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The Site Shed | #1 Podcast For Tradies & Contractors

The Site Shed | #1 Podcast For Tradies & Contractors

著者： Matt Jones - Helping Tradies Build Smarter Scalable Businesses
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The Site Shed is a global podcast for tradies and contractors who want clearer systems, stronger strategy, and steadier business growth. Each episode is designed to educate and inform around the topics that matter most in running and scaling a modern trade business.

Hosted by Tradie Web Guys digital agency owner Matt Jones, the podcast dives into real-world conversations on marketing, operations, apprenticeships, technology, hiring, leadership, finance, and more, all tailored to the trades and construction industry.

You’ll hear practical insights, honest lessons, and expert perspectives from across the globe.


Whether you work as a tradie, contractor, builder, electrician, landscaper, or run any service-based business, you’ll find ideas and experiences you can put into action straight away.


If you're ready to work smarter, not harder, The Site Shed gives you the tools, frameworks, and viewpoints to help your business move forward with confidence.

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  • What Growing From $1M to $24M Really Costs | ft. Daman Grewal | Ep. 521

    What Growing From $1M to $24M Really Costs | ft. Daman Grewal | Ep. 521
    2026/10/20

    🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Book a Free Strategy Call with Tradie Web Guys: https://tradie.wiki/tssyt

    Fast growth looks great from the outside. On the inside, it can nearly put you out of business. Matt Jones sits down with Daman Grewal from LogisticsSales.com, who helped take a trucking company from $1M to $24M in a couple of years, then watched safety violations, stretched teams and broken promises catch up with it. Daman started as a safety manager at 18, training drivers twice his age, and learned the hard way that growth only holds up when the systems underneath it do.

    Daman breaks down the three pillars that held the business together: honouring every commitment, even when a better-paying job comes along; making sure your people are paid fairly; and knowing your numbers. He explains how a strict disciplinary plan, onboarding that sets expectations from day one, and SOPs simple enough to actually get read kept the business on the road. Matt and Daman also dig into why the real game is won after the click, and why the quote you lost last month could still turn into your next job. If your business is growing faster than your systems, this one's for you.


    KEY CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Introduction
    00:45 - Meet Daman Grewal
    01:20 - The Accidental Entrepreneur
    04:04 - Why He Stopped Working for Others
    07:04 - Growing From $1M to $24M
    08:03 - Honour Every Commitment
    11:04 - Fair Pay and Knowing Your Numbers
    12:03 - Building the Team as You Scale
    15:03 - Growth Driven by Reputation
    16:52 - When the Promises Disappeared
    21:02 - Violations That Nearly Ended It
    24:04 - Setting a Disciplinary Plan
    27:02 - Training That Sets the Standard
    31:04 - Faster, Paid Onboarding
    33:00 - Continual Education and New Policies
    38:03 - Getting SOPs Actually Adopted
    42:01 - Keep Your SOPs Simple
    45:00 - The Tradie Is the Best Sales Rep
    49:02 - The Game Is Won After the Click
    54:02 - Why After-Service Matters
    57:04 - Lost the Quote? Follow Up Anyway
    1:00:04 - Stay Front of Mind, Not Pushy
    1:02:30 - Closing Remarks and Resources

    About the Guest: Daman Grewal
    Daman Grewal is the founder of LogisticsSales.com, a free education platform for people getting into business and sales, based in Vancouver, Canada. He started in transport and logistics as a safety manager at 18, then as COO helped grow a trucking company from $1M to $24M. He brings practical lessons on compliance, training, team culture and sales to any business trying to grow without losing control.

    Website: https://logisticssales.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/logisticssales-com/

    CONNECT WITH THE TRADIE WEB GUYS!
    Website: https://www.tradiewebguys.com.au/
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TradieWebGuysOfficial?sub_confirmation=1
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TradieWebGuysOfficial
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tradiewebguys/
    LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/tradie-web-guys
    Matt's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamthemattj/

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please take a moment to leave us a review:
    ⭐ https://lovethepodcast.com/TheSiteShed

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    #podcast #thesiteshed #tradiewebguys #businesssystems #scaleup #businessgrowth #safetyculture #salesprocess #tradiebusiness

    Your Next Step:

    Join Tradie Academy, our free community packed with templates, checklists, and resources shared by podcast guests, coaches, and successful tradies.

