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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 and taught by people who have run trade businesses, not lectured about them.

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?

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.

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

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.

Step 1

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.

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.

A small group of trade business owners in a coaching session, one of them explaining a plan at the head of the table

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.

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
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Out of the middle of everything
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Questions

Painter Business Training, Answered.

I have been painting for twenty years. What can training actually teach me?
Nothing about painting. Everything about the business wrapped around it: how to build a quote from award labour costs up, how to write a colour and prep schedule the crew follows, how to hire and keep a painter, how to get paid. The Learning Hub is built for owners already good at the trade.
When would I do the training? I am on the tools all day.
Lessons sit in the Tradies App, so most owners watch them in the van while a coat goes off, or on the couch after tea. Business Foundations sessions are live and weekly, hosted by Greg Allan, and you turn up to the ones that match what you are dealing with that week.
Is this general small business training with painting words swapped in?
No. It is built for trade businesses and delivered alongside other painting owners, so the examples are square metre rates, prep blowouts, builder progress claims and apprentice wages under the Building and Construction Award. Over 9,000 tradies have been trained through TSA, and the material comes from what worked in their businesses.
A painted scene of a trade business owner home before dark, sitting on the tray of his ute while his son runs to meet him

Start Tonight, For Nothing.

The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your AI Coaching Call. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.

Turning over $10k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one, on what AI would actually do in your business, which part to build first, and how fast the Pathway gets you there.