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Grow a Concreting Business That Pays You ProperlyYou can pour a flawless slab and still end the year with nothing in the bank. That is a business problem.

This is for concreting business owners in Australia and New Zealand who are still on the shovel at 6am and doing quotes at 9pm. Everything here is about the business behind the pour: pricing, systems, crew, marketing and margin.

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A painted scene of two concreters walking power floats across a freshly poured slab

The week this is about

Running A Concreting Business Looks Like This.

You price the job, then the concrete moves

You quoted the slab at last season's rate, then the batch plant lifted its price, the pump hire went up, and the job you fought to win now pays less than the labour standing in it. You find out weeks later, when the invoices land.

Every pour still needs you standing in it

Nobody else sets out the formwork, checks the steel and the cover, or calls the finish. Take a week off and the pours stop, so you do not take the week off. The business is a job with more paperwork attached.

The 5am weather call you make alone

Rain on the radar, six blokes rostered, a truck booked that cannot be moved for free, and a client who wants the driveway done before the weekend. You make the call at 5am, on your own, and you wear whatever it costs.

Another year of full diaries and thin margins, and the only things that grow are the hours you put in and the amount of the business that cannot run without you.

A trade business owner working alone at the kitchen table late at night, laptop open and paperwork spread across the table, work boots and tool bag by the door

How we help

Seven Ways We Help Concreters.

Every one of these is a way concreting business owners get out from under the business and start running it properly. Start wherever it hurts most.

Training

Concreter Business Training

Structured training that turns what concreters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

Concreter Business Coaching

Greg Allan in your corner, holding concreters to the plan. By application.

Systems

Concreter Business Systems

The documented process that lets the work happen properly when concreters are not standing there.

The free app

Concreter Business App

Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for concreters with an active ABN.

Marketing and leads

Concreter Business Marketing

How concreters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

Concreter Business Pricing

The number concreters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Hiring and team

Concreter Business Hiring

How concreters build a crew that does it right without being watched.

A trade business owner watching his child play sport on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand and phone face down — Nights and weekends back

A trade business owner and his partner in the kitchen looking at a tablet showing the numbers going up — Work that actually pays

A trade business owner shaking hands with a new apprentice in the work yard — A good hire who stays

A trade business owner standing calmly in the yard while his crew load two utes behind him — Out of the middle of everything

Worth knowing

Two Things Every Concreter Running A Business Should Know.

In Queensland a QBCC concreting licence is needed once work exceeds $3,300, while in Western Australia no trade licence applies until the $20,000 builder registration threshold.

Source: Queensland Building and Construction Commission, and ABLIS building contractor registration (WA)

Since 1 September 2024, stronger crystalline silica rules apply to cutting, grinding and drilling concrete, and the exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica is 0.05 mg/m3.

Source: Safe Work Australia

Why you get me

I built the coaching company everyone else runs. Then I took it apart.

Most coaching companies work the same way. You enquire, you get a salesperson. You sign up, you get a coach who has never run a trade business.

I know, because I built one. I grew the Academy to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches. It ran without me.

And I hated it. The bigger it got, the further I was from the owners I started it for.

What gets me up in the morning is getting under the hood of a trade business and helping the owner hit their goals in the least time possible.

So I restructured the whole thing.

When you enquire, you speak to me. If you are accepted into the Academy, you work with me. Directly.

And with agentic AI, the results come sooner than most owners can imagine.

Places are limited. I only take on owners who are committed and ready to do the work.

Greg Allan mid-explanation with his hands open, talking to a trade business owner across a desk

Who you will be talking to

I built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with more than 1,950+ five-star reviews.

A general manager runs it day to day. I live in Byron Bay.

I have trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.

What AI actually changes

The old way. The new way.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night. — The old way
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.

Illustration: a tradesman shaking hands with a homeowner in her driveway, his phone showing jobs quoted and invoiced. — The new way
You stay with your customers and your team. Agents run the office your way.

The old way

Grow, then hire people to do the computer work.

Every new customer brought more quoting, invoicing, chasing, scheduling and reporting.

So you hired people to do it. Office staff, bookkeepers, admin.

None of it is billable, and every hire costs wages, sick leave and another person to manage.

Profit and time only grew as fast as you could add people.

The new way

Keep the human work. Give everything else to agents.

Your people do what only people can do: looking after customers and leading the team.

Everything else goes to agents that do it your way, instantly, any time it is needed.

No sick leave. No capacity problems. They scale as far as the business does.

So the only people you add are the ones facing your customers and your team.

A human-centred business that runs on systems you build in minutes. Nobody still running the old way can compete with it.

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Questions

Concreters Ask Us These.

Do I need a licence to run a concreting business?

It depends where you work. Queensland requires a QBCC concreting licence above $3,300 and New South Wales a general concreting licence above $5,000, while Victoria pulls you into builder registration for footings and slabs over $10,000 and Western Australia starts at $20,000. In New Zealand there is no concreting licence, but residential foundation work is Restricted Building Work needing a Licensed Building Practitioner.

What do I have to pay a concreter I employ?

The Building and Construction General On-site Award MA000020 sets the legal minimum, with the classification level deciding the base rate and allowances for fares, travel, tools and multistorey work stacking on top. Apprentice rates are separate, and rates rise with the Fair Work annual wage review each 1 July. Our hiring training covers pricing that into your jobs.

How do I get off the tools without the pours going wrong?

You write down what only you know: the set out, the steel and cover check, the concrete order, the pour day sequence, the strip and the handover. Then you train a leading hand against it and let them run a job. That is systems and leadership work, which is what the Learning Hub and working with Greg are built to do.

Is business coaching worth it for a concreting business?

It is worth it when the thing holding you back is the business rather than the concrete: pricing that leaves nothing, a diary that depends on one builder, a crew you cannot leave alone. The Academy has trained over 9,000 tradies and holds a 4.9 rating across 123 Google reviews. Have a chat with Greg and judge it yourself, with no obligation.

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