Turbo-charge your trades business this End of Financial Year with these simple tips and tools so you can save both hours and dollars in what can be the most painful time of year, writes Amanda Gascoigne.
You have a special set of skills, so your business should offer a clearly defined set of services. As a tradesperson, carving out your niche is a simple way to make business life easier.
If, like a lot of tradies, you’re sick of spending hours each month chasing up payments, it’s worth considering a system for invoicing and taking payments with a mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solution.
As a tradie, you want to get paid faster to make sure your cash flow doesn’t become a trickle. Here are four tech tricks from Kellie Byrnes to help you start pumping money in.
With the right know-how and the best tools, creating a new trade quote is faster and simpler than ever before – getting it right will save you time, money and improve the job’s perceived value in the eyes of your clients.
Maybe you got into a trade because you enjoy working with your hands, but at some stage you’ll have to get around a bit of small business bookkeeping. Here are the basics to get you started.
Tradespeople and blogging aren’t often mentioned in the same breath, but there’s a strong case to be made for tradies jumping into the content marketing game as a way to strengthen their client base.
While the trades and construction industry has been a primarily male-dominated one for a long time, things are slowly beginning to change. So here’s some motivation and inspiration for all the hard-working women in hi-vis out there.
Anyone running a trades-based business knows it’s a stressful career path that can really take a toll. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some simple things any tradesperson can do to make their work situation more enjoyable.