ESA TV: The Innovative and Energetic Approach of Greg Allan
In this podcast, ESA Founder Greg Allan talks with Jade Green on her Barrels and Business Podcast. They discuss the cutting edge social media and business strategy Greg used to explode multiple businesses. The interview also delves into Greg’s personal challenges, and how he overcame them.
In this episode, ESA Founder Greg Allan talks with Jade Green on her Barrels and Business Podcast. This inspirational conversation not only explores the cutting edge social media and business strategy Greg used to explode multiple businesses, but also delves into Greg’s personal challenges, and how he overcame them in the face of stress, personal struggles, and imbalance.
ESA TV: Electrical Industry Opportunities with Victoria's New Rental Legislation
In this podcast, ESA Supercoach Kirk Neal hosts an expert panel discussing the recent Rental Legislation changes in Victoria. With 857 000 rental properties in the state, the potential for electricians to create new business is huge. Check out this episode to learn what these changes mean for Victorian electricians.
In this podcast, ESA Supercoach Kirk Neal hosts an expert panel on the recent Rental Legislation changes in Victoria. With 857 000 rental properties in the state, the potential for electricians to create new business is huge. If you want to know exactly what these changes will mean for electricians, check out this episode.
ESA Hot Seat: Brendan Marshall
Brendan Marshall is an Electrician from Naracoorte, South Australia, and ESA Peak Performer. In this Episode, Brendan discusses his inspirational life-story, financial challenges, and the way he overcame the struggles of his early electrical career to build a bigger and better business than he thought was possible.
Brendan Marshall is an Electrician from Naracoorte, South Australia, and ESA Peak Performer. In this episode, Brendan discusses his inspirational life-story, financial challenges, and the way he overcame the struggles of his early electrical career to build a bigger and better business than he thought was possible.
Life-Changing Electrical Business Tips
Electrical Business Tips And Motivation features Tim Jacobson and Greg Allan. They talk about electrician's productivity, running an electrical business, and upselling electrical service to customers. Towards the end, technical electrical questions are discussed, too.
Strategies so practical - you'll put them into practise today! Tim shares his REAL struggles of the electrical contracting business and we workshop some game-changing solutions for his electrical contractor business. We cover becoming profitable, workshopping the job, the Shopping List Pricing System and more such electrical contracting business tips!
Electrical Business Tips And Motivation - Key Take Aways
Electricians Success Academy is for electricians, electrical contractors, electrical business owners, and for everyone in the electrical industry who wants to be successful.
Define end goals and your lifestyle when you run your electrical business. You can work that much towards your goal.
Next time a customer asks for discount, think about your family. You are taking away money from your family to give a discount. Can you afford that? Is it the right thing to do?
When you reach a customer's home, the first conversation should never be about the job. Compliment them about something that you think is close to their heart and reflects their style. Break the ice!
Always upsell benefits of electrical services and upgradation to your customer is a genuine way that benefits them.
Use the Ice Breaker Principle and Shopping List Pricing Method for more profits as an electrical contractor! Sign up to our online electrical business academy for success in your life and career.
Life-Changing Electrical Business Tips & Motivation
The Magic Wizard Sales Method?
A high energy marketing episode full of impactful strategies and motivations for your electrical contracting business. Make profit and dominate your game in the electrical industry, even if you are low on work and low on funds. Are you ready to put your all into it? Let's do this!
A high energy marketing episode full of impactful strategies and motivations for your electrical contracting business. Make a profit and dominate your game in the electrical industry, even if you are low on work and low on funds. Are you ready to put your all into it? Let's do this!
A Highly Impactful Electrical Business Marketing Strategy - Key Takeaways
The way you speak has a strong impact on the type of clients you attract. Language, tonality, and sales-pitch matter when you want to target high-end client. Perception and quality matters, too!
The first phone call has to be short and then you can follow-up.
How many people open Emails from businesses in this day-and-age? So, rather use SMSCentral for sending customised follow-up/short messages. You can also include your phone number at the end of the message, if it's a message-only line.
