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.
Where your week goes
| The job that isn't the job | What it actually looks like | Hours a week |
|---|---|---|
| Quoting | Switchboards, rewires, EV chargers, solar add-ons. Every one needs a site visit and a write-up | 4 hrs |
| Missed and returned calls | In a roof space, at a switchboard, on a ladder | 3 hrs |
| Certificates and compliance | Certificates of electrical safety, test results, notices to the distributor | 2 hrs |
| Invoicing and chasing | Sent late, chased by hand, paid slowly by builders | 2 hrs |
| Scheduling and materials | Reshuffling for the emergency, ringing the wholesaler, running back for the part | 2.5 hrs |
| Customer updates | What time, is the power going off, when will it be done | 1.5 hrs |
| Marketing you meant to do | Reviews not asked for, no posts since March | 1 hr |
| Time you are not billing | 16 hrs |
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
- 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.
- The quote you never chased was the job you already paid for. Three follow-ups, written once, sent automatically.
- Price the materials off today's prices, put a validity date on the quote, and stop paying for the difference yourself.
- Your job photos are your marketing. One a day, posted on Friday in 20 minutes. Suburb in the caption.
- Your past customers are your quiet months. A message on the right date, in your name, sent for you.
- 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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