Losing your temper can definitely happen but as you start and grow your electrical business that simply isn’t an option - even when you’re frustrated beyond belief. Sometimes we lose our temper anyway, and that’s when you need to recognise it, go back and fix the damage you’ve now caused or situation you let get out of hand. 

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In business things are going to go wrong, someone in your company, you or a client is going to make you want to ‘lose it’, but you can’t control accidents, or what other people do - only what you do and how you react or handle everything after. So do it right and make sure you keep your clients as a tradie and keep growing your electrical business. 

This podcast is for electricians, electrical business owners, partners and friends of electricians, Aussie Tradies and anyone interested in learning how to run a business better. Cam and Crowie are focused on electricians success and for business owners to increase revenue, grow their business, find more time and freedom and stepping away from the day-to-day or selling an electrical business.

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Peak movie time, Leos law and more references you may or may not get. So how does Wedding Crashers relate to your electrical business. This is part two of the importance of sweat equity, previously Cam and Crowie discussed the importance of you putting in the time and effort to start and grow your business but there comes a point where you need to switch over to working smarted not harder or more.

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Beers and Basics is our favourite time each week and we hope you find some wisdom amongst the digression. So head down to blockbuster or videoezy and get into some movies!

This podcast is for electricians, electrical business owners, partners and friends of electricians, Aussie Tradies and anyone interested in learning how to run a business better. Cam and Crowie are focused on electricians success and for business owners to increase revenue, grow their business, find more time and freedom and stepping away from the day-to-day or selling an electrical business.

Visit ⁠www.sparkycoachgroup.com.au⁠ for more!

This week it's all about job notes. Why you need them, how to do them and how to make them a part of your automatic process. Aside from the physical doing of the job, the notes of what you did, when and with what are so important particularly for client communication and invoicing. PLUS you may go back to that client or site in the future and you'll have these to refer back to.

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Different jobs require different levels of detail in job notes, as the business owner you need to decided on that, but every job regardless of size or frequency needs job notes at the end of the day. Do them well, do them properly. Job notes as an electrician become even more important when you have variations, and variations are inevitable.

This podcast is for electricians, electrical business owners, partners and friends of electricians, Aussie Tradies and anyone interested in learning how to run a business better. Cam and Crowie are focused on electricians success and for business owners to increase revenue, grow their business, find more time and freedom and stepping away from the day-to-day or selling an electrical business.

Visit ⁠www.sparkycoachgroup.com.au⁠ for more!

The boys are enjoying a great beer and discuss customers, in this case - bad customers. Every electrician will have an experience with a non-ideal customer where, for one reason or another, things simply don’t go to plan. 

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Sometimes it’s an invoice dispute, sometimes the original job plan changes and your work and the customers ideas no longer align. Inevitable you’ll have a problem with a customer in one way or another. Crowie and Cam discuss some ways you can handle bad customers as an electrician and some steps you can take along the way of any job to mitigate that. 

Have you every had a long night but left a glass of water on the bed side table (maybe even a Baroca ready to go on the side!) and woken up to it, thinking “Yes! Thank you past me!!!”. The little things we do right now can make such a difference in the future. 

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So there we are, do things that make the future you thank the present you. Make sure you’re planning your work ahead. Finding work as an electrician or any tradie is a constant job, keep it up to keep moving up!

This podcast is for electricians, electrical business owners, partners and friends of electricians, Aussie Tradies and anyone interested in learning how to run a business better. Cam and Crowie are focused on electricians success and for business owners to increase revenue, grow their business, find more time and freedom and stepping away from the day-to-day or selling an electrical business.

Visit www.sparkycoachgroup.com.au for more!

You gotta grip it to rip it! So when you're starting your electrical business you'll be putting in long hours, doing most or all the tasks involved in running your business and more than likely putting your business before everything else. That is sweat equity and every business owners - definitely the successful ones - know about it, because they've been there. That begs the question, is it important and will it be worth it. Sweat equity is no joke, it comes from knowing what it's like to have everything come second.

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It's Sunday so crack a beer with us and let's chat sweat equity! We are able to help you go from working hard to working smarter!

It's always an afterthought! "The thing" you'll get to when you get to it. A day passes, a week, suddenly you forgot altogether. Clients are even chasing you for the invoice - and you can barely remember what you did. This has happened to everyone!

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Often we can do the big things well, but it’s the small things that add up, one billable hour down a day adds up! You need to check and measure every job. This is where Sparky Coaches come in, billable hours, efficiency and all those numbers are what we help you work out and work through with trademarked calculators built for electricians, by successful electrical business owners.

You can have the ultimate skills as an electrician and know it's time to start your own electrical company, but there's a bit more to it that having the tools. It's also about talking the talk, and walking the walk. What do we mean? Professionalism is critical, how you present yourself and your company.

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This podcast is for electricians, electrical business owners, partners and friends of electricians, Aussie Tradies and anyone interested in learning how to run a business better. Cam and Crowie are focused on electricians success and for business owners to increase revenue, grow their business, find more time and freedom and stepping away from the day-to-day or selling an electrical business.

You've worked 80 hours this week, you have a big project coming up and you have no staff and can't find any? Did you wait too long? Maybe you find someone but the job starts tomorrow and they don't know what to do and how you work! Unfortunately there is no depot for amazing staff that you can rent our on a project basis so you need a process!

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The key to a happy team? You’ve got the be happy here, and I have to be happy with you!

This podcast is for electricians, electrical business owners, partners and friends of electricians, Aussie Tradies and anyone interested in learning how to run a business better. Cam and Crowie are focused on electricians success and for business owners to increase revenue, grow their business, find more time and freedom and stepping away from the day-to-day or selling an electrical business.

We don't want to get preachy or ask you to dig deep and manifest positivity at every step of your day here BUT based on our own experience we know how much easier it is to go about your day only noticing things that went pear shaped and not stopping whenever something goes well. We also aren't saying you need to bring out the confetti each time a light switch gets installed without any issues! What is important though is to celebrate wins, acknowledge the good and just enjoy when the **** isn't hitting the fan.

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Running an electrical business, or any business for that matter, is hard work. On any given day your doing 98 things at once - and that's on a good day! Most of the time your also faced with new problems, and things going wrong. So in that maze of the good and the bad, balancing your recognition of "YES!" and "Oh ****" moments is pretty important. It makes your employees know you don't just see mistakes, it makes clients know your thoughtful and understanding and fair (they like that!) and it makes your day better. It helps you see how far you've come.

Our advice, take some time out during the day, or each week, or once a month and make a list of all the good things like signing a new client, a great new job with a loyal customer, an employee that's done a great job consistently and who you can rely on, your footy team winning - it really doesn't matter. What matters is recognition.