About the 'Grow Your Perfect Business' series

Welcome to the the Grow your Perfect Business Series from The Site Shed.

This series has been methodically planned to help you through the various stages of business in an order at which (in my experience) they are likely to be relevant.

The whole idea is to leave you with a solid roadmap that you can customise to your business accordingly.

Why? You may ask... Well quite frankly, in my years of running businesses and speaking with hundreds of amazing business owners through mediums like the podcast, there is one thing that I've picked up on that is consistent across the board.

No one has all of the answers.

Now don't for a second think that I do... What I'm trying to communicate is that there is a lot of moving parts to a successful business. Getting some clarity around them will 100% serve you at some point.

Albeit, perhaps not all at once. However at some stage, you're likely to need to address one of the topics that we cover in this series, so when that (inevitably) happens, it's not going to be completely foreign to you.

We'll be covering a large number of topics, many of which are well and truly 'above my pay grade', so as always, I've recruited the expertise of specialised collaborators that can shed some light on their area of expertise.

As mentioned already, I don't have all the answers and I've created this framework off my own experiences. If you have feedback, suggestions, criticism, or praise, please let us know, so we can take it into consideration.

Also, if you're digging the work we do, please let us know by leaving a review on iTunes | Stitcher, Soundcloud, or YouTube.

About this episode

Let's start with a classic cliché. 'Failing to plan, is planning to fail'

Okay, now we have that out of the way, we can talk about why I've kicked off this series with the topic of 'Planning For Success'.

Good things rarely happen by chance. Sure, occasionally they may, however for the better part a successful outcome is normally the result of a successful strategy.

Even instances that may sometimes see

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Understanding when the right time to expand your business is critical to it's success.

So when Anthony Hunter form Plan B Plumbing Solutions in Melbourne Victoria, sent me an email asking me to cover the topic in an episode, I called on two of the most experienced people I know.

Al Levi (The 7 Power Contractor) and Ellen Rohr (The Plumbers Wife).

Both Al and Ellen have appeared on the podcast before and each time they come on the show, the ratings soar. Also, their giveaways have received some of the most downloads so far, so be sure to get a hold of them at the bottom of this page.

Here are the links to Al and Ellen's previous podcasts in case you missed them. They're good. Like, seriously good.

• Meet the Plumbers Wife, Ellen Rohr
• From A-B with Al Levi

Ellen Rohr Series - Business Uncomplicated

• Get a grip on your financials
• Business planning made easy
• D-Day (Decision Day)

Al Levi series - Powering Your Business with The 7-Power Contractor Approach

• Planning Power
• Operating Power
• Staffing Power

Al Levi series - Why Most Family Businesses Don’t Work

• Org Chart
• Defining roles
• Steering the shi

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We've how to set up our YouTube accounts and create great videos. Today we learn how to generate income from them.

Series: How to KILL it on YouTube Cohost: Stan Genadek from Dirt Monkey University

For as long as I can remember, I've been encouraging the tradies and contractors we work with to start leveraging YouTube as a way to promote their businesses. In this episode, we're going to talk how you can generate income from your YouTube videos.

Being that the majority of trade based businesses have in one way, or another a visual service, YouTube offers a brilliant opportunity to position yourselves as the expert through educational videos of sort.

Stanley was recommended to me by Tom Reber from Motor Hard, who you may recall from the awesome series we recorded on Goal Setting. Here are the links to those episodes, go check them out, they're sooooo good.

• Part one - Creating a game plan in your business
• Part two - Setting goals that count towards your game plan
• Part three - Keeping accountable to your goals

Stanley is a landscape gardener who has managed to create a huge YouTube following by basically documenting his business. You can check it out for yourself at this link.

 

It's a channel dedicated to all things landscaping, so if you're looking for motivation, or ideas on how to develop your own YouTube channel, you may as well mirror it off someone that's doing it.

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Episode 3. Using YouTube to generate income

Welcome back to part three of this EPIC series on YouTube. In part one, Stan talks to us about how to set up your YouTube channel...t

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Now that we know how to set up our account, let's talk about creating great YouTube videos.

Series: How to KILL it on YouTube Cohost: Stan Genadek from Dirt Monkey University

For as long as I can remember, I've been encouraging the tradies and contractors we work with to start leveraging YouTube as a way to promote their businesses. In this episode, we're going to talk about what's involved in creating great YouTube videos.

Being that the majority of trade based businesses have in one way, or another a visual service, YouTube offers a brilliant opportunity to position yourselves as the expert through educational videos of sort.

Stanley was recommended to me by Tom Reber from Motor Hard, who you may recall from the awesome series we recorded on Goal Setting. Here are the links to those episodes, go check them out, they're sooooo good.

• Part one - Creating a game plan in your business
• Part two - Setting goals that count towards your game plan
• Part three - Keeping accountable to your goals

Stanley is a landscape gardener who has managed to create a huge YouTube following by basically documenting his business. You can check it out for yourself at this link.

