Practical Guides for
Melbourne Tradies
No fluff, no sales pitch dressed up as advice. These are the same checks we run when we audit a trade business — written so you can work through them yourself, on the phone in your pocket. Free, and yours to keep.
Pick the one that matches your problem
Each guide is a practical, printable PDF written for trades. Tell us where to send it and it downloads straight away.
- The phone test — six things that stop people calling
- What a stranger decides about you in ten seconds
- Licence, insurance and the proof most trade sites skip
- Naming your suburbs so you turn up for them
- Score yourself out of 30 and get a priority order
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- Score your profile out of 100 in about 15 minutes
- The one dropdown that outranks everything else
- Where to put your licence number so it counts
- What "unclaimed" costs you, and how to fix it free
- The review shortcuts that get listings suspended
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- The ten shots, and why each one earns its place
- How to take every one of them on a phone
- The "before" photo you can only get on the day
- Five rules that fix most bad job photos
- What to leave off the site entirely
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- Works out your real annual commission bill
- Shows the five-year figure most owners never total up
- Covers Booking.com, Airbnb, Stayz and Expedia rates
- Tells you what a direct booking site would need to earn back
- No email needed — just use it
Free to use, nothing to fill in. Built for B&Bs, cottages, farm stays and short-stay operators.
Because most of this you can do yourself
Plenty of what we do is not a secret — it is just tedious, and easy to get wrong. If these guides help you fix your own business, that is a good outcome. If you read them and decide you would rather be on the tools than spending Sunday on your website, you know where we are.
Rather we just took a look?
We'll run the checks for you.
Send us your website and we'll reply with what's working, what's broken, and what to fix first. Free, and no obligation.