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The Electrician's Guide to AI

Twelve pages for Australian electricians on missed calls, unchased quotes, live-priced materials and the texts that fix them. Free.

An electrician who spends four hours a week quoting and wins one in four hasn't got a pricing problem. He's got a follow-up problem, and it's costing him three site visits a week.

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Where your week goes

The job that isn't the jobWhat it actually looks likeHours a week
QuotingSwitchboards, rewires, EV chargers, solar add-ons. Every one needs a site visit and a write-up4 hrs
Missed and returned callsIn a roof space, at a switchboard, on a ladder3 hrs
Certificates and complianceCertificates of electrical safety, test results, notices to the distributor2 hrs
Invoicing and chasingSent late, chased by hand, paid slowly by builders2 hrs
Scheduling and materialsReshuffling for the emergency, ringing the wholesaler, running back for the part2.5 hrs
Customer updatesWhat time, is the power going off, when will it be done1.5 hrs
Marketing you meant to doReviews not asked for, no posts since March1 hr
Time you are not billing16 hrs
That's 768 hrs a year, or $48,000 at $125/hr if only half those admin hours became billable time.

These are estimates for a typical 1 to 10 person electrician business, not a measurement of yours. Put your own numbers in. Most owners who do this find they were guessing low.

An electrician who spends four hours a week quoting and wins one in four hasn't got a pricing problem. He's got a follow-up problem, and it's costing him three site visits a week.

The short version, if you read nothing else

  1. You're losing more jobs to a missed call than to a competitor. Switch on missed-call text-back today. It's the cheapest thing in the guide and the biggest.
  2. The quote you never chased was the job you already paid for. Three follow-ups, written once, sent automatically.
  3. Price the materials off today's prices, put a validity date on the quote, and stop paying for the difference yourself.
  4. Your job photos are your marketing. One a day, posted on Friday in 20 minutes. Suburb in the caption.
  5. Your past customers are your quiet months. A message on the right date, in your name, sent for you.
  6. AI does the admin. It doesn't do the trade, the judgement or the cashflow. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.

Your competitor isn't a better electrician. He just has a system that rings back.

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