up with Technology - Are you familiar with SIPs? And a possible business opportunity.

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28 - [SALES] One Simple Thing That Will Improve Your Sales Conversions

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27 - [MARKETING] TT Blog: Marketing for Builders and Trades - Find Me Marketing - Are you doing it properly?

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26 - [YOU] Tradie - You Invest in Tools for your Trade - do you invest in yourself

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25 - [SALES] How to maintain your Margins

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24 - [SALES] 5 Steps to Fair Margins

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23 - [MARKETING] Tradie - who does your online marketing? Does anybody?

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22 - [YOU] #faketradie - Don't be him.

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21 - [YOU] Bird Brain - are you being one?

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20 - [MARKETING] How running your business better helps

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19- [SALES] Why price is not the main thing

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18 -[SALES] Why you should charge more

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17 - [SALES] How to charge more worksheet

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16 - [OPERATIONS] Quiet January - make some plans

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15 - [SALES] How to charge more

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14 - [SALES] Thanks for Downloading "How to Charge More"

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13 - [SALES] How to counter the game

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12 - [SALES] Dickhead Filter

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11 - [YOU] How to be a shit tradie

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10 - [OPERATIONS] A Story - The Shifts My Client Has Made

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9 - [OPERATIONS] What the next 3 Shifts Are

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8 - [YOU] Tradesmen: How to Stress Less & Seize Control of Your Business

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7 - [YOU] Tradesmen: Tips to Combat Stress