Brisbane - 28 Years of Mentoring - 6 Businesses Built
Business Mentor Brisbane
More Time, Higher Margins and Faster Growth to Step Back from Your Business
"Tim delivers what most coaches promise but rarely produce.
Colin Gair - Wheeler Accountants
"Tim is the best adviser and business mentor I have worked with in 30 years."
Ken Robertson - Principal - Nexia Accountants Brisbane
Sound Familiar?
In 20-plus years of seminars and workshops, I've watched almost every owner with a team nod along to the same five challenges...
The business runs you
50–70 hours a week, and the moment you step back, things slip.
Cash reserves don't increase
8 in 10 of 5+ employee businesses run under 10% net margin.
Life begins at 15%
Your team is a constant headache
Won't take responsibility, are hard to find, and the good ones cost a fortune.
Growth keeps burning cash
Money into ads and agencies, still no decent leads. Paying to stand still.
Competitors squeeze your prices
Every quote a price war. Scared to raise prices, so margins keep thinning.
Recognise yourself in even three of those? Then you're exactly like the clients I've worked with — and every one of those problems is fixable, usually faster than you'd think. Here's how ↓
The Profit You Want is Already in Your Business
You don't need more hours, more staff, or a bigger ad budget to find it.
Other advisors say: spend more on marketing, work more, hire more. After 28 years, I know it's backwards — the profit's already inside, hiding in four places almost no one measures.
Margins
Leaks on every job that add up to a fortune.
Pricing
You're charging too little — and can charge more.
People
The right hire changes everything; the wrong one bleeds you.
Metrics
The few measures that show where the money goes.
Under 10% → 15%+
Life begins at 15% — and a business that runs without you.
I find the profit already hiding in your business — in your margins, pricing, people and metrics — so you make more, and work less.
Here's what that looks like in real businesses ↓
Real Owners. Real Numbers. Real Freedom.
Named, on the record, across 30-plus industries.
Electrical contractor
Revenue
Net Profit Margin
$1.5M → $4M
15% → 23%
Took two months off to go surfing in Indonesia with no internet connection — the business ran without him.
Watch the 2-min story
Powder coating
$400k → $1.8M
A GM runs it now — owner goes fishing.
Law firm
6% → 35% margin
In 3 months. A few levers + one big decision.
Building company
−24% → 20% margin
From near-bankrupt. 80–90 hrs → 50–60.
...and 30 more across almost every industry
Plumbing
Carpet cleaning
Insurance brokerage
Metal fabrication
Accounting
Manufacturing
Security
Tree service
Software development
Optometrists
Mortgage brokerage
Plastering
IT services
Hair & beauty
Engineering
Auto transmission
Civil engineering
Locksmiths
Jewellery
Kitchen benchtop
All lifted Net Profit 50% to 2,000% in under 5 months — without wasting money on marketing.
What's your business's net profit potential? ↓
What Clients Achieve from Business Mentoring
Why I'm Not Like Other Business Mentors
Hi, I'm Tim,
Like you, I've owned and built my own businesses. I've had to deal with the common issues of let-downs by staff, no spare time, cash flow challenges, and burning thousands on marketing that didn't work. That all changed for me 30 years ago, when I started paying to learn the world's most effective strategies for business growth.
For the past 28 years, I've found the profit already hiding in businesses like yours — in margins, pricing, people and metrics. The strategies I introduce have already worked hundreds of times across six countries. No theory. No guesses. Just strategies that work, backed by facts.
You'd assume a business mentor can't actually do marketing. Most can't — and can't provide advice or strategies on lead generation challenges.
Accountants know your financial numbers, but they often struggle to sell or teach team development. Business coaches often can't read a P&L. Each pulls the one lever they know — and misses the one holding you back. I work across all four:
Profit & margins
Marketing & SEO
Team development & recruitment
The metrics
Your problems don't respect the line between sales, marketing, people and numbers. A one-lane specialist keeps reaching for their one tool. I see the whole board — which is why I find the constraint the specialists miss.
Here's how it works ↓
How It Works
How I Make Gross Margin Everyone's Game
It works like a gearbox, each gear builds on the last. By top gear, every person in your business is driving the one number that turns into profit.
Get everyone in the room
Everyone speaks - techs, admin, sales, finance. One team.
Technical staff log their hours
Hours are reviewed in the meeting, and everyone sees the raw truth.
Gross margin by job
Everyone reviews the hours (and materials) to understand why the figure is what it is.
Gap analysis
Estimated versus actual gross margins are compared, to learn why the figures are different.
Margins by job types
Figures are collated on every job by job types. That's where the big profit margin increases are found.
Margins turn into strategies
High gross margin job types become the marketing focus, to increase their volume. Low gross margins get price rises, or are dropped.
The Profit Pricing Formula
Gross Margin
-
Expenses
=
Net Margin
E.g. 40% Gross Margin - 30% Expenses = 10% Net Margin
By top gear, gross margin is everyone's game.
Recognition for the wins, learnings - never blame - for the misses. Rework falls, morale climbs, and people stop asking for pay rises because they are happy, and don't want to leave.
Vehicle Radiator Result
5% → 17% net margin
Net Profit $105k to $404k - in 7 months
Civil Engineering Result
0% → 32% net margin
Net Profit $80 to $170k - in 4 months
Where's Your Hidden Profit?
One Free Call. One Profit Leak Found. No Obligation.
In 20 minutes I'll show you which of your job types is quietly capping your net margin — and the one change that lifts it. Yours to use whether we work together or not.
20 minute phone call.
