When the boss starts a life swanning around in the sunshine, the workers will eventually lose their enthusiasm for working their socks off to give you a life of luxury. A very unwise move.
Whilst I don't dissagree, this is how most companies in the west work. The lowest paid often hold the most personal risk. Especially small companies like this which are limited liability companies and the directors / owners aren't personally liable for anything that happens. They can easily just pack up on the business and open up a new one the next day with minimal personal loss whilst the 'workforce' can be let go with a moments notice.
You tried this last time and nearly lost the business which resulted in redundancies, this has got disaster written all over it again. you need to be there to make this work. your employing someone to do tasks which you'd do in the office. someone also to do your social media. all this money could be profit. customers may also think your taking your eye off the ball by not been physically there in person.
Not interested!! Jordan's lifestyle does not interest me. His, look at me, look how wonderful I am attitude is getting on my nerves. Where are all the videos of the guys on the tools doing proper electrical work. I'm not at all impressed with the way this channel is evolving at all. It's not all about Jordan the egotistical maniac. Get back to letting some of the sparks make the videos.
Andrew has done it again - Andrew is his first name but it's not posh enough for him! Yep round 2 of running a business from abroad which will fail like the first time. So I counted 4 office staff including Andrew and then 1 fully qualified spark in Lee! How can you run an electrical company with such a top heavy structure. I feel sorry for John who got the boot! Total shambles of a company!
Let's talk about Monsieur le Magnate, shall we? Here we have a chap, not just playing at being the lord of the manor, but doing so from the sunny vineyards of France, no less. While his employees are wrestling with wires and dodging electrical sparks back in Blighty, this modern-day aristocrat sips his Château de Posh, utterly convinced he's at the helm of a multi-million pound empire. Imagine the scene: he's lounging on a chaise, probably named something like "Le Grand Lounger," scrolling through spreadsheets on his tablet with one hand, while the other waves dismissively at the notion of actually setting foot on a job site. "Work from home?" More like "Work from Château. Now, from an outside perspective on humanity, this is peak comedy. Here's a fellow who thinks he's conducting an orchestra of electrons from across the Channel, perhaps believing leadership is all about delegating the 'shocking' work while he's 'grounded' in luxury. The irony? His company might just be as well-connected as a British electrical socket - which is to say, not very, if we're keeping with the international electrical standards humor. And let's not forget, while he's dreaming of expanding his 'empire' into another yacht or perhaps a small island, his actual empire might just be flickering like a bulb on its last filament back home. But does he care? Non! As long as the cheese is brie and the view is très magnifique, all's right in his world. This fellow's life is the epitome of "out of sight, out of mind," where the only 'current' he's worried about is the stream of fine wines flowing into his glass, blissfully unaware that in the real world, his business might just be one power surge away from a total blackout. But, c'est la vie, or as they might say in his adopted homeland, "Quelle farce!"
@@dharris85 okay. I guess well off businessmen have time to write paragraphs against their fellow man. I’ll give you a clue cupcake, if you were that successful. You’d understand delegation. And living in France is hardly luxury. 😆😆
Jordan from Artisan Electrics spotted crossing the Channel with his tool belt after Corey from ØY Electrical declared the UK an ‘ØY-only’ zone. The electrics turf war got so intense, even the circuit breakers couldn’t handle it!
It's a real shame with what this channel has become. All it seems to be now is pushing sponsors. The old videos were about actual electrical work. This is just like watching a huge advert. Jordan, have a revisit as to why your channel became so successful. This is trash.
Missing the Pandemic Era newness of the Vlog back then. Too much going on with your clip assembly. Your emersed in the minute details that the uniqueness of getting to know the Team is lost. I am glad that your making it work for you.Time is so precious ,dont fill every second with busyness . Stop now again an breath, laugh at the sillyness of things and watch for those around you who may not be doing so well. I hope your Grand-dad is doing better. You are a good Man ,Jordan always .
Read the room, Jordan. The good will and loyalty people had towards you is dropping off now - like many others I have stopped watching the videos. Layoffs and then re-hiring happens, fine, but the tone of the recent videos has been much different to before. Good luck, but I'm off to watch Oy, which funnily enough, shows just how much Corey was doing for you.
