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Information Booklet- Profitable Tradie

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Numbers Checklist<br />

Do you know your numbers? Are your margins profitable for each job?<br />

Better find out the missing areas of your business below!<br />

1 Do you accept credit card payments?<br />

2 Do you have an accounts receivable process (with scripts and letters)<br />

3 Do you know the margin you make on each job?<br />

4 Do you regularly check the average the Gross Margin for your business and compare it to individual jobs?<br />

5 Do you use accounting software?<br />

6 Do you check your break-even point each month?<br />

7 Are you using a Cash-Flow forecast for your business?<br />

8 Do you understand the difference between Mark up and Margin?<br />

9 Do you have set prices for maintenance work?<br />

10 Do you know what you can do to increase your margins and do you have at least five strategies in place to increase your margins?<br />

11 Do you use a pricing calculator with prebuilt and pricing templates?<br />

12 Are you using a pricing strategy in-line with your Break-even point?<br />

13 Do you have a sales budget with sales and profit targets?<br />

14 Do you have at least five strategies place for improving your cash-flow?<br />

15 Do you have terms-of-trade?<br />

16 Do you “sack” you C and D clients? (the least profitable ones)<br />

17 Do you price for profit or to simply win the job?<br />

Yes/No<br />

(Yes only<br />

if 100% of<br />

the time)<br />

Items to<br />

work on in<br />

the next<br />

90 days<br />

Numbers Total:

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