    👉 Join free and grab your next growth tool here: https://tradie.wiki/pod

    Follow The Site Shed:

    • Facebook: The Site Shed
    • Instagram: @thesiteshed
    • LinkedIn: Matt Jones
    • Website: thesiteshed.com
    • YouTube: @TheSiteShed

    If you enjoyed this podcast and the series, please take 5 minutes to leave us a review:
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  • Busy Is Not Safe: 8 Tests to Find Out How Exposed Your Trade Business Is | ft. Matt Jones | Ep. 520

    Busy Is Not Safe: 8 Tests to Find Out How Exposed Your Trade Business Is | ft. Matt Jones | Ep. 520
    2026/10/15

    🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Book a Free Strategy Call with Tradie Web Guys: https://tradie.wiki/tssyt

    Heaps of leads on Monday, panic by Wednesday. If that sounds like your week, Matt Jones from Tradie Web Guys says you don't have a mood problem, you have an exposure problem. When most of your work comes from one ad platform, one builder or one big client, you're renting your lead flow, and the rent goes up every year. Busy is not the same as safe.

    Matt walks through eight quick exposure tests you can score yourself on: paid ad dependency, demand diversification, relationship concentration, pipeline confidence, database follow-up, reputation, website authority and AI visibility. He shares the story of a Sydney plumber who lost two builders and most of his work in a single week, explains why two businesses can pay for the same click and only one wins the job, and makes the case that content is still king. If you want your actual score, take the free Liberator test and get your three priorities.

    🎥 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/eIPkCxpBDz0

    KEY CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Introduction
    00:23 - Busy Is Not the Same as Safe
    01:15 - Rented Leads vs Owned Leads
    02:50 - The Eight Exposure Tests
    03:02 - Paid Ads and Demand Diversification
    03:52 - The Plumber Who Lost 60% in a Week
    05:09 - Relationships, Pipeline and Your Database
    06:09 - Reputation and Website Authority
    08:47 - Are You Visible in AI Search?
    09:10 - What Your Liberator Score Shows
    10:03 - What Happens After the Click
    12:59 - How AI Picks Who to Recommend
    14:43 - Answer the Questions Customers Ask
    16:12 - Don't Tell Me, Show Me
    19:30 - Why Content Is Still King
    22:28 - Where to Start First
    24:37 - Create Your Own Economy
    25:26 - Why We Built Liberator
    27:10 - Closing Remarks and Resources

    About the Host: Matt Jones
    Matt Jones is the founder of Tradie Web Guys, a marketing agency built specifically for trade and home service businesses, and the host of The Site Shed podcast. His team runs millions of dollars in paid advertising for trade clients every year, and he works daily with tradies and contractors on building lead flow that doesn't depend on a single source.

    Take the free Liberator test: https://liber8r.tradiewebguys.com.au/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamthemattj/

    CONNECT WITH THE TRADIE WEB GUYS!
    Website: https://www.tradiewebguys.com.au/
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TradieWebGuysOfficial?sub_confirmation=1
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TradieWebGuysOfficial
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tradiewebguys/
    LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/tradie-web-guys
    Matt's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamthemattj/

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please take a moment to leave us a review:
    ⭐ https://lovethepodcast.com/TheSiteShed

    Love the audio version of this podcast? Subscribe to the link below:
    ⭐ https://followthepodcast.com/TheSiteShed

    #podcast #thesiteshed #tradiewebguys #leadgeneration #tradiemarketing #aivisibility #contentmarketing #tradiebusiness

    Your Next Step:

    Join Tradie Academy, our free community packed with templates, checklists, and resources shared by podcast guests, coaches, and successful tradies.

