Information Booklet- Profitable Tradie

Check out what our clients say about us….
Brad Martin
Leading Edge Electrical
James and Tania Vinson
JT Plumbing
Mark Watkins
Advanced Plumbing
“I used to think I could do it all myself, I was hesitant to
expand and I used to be at the mercy of the customer
by pricing just to get the job. Now I’m all about my
profit margin and I’ve managed to keep a strong
margin while increasing my turnover from $300,000 to
$800,000. I have a structured sales process so I know
when I walk away from pricing a job I’m confident I’ve
got the job. I also used to be all over the show,
forgetting jobs, forgetting invoicing but now we run a
good management software and the team are more
confident in me, they know what they are doing and
they’re way organised with our new home checklists.”
“I used to think I could run the whole business by
myself and I wouldn’t let anyone in to help me. Now
we have systems in place and they’re working well.
We have let go of the controls and put trust in our
staff which has given our lifestyle back after it was
taken away for many years. The numbers aren’t in my
head anymore, they aren’t ‘yup we’re making
money… I think…’ we know where we are making
money, we know what areas we are making money in
and we know the profit margins through the whole
business. Turnover has increased by 60% and gross
profit margins have increased right across the board”
“We used to chase jobs because we just wanted the
work and because we didn’t check the dollars on them,
we wouldn’t know where they were at. Now we’ve got
a back costing system so we know who our best clients
are and it also shows us where we’ve been letting
things down. After back costing our jobs we found out
that we were losing money on our ‘best’ client, making
19-21 trips to simple house builds! We’ve also put a lot
of systems in place and use a management program. In
12 months our turnover has increased by 40%, gross
profit margin has increased from 18% to 35% which has
allowed us to pay off all our outstanding debt.”