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Solar Business CoachNobody in your crew can tell you whether the price is right. Greg Allan can.

Coaching for solar business owners who are making the calls alone. Whether to take the commercial job, whether to put on another installer, whether to walk away from a lead source that has stopped paying. You work with Greg Allan, who built his own trade business.

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The week this is about

Sound Like Your Solar Business?

Every decision lands on you and nobody else

Do you chase the battery work now the federal rebate is driving it, or stay with straight PV? Do you hire another installer or keep subbing? You put the question to your partner at dinner and they cannot answer it either, because nobody around you runs a solar business.

You are busy and still not sure you are winning

The diary is full, the crew is out, the phone rings. Then the BAS lands and the number in the account does not match how hard the last quarter felt. Nobody has ever sat down with your figures and told you honestly what they say.

The advice you get is from people outside the trade

Your accountant tells you to reduce costs, a marketing agency tells you to spend more, and neither of them has ever stood on a roof in February or waited on a network approval that would not come. Generic business advice does not survive contact with a solar job.

Every big call you get wrong alone costs a year, and you will not know which ones they were until you are looking back at them.

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

Data First Coaching

The Solar Business Coach Who Starts From Your Data.

Data First Coaching is the trade business coaching method created by Greg Allan, founder of Tradies Success Academy. Before any advice is given, the Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads the owner's own job management and finance data, so the coaching starts from what the numbers show this week, not from what the owner can remember or explain. It finds the root cause of a problem, then puts in the system that fixes it.

How most coaching works

Most coaching for solar installers starts with the owner explaining the business.

The first hours go on the owner describing the solar business to a coach: the jobs, the crew, the customers, the money.
The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.
So the advice treats what the owner happened to notice, which is usually a symptom.
Too often it comes from someone who has never run a solar business, or any trade business at all.
The owner pays for the explaining, then pays again when the advice does not fit.

Data First Coaching

Data first starts from your solar business's numbers, not your memory.

The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance systems first.
It sees your quotes, jobs, time on site and money as they are this week, the way solar installers actually make and lose it.
It finds where the problem actually starts, not where it shows up.
You put in the system that fixes it at the root, and the data shows whether it worked.

Which of these is the root cause in your solar business?

Every decision lands on you and nobody else
You are busy and still not sure you are winning
The advice you get is from people outside the trade

Usually one of them is causing the others. Data first means your own numbers answer that before anybody guesses, so the fix goes where the problem starts.

Typical coaching against Data First Coaching
	Typical coaching	Data First Coaching
Where it starts	You explain the business	Your own job and finance data
How current it is	As at the last meeting	Updated as your numbers change each week
What it fixes	The symptom you noticed	The root cause the data shows
Who coaches you	Often someone who has never run a trade business	Greg Allan, who built a trade business a general manager now runs
The answer to growth	Usually another wage	Agents on the office work, people on customers and the crew
Your software	Another subscription or agency	Tools you build on your own data, around how you work

Fix the root cause, once

The data names the real problem, so the system you put in fixes it once instead of patching the same symptom every month.

Own your software

Build your own tools on your own data, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy. Cancel the subscriptions and agencies that were never built for your business.

A more human business

Agents do the non-billable work: the quoting, invoicing, chasing and reporting. Your people spend the day on customers and the crew, so relationships get better and the team performs.

How Data First Coaching works

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 Solar Installer Business Coaching Actually Changes.

Three things solar business owners walk away able to do.

Decide on battery, commercial or residential work with someone who has run the numbers

Read your own profit and loss and know which jobs actually paid

Get a straight answer on hiring, firing and pricing within the week

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

Solar Business Coaching, Answered.

How do you choose the best solar business coach?

The best solar business coach has run a trade business, starts from your own job and finance data rather than your memory, and fixes root causes with systems instead of handing over worksheets. Ask any coach what they will read before they advise you. With Greg Allan's Data First Coaching, the Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your numbers first, so the time goes on fixing, not explaining.

What should a solar installer look for in a business coach?

Someone who knows how solar installers make and lose money, who works from your data, and who answers growth with systems and AI agents rather than another wage. Watch for a salesperson first, a coach who has never run a trade business, or advice that would be the same for any business.

How much does a Solar business coach cost?

It depends on how much support the business needs. With Greg, the cost is covered openly in the interview, once he has seen where your business is and where you want it to go. Before you compare prices, compare the time: coaching that starts from your own data does not spend the first weeks on you explaining the business.

What is Data First Coaching?

Why is there a waitlist to work with Greg?

Greg coaches every owner himself, so places are limited and the Academy is regularly at capacity. Join the waitlist, and when a place opens he interviews the owners who look like the right fit. Joining costs nothing and there is no obligation.

Will Greg understand solar, or just business in general?

Both, and that is the point. Greg built his own trade business, so he knows what a DNSP delay does to cash flow and what a rebate change does to demand. He brings the business discipline. You bring the solar reality.

I am on site all day. How does this fit around installs?

Sessions are booked, not dropped on you. Owners take them from the ute at smoko, from the office before the crew rolls out, or in the evening. The work between sessions is your own business, so it happens while you quote anyway. Nobody is asking you to give up install days.

Who will I actually be working with?

Greg Allan. Most coaching companies hand you a salesperson, then a coach who has never run a trade business. Here, Greg interviews you himself, and if you are accepted you work with Greg. The Academy is at full capacity, so new owners join the waitlist and he takes the ones who are committed and ready to do the work.

Wherever you work

Solar Business Coach, Wherever the Van Is Parked.

Greg coaches solar installers online across Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Canberra), New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch), the United States (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Denver), Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa), the United Kingdom (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen) and Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Galway). The coaching starts from your own job and finance data, so it works the same wherever the van is parked, and the time goes on your business rather than on getting to a meeting.

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