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Build a Solar Business That Pays You ProperlyYou have the accreditation and the crew. What you need now is the margin, the systems and your weekends back.

This is for the owner of a solar business in Australia or New Zealand. You hold the accreditation, you quote the jobs and you still carry the paperwork, the STC claims and the callbacks. Here is how to build a business that holds its margin without you on every roof.

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The week this is about

Running A Solar Business Looks Like This.

You are quoting at 11pm after a full day on the roof

The crew knocks off at four and you start the second shift: proposals, the DNSP connection application that has to be lodged before work starts, and the STC paperwork from Tuesday's job. The quote the customer wanted this morning goes out at midnight.

Every lead you buy costs more and closes less

You are paying comparison-site prices for exclusive residential leads, then sitting third in a stack of quotes where the only question anyone asks is price per watt. So you shave the price to win the job, and the margin walks out of the door with it.

A callback from a job you did three years ago

The inverter drops out on a system you installed three years ago, the customer rings you and not the manufacturer, and you send a van across town for nothing. Every one of those trips comes straight out of a job you already priced too thin.

Stay on that road and you are running a bigger business every year for the same money, with more warranty exposure, more compliance and less of your own life in it.

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

How we help

Seven Ways We Help Solar Installers.

Every one of these is a way solar business owners get out from under the business and start running it properly. Start wherever it hurts most.

Training

Solar Business Training

Structured training that turns what solar installers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

Solar Business Coaching

Greg Allan in your corner, holding solar installers to the plan. By application.

Systems

Solar Business Systems

The documented process that lets the work happen properly when solar installers are not standing there.

The free app

Solar Business App

Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for solar installers with an active ABN.

Marketing and leads

Solar Business Marketing

How solar installers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

Solar Business Pricing

The number solar installers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Hiring and team

Solar Business Hiring

How solar installers build a crew that does it right without being watched.

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

Worth knowing

Two Things Every Solar Installer Running A Business Should Know.

Accreditation for rebate-eligible solar moved from the Clean Energy Council to Solar Accreditation Australia in 2024, and accredited installers must earn 100 CPD points every 12 months.

Source: Clean Energy Regulator and Solar Accreditation Australia

The federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program started on 1 July 2025 and was expanded to $7.2 billion in December 2025, with further rule changes taking effect from 1 May 2026.

Source: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Cheaper Home Batteries Program

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.

Greg Allan mid-explanation with his hands open, talking to a trade business owner across a desk

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.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night. — The old way
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.

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. 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.

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Questions

Solar Installers Ask Us These.

Do I still need Clean Energy Council accreditation to install solar?

No. Since 2024 the accreditation scheme for rebate-eligible installs has been run by Solar Accreditation Australia, appointed by the Clean Energy Regulator, and accredited installers must earn 100 CPD points every 12 months. Keeping that current is admin, not strategy. What we train owners on is everything the accreditation does not cover: pricing, systems, marketing and building a crew.

How do I stop competing on price per watt?

You change what the quote is about. Price per watt only wins when nothing else on the page is different, so build a quote that names the standards you install to, the warranty process, the grid connection work you handle and who answers the phone in year five. The Profitable Pricing Masterclass walks owners through that build.

Is this useful if I run a solar business in New Zealand?

Yes. New Zealand has no STC scheme, and registration sits with the Electrical Workers Registration Board plus the Mains Parallel Generation endorsement introduced in July 2024, so the compliance detail differs. The business problems do not. Pricing, hiring, systems and lead generation work the same way, and the Tradies App is free for trade business owners in Australia and New Zealand.

I am flat out installing. When would I actually do the training?

Around the work. The Learning Hub sits in the Tradies App at $199 a month, so lessons happen in the ute between jobs or on a Sunday morning. Start free on the app and add what you need.

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