Trades PaintersCoaching

Painter Business CoachingNobody on site can tell you whether to take the builder's rate. You decide alone, every time.

Painting business coaching for owners who are making every call on their own: whether to take on volume new build work, whether to put on another painter, whether to hold the price. You work with Greg Allan, who has faced the same decisions in his own business.

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A painted scene of a painter in whites on a step ladder, cutting in the verandah of a Victorian terrace with iron lacework above him

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Painting Business?

You are the only one who decides anything

The builder wants a single per house rate for the whole estate, take it or leave it. Say yes and you fill the calendar at a margin you cannot check. Say no and you watch another painter fill it instead. There is nobody to test the decision with.

The problem painter you keep not dealing with

He is slow, his cutting in needs a second pass, and you go back after hours to fix it. You have not had the conversation because you cannot afford to lose a body before the handover. So it runs another six months.

Your partner is the only sounding board

At the kitchen table you talk through whether to buy the second van, whether the estimate stacks up, whether to keep chasing the builder who pays late. They love you, but they have never quoted a repaint or run a crew in the rain.

Decisions made alone get made late, and the price of a late decision in a painting business is a season you cannot get back.

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

Coaching

Here Is What We Do About It.

You work with Greg Allan, directly. He built his own trade business and loves getting under the hood of yours: the numbers, the crew, the pipeline, the decisions you are making alone. The Academy is at full capacity, and he only takes on owners who are committed and willing to learn something new. It starts on the waitlist.

The Academy waitlist

The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.

Business Foundations

Weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you bring your own numbers.

Learning Hub

The full lesson library inside the Tradies App, self paced, $199/month.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Join the waitlist

The Academy is at full capacity. Tell Greg about your trade business and when a place opens, he interviews the owners who look like the right fit.

Step 2

Interview with Greg

Greg only takes on owners who are committed, building for the right reasons and willing to give back to the group.

Step 3

Work the plan on a cadence

Not a pep talk. A plan with numbers against it, worked with Greg on a fixed rhythm, and he notices when you quietly stop doing it.

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.

What changes

What Painting Business Coaching Actually Changes.

Three things painting business owners walk away able to do.

Take a builder's rate to Greg and know the margin before you answer.

Have the hard conversation with the painter you have been avoiding.

Set a price you can hold when the client says someone else is cheaper.

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

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Questions

Painter Business Coaching, Answered.

How is this different from a general business coach?

Most business coaches have never run a trade business. Greg has. When you say the prep blew out on a Queenslander repaint, or that the builder is holding your progress claim, nobody needs it explained.

I am a one man band. Is this only for bigger painting businesses?

No. Solo owners get the most out of it, because you have nobody else to think with. The first work is usually pricing and capacity: what to charge, what to say no to, and how to get off the brush for a day a week. Start there, then grow into a crew when the numbers support it.

How do I start working with Greg?

The Academy is at full capacity, so you join the waitlist. When a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit: he goes through your business as it stands and talks openly about how the Academy's training, programmes and tools would help and what it costs to join. Joining the waitlist costs nothing and there is no obligation.

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