In the past, there were lots of videos on electricals, solar installations and so every other week. Now it's mostly overviews on products, vlogs and I think that's why people are losing interest. Back to those various installs of solar, ev chargers and electrical, watch people running back.
I stopped subscribing when I thought the UA-cam business was taking over the electrical but came back last week when I realised I missed the team. Now I see what you’ve done I am afraid it’s goodbye
Saw it all in the eighties when people had a pub or pubs in the UK and lived in Spain, eventually it will fall apart as their are inherent fault factors involved.
Hi Jordan -- long time viewer & software engineer by day at an investment bank. Very interesting to see your paths cross into the s/w industry, maybe this is why I have such interest in electrics!
Serious question, who actually pays to be a member of channels like this and buys t-shirts and hoodies etc with an electrical company’s name on it? Maybe I’m missing something but the world has gone mental!
Hi Jordan, just back to watch Artisan after being away for a long time. Good luck buddy with the current evolution of your company. I totally get the situation where you moved to France as your wife wanted to be back besides her family...its a big consideration and one that puts you and the business under a lot of pressure. Been there got the T-shirt. Good luck running your company and growing it to be stronger and more successful. 👍👍👍
@@artisanelectrics Misplaced positivity, unfortunately. I hope you're getting the message, Jordan. Your best option now is to sell your business to your employees at a discounted price and let them be their own bosses.
I’m interested in how you are now tracking all job costs and profits. Are you still using Tradify or have you advance onto something with better reporting. Can you share with us?
We use SimPro now for our cost tracking, it’s still not perfect I hate it sometimes - Tradify is way more user friendly but it didn’t allow us to track costs and P&L on every job. It’s all a work in progress and we are constantly evaluating our systems to see if we can improve things.
@@artisanelectrics ah yes I am just starting my journey with SimPro after using Tradify for around 4 years. I agree Tradify is very user friendly, I will miss it I’m sure.
I have to agree, think you’re over thinking it Jordan. I watch Nick Bundy because his so relatable. I don’t think you’re that relatable anymore.. I watch Cory because his relatable… and his genuinely interesting. Explains all the electrical stuff down to minute detail… you go off on a big tangent and it’s very corporate… it’s good for your business but I don’t think it’s good for UA-cam.. Your older videos ware fantastic because you was showing actual work being done; the process of going from a small 1 man to 2 man was interesting. The struggles but you made it… now it’s how to be big, stay big and be absolutely massive all the time and take on too many sponsors in your other videos… I wish you good luck; recently a lot of subscribers boycotted another channel I like because they got absolutely doll with the content they was making because, you guessed it - it went way to corporate and out of budget for the smaller person.. you should be educating like you did before, like Bundy does, like Cory does. Things that we ain’t never thought of before… come on Jordan. We know you’re better than this. The last load of videos I’ve sort of refused to want to watch because I know they’re mainly about your progress and useless stuff that I’m not interested in at all… why haven’t your team been able to film some of there install stuff before? What’s going on here? Sorry Jordan. Liked your old content, but I just can’t deal with this new style of video, I think you should rethink a bit (hope this wasn’t too harsh, don’t mean it to be…)
@@artisanelectrics I’m talking more about the UA-cam side. You need to show us the interesting stuff to keep us interested. I have ran corporate level jobs before. I understand but this stuff isn’t what we want to see, what made the channel the channel was the amount of installation content you was doing.
With commercial solar, is it also looking at lithium battery storage, or do you look at some of the other battery technologies too like Liquid Vanadium flow batteries?
Fair play .. if you can make it work, I see no issue. Happy wife, happy life. If others have an issue, it is their problem, their green eye jealousy and attitude. It is your life, make it work for you, they can make their lives work for them. In this modern and online work life, I know several people who live in Northern France and commute via the Channel Tunnel. I heard of 4 people who own their own light aircraft and also live in France and fly into Lydd Airport Monday, and fly back Friday. Houses in France are cheaper, life is mostly cheaper and a lot more pleasant, flights are not expensive and the average weather better - so it isn't the financial rip-off that people can think it is. If it provides work and a fair income for the staff, I see no problem. Good to see Ruben carving his path.