Your marketing time should be spent wisely depending on your situation and target market.
Testing and measuring is important in Advertising, but don't wait for it to become reactive.
Remember that the more you ask, the more you get. So, do everything that you can every day and have a systematised approach to invoicing. Also, give out business cards when you meet and network.
When you provide an awesome customer service and an amazing quality of service, you should always work with people who are happy with your pricing!
A Highly Impactful Electrical Business Marketing Strategy
What!? Electricians Can Use VA's Too? - Scott Prioste
Online Electrical Business Training Preview features Greg Allan and Scott Prioste. They talk about remote work, virtual assistants, cost saving, and delegating tasks. Are you ready to use the power of the digital age to build a global, efficient, and remote team for electrical backend work?
Hott Electrics shares Online Electrical Business Course Training
Online Electrical Business Training Preview features Greg Allan and Scott Prioste. They talk about remote work, virtual assistants, cost saving, and delegating tasks for electricians and electrical contractors. Are you ready to use the power of the digital age to build a global, efficient, and remote team for electrical back end work?
Develop electrical skills of your electricians with our online electrical training course.
Key takeaways from Online Electrical Business Training Preview:
Hire efficient people for admin tasks from around the world via freelancing platforms so you can save a lot of money.
Delegate tasks that some people can do as good as you.
Free up your hours as an electrical business owner by hiring someone for a fraction of the cost.
Use performance management tools to gauge their competence and activity.
Sign up to our high-performance academy for more such Online Electrical Business Training!
Online Electrical Business Training Preview
The Difference Between Sub-Standard & Unsafe
In the safe electrical business training course, Greg Allan discusses Sub-standard and unsafe electrical work. It can lead to dangerous outcomes and thus it is important to understand the two.
In the safe electrical business training course, Greg Allan discusses Sub-standard and unsafe electrical work. It can lead to dangerous outcomes and thus it is important to understand the above two for your electrical business and for your customers' saftey. This podcast is jam-packed with electrical safety tips for electricians and electrical contractors alike. We would love to hear your thoughts on it!
Safe Electrical Business Training Course
Electrical Contractors Tips For A Work-Life Balance - Tony Arnold
Electrical Contractors Tips Podcast feature none other than Tony Arnold -- the President of Master Electricians Australia. He shares his story and insights on how to maintain a work-life balance in the electrical industry and more!
President of Master Electricians Australia shares Electrical Contractors Business Tips
Electrical Contractors Work Life Balance Podcast feature none other than Tony Arnold -- the President of Master Electricians Australia. He shares his story and insights on how to maintain a work-life balance as an electrical contractor in the electrical industry and more!
Key takeaways from Electrical Contractors Tips for work-life balance:
Don't trust someone's word, get it in writing, so that it is proof.
Employ the right people -- in your electrical business -- that are a culture fit. This will eventually help you to maintain electrical contractors work life balance in the long run.
Focus on your profits to understand the costs.
Use automation tools to manage your invoicing for your electrical contractor business.
Structure your electrical contractinghours so that you have a work-life balance.
The story of how Tony Arnold became the President of Master Electricians Australia.
Electrical Contractors Tips for work-life balance
Electrical Business Strategy - Visualise Your Future
Electrical Business Planning requires you to define your idea of success. To do this you need to visualise your future and what it looks like. Greg Allan shares how maintaining a future journal can help you to plan for success.
Thomas Birt's Electrical Business Planning Tips For A Better Future
You need to define your idea of success. NOW! To do this you can visualise your future and what it looks like. Greg Allan shares how maintaining a future journal can help you to plan for success of your electrical contracting business. Use the power of visualisation discussed in the podcast to unlock the next level in your electrical contracting career and life.
Key takeaways from Electrical Business Planning:
Thomas Birt is an electrical industry legend who has had three contracting businesses. One week before his retirement, he discussed the "Visualising your Future" technique with Greg Allan.
