For tradie small business owners, quoting jobs can be very tricky. When it comes to trade quotes and how to prepare quotes, you don’t want to price yourself out of a job by coming in well above other tradie businesses who are competing for the job. But at the same time you don’t want to deliver great work for miserly returns. After all, you have a successful small business to run, employees and suppliers to pay, and general business expenses to cover.

How you price your professional cleaning services from job to job can make or break your cleaning business. No two cleaning jobs are exactly the same, which means having a standard or generalised price for every job doesn’t make much business sense. In fact, in doing so you could be underselling your services, undermining your business, and missing out on additional, much-deserved income for all your hard work.

Operating your own tradie business involves so much more than just rocking up on site and getting the job done. There’s the art of balancing the books, connecting with customers to bring in the jobs, managing payments and importantly getting your business insurance sorted.

Many small business owners and start-up owners know that they can reduce their risk via online business insurance, and many do just that. However, what if your business is a purely online business? Can online businesses benefit from reducing their risk with business insurance? And if so, what types of business insurance might owners of online businesses consider for reducing their risk?

Tradies are known for working hard and working long hours. This is especially true for trade business owners, who often find themselves working on the tools all day and catching up on quotes, invoices, and paperwork at night.

It’s a great year for starting an online business. Launching your own online business allows entrepreneurial individuals such as yourself to work anywhere in the world, provided you have a laptop and internet connection.

If you fancy yourself a home chef with divine recipes that will dazzle tastebuds far and wide, you may find your calling by starting an online business. Given that the Online Food Ordering and Delivery Platform industry in Australia has expanded at an average rate of 26.6% each year from 2018 to 2023, your timing couldn’t be better to turn your foodie passion into a profit.

When you are working in electrical contracting, the type of work you are doing is likely going to come via a steady succession of smaller jobs, some of which may be one-time jobs, while others may be from recurring customers.

A phrase often-uttered by traditionalists these days is, “there’s an app for everything now”. And that’s certainly not far from the truth. In fact, today not only is there an app for everything, but we have millions of apps for anything.

Estimating plumbing work is an important part of every plumbing contractor’s business, whether they’ve been fixing pipes for 30 years or are just getting started. Setting a fair price is necessary not just to earn your client’s trust, get the contract, and avoid disagreements, but also to ensure that you make a profit. After all, that is why you are in business.