France is getting expensive supermarket food is awful, if you work here the tax and social charges are terrible and they are going up every year for the next 3 years. Wine is cheap so are houses not as cheap as it once was. Roads are great
@@mdshovel it’s all about location, but if Mr Artisan can make it work for him that’s great but realistically how long can he keep this up also the vids have gone downhill a bit
Love these weekly vlog videos and great to get a catch up on the status of everything. Not an electrician but a business owner, loving all the current content and nice to see everything is going better. Glad to see you are taking care of yourselves as well as the company. All the best!
Since Corey left, and the first venture abroad I haven’t watched many Videos from Artisan. I am not an electrician, but found the videos interesting and informative But found myself less and less interested. I suppose from when you left the UK the first time…
Company seems very top heavy now, seems there is more office staff than site staff? With a company this size I have absolutely no idea how you are making this work.
Thanks for the update, Jordan! All the best with the software venture. And wow, look at Reuben now. Four years. Yikes. The early starts and early finishes are the standard thing for tradies down under. Cheers
Living your best life. You will get massive amounts of jealousy from people here that CANNOT do what you do! They are stuck, in their job, in their life and in this country. Life should NEVER stand still. Keep it going!
Absolutely agreed! I've seen quite a few unnecessary comments, but that's just part of the journey. If you don't have opponents or jealous people, it might mean you're not on the right path. Keep up the fantastic work, Artisan team!
@@Evergreensands I disagree. The content has changed. Its now about management b@!!@€£$ and contracts, not about the coal face end, where experienced sparkles helped apprentices to learn. Jordan is fully entitled to his work life balance, but in doing do, he has lost the plot which built his following on UA-cam imho. Its a shame, and this isn't based on jealously or hate but comparison.
I can say that this model doesn't really work. I once had a boss who adopted this idea and after 18mths I was made redundant, with the rest of the company going 6 months later. Need to get back to the electrical content imho. Get the lads back behind the camera with some laughs and knowledge. Lost it's mojo since Cory and now John have left. Sorry Jordan, but it's the way it is - but with 1.4m subs, your lifestyle is probably all paid for by us numpties!! 🤣
People seem to be giving him a lot of grief about not being on the tools, or living abroad etc. I've worked with sparks who try and manage their business while staying on the tools and it's a disaster in most cases. If he's creating jobs and working for his team, providing income and security to employees that's positive in my eyes.
Why do you receive so much hate from just trying to better yourself. Seems your main audience won’t be happy unless you’re working yourself into the ground until you’re 70. Any tradesman out there. I have a simple fact for you. You can work weekends. You can work nights. You can do your own projects (to fill in nights and weekends if customers don’t want to see your mug). Work hard for a few years, get some investments and then chill out in your late 30s rich af. If you’re still breadlined into your mid 30s. You didn’t something seriously wrong.
I have to be brutally honest here, because i actually really enjoyed your content. No one is really interested in behind the scenes of the business, or you telling stories, or comparing products. We want to see the team out on the tools. I'm a telecomms engineer, not a spark, but I loved watching the lads working. I picked up a few tips and tricks here and there, eapecially from Corey. You need to get back to that. Take a back step, run the business, and get someone in that can get out there day to day with the team showing the work on the ground. You dont have to be the face of the business anymore. It worked when you lived in England.
Thanks for the feedback - some people have been asking me how the business is going and wanting an update which is why I created this video but clearly it’s not everyone’s cuppa tea
FWIW Your balance sheet is still really weak and now you are distracted. You have three businesses Artisan the software business and UA-cam, you need to focus on just one if you want to be successful.
Well done for getting away and living on your terms. I can tell you don’t listen to the negative comments anyway, just a bunch of losers who for some reason are trying to tell you how to run your business lol
@@artisanelectrics watched the first 10 minutes of it before finally giving up on the channel. I loved your early videos when you were focusing on electrics but ego clearly took over. I wish you and your partner the best and hope you take things in a more positive direction.
