[00:00:00] Ben Poulter: /Hello there. I want to give you big, warm welcome to Toolbox Talks for electricians. My name is Ben Polter, your host, and I've worked in the electrical trade from the age of 19 years old. And now being at the rip old age, you're 41. Oh, I've had sort of around 20 years in the trade and I've worked all over the world.

[00:00:22] Domestic, commercial, industrial, and back in the day when I was an apprentice, I was also a DC power engineer. This you'll hear a lot more about in the podcast. Through my time as an electrician. I've been employed, I've been self-employed, and I've had a lot of apprentices along the way. And these apprentices, they've gone on to build their own electrical business, which I've helped them along the way too.

[00:00:45] So now I'm creating this podcast to help electricians all over the world from being employed to self-employed and well in the own electrical business. I'm gonna cover how to deal with customers, how to manage your money, and how to reduce stress as being an electric. I can tell you now, there is a lot of lessons that I've learned over the 20 years experience in the trade, and I do believe there's plenty more I can learn through working in the electrical trade and seeing all the mistakes that trades may make when running their own business.

[00:01:15] I'm here to help. because one of the biggest mistakes that I've learned is that mistakes cost money. So being able to avoid those mistakes would be a massive advantage. And as you'll find out on this podcast, I'm a complete chat box. I've talked to so many customers and found out just what they want from an electrician.

[00:01:37] Along with some amazing tools that I've acquired through my life as an electrician that make my life a lot easier, which will also make your electrical business better, faster, and able to make more money and get more customers. I can guarantee you. Listen to this podcast will help you stand out from the rest.

[00:01:56] It'll help you discover how to run an electrical business with customers. Just fully let your feet along with one of the most powerful hacks that I've found out while an electrical business is how to get them customers to recommend you and your business to all their family and friends. As you can imagine, there's so many ideas going from my head right now.

[00:02:17] Too many to say, right? . So your best bet is to get subscribing right now. You don't wanna miss the stories, the insight, the strategies that I'll be sharing every Monday of every week. I'm looking forward to help you put the spark into your electrical business. Yeah. Did you like that? Little pun? It was a bit stupid.

[00:02:38] I know, but I had to put it in there. See soon.