 

It's a channel dedicated to all things landscaping, so if you're looking for motivation, or ideas on how to develop your own YouTube channel, you may as well mirror it off someone that's doing it.

If you enjoy this podcast, tell us. Better still, leave us a review on iTunes. We really value your feedback and the reviews you leave allow us to keep going.

Episode 2. Creating GREAT YouTube videos

In the previous podcast, Stan talks to us about how to go about starting up a YouTube channel, where in this episode, he talks to us about what's involved in actually creating great youtube videos.

As we all would have at some stage witnessed at some point, t

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YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world. It's time to take advantage of that.

Series: How to KILL it on YouTube Cohost: Stan Genadek from Dirt Monkey University

For as long as I can remember, I've been encouraging the tradies and contractors we work with to start leveraging YouTube as a way to promote their businesses.

Being that the majority of trade based businesses have in one way, or another a visual service, YouTube offers a brilliant opportunity to position yourselves as the expert through educational videos of sort.

Stanley was recommended to me by Tom Reber from Motor Hard, who you may recall from the awesome series we recorded on Goal Setting. Here are the links to those episodes, go check them out, they're sooooo good.

• Part one - Creating a game plan in your business
• Part two - Setting goals that count towards your game plan
• Part three - Keeping accountable to your goals

Stanley is a landscape gardener who has managed to create a huge YouTube following by basically documenting his business. You can check it out for yourself at this link.

 

It's a channel dedicated to all things landscaping, so if you're looking for motivation, or ideas on how to develop your own YouTube channel, you may as well mirror it off someone that's doing it.

If you enjoy this podcast, tell us. Better still, leave us a review on iTunes. We really value your feedback and the reviews you leave allow us to keep going.

Episode 1. Getting Started With YouTube

In this podcast, Stan talks to us about how to go about starting a YouTube channel.

We talk about finding your niche, we talk about finding your audience and we also talk about establishing your branding. There's quite a lot of things that 'should' be considered when developing a channel, so I really dive into some of the nitty gritty things that are import

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Could Modular Building be the future? You decide. By: Matt Jones

It's no secret that I'm a pretty big advocate of innovation within the trades, which is why I was really excited to learn about modular building.

Now before we go on I need to clarify something. No, we're not talking about living in shipping containers.

I'm always looking out for people and companies that have developed a cool angle on an existing product, or service. Here are another couple of episodes that have a really cool innovative spin:

• Episode 50 - Turning firewood into furniture
• Episode 55 - Intelligent lighting

I stumbled across ArchiBlox on an Instagram post a number of months ago (credit to the folks at Green Elec) and I was very impressed with their product.

Imagine being able to build a home from spec, have it built off site and then have it delivered to location on a truck and installed. Sounds crazy, right?

In this podcast, I do my best to dive as deep as possible within a limited time to ascertain the pro's, con's and processes of modular building with Bill McCorkell of ArchiBlox.

Here are a handful of the topics that we cover in this podcast:

• Quality control
• Maintenance and repair
• Structural integrity and loading capacities
• DA and council related legalities
• Insurances
• Connection to other services
• Limitations
• Preferred locations/scenarios
• Renovation possibilities
• Comparisons to traditional development methods
• Thermal advantages (heating/cooling)
• Material sourcing
• Installation costs
• Maintenance costs
• Purchase costs
• Who would modular building suit?
• What is the future?

This is a really cool podcast, with a really interesting man, who has an amazing product.

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Congratulations, you've set goals! However are you keeping accountable to them?

Series: Goal Setting Cohost: Tom Reber from Motor Hard

With a new year upon us and setting goals being at the forefront of all of our minds, I thought it would be cool to create a podcast series on setting goals and keeping accountable to them.

I don't know if you're anything like me, however I have set so many goals in the past, to which many of them, for one reason or another, I just forget about.

We all know the importance of creating goals and we've all heard the cliché quotes relating to creating goals. You know the ones like; "90% of the goals you write down come true"; "Read your goals out loud every day", etc.

Well quite frankly, I call bullshit. I spent years doing this and nothing good ever happened because of a couple of reasons.

1. They weren't goals, they were wishes, or dreams
2. I hadn't been creating a game plan of steps to help me get towards my goals
3. I had no accountability. To either myself, or someone else.

I asked Tom to co-host this series with me on goal setting because I want you guys to not just set goals this year, I want you to set the right goals and more importantly, I want you to achieve them.

If you do this right, it will change your life, not just your business.

I wish you all a fantastic 2017.

Set goals - Create a game plan to achieve your goals - Achieve your goals.

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Episode 3. Keeping accountable to your goals

This is the third and final episode of the 'Setting Goals' Series with Tom Reber from Motor Hard. If you missed the first two, make sure you jump back and listen to them before you dive into this one because they all tie into each other. Here's the first episode. Here's the second.

So where the first two podcasts were about creating a goal strategy and formulating goals that work towards your strategy and the bigger picture, thi

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Are you setting goals that contribute to the bigger picture? It's all about setting the right goals to help you reach the right destination.

