The Profitable Tradie Podcast

By Tony Fraser-Jones

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If you run a plumbing, electrical, HVAC, or any other trades business and you’re tired of long hours, cash flow headaches, and pricing battles, this podcast is for you. Join Tony Fraser-Jones and Phil Smith from Profitable Tradie as they break down straight-shooting strategies to help you make more money, work fewer hours, and get your business running smoothly—without the usual headaches. We tackle the real challenges every trades business owner faces: ✔ How do I find and keep good techs when everyone is hiring? ✔ What do I do when customers don’t pay their invoices? ✔ How do I charge what I’m worth without getting undercut? ✔ Should I buy or lease my next truck or van? ✔ How do I get my crew to stop scrolling their phones and actually work? ✔ What’s the second easiest way to increase my profits? (The first is hitting play on this podcast!) We also bring on some of the most successful trades business owners in the world—real people who’ve built multimillion-dollar companies—so you can learn exactly how they did it. This isn’t just another business podcast. It’s your shortcut to building a highly profitable, well-oiled trades business that gives you more money and more freedom. 👉 Subscribe now and join thousands of tradies and contractors turning their businesses into profit machines.

Episode Date
What You Need to Know About Systems
Aug 26, 2025
How to Get Your Team to Take Responsibility For Their Work
Aug 19, 2025
The Pricing Mistake 93% of Trades Business Owners Make
Aug 12, 2025
How to Build Systems (ft. David Jenyns)
Aug 05, 2025
Tracking Job Performance and Profitability
Jul 28, 2025
How to deal with life & business challenges w/ Josh Komen
Jul 22, 2025
The Systems & Processes you need to Improve Efficiency
Jul 15, 2025
From $2 Million in Debt to 3 Million in Profit: A Trades Business Owners Story
Jul 08, 2025
How to use ChatGPT For Your Business
Jul 01, 2025
Building a Basic Job Handover System
Jun 24, 2025
How to Invest Successfully as a Business Owner
Jun 17, 2025
How to Survive and Thrive in Tough Times
Jun 10, 2025
How to Step Back Without Stepping Away
Jun 03, 2025
How to Tell If Your Employee has given up
May 27, 2025
How to Manage Gen Z Employees
May 20, 2025
The Real Reason You're Not Growing (You’re Not Special)
May 13, 2025
How To Find Out What Your Team Really Thinks
May 06, 2025
How this Air Con Business Increased Its profit by $770K per/yr
Apr 29, 2025
How to Charge More When You’re Flat Out (Without Losing Work)
Apr 22, 2025
Why Your Leads Aren’t Converting (And How to Fix It)
Apr 15, 2025
The Truth About Imposter Syndrome (And How to Beat It)
Apr 08, 2025
Marketing Agencies: How to get the most from them
Apr 01, 2025
Billionaire Mentor Shares How to take control of your business (and life)
Mar 25, 2025
The Danger of Blended Roles: How to Fix a Disorganized Team
Mar 18, 2025
The Fastest, Cheapest Way to Lock in More Work
Mar 11, 2025
How to Build a Team That Grows Your Business
Mar 04, 2025
Kobe Bryant's Mindset Coach on How to Win Business
Feb 25, 2025
How Systems Lead to Bigger Profits w/ Steven Graham
Feb 18, 2025
How to Set Your Business to be Sold
Feb 11, 2025
How To Keep Your Best Workers & Improve Communication
Feb 04, 2025
Systems Expert Mike Michalowicz: How to Run Your Business Like Clockwork
Jan 28, 2025
From Burnout to Balance: An Electrician’s Success Story
Jan 21, 2025
3 Steps to a better business in 2025
Jan 14, 2025
How to make a business plan in 2025
Jan 07, 2025
Why 2025 is Make or Break in the Construction Industry
Dec 31, 2024
How to Manage Cashflow During Shutdowns
Dec 22, 2024
How To Make An Unprofitable Business Worth Millions
Dec 17, 2024
How to Build a Business That Runs Without You
Dec 10, 2024
How To Improve Your Business Using This simple process
Dec 03, 2024
How to Make Each Employee More Profitable with Labor Utilization
Nov 26, 2024
6 Steps to Improve Cashflow
Nov 19, 2024
Why Your Employees Make So Many Mistakes
Nov 12, 2024
7 Ways to Guarantee Business Failure
Nov 05, 2024
US Election: What Does It Mean To The Trades Industry?
Oct 29, 2024
How to Break the Cycle of Endless Work In Your Business
Oct 22, 2024
How to Build a Strong Reputation and Stand Out
Oct 15, 2024
How Bad Situations Build Stronger Businesses
Oct 08, 2024
How Systems Saved This Electricians Buisness
Oct 01, 2024
What to Do When Your Business Stalls
Sep 24, 2024
3 Attitudes That Will Keep You Poor and Unhappy
Sep 17, 2024
How to Price for Profit (most get this wrong)
Sep 10, 2024
Does Hiring Ever Get Easier?
