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HVAC Business TrainingYour trade taught you superheat and subcooling. It never taught you gross margin or cash flow.

Business training for the air conditioning owner who learned the trade properly and the business by accident. This is how to read your numbers, price an install, build a service base and lead a crew, instead of working it out one expensive job at a time.

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The week this is about

Sound Like Your Air Conditioning Business?

You were trained on plant, not on profit

Four years of apprenticeship, a handling licence, and update training every time the refrigerant rules move. Not one hour of it covered a profit and loss, a break-even number, or what your business is actually worth. So you guess, and you have been guessing since day one.

Every course on offer is another technical ticket

Search for air conditioning training and you get units of competency, licence pathways and A2L handling. All necessary. None of it tells you why a busy month left you short, or which of your three service crews is losing money every single week.

You learn the business lesson by wearing the loss

The commercial retrofit that went three weeks over. The warranty callbacks you never charged for. The apprentice you carried too long. Each one taught you something real and each one cost thousands, because there was nowhere cheaper to learn it.

Every year you stay self taught, the same mistakes get more expensive, because now they happen across a bigger team and a bigger wage bill.

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Training

Here Is What We Do About It.

The Academy teaches the commercial side properly. The Learning Hub at $199 a month puts the full lesson library in the Tradies App, covering numbers, pricing, systems, marketing and team. Business Foundations adds weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you work on your own air conditioning business, not a case study.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Start tonight, for nothing

Join the free Tradies App and the starter courses open straight away. No card, no trial clock counting down while you are still on site.

Step 2

Work the module that matches the problem

You do not start at lesson one and work through the lot. You start at the thing that is costing you money this month, and the library is organised so you can find it.

Step 3

Take it live

Business Foundations runs weekly with Greg Allan, so the module you watched on Tuesday gets pressure tested against your actual numbers on Thursday.

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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.

What changes

What Air Conditioning Business Training Actually Changes.

Three things air conditioning business owners walk away able to do.

Read your own profit and loss and say where the money went last month

Build an install and service price from your real cost base, not from a competitor's quote

Run a week that has planned service work in it, not just whatever broke down

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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
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A good hire who stays
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Out of the middle of everything
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Questions

HVAC Business Training, Answered.

Is this technical training or licence training?
Neither. Your handling licence, state contractor licence and A2L competency come from the regulator and your registered training provider. The Academy teaches the part nobody else covers: pricing, cash flow, systems, marketing, hiring and leadership for an air conditioning and refrigeration business. You keep the tickets. We fix what happens after the job is booked.
I am flat out installing all summer. When would I do the training?
The Learning Hub is self paced and lives in the Tradies App, so lessons get done between callouts, in the ute before a commissioning job, or on a wet Tuesday. Business Foundations runs live weekly and is recorded. Most owners build momentum in the shoulder season, then run the busy months on the systems they built.
Does the training suit a commercial contractor, not just residential splits?
Yes. The numbers behind a residential split business and a commercial plant and maintenance business are different in scale, not in structure. Both need a real charge-out rate, a service base, a hiring plan and a cash buffer. The Learning Hub covers both, and working with Greg lets you work it against your own contract mix.
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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.