@@artisanelectrics Agree with the sentiment but no need for the 'LOL'... Either ignore, shadowban or explain your position. Seems a bit off laughing at one of your viewers. Your decisions cost people their livelihoods. No amount of time makes that right. It's good you've got the company into a more stable position but Laughing at people over this is very low...
What did you expect him to do? Give up on what makes him happy and not move to France? To keep people employed who are clearly capable of getting other work easily
Need to get back to the old school stuff. The actual graft people wanna see that. Im sure i speak for many of us we dont care about how good teslas new powerwall is. We like to see the ins and outs of the job the pain in the arse jobs the dodgy electrics.
I left your channel when you left the country the last time and it all went tits up and you lost control and started laying off staff , the first video I’ve watched since and low and behold Deja vu , in this video you talked again about laying off staff , you got it in the neck from subscribers the last time and felt sorry for yourself and here we are again , know wonder poor Rubin is one of your longest employees, real shame.
If you had family living somewhere else in the world, you might understand the balance he is trying to find and the feelings involved. It's not like Jordan is living on a million pound yacht and flying a private jet. 😂
How much you think it costs to live in the south of France? Man’s literally flying Ryan air for god sake…. England just has some weak minded people. If he was in America. He’d be making 5x as much and people would celebrate him on his private jet. Only in England do we knock people down 24 7. If you own a business that’s turning a profit. You don’t need to be on the ground daily.
Dont see any reason for the hate no need for it, its only a vlog video, been watching the channel since it was you on your lonesome with an iphone doing eicr's lol, do miss the "jobbing electrican" videos though, hands on domestic stuff, cant knock it that Artisan is a different beast now but and its predominantly solar and EV but it just dont hit the same as the day to day domestic electrical vids with the lads. ✌️👊🏻
Finance economy booming, the real one slowly eating itself. The real one - where waged work happens, and those wages just as slowly can’t keep up with the demands from financial growth. Of course, business owners choose to financialise - converting margin surplus to capital assets. Outside of the business itself, maybe even in a different place - because it’s possible and legal. Well - it’s been a nice couple of years following the Artisan team, but I’m off. 😊
When you went away last time it went Pete tong, it’s more than likely going to happen again. I can’t watch most of the vids anymore, just the same stuff and nothing like it used to be unfortunately
Jordan why don't let your team handle the vids? Your multitasking to much,micromanage has its downside. It be great if you do a collab vid with john faultless. It would mean alot
I've been a subscriber from day one when it was just you but I haven't watched a video in almost a year now. This video just made me unsubscribe, I'll stick with Bundy and Corey.
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He's gone from really humble beginnings to loot what I have he laid off good electricians he's had none qualified people doing installs so he can pay em cheap went abroad after saying the company is going down the pan and then taken on another person and his prices are ridiculous bad owner bad company and the disrespect he shows for customers and employees is shocking
Eugh, there's nothing more awkward than your boss "interviewing" you/performance reviews. I don't know where they learn it from but listen, we come to work for money, we don't like you, we don't want to talk to you, we want to do the job and go home to people we like.
Damn! This comment section is toxic! I don't think there was anything wrong with the video and the comments don't seemed to be represented in the dislikes (using the dislike return chrome extension).
Jordan fighting for his life in the comments, its just the nature of youtube comments though, everyone is an expert, people also relish in the drama, they will turn on people in an instant due to it just being " a guy on youtube" and not liking change. I don't watch many electrician videos anymore as i just find it all bit samey, you can only watch so many consumer units or solar installs before it just becomes mundane. Appreciate that Jordan is trying to do some "different" content and hope it works out for him!
Good man. Over watching mainly electrical now to be honest. Like some of your stuff but his channel far better for electricians. I spent many years as a finance Director and business restructuring guy. Absentee owners/directors were always a disaster. Seen people running things from boats etc. Never worked.
@@artisanelectricsFrance is the most visited country in Western Europe. Aside from just tourists, it is home to millions of digital nomads because of its high standard of living and fantastic lifestyle. However, digital nomads will need an appropriate visa to live and work in France for up to three or more years. Just think it's fairer to point this out in the video. France has lots of regulations etc. Not everyone will be aware of the need to have the correct visas etc.