Series: Goal Setting Cohost: Tom Reber from Motor Hard

With a new year upon us and setting goals being at the forefront of all of our minds, I thought it would be cool to create a podcast series on setting goals...the right way.

I don't know if you're anything like me, however I have set so many goals in the past, to which many of them, for one reason or another, I just forget about.

We all know the importance of creating goals and we've all heard the cliché quotes relating to creating goals. You know the ones like; "90% of the goals you write down come true"; "Read your goals out loud every day", etc.

Well quite frankly, I call bullshit. I spent years doing this and nothing good ever happened because of a couple of reasons.

1. They weren't goals, they were wishes, or dreams
2. I hadn't been creating a game plan of steps to help me get towards my goals
3. I had no accountability. To either myself, or someone else.

I asked Tom to co-host this series with me on goal setting because I want you guys to not just set goals this year, I want you to set the right goals and more importantly, I want you to achieve them.

If you do this right, it will change your life, not just your business.

I wish you all a fantastic 2017.

Set goals - Create a game plan to achieve your goals - Achieve your goals.

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Episode 2. Setting goals that count towards your game plan.

This is part two of the 'Setting Goals' Series with Tom Reber from Motor Hard. if you missed the first episode, make sure you go back and check it out because this episode ties into it.

We've all done it before. We go about setting goals or visualising things that look and sound great, but at the end of the day, have little, if any bearing on our businesses real goals.

For example, last year I set a business goal to speak and at international conference. That sound

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The difference between setting a goal and dreaming is creating a game plan?

Series: Goal Setting Cohost: Tom Reber from Motor Hard

With a new year upon us and setting goals being at the forefront of all of our minds, I thought it would be cool to create a podcast series on setting goals...the right way.

I don't know if you're anything like me, however I have set so many goals in the past, to which many of them, for one reason or another, I just forget about.

We all know the importance of creating goals and we've all heard the cliché quotes relating to creating goals. You know the ones like; "90% of the goals you write down come true"; "Read your goals out loud every day", etc.

Well quite frankly, I call bullshit. I spent years doing this and nothing good ever happened because of a couple of reasons.

1. They weren't goals, they were wishes, or dreams
2. I hadn't been creating a game plan of steps to help me get towards my goals
3. I had no accountability. To either myself, or someone else.

I asked Tom to co-host this series with me on goal setting because I want you guys to not just set goals this year, I want you to set the right goals and more importantly, I want you to achieve them.

If you do this right, it will change your life, not just your business.

I wish you all a fantastic 2017.

Set goals - Create a game plan to achieve your goals - Achieve your goals.

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Episode 1.Creating a game plan in your business.

This is part one of the three part series on goal setting with Tom Reber from Motor Hard. We've chosen 'creating a game plan' because if you don't have a strategy behind what you're striving to achieve, then it's destined to fail.

Tom runs through some very useful frameworks that we can use when setting a game plan. We cover the following:

• Communicating and clarifying your vision
• Keeping focussed on what's important
• Keeping on track
• Knowing where you want to end up
• Visualising and visualisation

This is the first chapter in setting your goals for the new year. Take an afternoon off and get it done if you want this year to be different from

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As we enter into the holiday period, some festive marketing ideas can help keep your customers happy and your bills to get paid.

With: Matt and Will from Growth Labz

Coming into the Christmas season, some companies get inundated with jobs from people that want things done before the break, while it's 'crickets' for others.

The aim of this podcast is two fold.

• First and foremost, how can you best serve your customers coming into the festive season?
• Secondly, how can you best service your business coming into the Christmas/New Year break?

Christmas can be a chaotic time for most of us and the last thing we need in the lead up is avoidable problems. As tradies and contractors, when your customers are coming to you with a problem, it's often can be a pretty gnarly one, so better to get to them, before they get to us.

Examples: Sewers are blocked, power is out, garden is overgrown, etc.

As a business owner, you have a responsibility to your customers to ensure that their previous problems don't recur. Especially at a time like Christmas, when family and entertaining is on the cards.

How proactive are you in making sure your customers are not going to run into problems this year? Have you reached out to connect? Have you put a reminder in your calendar to get hold of them prior to their problem coming back? If not, why not?

What do you think your customer would prefer? You approaching them offering to reduce the chance of a problem occurring, or them calling you with an emergency because a disaster has occurred? It's a no brainer.

And of course, it's a double edged sword. Sure you're being proactive in solving their problems before they arise, however you're also at the same time building professional rapport, while at the same time creating a nice passive income stream for yourself.

In this podcast, Will and I talk about how you can use your website, along with some smart festive marketing techniques to best serve your customer, while at the same time increasing your turnover. If you find a company on Earth that doesn't want to achieve that, please let me know, so I can get them on the podcast...and shred them.

If you like this podcast, you'll likely enjoy the following. Go check them out.

• Why you need to be marketing online

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