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Top Tips for Starting A Carpentry Business in Australia

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If you want to start your own business but don't know where to begin, you should take advantage of your creative side. There are over 7,000 jobs in the carpentry field that are available in Australia. If you are a good carpenter, you could make good money running your own business.


Additionally, people are always looking for good carpenters to do work for them. By combining your carpentry skills with a bit of business sense, you can have a successful business that can set you up for a long time. A lot of people think that starting a business is much harder than it actually is. The truth is it does require a little bit of planning and work. Here are our top tips for your Carpentry Business.

  1. Solid business plan
  2. Business branding
  3. Become a tool geek
  4. Get Insurance
  5. Strive for Expansion


Proper Carpentry Business Planning

Everyone always starts with their business after gaining some hands-on experience. A course from Building Institute can set you up for a fantastic job. Once you have two to three years of experience, you can get a certification to verify your knowledge of carpentry. These certifications are called RPL certifications. It is literally the first step to starting your business in Australia. RPL certificate needed for Carpentry is Certificate III in Carpentry; this will serve as the pre-requisite for a trade license.

For a trade license, you will need Certificate IV in Building and Construction. Once you complete these two and get your trade license, you will be ready to kick start your business.

Starting off your business with a solid plan will always bring great results. Being a professional carpenter, you will not always work with woods. You will need to work with papers as well.

  • Set up your business structure
  • Create your company profile
  • Competitor analysis
  • Create Management and accounting team
  • Service structure
  • Marketing and budgeting

This list is enough to follow through with your carpentry business. From these main steps, you will need to branch out and follow through with everything.


Carpentry Business Branding

Without proper branding, you will face difficulty gaining people's trust. Branding establishes a company as an authority on the market.

  1. Coming up with a unique, catchy name
  2. Reputation management
  3. Register and trademark your company profile, logo
  4. Graphical branding – Business cards, office vinyl, vehicle vinyl
  5. Branded work T-shirt
  6. Using logo with poster, flyer, brochures


Become a Tool Geek

A carpenter is just a guy without any tools. To run a company, you will need to stock up a lot of tools. The essential tools like hammer, screwdriver, tape, chisel just won't cut it. You will need main tools as well as backup tools. If one gets busted and you have a client on hand to serve, you will undoubtedly need backup tools.

The saws are the most expensive tools. Save up your money and stock up on the saws. Consider these as business development costs. And everyone knows there's always more saws to buy. With technology advancements, there's always a new grinder, a new type of saw to play with. Don't go nuts and bolts with tools; stay balanced in between.

Get Trade Insurance

Working as a carpenter, you are prone to damage yourself, your colleague, project, or the property owner. Accidents always happen in this line of work. Getting Public Liability insurance for Tradies is part of a business to save tons of money. There are dedicated insurances just for tradies. It can protect your business, your income, and the employees as well.

Strive for Carpentry Business Expansion

If you're not looking to expand your carpentry business, then you should. Grab a cup of coffee, focus on what your business needs, and layout the expansion plan. You may have noticed that there are different types of customers out there. Not all carpentry business owners are the same, and not all customers are the same. Some people are looking for home renovation, while others are looking for a specific service.

Business Expansion can mean different things.

  • * Expand your services categories
  • * Expand to other states

If you are focused on cabinet making or roofing, then you can continually expand to rough carpentry, framing, trim carpentry, and so on. It will open up your business to more customers enabling you to tend to their specific needs.

Once you're famous in one state and have an excellent recurring income, you should consider expanding to other states. Hire a manager, set up an office in that state get an additional builders license depending on the new state you're expanding to.

Implement these five easy-to-follow tips, and you'll be on your way to running a successful carpentry business. Setting up a carpentry business is not easy but is so worth the effort. You will need plenty of passion and dedication to get started, and you'll need a focused mind for it all. Those who love being their own boss and a strong desire for success are prone to start their business.

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