Articles for tradespeople

Practical advice for self-employed tradespeople looking for work: where to find jobs, how to price your work and how to compare lead portals.

• How to find jobs as a self-employed tradesperson in Czechia

  Seven ways to win your first and next jobs – referrals, a map listing, lead portals, social media – and what makes a listing customers actually reply to.

• Pay per lead, commission or flat fee: what a job from a portal really costs

  How to work out the real cost of one job from a lead portal and compare pay-per-lead, commission and a flat fee on a simple example.

• How to set your hourly rate as a self-employed tradesperson (OSVČ)

  Step by step: from the net income you want, through contributions, costs and unpaid time, to the hourly rate you put in your listing.