One specific strategy.
Keep it either way.
Business Mentoring FAQ's
What does a business mentor do?
A business mentor is like a guide or temporary business partner. They share their experience of building many businesses and their best practice methods with owners of businesses. Depending on their background, they may be strongly skilled with financial reports, people development, systems for scaling, selling, marketing or management structure and setup. It depends on their background as to what they bring go the relationship. The QLD M4G Mentoring for Growth program has hundreds of mentors from various different industry backgrounds such as marketing, HR, finance etc.
Should you pay for a business mentor?
There may be some business mentors who work for free but may be very hard to find. What people get for free is often not valued or appreciated and with business advice this is true. If you look at how much free information there is on business, yet very few people act on what they get for free because they believe if the advice is free, it can't be much good.
A business mentor can be the best investment you'll ever make. Where else can you learn from potentially decades of experience in business from someone who has been where your business is now and learned through experience how to take it to the next level? Don't let a "cost" mindset prevent you from making a lot of money. Think about how many more years you intend to be in business and how little time it will take for you to learn to be successful in your business, for the rest of your life.
How do I to find a millionaire mentor?
Being a millionaire can be achieved from one business. Does that mean the owner is all knowing about every facet of business because they were successful in one industry? A mentor can be a millionaire maker of others without necessarily being a millionaire themselves. Which is the most important? Look at the results of any mentor you are considering. Are they specific and measurable with financial figures? A great mentor will be all about results, bottom-line improving results especially because increasing profit margins is much harder than income and profit is freedom, not income in business.
What's the difference between a business coach and a business mentor?
A business mentor is someone who has owned multiple businesses and often in different industries. They have been through tough times and know just how hard it can be to grow a business and still have a life and family time. They have also achieved great results. These days anyone can be and is a business coach. Often people who fail in their own business have decided to become a business coach. There are no licenses or qualifications needed and with the entry being so easy the industry of business coaching has many people in it who don't have much experience or a track record of growing their own or anyone else's businesses.
Many business coaches think its their job to ask a lot of questions to get owners to figure out their own answers. A business mentor is very different. They are focused on growing the business and it's all about the results. They aren't caught up in only asking questions. They are about imparting knowledge and know-how to implement strategies that they already know and have been proven to work. A business coach is cheaper because they aren't as skilled at getting financial results.
A business mentor is a great investment because their financial improvement of the business will often well and truly pay for all of their fees.
Who uses a business mentor, do billionaires?
One reason why entrepreneurs can become billionaires is because they constantly pay for advice. They value the experience of other professionals. Where a billionaire is different to a small business owner is that billionaires don't have one or two advisors, they have large teams in different countries.
They can have an accounting advisor for one specific topic such as business acquisitions. Another accountant for business sales and another for their company taxes. So yes, billionaires have advisors, but not mentors.
Do startups need a business mentor?
While a startup can benefit from a business mentor, often a business coach, an accountant and marketing expert are better suited to working with a startup. Business is a topic that includes hiring and managing staff, management reports, sales and marketing and systems to name a few. The most important ingredient of starting a business is getting sales and that means leads.
The business hasn't moved into the "Management Stage" of 4 or more employees, which is where profit margins, systems, hiring and team development as well as other aspects of business become a high priority. These are the areas where a business mentor with a wide variety of skills can apply them to the business. Until the Management Stage focus on marketing and getting your business out there with marketing advice and wait a little while before considering a business mentor. Some business coaches can be worthwhile engaging in the startup phase if it's affordable.
Is a lot of work expected to be carried out between mentoring meetings?
Because of Tim's 25 years of experience with mentoring businesses, he's made the process of implementing strategies very simple. While there is work for you to do between session meetings with Tim, it's very easy and takes little time. It's not like you need to spend 4 or 10+ hours every week implementing.
Most weeks you'll only need 30 minutes to an hour to implement most strategies. That's because the content is so relevant and its more a matter of changing how you do things, not about doing a lot of tasks. Tim fully understands how busy and time poor you are, which is why he's made his strategies so simple and easy to implement. Plus, he has systems ready to drop in that will save you about 100 hours of development time for these essential systems.
Got more mentoring questions? Book a 15 minute call with Tim to Have them answered
Why Consider Tim to Be Your Business and Marketing Mentor?
Tim Stokes is one of Australia's most experienced small business entrepreneurs, coaches and mentors. He's built six businesses over his 40+ years in business and worked with thousands of businesses in six countries- Australia, the USA, Canada, England, New Zealand and India.
He's a researcher into entrepreneurship, extreme business success and setting businesses up so that working can become optional. He has invested over $150,000 in learning from marketing experts, entrepreneurs, business gurus and legends of international business.
With over 20,000 hours of research, development and refinement of his strategies, systems, management tools and methodology, he is respected and recommended by dozens of accounting firms, who see his results in their client's financial reports.
Tim was a pioneer in the business coaching industry being one of the very first, starting in 1997 as a "pilot" franchisee. He became the "Worldwide Business Coach of the Year in 2000" with ActionCoach, the first time they created the award. ActionCoach is the largest business coaching organisation in the world.
Tim has also spoken to thousands of business owners in self-marketed seminars, webinars, workshops, and courses. He has worked one-on-one delivering business mentoring programs to businesses in all industry sectors. He is highly respected by dozens of accounting firms who have been clients or referred hundreds of their clients to his business and marketing mentoring programs.
If you want results that not just improve, but transform your quality of life, your team, your profits, and business, follow him on LinkedIn or Facebook, or talk to Tim about your business, challenges, goals and dreams.
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