Why Full‑Price Doesn’t Sell - Value Differentials Do: A Guide for Trade Business Owners
Discover how trade business owners can boost conversions without discounts by using proven value‑stacking techniques. Learn five strategies - value setting, tiered pricing, complimentary add‑ons, spend thresholds, and premium material highlights - that motivate customers to buy full‑price with confidence.
Ease of Use: The Overlooked Trade Business Advantage
Discover how simplifying the customer experience can give trade businesses a major edge. Inspired by Uber’s market takeover, this article shows how making your services easier to use can set you apart and win more work.
Kirk Neal: Empowering Trade Entrepreneurs to Build Businesses That Work for Them
Kirk Neal is Australia’s leading Trade Business Growth Coach, helping overwhelmed tradies build profitable, scalable businesses through systems, strategy, and support—so they can reclaim their time, boost profit, and live the lifestyle they got into business for.
Build Instant Trust with Trade Customers by “Unselling” Your Premium Option
Discover how trade businesses - plumbers, electricians, contractors - can build trust instantly by offering a Good‑Better‑Best quoting model and advising clients away from overkill. Learn why “unselling” your top-tier package shifts you into trusted advisor territory - leading to more referrals and repeat work.
Handling Price Objections in Trade Services: 3 Common Scenarios & How to Overcome Them
Learn how trade business owners can confidently tackle the three most common price objections - competing quotes, unexpected costs, and budget constraints - by reinforcing value, offering tiered options, and using financing solutions. A practical guide to closing more trade service proposals without discounting.
5 Lanes of Leverage for Trade Businesses: Make Clients Choose You in B2B Sales
Discover the 5 powerful lanes of leverage trade business owners can use in B2B sales: helping clients earn more, save more, reduce risk, simplify decisions, and build trust. Focus on the strengths that set you apart and become their obvious choice.
How Trade Business Owners Can Finally Price Jobs for Profit (Without Guesswork)
Struggling with quoting jobs and unsure about your pricing? Discover a proven pricing system for trade business owners that removes guesswork, boosts profit, and builds confidence.
Why Smart Trade Business Owners Hire for Attitude and Train for Skill
Start thinking like a coach, not just a boss. Find the raw talent, and mold them into superstars.
Why Good Tradies Are Hard To Find
Hiring is more about marketing now than it’s ever been. You’re not just picking them, in today’s market they’re picking you.
Why Trade Business Owners Are Falling for the “Silver Bullet Systems” Illusion (and What to Do Instead)
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Why Trade Business Owners Should Master DISC Profiling
If you seek to understand yourself, plotting yourself on the DISC spectrum will uncover powerful insights into how you operate. What your subconscious preferences are, what truly motivates you, and also what some of your natural weaknesses and blind spots might be.
The 3 C’s: Confidence, Clarity, and Care in Pricing
Have you built defence mechanisms that protect your ego but inadvertently hamper your potential success?
Why Trade Business Owners Fail to Hit Their Goals (And How to Fix It)
Everyone has dreams, smart people have goals, and successful people have plans.
Time Management: Can You Change Someone’s Default Behaviour?
Being a more punctual person will never deprive you of anything, and yet it has the ability to ensure you never miss the bus - metaphorically an opportunity. By doing so you actually create a higher standard for yourself and your life. The standard you allow yourself will be the standard you fall to.
Mastering Delegation for Trade Business Owners: Delegate Responsibility, Not Just Tasks
Have you found yourself delegating tasks, and yet constantly checking over things only to be disappointed in the careless mistakes you find? This technique might help you fully delegate the responsibility instead of just the task.
Why Relying on Word-of-Mouth Is Costing Trade Business Owners Growth
If you’re looking to grow and scale your trade business you need more of 2 things - Clients & Staff - and the fastest most effective way to reach these people is through a well planned and deliberate marketing strategy.
Why Trade Business Owners Must Ditch Hourly Rates for Itemised Pricing
99% of all transactions in the modern world are built off an itemised fixed priced model. Here is why you shouldn’t be intimidated by it.
Is Your Team Profitable? How to Measure Daily Profit per Employee in Trade Businesses
Is the juice worth the squeeze? Building a team while observing proven staffing ratios is imperative to ensuring you don't find yourself sitting on a house of cards waiting for the market shift to bring it all crashing down.
Why Classic Customer Service Still Wins in Today’s Trade Businesses
Why old school customer service is a timeless trump card.