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Reputation: Your Biggest Salesperson in Construction and Trades
In the bustling world of construction and trades, where projects are won and lost on trust and reliability, your reputation isn’t just important—it’s your most powerful sales tool. While quality craftsmanship and competitive pricing are crucial, it’s often your reputation that seals the deal, brings in repeat business, and opens doors to new opportunities. Let’s…
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Empowering Your Business with Insights
Empowering Your Business with Strategic Data Insights In the competitive world of small to medium-sized construction businesses, having the right insights at the right time can mean the difference between thriving and merely surviving. Empowering your business through strategic data insights involves more than just collecting information; it’s about transforming data into actionable intelligence that…
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Improving Your Business Systems
Improving Your Business Systems: From Refinement to Empowerment For small to medium-sized construction businesses, continually improving business systems is crucial to maintaining efficiency and staying competitive. As your company grows, so too must the systems that support its operations. By refining existing processes and integrating new ones, you can streamline operations and empower your team…
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Organising Your Business Systems
Organising Your Business Systems: From Chaos to Clarity For small to medium-sized construction businesses, organisation is key to driving efficiency and reducing stress for both management and employees. As your business grows beyond a handful of team members, the systems you use can either support that growth or hinder it. Organising these systems effectively helps…
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Understanding Your Business
Understanding Your Business: Laying the Foundation for Success In the dynamic world of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the construction sector, understanding the fabric of your business is paramount. Whether your team consists of just five or ten people, or you’re on the cusp of larger growth, grasping how your business operates on every…
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Tips and best practices for staying safe on the job
G’day, tradies! As a tradesperson, safety should always be a top priority. We all know that the jobs we do can be risky and dangerous, so it’s important to take steps to protect ourselves and our mates. Here are some tips and best practices for staying safe on the job: Staying safe on the job…
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Mental Health in Trades: Why It’s Important and How to Improve It
G’day, tradies! As we all know, working in the trades can be bloody tough. You’re out there on the tools, working long hours, dealing with all sorts of physical demands and dangerous situations. It’s no wonder that mental health can sometimes take a hit. In fact, tradies are at a significantly higher risk of suicide…
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Create proposals that WIN!
If you are reading this, chances are you are good at what you do, but sometimes find it hard to communicate this to clients. Good quality work is the backbone of business development in trades. It’s your biggest sales tool! But what’s the best way to use it? Putting together a good proposal comes down…
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Takeoff to Submission. Getting your quotes and estimating software correct for Tradies and Subcontractors.
Investing the time to correctly quote your work is vital in the current industry climate. This includes your initial takeoff, any special conditions or clarifications, and a realistic expiry date. It also includes understanding what the client wants you to deliver. Although you are not usually bound by a quote, it does help the process…
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How you can protect your Trade or Subcontracting business from missed progress payments
When your business is beholden to progress payments from the client or head contractor, business can get challenging when a payment is missed. You are most likely in the position of relying on a few large payments each month as opposed to several smaller ones, so when one of those payment doesn’t turn up, it…
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How Tradies can protect their project from Inclement Weather
Inclement weather can seriously delay construction projects. Many only see weather disruptions as the direct time lost during bad weather, but as we have seen with the wild weather and flooding of the past 12 months, inclement weather can cause more delays than the couple of hours during the downpour. While there are many reasons…
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Protecting your Trade business from rising material costs and delays
Some building material costs have risen over 80% in the last 18 months. This increase can represent the difference between you making a healthy profit and no profit at all! So, how do you protect your business from the rising cost of materials? Understand your options If you have a solicitor that has helped you…