You need to visualise so you can PLAN for your future. Doesn’t matter if you are an electrician, electrical employee, electrical contractor, or electrical business owner.
Visualise your life when you are 60 -- What does it look like? What are you up to? Your business plan should reflect these goals, too.
When you are going through hard times you need to go back to family because it is everything.
Always get rid off the stuff that gets you off the main track. Don’t waste your time on an activity if it is not a part of your future goal. This way you can maintain your electrical contractor business plan.
Do a journal entry at your favourite place. For 10 years from now. Write in past tense as if you have already achieved things. You can implement this electrical business planning tip for your personal as well professional life.
All the electricians out there -- Are you ready to visualise your future? Leave us a comment and let us know!
Electrical Business Planning Preview
Electrical Wholesaler Advice - Ryan Veitch
Electrical Wholesaler Advice focuses on how you can leverage your wholesaler's knowledge, expertise, experience, and global power within the industry. Build a better relationship with your local store manager to reap massive rewards!
Lawrence and Hanson's award-winning store manager shares Electrical Wholesaler Advice
Learn how to maximise the value of your electrical wholesalers and leverage from their knowledge, expertise, experience and global power within the electrical industry. Build a better relationship with your local store manager to reap massive rewards which far surpass the basic transactional sense of buying electrical supplies. Ryan Veitch, award winning store manager from Lawrence and Hanson discusses what you can do to enhance the value of your electrical distributors.
Key takeaways FROM Electrical Wholesaler Advice:
You can ask your electrical wholesaler for advice on electrical products.
Build a relation with your electrical wholesaler.
When making a buying decision, you should consider quality too, not just price.
Pick and choose the electrical industry events you support.
Your electrical wholesaler can advice you about -- social media, uniforms, service; and thus increase your efficiency.
Give feedback to your electrical wholesaler so they can implement your points and improve their service.
Electrical Wholesaler Advice
Electrical Business Hiring Advice - Shane Lockland
Electrical Business Hiring Advice solves the confusion between what electricians believe companies want and what they ACTUALLY want. It is packed with golden information for all levels in the industry whether you are an electrical worker, sole trader, or electrical employer.
Shane Lockland shares Electrical Business Hiring Advice
This is absolutely a MUST WATCH episode for everyone in our electrical industry. There is a lot of confusion between what electricians believe companies want from them opposed to what they ACTUALLY want. This is packed with golden information for all levels in the industry whether you are an electrical worker, electrical contractor, sole trader or electrical employer.
Key takeaways FROM Electrical Business Hiring Advice:
Repeat customers will lead to more customers because they like your work.
Healthy lifestyle affects your mind, fitness, and clarity as an electrician.
Document the processes and ensure that all the electrical contractors follow admin work for a systemic organisation. This is great electrical business hiring advice to increase efficiency.
Training your team of electricians helps you to get feedback from the team.
A team huddle environment means that you hang out with your team once in a while.
You can have a file of ready-to-hire people by interviewing people for electrician jobs on a regular basis.
Focus on one thing when you engage in the electrical contracting business.
Electrical Business Hiring Advice
Electrical Contracting Financial Tips
Electrical Contracting Financial Tips can save your electrical business from bankruptcy. You may need to watch it a couple of times but the value and methodology shared is invaluable. We often dream big and hope for good things to happen to us as business owners but find ourselves stuck.
Troy Smith shares Electrical Contracting Financial Tips to Reverse Engineer Your P&L
This information may just save you and your electrical business from bankruptcy. You may need to watch it a couple of times but the value and methodology shared is invaluable. We electrical contractors often dream big and hope for good things to happen to us as electrical business owners but find ourselves stuck in financial difficulties too often and usually because there was no real electrical financial plan in place.
Strategic financial planning for electrical businesses is especially important but many electricians don't do it whatsoever. Make sure you take the time to follow the steps and protect yourself from failure from improper planning! Accelerate your electrical contracting business by using the strategy discussed in the podcast.
KEY TAKEAWAYS from Electrical Contracting Financial Tips:
“The way to turn a dream into a goal is to make it time based.”