Sep 03, 2024
Where Should I Do My Marketing?
Aug 27, 2024
How to Win More Big Jobs
Aug 20, 2024
How to Overcome the Fear of Growth
Aug 13, 2024
No Cost Ways To Book Jobs (without being a marketing expert)
Aug 06, 2024
How to Deal with Unhappy Customers
Jul 30, 2024
What Is A Fair Market Salary? (And Why You Need It)
Jul 23, 2024
How Your Friends Impact Your Business Success
Jul 16, 2024
How to Win Work from Builders & General Contractors w/ Adam Ballinger
Jul 09, 2024
How to Maintain Your Marriage as a Business Owner
Jul 02, 2024
This Hiring Mistake Could Hurt Your Business
Jun 25, 2024
What To Do With Family & Friend Discounts
Jun 18, 2024
Why Your Business Feels Bottlenecked
Jun 11, 2024
How To Win Large Jobs or Projects
Jun 04, 2024
How Much Should You Pay A Tradesman?
May 28, 2024
How To Stop Rollercoaster Income
May 21, 2024
Show Me Your Calendar, I’ll Show You Your Problems
May 14, 2024
The Ultimate Guide For Managing Tradespeople
May 07, 2024
The Plumber Who Turned His Life Around - Curtis Hancock
Apr 30, 2024
Why You Need To Scale Back To Grow
Apr 23, 2024
Why Your Business Could Go Bankrupt
Apr 16, 2024
What To Say When Customers Object To Your Price
Apr 09, 2024
The Mastermind Behind Making Money
Apr 02, 2024
The 2024 Trades Business Survival Guide
Mar 26, 2024
Why Your Clients Are Giving You Less Work
Mar 19, 2024
Why Change Is Hard And How To Fix It
Mar 12, 2024
How To Win Your Time Back
Mar 05, 2024
How To Stop Stupid Employee Mistakes
Feb 27, 2024
How To Make Slow Payers Pay On Time (Everytime)
Feb 20, 2024
The Dark Side of Pricing and How You Can Avoid it
Feb 13, 2024
How To Take An Unprofitable Business And Make It Worth Millions
Feb 06, 2024
Take Your Marketing To The Next Level With These Tools
Jan 30, 2024
Marketing Agencies: How To Get A Flood Of Jobs From Them
Jan 23, 2024
Up-leveling Your Business With A Business Partner
Jan 16, 2024
I Will Die With $0 (Here’s Why You Should Too)
Jan 09, 2024
Building A Business That Runs On Autopilot With Duncan Leask
Jan 02, 2024
The Secret Behind Getting Paid What You’re Worth
Dec 26, 2023
Most Valuable Training of 2023
Dec 19, 2023
How To Book Work Forever: Lessons From A Marketing Expert
Dec 12, 2023
How A Holiday Shutdown Can Ruin Your Business
Dec 05, 2023
Why Your Employees Are Leaving (And How To Stop It)
Nov 28, 2023
How To Double Your Business And Take Back Control
Nov 21, 2023
Member Interview: We Were Stuck And Didn't Know What To Do...
Nov 16, 2023
How To Get Over The Guilt Of Getting Off The Tools
Nov 14, 2023
Do You Still Have Control Of Your Business?
Nov 07, 2023
How To Ruin Your Business In 5 Simple Steps
Oct 31, 2023
Stop Your Employees Costing You Money
Oct 24, 2023
Why Great Tradesmen Don't Make Good Owners
Oct 17, 2023
Secrets of a Million Dollar Profit Plumbing Business
Oct 12, 2023
What If The Work Runs Out?
Oct 05, 2023
Why Your Profits Shrink When Your Business Grows
Sep 28, 2023
Unlocking Hidden Profit: The Trades Owner Blueprint
Sep 21, 2023
Why Saying *This Word* is DESTROYING Your Business
Sep 14, 2023
The Hidden Struggles Behind A "Successful" Business.
Sep 07, 2023
How To Get Paid, On Time, Every Time.
Aug 31, 2023
The Secret To Handling Ungrateful Employees
Aug 24, 2023
Learning from Loss: The Untold Benefits
Aug 17, 2023
The 5 HUGE Hiring Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)
Aug 10, 2023
The Unbelievable Bad Effect of Rework on your Business
Aug 03, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Trades/Subcontracting Indsutry
Jul 27, 2023
Secrets of a successful electrical & solar business - Tas and Sam Dunton
Jul 20, 2023
Why our teams don't like change & how to get them onboard.
Jul 13, 2023
Understanding Marketing Lag: Unlock a consistent work stream
Jul 06, 2023
7 Deadly Cashflow Mistakes to Avoid
Jun 29, 2023
Mistakes I've made in business
Jun 22, 2023
Is THIS The Cheapest and Easiest Way To Get More Jobs?
