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  Series: Powering Your Business with The 7-Power Contractor Approach Cohost: Al Levi from Appleseed Business Series Overview. You may recall meeting Al back in Toolbox Talk 46 a couple of months ago. I was so impressed with Al's knowledge and communication skills that I asked him to come back and collaborate with me on a series to teach a little more of his '7 Power Contractor' phi...

Could LED lighting be our planet's saviour? What if you could save your customers 75-90%, while saving the environment? In a world where everything is becoming more and more expensive, it's not very often we come across scenarios, where you can potentially be saving 75-90% off something you can't, or certainly don't live without. As a global nation, we're become more and m...

Have you ever had those relationships with people that you just can't seem to get along with? Many years ago when I was starting out in business, I was introduced to a book called 'Personality Plus' by a lady named Florence Littauer . The person that introduced me to the book was leadership expert, Peter Cox from Leadership Dynamics , who recently co-hosted me on the 'Leadershi...

Series: OH&S Made Easy Cohost: Shayne Connolly from Keep It Simple Safety Series Overview. Occupational health and safety is an area of business, that no one can afford to neglect. With increasing onsite compliance, it's never been more important to not only protect yourself from potential occupational risks, but also protect your employees. Although it's a topic that most of us don&...

Series: OH&S Made Easy Cohost: Shayne Connolly from Keep It Simple Safety Series Overview. Occupational health and safety is an area of business, that no one can afford to neglect. With increasing onsite compliance, it's never been more important to not only protect yourself from potential occupational risks, but also protect your employees. Although it's a topic that most of us don&...

Series: OH&S Made Easy Cohost: Shayne Connolly from Keep It Simple Safety Series Overview. Occupational health and safety is an area of business, that no one can afford to neglect. With increasing onsite compliance, it's never been more important to not only protect yourself from potential occupational risks, but also protect your employees. Although it's a topic that most of us don&...

In this episode, I'm talking with Nick Peardon from Tree Incarnation in Melbourne Australia about his fantastic idea to turn timber that would normally be turned into mulch, or firewood, into beautiful pieces of furniture. As an arborist (tree surgeon), Nick was used to reducing gigantic trees down to stumps. However one thing he could never get used to was the constant waste of perfectly goo...

Series: Business Uncomplicated Cohost: The AMAZING Ellen Rohr Series Overview. As humans, we have a tendency to over complicate things. We do it in our jobs, we do it in our relationships and we do it in our day-to-day lives. Sometimes we need to take a step back so that we can see how we’re doing things, in order for us to make improvements. In this series, I’m joined by Ellen Rohr who you may ha...

Series: Business Uncomplicated Cohost: The AMAZING Ellen Rohr Series Overview. As humans, we have a tendency to over complicate things. We do it in our jobs, we do it in our relationships and we do it in our day-to-day lives. Sometimes we need to take a step back so that we can see how we’re doing things, in order for us to make improvements. In this series, I’m joined by Ellen Rohr who you may ha...

Series: Business Uncomplicated Cohost: The AMAZING Ellen Rohr Series Overview. As humans, we have a tendency to over complicate things. We do it in our jobs, we do it in our relationships and we do it in our day-to-day lives. Sometimes we need to take a step back so that we can see how we’re doing things, in order for us to make improvements. In this series, I’m joined by Ellen Rohr who you may ha...

Back in episode 42, the beautiful Ellen Rohr told me that she would love to see this episodes guest on the podcast because of the fantastic work he does with trade organisations in helping them develop systems and scale their businesses. Formerly a plumber, Al grew up working in a Long island, New York company that his Grandfather started back in 1936. Al's father worked in the company, as di...

Asset creation should be at the forefront of every business owners mind.  This podcast is directed at anyone in business as it's completely relevant across the board. If you're not building an database into your organisation, then you need to start now. You can work on building your database from a number of places. Primarily your website should be at the forefront of your strategy as it...

Google AdWords Series Overview In my experience of owning a company that builds websites for tradies and contractors, over the years I’ve observed a number of scenarios where people may be familiar with a certain phrase, or word by it’s name, however they’ve lacked a true understanding of what that word represents. A prime example of that would be websites. Very often when we scope a company, I’ll...