Start with your end in mind.
What do you want to achieve as an electrical contractor? Reverse engineer what you want to achieve.
Once you know your P&L figures, you have to figure out: Where does the money come from?
Create your electrical contracting financial plan and put it into action.
Always measure, track, or recognise your electrical contracting financial plan.
Electrical Contracting Financial Tips
Electrical Contracting Business Tips & Ideas
Electrical Contracting Business Tips & Ideas tells you how Rowan Diamond has achieved success with only 4 electricians? First Call Electrical was able to get $100,000 back from a builder who wasn't paying up! Want to know how to get paid EVERY TIME, ON-TIME? Well, this episode is for you!
First Call Electrical shares Electrical Contracting Business Tips & Ideas
Success with only 4 electricians? How does he do this? ...and you wait till you hear how Rowan Diamond from First Call Electrical was able to get $100,000 back from a builder who wasn't paying up! Want to know how to get paid EVERY TIME, ON-TIME and keep the cash flowing in your electrical contracting business? Well this episode is for you! It will help you achieve success as an electrical contractor.
Key takeaways FROM Electrical Contracting Business Tips & Ideas:
Rowan Diamond made a mistake in his electrical business, which compounded and began a problem, and then became the biggest challenge. He didn't check out the person's credit history before doing a lot of work for him. And the person didn't pay.
Make sure your customer has read and signed T&Cs. It is solid gold to have it signed on paper with ink. Just one of the useful electrical contracting business tips & ideas you can use every day to make sure that the customers pay.
Spread sheets and paper invoices have more room for error. All electrical contractors can automate it with Myob and Xero.
Make sure that your customer is the priority. Customers should be happy. Communication with the customers is 100% critical.
Conduct practical, role-based interviews with test questions and hidden challenges.
Mentors cost a lot of money. But they help you to learn a lot of valuable electrical lessons and you earn a lot out of it, eventually.
Electrical Contracting Business Ideas & Tips
Electrical Contracting Business Strategic Planning
Electrical Contracting Business Strategic Planning features Josh Horneman, a serial entrepreneur, who is a master in strategic planning for success. He coaches business people to ensure they stay on track. Learn how to dominate your electrical business though planning!
Josh Horneman Shares Electrical Contracting Business Strategic Planning Method
Josh Horneman is a serial entrepreneur who's a master in strategic planning for electrical contracting business success. He coaches business people to ensure they stay on track with what is important and minimise wasted time through lack of distraction. Learn how to dominate as an electrical contractor this year through proper planning. Are you ready to implement this business plan and marketing plan for your electrical services growth?
Key Takeaways from Electrical Contracting Business Strategic Planning:
Make sure what you want to achieve. Let it be in sync with your goals. Be passionate about it. Be motivated. Be realistic. It has to be yours.
To make a goal your reality take actions daily per your electrical contracting business strategic planning.
Some people are self-motivated, while most people need external checks and accountability. So this is very critical part of goal setting process.
Accountability buddy -- For more motivation, inspiration, and daily checks. It has got to be at the start.
Self-motivated people write down their goals, so they hold themselves accountable.
Visualisation technique: Drawn your vision on white-board or paper.
Small increments will make the big things (success) happen.
Habit creation: If you want to increase the number of customers/sales, you need to do it regularly. Make it a way of life. 30 days repeatedly. It becomes a part of daily life.
Idea Bubble: When you have an idea, dump it in the idea bubble. Do not let it distract you from the tasks at hand.
People tend to ignore the satisfaction that comes from achieving/doing something. Why would you not reward yourself for achieving what you have set out to do? (Example: movie, etc).
Rewards Process: Happens on the journey, not just at the end. It is a big part of motivation.
Burnout: Trying to achieve everything within a small time frame. Follow the electrical contracting business strategic planning method for optimum success.
Electrical Contracting Business Strategic Planning Tips
Electrical Contractor Business Growth & Coaching
Electrical Contractor Business Growth & Coaching with Rob Kropp will help your electrical contracting business to scale and grow! Be prepared to be inspired, motivated, and ready to grow your electrical business.
