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Season 6 Episode 38 - Episode Replay - Stop Letting Your Clients Run Your Business

Release Date: 10/24/2025

Season 7 Episode 5 - How The Joinery Industry In New Zealand Is Killing It Right Now

The Joinery Business Podcast

At the joinery coach we have clients from all over the world, most keenly at this point of time is New Zealand! With a number of clients with both modest factories and massive factories, we decided to do one of our “milk runs” in the north island of New Zealand and spend some time with our clients Orchard Joinery, Rabbitte Joinery, Graft Joinery, and Fernlea Cabinetry & Joinery. On todays episode Bruce and Nigel go over the extent of their trip, discussing the most interesting things we learned about each client and how all of them are killing it right now in their own unique...

Season 7 Episode 4 - What is Flexijet? An insightful interview with Peter Zoumboulakis

The Joinery Business Podcast

Filmed at Biesse’s Materials Hub in Sydney, on today's episode Bruce has an insightful interview with Peter Zoumboulakis from Flexijet, a German based company manufacturing a 3D laser measurements & 2D digital templating machine. How is 3D Laser Measurements the future of joinery and installation? How does Flexijet differ from similar products? And what does the machine's future look like? Join Bruce and Peter as they talk through all these key talking points and much more. As always, if you have any thoughts about today's podcast be sure to head over to the Joinery Business Hub on...

Season 7 Episode 3 - How Standardization Can Maintain Business Growth

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. Live from Brisbane Airport, Bruce is on the podcast today to go over some of the highlights of what we spoke about and found at our Micro Business Intensive here in Brisbane! One key thing spoken about was standardization, something that seems small in concept but can really...

Season 7 Episode 2 - What Place Does a Craftsman Have in Todays Advancing Joinery Industry

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. As a business owner it’s difficult to keep up with an ever evolving industry, and joinery business owners know this better than anyone. Coming from a craftsman background moving into a manufacturing role can be really difficult as trying to maintain a business mindset while not...

Season 7 Episode 1 - Transform Craftsmanship into Business Success in 2026

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. Welcome to our opening episode of 2026! This year we’re looking to create an even bigger bang with the podcast than ever before, with more guests, more hard hitting topics, as well as more in depth perspectives on the industry! In this opening episode Bruce talks a bit about the...

Season 6 Episode 45 - 2025 Wrap Up and Announcement for Season 7

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. Welcome to the finale of season 6! On todays episode Bruce, Tiffany, and Reilly spend some time going over some of the highlights from 2025 on the podcast, covering some of the fun episodes as well as the episode we felt best helped push the industry further. And at the episode...

Season 6 Episode 44 - An Announcement For The Season Finale

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. Todays Episode is just a quick announcment about when the last episode of season 6 will release, and what to expect in such a jam-packed episode. As always if you have any thoughts about today's podcast be sure to head over to the Joinery Business Hub on facebook! Links: ...

Season 6 Episode 43 - Episode Replay - Why Are You Addicted To The Roller-coaster?

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. A saying I hear a lot in this industry is “better the devil you know than the devil you don't know”, but is this really true? Running a business in the joinery industry is often like riding a roller coaster you don’t know how to get off of, but what I find more often is that...

Season 6 Episode 42 - An Episode About Nothing!

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. Todays episode is a bit of a fun one! Bruce, Tiffany, and Myself had a look at some trending discussion topics, sharing our opinions and feelings on topics like hobbies we’d want to master, or whose role we’d want to swap with at the joinery coach. This is an episode we...

Season 6 Episode 41 - What Is An RTO? Are They Actually Beneficial?

The Joinery Business Podcast

The Joinery Business Podcast is sponsored by Maxcut Software - a small software business focusing on the Cabinetry Industry. Estimate, cut, and complete cutlist jobs efficiently and easily—without breaking the bank. Download the free community edition Maxcut Software to try it out and see what MaxCut can do. If you’re a business owner looking to upgrade your employees, there’s probably a myriad of concerns, including the idea of reaching out to an RTO. But what is an RTO? What if your employees leave after you’ve trained them? Today Bruce goes over these concerns as well as what...

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Within the joinery industry, and especially if you've just started out, sometimes it can be hard not to let clients walk all over you, they are the ones paying your bills after all. We often talk to clients that feel as though they're the dog getting wagged by the tail so to speak, with clients changing things last minute, making strange our ridiculous demands, or dates getting changed at the last minute.

Today on the podcast Bruce goes over what to do in these common scenarios, how do you stop clients controlling your business? Do you let them and just give into their demands? Bruce has the answers and he's here to talk you through it.

As always, if you have any thoughts about today's podcast be sure to head over to the Joinery Business Hub on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheJoineryBusinessHub

In this episode we discuss:

What to do with client making unusual demands
Why creating good standards for clients to follow is great
How to stop your clients from walking all over you

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