Google AdWords Series Overview In my experience of owning a company that builds websites for tradies and contractors, over the years I’ve observed a number of scenarios where people may be familiar with a certain phrase, or word by it’s name, however they’ve lacked a true understanding of what that word represents. A prime example of that would be websites. Very often when we scope a company, I’ll...

Back in episode 28 with Kenny Chapman from The Blue Collar Coach, Kenny Chapman said that he would like to see Ellen on the show and we conveniently managed to tee it up so that it also tied into mothers day. Ellen has an inspiring story in the trades, which started when she started working with her husband Rod (or Hot Rod as she prefers to call him) in his plumbing company. Ellen received great g...

Series: Google AdWords Co Host: John Curtis from Reach Local Episode 1: What is Google AdWords Series intro. In this series, John and I shoot to break down the myths around Google AdWords and paid marketing. We explore what types of business it suites, how to budget realistically and how paid marketing  Episode one. I very often get companies coming to us that ask for AdWords, without really under...

Format:Technical Tips Topic: Google Apps for Work Synchronised emails across all of your devices, Cloud storage, enabling you to permanently throw awayyourfiling cabinet, Sharable calendars, allowing you to plan both your daysandyour teams, IP protection with permission setting control on documentsandfiles, Collaborate in real time with Google Docs and Sheets. Plussomuch more. Today's episode...

Cohost: Peter Cox Introduction. Welcome to the Leadership Series with Peter Cox. Peter is an accomplished author and world renowned leadership consultant. He was referred to the show by Allan from Omega Services in episode 22, as Peter has worked closely with Allan and many other trade based companies over the years, implementing his leadership strategies into all levels of the organisations. He w...

Series:Leadership Cohost: Peter Cox Introduction. Welcome to the Leadership Series with Peter Cox. Peter is an accomplished author and world renowned leadership consultant. He was referred to the show by Allan from Omega Services in episode 22, as Peter has worked closely with Allan and many other trade based companies over the years, implementing his leadership strategies into all levels of the o...

Series:Leadership Cohost: Peter Cox Introduction. Welcome to the Leadership Series with Peter Cox. Peter is an accomplished author and world renowned leadership consultant. He was referred to the show by Allan from Omega Services in episode 22, as Peter has worked closely with Allan and many other trade based companies over the years, implementing his leadership strategies into all levels of the o...

Series:Leadership Cohost: Peter Cox Introduction. Welcome to the Leadership Series with Peter Cox. Peter is an accomplished author and world renowned leadership consultant. He was referred to the show by Allan from Omega Services in episode 22, as Peter has worked closely with Allan and many other trade based companies over the years, implementing his leadership strategies into all levels of the o...

Topic: After the mining Boom Segment: Chit Chat Chit chat is a new segment, where my friend Nathan Cooper from and I discuss and issue that's currently circulating the news, or current affairs. Nathan runs a plumbing company in Brisbane Australia and he's a wealth of knowledge and experience on many interesting topics. These podcasts are 100% unrehearsed. We literally choose a topic to t...

Topic: Quality Hosting Guest: Braydan Willrath If you were to ask me, "Matt, what is the most misunderstood area that you come across in the digital space?", without a doubt I would answer 'hosting'. Quality hosting can make, or break your websites performance, yet there is very few people that truly understand; What hosting actually is, What the difference is between high qual...

Sometimes it's impossible to comprehend where you could potentially take your business. As business owners, we all too often get caught out thinking too small and not lifting the lid on what our true potential really is. So, what's the difference between someone that goes on to achieve extraordinary  results as opposed so someone that achieves regular results? In this episode of Toolbox...

Series: Big Business Cohost: Ben Stainer Introduction. Welcome to the Big Business Series with Ben Stainer. Ben formerly ran on of Sydney's largest service business, 'Australian Five Star Trades', which later became 'General Trades'. At it's peak, Bens company was turning a million dollars a month, so it's fair to say that Ben is More than qualified to talk about...