Rob Kropp shares some Electrical Contractor Business Growth & Coaching Tips
This is an incredibly insightful and informative discussion with Rob Kropp who helps electrical contracting business scale and grow without sacrificing the things that really matter in life. All electrical contractors will be inspired and motivated. Be ready to grow sustainable so you can keep doing the things you love without your electrical business ruining your relationship or your mental state. This contractor sales coach podcast can change your life, for better.
“If you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have gotten.”
Key Takeaways from Electrical Contractor Business Growth & Coaching:
What are the challenges and pressure of being an electrical business owner?
How to not lose connection with your family -- the most important thing -- while working?
Why do you need to develop your electrical business skills?
Become an owner of an electrical company rather than an electrician who owns a company.
Position -> person -> processes.
Have a plan and do not rush. This is a marathon not a sprint. Change and transformation takes time. It is a sequential process.
Structure your electrical contractor business growth with this coaching.
System improvement, recruit rock people in rock position, transition and delegate, leverage your time.
Electrical business owner can step back from operations and focus on other things.
Productivity and schedule is managed by the operations manager. Include sick days and time offs.
Make sure your prices are competitive. (Not expensive, or cheap). Charge what you are worth.
Build good relations with your suppliers and negotiate.
Most Businessmen stop living to make money. Break free from this life. Maintain a work-life balance.
Change your habits to go through the transition phase.
Electrical Contractor Business Growth & Coaching
Electrical Contractor Solar Business Advice
Electrical Contractor Solar Business Advice is THE podcast for any electrician or electrical contractor. We talk to the King Of Solar - John Horan. He discusses his struggles in business and how to prevent them. Learn how to set yourself apart from your competition, have more time and money!
Horan and Bird Director Josh Horan shares Electrical Contractor Solar Business Advice
John Horan is the director of Horan and Bird an electrical company specialising in Energy Management and Sustainable Energy Solutions. If you are still working long hours and weekends, this episode is for you. John discusses how his health was at risk with the amount he was working in electrical contracting and how his PPH Formula saved his life.
Learn what John did to take his electrical contracting business to the next level with tried and proven strategies you can implement in your life and business. He also shares a few tips on solar workforce development.
Resources Discussed:
Show Summary of Electrical Contractor Solar Business Advice:
2.40: Why did John Horan become an electrician?
3.30: How to MAXIMISE your practical learning of the electrical trade.
5.00: John's drive to become an electrical contractor and run his own business.
5.30: What to do if you want to start your own electrical contracting business.
5.50: What is the biggest lesson's learned as an electrical apprentice in a Sugar Mill.
6.30: What every 20-30 year old electrician should be doing.
7.00: The benefit's of having a mentor in life an business.
7.40: How to find a mentor or a board to help you develop your business or life.
9.45: How to set yourself ahead of your competition in the electrical industry.
10.30: How John's business nearly ended his business and his life when he found himself in the hospital.
11.15: How working harder doesn't get you ahead when you are struggling!
12.00: The PPH Formula and how it will change the way you do business?
14.00: How to get your weekends back, spend more time with friends and family and less time at work.
15.45: THE QUICKSAND EFFECT - How to turn a disaster into a positive.
17.00: How winning the Master Electrician Of The Year boosted Horan & Bird to the next year.
17.30: How to look and charge more through better marketing.
18.30: How Horan & Bird became an Energy Solutions Company and now Energy Company.
19.30: Discussion around Origin Energy purchasing Horan & Bird in 2015.
20.30: How John sold his house to purchase a container of solar panels to take his company to the next level.
22.30: The future of Energy Solutions and how to build a relationship with Origin Energy.
23.45: What John sees as the biggest mistakes that electricians make when starting in Solar!
24.45: What is the biggest waste of time that John sees in the Solar game.
26.00: Resources that electricians can use to learn about solar installation and design.