Jun 15, 2023
How much should you charge?
Jun 08, 2023
Interview with Tim & Dylan
Jun 01, 2023
The Four Killer Sales Questions
May 25, 2023
Create Accountability, Stop Spoon Feeding
May 18, 2023
Business Partnerships - How to make them work + what to avoid...
May 11, 2023
Building a Multi-Million Dollar Trades Business Empire with Adam and Lisa
May 04, 2023
Ending the Stress, Mistake Cycle
Apr 27, 2023
The Most Profitable Type Of Jobs For Plumbing, Electrical and Similar Businesses.
Apr 20, 2023
The Biggest Business Hack Saving you from Mistakes
Apr 13, 2023
Your Team's Full Potential is a Simple Leadership Style Change Away
Apr 06, 2023
Speed Up Your Estimating & Pricing Process With Groundplan Software
Mar 30, 2023
How Much Should I Spend On Marketing? Is It A Waste Of Money Or A Good Investment?
Mar 23, 2023
Sales Growth Unlocked: Harness the Power of Data
Mar 16, 2023
Become More Productive With This Different Approach To Time Managment
Mar 09, 2023
This Type of Profit is KEY to Your Business's Success
Mar 02, 2023
8 Secrets to Level up as a Leader
Feb 23, 2023
Build Systems or Hire? What to do first.
Feb 16, 2023
How to step out of the shadows & into your own unique abilities - With Rachael Evans
Feb 09, 2023
Fill Your Schedule Quickly & Cheaply With Email Marketing.
Feb 02, 2023
Feeling Unfulfilled & Overwhelmed? This ONE Habit Will Change Everything.
Jan 26, 2023
How a coach can explode your profits - Featuring world leading coach Taki Moore
Jan 19, 2023
Planning: Spend Less Time Thinking & More Time On Holiday With The Preloaded Year Planner.
Jan 12, 2023
The Truth About Setting Goals: How to Do It Right
Jan 05, 2023
The Second Most Downloaded Podcast Episode this year
Dec 29, 2022
3 Keys to Solid Business Foundation in 2023
Dec 22, 2022
An International Athletes Guide to Mental Toughness
Dec 15, 2022
Get More From Your Team Using These Two Rules.
Dec 08, 2022
How Profitable Businesses Go Broke And How to Avoid It Happening to You.
Dec 01, 2022
STOP trading your time for money
Nov 24, 2022
Is FEAR holding back your success?
Nov 17, 2022
How Core Values make your business stand out from the crowd
Nov 10, 2022
Why You Need to Keep Score In Your Business to Succeed
Nov 03, 2022
The stress saving strategy for invoicing complaints
Oct 27, 2022
The ONE thing more important than your to do list
Oct 20, 2022
How To Have Meetings That Don't Feel Like A Waste Of Time.
Oct 14, 2022
The number one killer of cultures
Oct 07, 2022
Handling pay discussions
Sep 30, 2022
Special guest: Adrian Laing - Nelson Alarms
Sep 23, 2022
The psychological pricing hack
Sep 16, 2022
Benefiting from staff absences
Sep 09, 2022
Stress coping 101
Sep 02, 2022
How to Systemise Your Business.
Aug 26, 2022
The power of price
Aug 19, 2022
The 'under the pump' guide
Aug 12, 2022
Making more time
Aug 05, 2022
The Enquiry Script
Jul 29, 2022
Winners vs losers
Jul 22, 2022
Overheads aren't the enemy
Jul 15, 2022
What's your business worth
Jul 08, 2022
Create accountability and initiative in your team
Jul 01, 2022
A new era of upselling
Jun 24, 2022
20 minutes to build a better culture
Jun 17, 2022
Having Difficult Conversations
Jun 10, 2022
The 6 Week Break Strategy (Part 2)
Jun 03, 2022
The 6 Week Break Strategy (Part 1)
May 27, 2022
Are you doing the RIGHT type of hard work?
May 20, 2022
Attract top employees with the 'eco-system'
May 13, 2022
Protect your business from inflation and recession
May 06, 2022
Should you always listen to accountants?
Apr 29, 2022
How To Have Control Without Being Hands On.
Apr 22, 2022
Special guest: Brad Martin - Leading Edge Electrical
Apr 15, 2022
Leadership is hard work
Apr 08, 2022
Separating the Rockstar employees from the duds
Apr 01, 2022
When should I hire?
Mar 25, 2022
The second easiest way to increase your profit
Mar 19, 2022
Following up on your quotes
Mar 11, 2022
Living Above the Line
Mar 04, 2022
The pricing mistake 93% of Plumbers, Electricians etc make
Feb 25, 2022
How To Attract The Best People As Employees
Feb 18, 2022
Help! I Don’t Have Enough Time…
Feb 02, 2022
What To Do When You Need More Work
Feb 02, 2022
How To Get Paid What You're Worth
Feb 02, 2022