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How does an electrical business tell a contractor from an employee in New Zealand?
How a NZ electrical business tells a contractor from an employee, and why the real cost of getting it wrong shows up in job costing, not just the legal test.
Which award covers the staff of an electrical business in Australia?
Which award covers your electrical business's staff, and why the real margin risk is where those wages land on your books, not the rate.
What registration or licence does an electrical business need in New Zealand?
What licence or registration an electrician needs in New Zealand, and why holding it is the start of the pricing problem, not the end of it.
What licence does an electrical business need in Australia?
What licence an electrical business needs in each Australian state, how contractor and personal licences differ, and where to check the current rules.
How can electricians capture site data and photos with no internet access?
Electricians losing signal on site risk losing the evidence that turns a callout into a bigger job. Here is what Greg teaches about capturing it properly.
How can an electrician win more commercial clients?
Why chasing commercial electrical work like a bigger quote loses the job, and what actually wins it: referrals, bundled pricing and keeping clients who stay.
How do I stop running out of materials on site?
Why electricians keep running out of materials on site often traces back to the quote, not the van. Here is what the data shows.
How much does a business coach cost for an electrical business?
What a business coach costs for an electrician matters less than the margin already leaking from unpriced overhead. Here is why.
What office work can AI agents do for an electrical business?
What AI agents can take off an electrician's plate: service call write-ups, compliance paperwork and fit-out quoting, and why it protects margin.
What's the best app for running an electrician business?
Electrician business apps promise speed, but the real test is whether stock and job costs stay matched to what's actually billed. Here's why that gap matters.
What software does an electrical business actually need?
What software does an electrical business actually need? The answer is whatever closes the gap between quoted and banked profit on every job.
What business software should an electrician actually use?
Electrician business software only matters if it captures real job costs. What to look for, why margin slips, and how AI agents help.
How do I choose a business coach for my electrical business?
How to choose a business coach for an electrical business: the one test that matters is whether they separate your gross profit from net profit on every quote.
What business systems does an electrician actually need?
What systems an electrician actually needs to step off the tools, and why copying another trade's software rarely works for your crew.
Why is my electrical business busy but not making money?
Why a fully booked electrician can still be short on cash, and what the numbers actually show instead of the workload.
How do I price jobs as an electrician so I actually make money on them?
Why electricians lose margin between the quote and the job, and what number actually shows if a price holds up once costs are counted.
What numbers should an electrician track every week?
What numbers an electrician should track every week to stop a fully booked diary hiding a loss, and how AI agents can catch the gap early.
Is a business coach worth it for an electrical business?
Is a business coach worth it for an electrician? Learn why the real value is seeing true job margin, not another pep talk.
What can AI actually do for an electrical business?
Most AI for electricians advice is a tool list. Here is the real split between chatbots and agentic AI, and why it matters to your margin.
What is the best electrician business coach to hire?
How an electrician should choose a business coach: what to ask, the warning signs, and why data first coaching starts from your own job numbers.
How do I choose a good electrician business coach?
What a good electrician business coach looks like, what to ask before signing up, and the warning signs to avoid before you pay for one.
Data First Coaching
The Electrician Business Coach Who Starts From Your Data.
Data First Coaching is the trade business coaching method created by Greg Allan, founder of Tradies Success Academy. Before any advice is given, the Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads the owner's own job management and finance data, so the coaching starts from what the numbers show this week, not from what the owner can remember or explain. It finds the root cause of a problem, then puts in the system that fixes it.
How most coaching works
Most coaching starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the business to a coach.
- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.
- So the advice treats what the owner happened to notice, which is usually a symptom.
- Too often it comes from someone who has never run a trade business, or has only just started one.
- The owner pays for the explaining, then pays again when the advice does not fit.
Data First Coaching
Data first starts from your numbers, not your memory.
- The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance systems first.
- It sees your quotes, jobs, time on site and money as they are this week, not as you remember them.
- It finds where the problem actually starts, not where it shows up.
- You put in the system that fixes it at the root, and the data shows whether it worked.
| Typical coaching | Data First Coaching | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it starts | You explain the business | Your own job and finance data |
| How current it is | As at the last meeting | Updated as your numbers change each week |
| What it fixes | The symptom you noticed | The root cause the data shows |
| Who coaches you | Often someone who has never run a trade business | Greg Allan, who built a trade business a general manager now runs |
| The answer to growth | Usually another wage | Agents on the office work, people on customers and the crew |
| Your software | Another subscription or agency | Tools you build on your own data, around how you work |
Fix the root cause, once
The data names the real problem, so the system you put in fixes it once instead of patching the same symptom every month.
Own your software
Build your own tools on your own data, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy. Cancel the subscriptions and agencies that were never built for your business.
A more human business
Agents do the non-billable work: the quoting, invoicing, chasing and reporting. Your people spend the day on customers and the crew, so relationships get better and the team performs.