We wrote this article for Florence magazine. Florence is a magazine featuring women who work and contribute the building and construction industry. We were contacted last year by the publishers of the...
Ladies, having a positive reputation online can often mean the difference between winning the job, or losing the customer. Below, our friends at Oneflare take you through the best practices of...
What a year it has been. I am sitting here on New Years Eve, in 40 degree heat, watching all these horrific fires on the news that are burning all around...
Christmas time can be chaos particularly running a trade business. Clients want everything completed before the big day and jobs are flying around left right and centre. Here are a...
The work Christmas party can be a great way to unwind at the end of a long year. It is also a great way to thank employees for their hard...
It’s no secret the Christmas lead up is the busiest time of year for tradies. The elusive Christmas deadline, everyone wants to be in by that date. Early starts, long...
What are Tenders? Commercial Tenders can be issued by both private and public sector organisations as a means of procuring or working towards procuring products or services or both. Tenders are...
If there is one thing we can all agree on it’s this: Being a Tradie, not all days are the same. The beauty of running your own business is that your...
You know your day is ruined when a cow boy Tradie flies away with the job you so wanted, undercutting you by a huge margin. For a business that’s in its...
If you hire sub-contractors in your business, they can be a god send. Often getting you out of a tight spot or saving your bacon if you get a flood...
While cloud-based job management software saves trade business owners time and money, many people are still sticking with old-school manual processes because they don’t have the headspace to make the...
‘The butterfly effect states that one tiny random event can have huge unforseen circumstances.” For Gill Hicks, that was one day running late for work, which led her to jump...