Painter Business TrainingFour years learning to cut in. Not one hour on quoting, cashflow or keeping a crew.
Painting business training for owners who learned the trade, not the business. This is where you pick up quoting, margin, systems, marketing and leadership, built for Australian and New Zealand painting businesses by an owner who built his own trade business, not a lecturer.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Painting Business?
Your apprenticeship covered paint, not profit
You can spec a system for chalky render and pick the right nap for a rolled ceiling. Nobody taught you gross margin, GST on progress claims, or what a painter actually costs you per hour once the award and downtime are in.
Every lesson is paid for out of your own margin
You learn that dark colours need a third coat by wearing it. You learn about lead paint on a pre-1970 weatherboard job by finding it mid-strip. The tuition is real money and it comes straight off the job you are standing on.
The advice you get is contradictory
Ask five people whether you need a painting licence in Victoria and you will get five answers, because most of what ranks online is written to sell a course. Same with pricing, same with hiring. You are making decisions on hearsay from the trade counter.
Every year you learn it the hard way is a year of margin you handed to the job instead of banking for yourself.
Training
Here Is What We Do About It.
The Learning Hub gives you the full lesson library inside the Tradies App for $199 a month: quoting, pricing, systems, marketing, hiring, leadership. Business Foundations runs weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, so you can bring this week's real quote and get it worked through, not theory.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Start tonight, for nothing
Join the Tradies App with an active ABN and the starter courses open straight away. No card, no trial clock counting down while you are still on site.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.
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.
What changes
What Painting Business Training Actually Changes.
Three things painting business owners walk away able to do.
Price a repaint from your real costs instead of copying the painter down the road.
Read your own numbers well enough to know which jobs actually made money.
Run a week where the crew paints and you work on the business for a full day.
Questions
Painter Business Training, Answered.
I have been painting for twenty years. What can training actually teach me?
When would I do the training? I am on the tools all day.
Is this general small business training with painting words swapped in?
Painters
The Other Ways We Help Painters.
Painter Business Coaching
Greg Allan in your corner, holding painters to the plan. By application.
SystemsPainter Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when painters are not standing there.
The free appPainter Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for painters with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsPainter Business Marketing
How painters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitPainter Business Pricing
The number painters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamPainter Business Hiring
How painters build a crew that does it right without being watched.
Have a Chat With Greg About Your Business.
An hour with Greg, one on one, about anything in your trade business. By application: if his diary is full, you join his waitlist and he invites you. He only takes owners who are committed.