    👉 Join free and grab your next growth tool here: https://tradie.wiki/pod

    Follow The Site Shed:

    • Facebook: The Site Shed
    • Instagram: @thesiteshed
    • LinkedIn: Matt Jones
    • Website: thesiteshed.com
    • YouTube: @TheSiteShed

    If you enjoyed this podcast and the series, please take 5 minutes to leave us a review:
    ⭐ https://lovethepodcast.com/TheSiteShed

    Love the audio version of this podcast? Subscribe to the link below:
    ⭐ https://followthepodcast.com/TheSiteShed
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  • Winning the Big Contract Isn't the Risk. Delivering It Is | ft. Rafael Diaz | Ep. 519

    Winning the Big Contract Isn't the Risk. Delivering It Is | ft. Rafael Diaz | Ep. 519
    2026/10/06
    🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Book a Free Strategy Call with Tradie Web Guys: https://tradie.wiki/tssytMost trade business owners talk themselves out of the bigger job before they even price it. The competitor looks too big, the paperwork looks too heavy, and staying at the size that feels safe starts to look like the smart call. Matt Jones sits down with Rafael Diaz from Diaz Group LLC in Chicago, who started out on his dad's landscape crews and has grown the business from residential patios to City of Chicago municipal contracts, a national subcontractor network and now maintenance contracts in Mexico. His view is blunt: the risk was never winning the contract. It's whether your systems and your leadership team can handle what comes after.Rafael walks through the four checks he runs before bidding on any contract (pricing, understanding the contract, capacity, and leadership readiness), how he breaks a won contract down into crews of vendor partners and keeps quality control across them, why "always hiring" is the only way to have people ready when the bid lands, and the four-step onboarding process every new hire goes through, from field worker to office lead. If you've been circling a tender that feels a size too big, this one will tell you whether it's a real capacity problem or just fear.🎥 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/RPY-nZLaY-UKEY CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:09 - Meet Rafael Diaz02:00 - From Residential to Municipal Contracts04:06 - Going International Into Mexico06:16 - Everything Starts With a Vision08:49 - Community Service as a Growth Strategy12:03 - Owner Operator to Business Process Mentality16:05 - Getting Subcontractors to Follow Your Systems20:05 - Breaking a Contract Down Into Crews21:22 - Quality Control Across Subcontractor Crews24:48 - Taking the Model to Mexico31:27 - The Four-Step Onboarding Process34:08 - Field Training and Safety Standards37:17 - Four Checks Before Bidding on a Big Contract41:43 - Always Hiring: Building a Recruitment Pipeline43:12 - Is Your Leadership Team Ready?46:14 - Promoting From Within and Career Paths52:23 - Closing Remarks and ResourcesAbout the Guest: Rafael DiazRafael (Rafa) Diaz is the co-founder of Diaz Group LLC, a Chicago landscape maintenance, vegetation control and snow removal business he started with his brother Ruben in 2007 after growing up working on his father's crews. The business has moved from residential design-build to commercial work, City of Chicago municipal contracts, regional Midwest contracts and a national footprint delivered through subcontractor "vendor partners", and is now six months into its first contract in Mexico. Around the main business Rafael has built an ecosystem of support companies, including Master the How, a training and systems implementation business, and an equipment rental company that helps his subcontractors deliver to standard.Website: https://diazgroupllc.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-diaz-840aba13/CONNECT WITH THE TRADIE WEB GUYS!Website: https://www.tradiewebguys.com.au/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TradieWebGuysOfficial?sub_confirmation=1Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TradieWebGuysOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tradiewebguys/LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/tradie-web-guysMatt's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamthemattj/If you enjoyed this podcast, please take a moment to leave us a review:⭐ https://lovethepodcast.com/TheSiteShedLove the audio version of this podcast? Subscribe to the link below:⭐ https://followthepodcast.com/TheSiteShed#podcast #thesiteshed #tradiewebguys #commercialcontracts #tradiebusiness #businesssystems #leadership #subcontractors #scaleup Your Next Step:Join Tradie Academy, our free community packed with templates, checklists, and resources shared by podcast guests, coaches, and successful tradies.👉 Join free and grab your next growth tool here: https://tradie.wiki/podFollow The Site Shed:Facebook: The Site ShedInstagram: @thesiteshedLinkedIn: Matt JonesWebsite: thesiteshed.comYouTube: @TheSiteShedIf you enjoyed this podcast and the series, please take 5 minutes to leave us a review:⭐ https://lovethepodcast.com/TheSiteShedLove the audio version of this podcast? Subscribe to the link below:⭐ https://followthepodcast.com/TheSiteShed
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