Tradies always have a lot of competitors, some of which don't always do good work. You're probably getting your prices compared to other tradies regularly, but as you know, anyone can do work cheaper by cutting corners or adding hidden extras.

It's tough being a tradie. Robert Bauman, the owner of Tradies Advantage knows about. Thanks to running a construction company and numerous other service businesses over many years, he can relate to how your business is going, from the good times to the bad.

There are stages of business, from the early start-up stage, to becoming an experienced solo operator. Then there's the next stage of hiring your first employee and second. After that you need an Admin person and somewhere for them to work from like a commercial premises.

All of these stages are ones that Robert assists business owners go through, so no matter what stage your business is at, you need good quality bookkeeping and accounting.

Robert as both a financial planner and accountant has made it his mission to understand how to get as many tax deductions as possible, legally and safely and from his experience, most accountants are not aware of what all the tax strategies are. Mainly because they don't have to be and due to many of them never owning their own business before an accounting practice. Most accountants come out of uni, go to work for a big corporation and then one day decide to go out on their own to start their business.

They've never had to market themselves and no little about it, except for how to spend money on it.

Robert has been through 'The school of hard knocks' in business and despite building many businesses over more than three decades, he's the first to admit, he's still learning.

He can take a lot of the guesswork out of decisions with running and growing your tradie business.

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