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Stolen Tools

Should I lodge a claim?

The whole reason that you have insurance is so that you can make a claim if something goes wrong. Therefore, if something happened that should be covered by your trades insurance, you’d be mad not to make a claim...

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Carpenter

Tradies Insurance Pack

If you’re going to take out insurance, it makes sense to go with a package. Trade Risk are the experts when it comes to putting together insurance packages for tradies. Whether you just need public liability and tools, or...

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Tradies Ute & Trailer

Car insurance for tradies

Note: We only provide vehicle insurance for clients who hold their business insurance with Trade Risk. You might know Trade Risk as the go-to company for tradies public liability and tool insurance. But what about your ute, van or truck?...

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Handyman

Sole Trader or Company?

You’ve finished your apprenticeship, you’ve done your time working for someone else, and now it’s time to set up your own business. Going out on your own, even if it’s just to subcontract back to the same company, is...

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Fibre optic cable in a Telstra pit.

NBN Contractors Insurance

The rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is one of the largest infrastructure projects to be undertaking in Australia. Many thousands of workers will be required to complete the rollout over the next decade or so, with many of...

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Tradie Ute

How the 2015 budget affects tradies

The federal budget released earlier this month has been touted as the budget for small business. As a small business owner myself, it was great to hear Joe Hockey go on about the benefits of small business on the...

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Electricians Insurance

Insuring your start-up trade business

When starting your own trade business there are so many things to think about. The first is probably whether or not you’re going to make enough money to pay the bills! Somewhere on your list of things to do,...

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Insurance Claim

Is income protection insurance worthwhile?

We deal with hundreds of tradies every month who are considering taking out insurance. What we find is that most decide to go with public liability cover only, with a smaller percentage choosing to take out income protection. So...

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Business Activity Statement

Bookkeeping for Tradies

This article was written in 2014 and may no longer be accurate. Ask any tradie what holds them back in business, and often the answer will be paperwork. There is no better (or should we say worse) killer of...

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Budget for Tradespeople

Are Trade Directories Worthwhile?

If you’re looking for more work for your trade business, one option worth looking at is an online trade directory. But are these directories worthwhile? There are dozens (maybe hundreds) of online directories just in Australia, so listing on...

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