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Build an Electrical Business That Runs Without YouYou did your time to get licensed. Nobody taught you how to price, hire and get paid.

This is for the licensed sparkie who owns the business: the one lodging certificates, carrying the van costs, and paying a crew before the builder pays you. Here is how Tradies Success Academy helps you price, systemise, hire and market an electrical business properly.

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A painted scene of a young electrician testing a circuit at an open switchboard, tester hanging on the rack beside him

The week this is about

Running An Electrical Business Looks Like This.

The quoting happens after the last call-out

You get home at six, eat, then open the laptop to price a switchboard upgrade and three rewire quotes. By the time you send them the customer has taken the sparkie who answered first. The van gets loaded again at half six.

Progress claims sit while wages go out

The builder holds your claim, the invoice ages, and Thursday still comes. You pay two sparkies and an apprentice out of your own account, then wonder why a busy year has left nothing in the business.

Every hour on site is an hour off the business

You are the fastest hand on the tools, so you take the hard jobs yourself. The certificates get lodged late, the apprentice waits for direction, and nobody is chasing next month's work because the only person who can is up a ladder.

Stay on that pattern and you own a job with a licence attached, not a business, and the day you stop climbing is the day the money stops.

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 Electricians.

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

Training

Electrician Business Training

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

Coaching

Electrician Business Coaching

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

Systems

Electrician Business Systems

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

The free app

Electrician Business App

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

Marketing and leads

Electrician Business Marketing

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

Pricing and profit

Electrician Business Pricing

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

Hiring and team

Electrician Business Hiring

How electricians 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 Electrician Running A Business Should Know.

Electrical Award MA000025 rates lifted 4.75% from 1 July 2026, so any charge-out rate built on last year's labour cost is now quietly returning you less on every hour.

Source: Fair Work Commission, Electrical Award MA000025 pay guide

AS/NZS 3000 Amendment 3 extended the 30mA RCD requirement to circuits up to 32A, so alterations and new circuits you priced under the old scope now carry more cost.

Source: Standards Australia, AS/NZS 3000 Wiring Rules

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

Electricians Ask Us These.

Do I need a contractor licence if I already hold an electrician's licence?

Yes. Your electrician's licence lets you do the work; contracting for it is a separate authorisation, and every state runs its own. Queensland goes through the Electrical Safety Office, New South Wales through Fair Trading, Victoria registers you as an REC with Energy Safe Victoria, Western Australia through Building and Energy, South Australia through Consumer and Business Services. The Academy helps you build the business behind the licence.

Can I use my electrical licence in another state?

Generally yes, through mutual recognition. The East Coast Electricians Scheme covers movement between the eastern states, and the Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council publishes how licensing works across jurisdictions and New Zealand. New Zealand registration runs through the Electrical Workers Registration Board via the TTMRA pathway. Sort the pricing and the crew before you chase work across a border. That planning is what working with Greg is for.

How do I stop being the only person who can price a job?

You write the price down. Most electrical businesses carry the rate card in the owner's head, so every quote waits on one person. Build a price book for your repeat work, switchboard upgrades, safety switch installs, fault finding, test and tag, then train an estimator against it. The pricing training and templates inside the Learning Hub give you the structure.

Is business coaching worth it for an electrical contractor?

It is worth it when it changes what you charge, who you hire and how the work runs without you. Here you work with Greg Allan directly, and he has trained 9,000+ tradies. Places are limited. Have a chat with Greg and find out where your business actually leaks.

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A painted scene of a trade business owner home before dark, sitting on the tray of his ute while his son runs to meet him

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