27.30: John's POWER LESSON on Solar System Design and Installation to win $1 Million!
29.30: What you need to know to SELL Solar Panels and make money doing it!
31.30: How to build a good supply chain for solar installation
33.00: The things that John attributes his biggest growth and success to.
34.50: How to PARTNER with big companies to grow your electrical business.
35.45: Where electricians can go to learn about sustainable energy solutions.
36.50: How to become a partner with Origin Energy or Master Electricians Australia
38.30: One thing that would teach an electrical contractor that is just starting out in business.
39.45: What tools to use to measure your performance.
40.30: The number one tool that John would recommend spending money on.
42.00: What John does in his spare time
43.20: How has John set up his business to allow him to maintain the lifestyle he has.
44.40: How to get paid quickly to maximise cashflow.
Electrician Success ACADEMY Member Q&A:
46.20: What are the recommended courses or resources that electricians should complete to enhance their skills and understanding of Sustainable Energy Solutions such as solar and battery back up?
47.30: With so many options of batteries coming onto the market, which do you think will be the best going forward - like VHS vs Betamax?
48.50: How to compete against the electricians selling the cheapest products in the industry.
51.00: What John thinks is the benefits of battery back up.
54.10: What is your go to panels and inverter combo setup for optimal conditions and why?
56.00: Final comments to the electrical industry and the take aways that you can implement today for instant improvements.
57.45: Where electricians can go to learn everything you need to know about sales and marketing.
Electrical Contractor Solar Business Advice & Growth Tips
Electrical Contractor Business Mindset & Goals
Electrical Contractor Business Mindset & Goals Podcast features Ashley Ralph, the General Manager of Clipsal Schneider, who is currently raising money for the Julian Burton Burns Trust and Variety The Children's Charity by running 1000km in 10 Days.
Clipsal Schneider General Manager Shares Electrical Contractor Business Mindset & Goals
This interview is guaranteed to motivate and inspire you as an electrician. Ashley talks about his career as an electrician apprentice in the Army to building up his electrical contracting business to becoming the General Manager at Clipsal Schneider.
Follow Ashley Ralph's journey and preparation to running 1000km in 10 days to fundraise for the Julian Burton Burns Trust and Variety The Children's Charity. That is 100km in 10 days!! Learn how he prepares mentally for the challenges that are about to face him and how he plans to minimise mistakes and increases the likelihood of success in relation to the electrical industry. You can implement his strategies in your electrical contractor business plan to see your electrical business grow a lot more!
Resources Discussed:
Show Summary of Electrical Contractor Business Mindset & Goals:
3.10: Why Ashley Ralph became an electrician initially.
4.00: What it is like to be an electrician in the Army for the Australian Defence Force.
5.40: What skills and mindset Ashley took away from the Army.
7.30: When Ashley had the drive to start his own electrical contracting business.
8.00: Outline of the electrical contracting business and why Ashley stopped contracting and started working at Clipsal.
9.00: Ashley's number one technical ability and how to develop speed and agility on the job.
10.00: How Ashley's team was able to complete house re-wires fast and efficiently with minimal issues and disruption to the home owner or customer.
11.35: The worst looking electrical job Ashley has faced.
12.30: Ashley's recommendations when doing sales as an electrician or electrical contractor.
13.50: Ashley Ralph's General manager role at Clipsal Schneider and what he does there.
15.30: Why Ashley is running 1000km in 10 days for charity.
16.30: The charity's that Ashley is supporting at the Clipsal 1000 and why they are supporting Julian Burton Burns Trust and Variety The Children's Charity.
17.30: What the funds are going towards for the fundraiser.
18.30: What people can do to support this charity event.
20.10: Following Ashley on the Clipsal 1000 Facebook Page.
20.30: How becoming fit and healthy or maintaining your health and wellbeing will enable you to success.
21.30: The breakdown of the skills, mindset and routines that have enabled Ashley to complete ultra events and and pushing himself to the next level in everything he does.
24.00: How Ashley decided to run 1000km in 10 days and WHY!
