A live 90-minute working session for Kiwi trade and manufacturing owners to find the cash already leaking from their business.
5.0 ★ from 141 Google reviews · Covered by the Friday Guarantee
9:40pm. The kids are asleep. You're doing the quote you should have done at four.
A few of the businesses Bernard works with
I know I've got more out of this program in the first 8 weeks than I did out of that whole 6-month system.
James had already invested in Dan Martell's Buy Back Your Time program. His verdict was that Bernard's work delivered more practical value in the first eight weeks than that entire six-month system.
Dan teaches owners to buy back their time. Bernard applies that outcome to people who price jobs, manage a factory floor and carry the risk when a winning quote loses money.
The house is quiet. The kids went down two hours ago. You're at the kitchen table with the laptop open on a quote you meant to finish at four - except at four you were on the phone to a supplier, and before that you were on the floor covering for a bloke who didn't show.
You'll be up again at half five. You know roughly how tomorrow goes, because it's how today went, and yesterday.
The shed is full. The team is flat out. You've quoted more work this year than you have in your life. So why is there nothing in the bank?
You know your turnover to the dollar. Ask most owners what an hour of their team's labour actually returns and you get a shrug - because nobody has ever shown them.
So you manage the only thing you can see: how busy everyone looks. And busy feels like winning right up until the GST bill lands.
Busy is not the same as profitable. Most of the money you lost last year, you lost on jobs you were proud to win.
Three or more and there is money sitting in your business you haven't been shown yet. That is not a criticism - it's the whole reason the 13th exists.
It feels free. That's what makes it dangerous. Another year of the same is not a neutral choice - it has a price, and you're already paying it.
And the bit that doesn't show up in the accounts: another twelve months of Saturdays, another year of being the only one who can do it, and a business that still can't run a week without you standing in it.
Most owners don't fail because the work dried up.
They fail in their busiest year - because nobody ever showed them the numbers.
He's been saying it for years, because he lived in it. Most owners recognise the left-hand column immediately.
Boots by the door at half five. Again.
Here's the arithmetic on a $1.5M shop - six on the tools, 30% margin. On the day, you run your own.
Recovered by stopping a 5% discount.
At a 20% margin, a 10% discount means you must double your sales just to stand still. A 15% discount means tripling them. Most owners have never seen that table.
From a 4% price rise.
At a 20% margin you can raise your price 4%, lose one customer in six, and still be no worse off. We'll show you the table - and the exact words for when they push back.
Against a NZ$347 seat. That's the whole argument - and every number in it is Bernard's own arithmetic.
Click any of them. These are unedited interviews, not written testimonials.
Results vary by business. These are individual outcomes, not a promise of what yours will be.
Bernard on the floor with his team. Not a stock photo.
Bernard Powell left school at 16 and sold azaleas to supermarkets over a landline and a fax machine. Eight years later he'd built Premier Brick into the largest brick manufacturer in New Zealand - from zero, against Australian incumbents a century old.
Two hundred tonnes a day. Seventy-five staff. Judged New Zealand's number one workplace - in a factory, against office businesses - with a 98% engagement score.
He has quoted the jobs, chased the debtors, and had the conversation where a customer says someone else is cheaper. That's why this is worth ninety minutes of a working day.
Bring four numbers. Leave knowing exactly where your money is going.
Ten guides. Not theory - tools, with the arithmetic worked and a blank column for your own numbers. They land in your inbox within a minute of booking, so you have them well before the 13th.
All ten land in your inbox the minute you book.
| The live 90-minute teardown, 13 August You leave holding your own GP$ per labour hour |
Included |
| The Profit Recovery Vault - all 10 tools, within a minute The arithmetic worked, and a blank column for your figures |
Included |
| The Monday Morning Script The exact words for the first price conversation after |
Included |
| 15 days of Classroom + the daily Golden Hour Pro-rata of the published $2,700 / 6-month membership |
$225 |
| Two live Power ½ Hours with Bernard Normally inside the $5,500 Premium tier |
Included |
Those are Premier Business Academy's real published prices, pro-rated. We'd rather show you the arithmetic than a number you can't check.
Rivet & Co - a $1.5M shop, six on the tools, 30% GP. Not a case study. A worked example, so you can check every line.
| Stop the habitual 5% discount | +$75,000 |
| Raise price 4% | +$60,000 |
| Two levers. Same customers, same jobs. | +$135,000 |
Page 2 of every guide is blank so you can run your own. Your number will be your own - bigger if you turn over more, smaller if you turn over less.
One payment. Everything above. Nothing physical to wait for - the guides are in your inbox within a minute.
Doors close Wednesday 12 August, or when the room is full.
Come on the 13th and do the work. If by that Friday you haven't found more money sitting in your own numbers than this cost you - email us and we'll refund every cent. You keep all ten guides.
And before that one even applies: if the first twenty minutes aren't worth your time, say so and we refund you on the spot. No form, no reason, no conversation about it.
We can write that because the first exercise is finding the money. If it isn't there, we haven't done our job.
Because being flat out is the symptom, not the cause. Every owner we meet is busy - that has never been the constraint. The constraint is that nobody has shown you what an hour of your team's labour actually returns, so there's no way to manage it. Ninety minutes at lunchtime, once, to find that out is not a big ask against what it's costing you.
There's an offer at the end - we'd be lying if we said otherwise, and you'd spot it anyway. But you'll have all ten guides before you turn up, you'll have your own hourly by the end, and you'll have both levers whether you ever speak to us again. If the free part isn't worth more than NZ$347, the guarantee is right there.
On the specifics you're right - a joinery shop isn't a fabrication shop. But gross profit dollars per labour hour works identically in both, because both sell hours. If you sell your team's time, the arithmetic applies. Bernard runs this with electrical contractors, civil construction, trailer manufacturers and a German CNC shop.
You'll get a 48-hour replay of the teaching. The live teardown and the open questions aren't on it - that's the honest trade for people who turn up. You'll still have all ten guides.
Good - this was built for you, not for accountants. Every guide has the calculation done on a worked example and a blank column for your figures. You need last year's P&L and a rough headcount. That's it.
It's built for NZ trade and manufacturing businesses turning over roughly $1M to $5M with people on the tools. Under that the levers still work, but the dollars are smaller. If you're a sole operator with no staff, this probably isn't for you yet.
Most people in that room have been. It's the single most common thing owners say on the first call. That's exactly why the guarantee is written the way it is, and why the guides arrive before you've watched a single minute - so you can judge the work before the event, not after.
Ninety minutes. Four numbers. Two levers. And ten guides in your inbox before you've finished your smoko.
5.0 ★ from 141 Google reviews