TradesConcreters
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 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.
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.
How we help
Nine 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.
Concreter Business Training
Structured training that turns what concreters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingConcreter Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding concreters to the plan. By application.
SystemsConcreter Business Systems
Systems concreters build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwareConcreter Business Software
Software concreters build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
Business appsConcreter Business Apps
The simple screens concreters build for their crew and customers, on their own data.
AIAI for Concreting Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for concreters, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsConcreter Business Marketing
How concreters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitConcreter Business Pricing
The number concreters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamConcreter Business Hiring
How concreters build a crew that does it right without being watched.
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.
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.
Why Greg
You speak to the owner who has already done it.
Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.
He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.
Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.
What changes for you
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.
The old way
More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.
Most trade businesses grow the same way.
More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.
None of it gets paid for.
So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.
Or hires an office person to do it.
The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.
And the owner is still the one everything waits on.
Where we take you
More work. More profit. More of you left.
The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.
You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.
Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.
The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.
The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.
The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.
Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.
Questions
Concreters Ask Us These.
Do I need a licence to run a concreting business?
What do I have to pay a concreter I employ?
How do I get off the tools without the pours going wrong?
Is business coaching worth it for a concreting business?
Straight answers
Answers for Concreters.
A new question from concreting business owners, answered every day.
Other trades
Not Your Trade?
Electricians
You are quoting at 9pm, chasing a builder for progress claims, and still on the tools.
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You are still taking the 2am blocked drain call, because nobody else in the business can.
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Carrying the cost escalation, the unsigned variations and the progress claim nobody has paid.
See how we helpCarpenters
You can frame a house in a week. Getting paid for it takes months of chasing.
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Flat out through summer, dead through winter, and the licence paperwork never lets up.
See how we helpRoofers
Hail week fills the diary, the wet week empties it, and the margin lands wherever it lands.
See how we help
Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.
The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.