25.00: Dealing with people who tell you you can't achieve something and what to do about it.
26.00: What drives Ashley to keep growing and improving.
Electrician's Success ACADEMY Member Questions:
26.30: Tony: What is Ashley's nutrition and training plan over the festive season?
28.00: Ashley's nutrition plan for the training for the 1000km run
30.00: Ashley's training plan for the 1000km run for the Clipsal 1000
32.00: How Ashley would tie an event like the Clipsal 1000 to something that an electrical contractor would deal with in day to day business.
33.45: Ashley's number one skill that he has developed to continue improving and growing.
35.00: What has always driven Ashley to be successful.
36.20: Bennet: What is the most influential book that Ashely has read and why?
37.30: What would you teach your younger self in business?
39.00: How to get paid fast to assist with cashflow!
41.00: What is the most used and recommended apps that you use at the moment?
42.10: How to test and measure for success
43.00: Ashley's thoughts and information he would like to share with the electrical community.
44.25: How to watch the Clipsal 1000 LIVE in February.
46.00: A run through of exactly what is happening with the Clipsal 1000
47.00: What is happening at Clipsal at the moment.
Electrical Contractor Business Mindset & Goals
Electrical Contractor Business Communication Strategy
Electrical Contractor Business Communication Strategy Podcast discusses WHY we value open and transparent communication above all else. This episode is packed with practical strategies to for electrical contracting work and how an electrician can increase productivity.
Greg Allan and Kirk Neal share the Electrical Contractor Business Communication Strategy
This episode really outlines WHY we value open and transparent communication above all else at Response Fire & Electrical Services. Learn about our perspective and how we approach difficult conversations to maintain a high level of trust and keep every person we deal with happy and valued. It will help you to take your electrical business to the next level.
Improving your communication will change everything you do and achieve at work and in life. Learn how to communicate better and implement it in your electrical contractor business plan. Enjoy a more fulfilling life with better conversations, easy conflict management, better team productivity, improved state of flow and minimise stress. Are you pumped up to take your electrical contracting business to the next level?
Show Summary of Electrical Contractor Business Communication Strategy
1.35: Examples of interruptions that cause distraction and loss of productivity.
2.40: Setting and utilising POWER BLOCKS to maximise productivity.
5.40: A practical way to slash interruptions from electricians about technical queries.
6.45: Strategies to approach upset customers or clients to maintain a good customer relationship.
8.40: The process Kirk follows to ensure that the customer knows they are valued.
11.00: People management steps to diffuse a bad situation. A highly efficient electrical contractor business communication strategy.
13.00: The listening modality to demonstrate that you have listened to them.
15.30: How to manage yourself under a stressful situation like when you are being yelled at.
17.00: A must have attitude to ensure you stay calm under high stress conversations.
18.15: How to detach from emotion to communicate better.
20.30: The steps and process to take to manage conflict.
22.30: How to be a good conversationalist.
24.45: The disastrous effects of non-billable time, call backs, non-chargeable time.
27.20: How to communicate your way out of non-billable time so that you can charge for all actual time.
29.30: How to be an EXPERT electrician and not a slave.
32.00: Using communication to KNOW your day to maximise productivity, maximise income and minimise losses. An electrical contractor business communication strategy for you.
33.40: The 30 second strategy that will break first meeting awkwardness down to build trust in you as an electrician.
35.20: Techniques to take control of your day.
36.00: The dangerous state of rushing and the effect it has on your mental state and how that effects your day.
38.30: Being prepared and the actual effects it has on your Productivity.
Electrical Contractor Business Communication Strategy
Successful Electrical Contracting Business
This Successful Electrician Interview is sure to boost your understanding of the electrical industry! Tony Arnold is the current President of Master Electricians Australia. He shares a few successful electrical contracting business tips.
