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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

Nine 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 Coach

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

Systems

Electrician Business Systems

Systems electricians build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.

Software

Electrician Business Software

Software electricians build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.

Business apps

Electrician Business Apps

The simple screens electricians build for their crew and customers, on their own data.

AI for Electrical Businesses

AI agents that do the office work for electricians, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.

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

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

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.

Read how Greg built a trade business that runs without him

What changes for you

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 the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.

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. 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.

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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. The Academy is at full capacity, so new owners join the waitlist and Greg interviews the ones who fit.

Straight answers

Answers for Electricians.

A new question from electrical business owners, answered every day.

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Every answer for electricians

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