President of Master Electricians Australia shares Successful Electrical Contracting Business Tips
Tony Arnold is the current President of Master Electricians Australia and the Director of Arnolds Electrical & Data Installations based in Queensland, Australia. In this episode, we discuss Tony's ability to compete in Ironman, Marathons and Huge Bike Races while running a large electrical business and performing his duties as president at Master Electricians Australia. He is a truly inspirational person with a lot of electrical contracting business lessons to share with you. The podcast can help you to become successful as an electrician or electrical contractor in the electrical industry.
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Show Summary of Successful Electrical Contracting Business Podcast
3.00: Tony's recent exercise achievements and how he fits these around running a large electrical business and life itself.
7.20: The electrician journey of Tony and why he became an electrician.
10.30: Factors to why modern electrical contractors are failing.
12.30: Processes to estimating for successful electrical contracting business.
14.30: Tools to provide clarity to electrical contractors.
16.30: Experiences that took him to the next level in the electrical industries.
18.30: How it used to be before software and mobile phones.
20.10: How Arnold's has changed over the years in terms of the electrical work they do.
22.00: Steps contractors can take to work for QUALITY clients that you want to work for.
23.50: Mistakes that contractors make when starting with new clients.
24.20: How to approach variations to maintain a good client relationship and develop a successful electrical contracting business.
26.30: Discuss the role as President at Master Electricians Australia.
28.30: What Tony is learning about the industry now he is President of Master Electricians Australia.
30.30: What Tony wish he knew when he was 30 years old.
31.30: How trusting people has caused some major issues in Tony's life in business.
34.00: More mistakes and how to identify them early to create the right solution for the issue.
36.00: How to minimise the risk of losing out on jobs.
37.30: Tools and strategies for accurate estimations for tenders
40.00: The process AEDI go through to ensure the correct electrician is hired for the correct role to maintain culture.
43.30: Main takeaways and advice that from Tony's experience in the electrical industry.
45.30: How succession planning will provide the best opportunity for success.
46.30: The cause of some of Tony's hardest times in business and life and how to create a balanced life.
48.00: Steps to take to create an environment where you can have a life outside of business.
51.00: How to connect with Tony Arnold and AEDI
52.00: How to become a member of Master Electricians Australia.
Successful Electrical Contracting Business
Electrical Contractor Business Attitude
Electrical Contractor Business Attitude Podcast has Greg and Kirk discuss the effects of the ego and how it limits your ability to learn new things and develop as an electrician. Learn how to accelerate your electrical business growth, learning, and understanding!
Response Electricians Team shares the Electrical Contractor Business Attitude
In this episode of Inside Response, learn how we have created flexibility within the team to allow us to adapt to any situation when we do not have a key team member come to work. We discuss how you can become a super learner and the most valuable electrician at your electrical company.
The ego is not necessarily a bad thing, it is what you think of yourself and it is there to protect you at all times. In this electrical business lesson, you will learn how to adapt your ego to maximise your learning and become a student of every person you come in contact with in life and at work.
Show Notes from Electrical Contractor Business Attitude:
1.30: Cross Training your team to protect your lifestyle.
2.30: Strategies to ensure that you aren't crushed when key team members don't come to work.
4.30: To develop a free-style mobile office and model of management.
6.30: Hiring virtual assistance to assist you with basic administration roles.
8.00: Hiring electricians who are willing to learn without ego.
10.00: How a hierarchy limits the flexibility in your team.
12.20: How to deal with criticism to maximise your learning.
13.30: How to understand people and develop an electrical contractor business attitude.
15.30: Why telling people that they shouldn't have a licence is detrimental in the long term.
17.30: How to get someone to NOT listen to you.
20.30: The problem to learning WHAT to do but not WHY.
24.00: How people interpret the things the way they do!
25.00: Techniques to learn from everyone to cultivate an electrical contractor business attitude.
27.40: How your ego protects your FEELINGS but limits your growth.
30.00: How performance does not matter if you aren't demonstrating you are learning.
35.00: How the customer will perceive an electrician with an ego.
40.00: How to find the values of the company you work for
45.00: How a business owner can ensure that they are doing to learn with you.