I have rarely seen anyone on UA-cam who spectacularly fails to read the room and seems so oblivious to his arrogance!
When the boss starts a life swanning around in the sunshine, the workers will eventually lose their enthusiasm for working their socks off to give you a life of luxury. A very unwise move.
Whilst I don't dissagree, this is how most companies in the west work. The lowest paid often hold the most personal risk. Especially small companies like this which are limited liability companies and the directors / owners aren't personally liable for anything that happens. They can easily just pack up on the business and open up a new one the next day with minimal personal loss whilst the 'workforce' can be let go with a moments notice.
lol exactly. This guy thinks he's running a multi million pound empire
@@dharris85he likely is…. I run a multi million “empire”. It’s not really that difficult cupcake.
@@zachary3603 look him on companies house, it’s not
Channel has gone downhill unfortunately. I miss watching the electrical graft instead of your life vlog.
You tried this last time and nearly lost the business which resulted in redundancies, this has got disaster written all over it again. you need to be there to make this work. your employing someone to do tasks which you'd do in the office. someone also to do your social media. all this money could be profit. customers may also think your taking your eye off the ball by not been physically there in person.
Not interested!! Jordan's lifestyle does not interest me. His, look at me, look how wonderful I am attitude is getting on my nerves. Where are all the videos of the guys on the tools doing proper electrical work. I'm not at all impressed with the way this channel is evolving at all. It's not all about Jordan the egotistical maniac. Get back to letting some of the sparks make the videos.
Get a grip mate, they're just UA-cam videos😅
Didn’t you almost lose the company and lay off people not long ago? But you’re now back living in France?
Yep, its so confusing.
Thats what i thought, and i thought he said in thay video he is coming back to the UK
Andrew has done it again - Andrew is his first name but it's not posh enough for him! Yep round 2 of running a business from abroad which will fail like the first time. So I counted 4 office staff including Andrew and then 1 fully qualified spark in Lee! How can you run an electrical company with such a top heavy structure. I feel sorry for John who got the boot! Total shambles of a company!
@@neilsaunders5991 I had no idea they only had lee
Let's talk about Monsieur le Magnate, shall we? Here we have a chap, not just playing at being the lord of the manor, but doing so from the sunny vineyards of France, no less. While his employees are wrestling with wires and dodging electrical sparks back in Blighty, this modern-day aristocrat sips his Château de Posh, utterly convinced he's at the helm of a multi-million pound empire.
Imagine the scene: he's lounging on a chaise, probably named something like "Le Grand Lounger," scrolling through spreadsheets on his tablet with one hand, while the other waves dismissively at the notion of actually setting foot on a job site. "Work from home?" More like "Work from Château.
Now, from an outside perspective on humanity, this is peak comedy. Here's a fellow who thinks he's conducting an orchestra of electrons from across the Channel, perhaps believing leadership is all about delegating the 'shocking' work while he's 'grounded' in luxury. The irony? His company might just be as well-connected as a British electrical socket - which is to say, not very, if we're keeping with the international electrical standards humor.
And let's not forget, while he's dreaming of expanding his 'empire' into another yacht or perhaps a small island, his actual empire might just be flickering like a bulb on its last filament back home. But does he care? Non! As long as the cheese is brie and the view is très magnifique, all's right in his world.
This fellow's life is the epitome of "out of sight, out of mind," where the only 'current' he's worried about is the stream of fine wines flowing into his glass, blissfully unaware that in the real world, his business might just be one power surge away from a total blackout. But, c'est la vie, or as they might say in his adopted homeland, "Quelle farce!"
You have a very good way with words mon ami. Beautifully written
So what you’re saying is. You’re broke and still grinding. Jealous of anyone with more free time than you. Got it.
@@zachary3603 far from it haha
@@dharris85 okay. I guess well off businessmen have time to write paragraphs against their fellow man. I’ll give you a clue cupcake, if you were that successful. You’d understand delegation. And living in France is hardly luxury. 😆😆
This is like a repeat of the situation last December all over again.
The complacency of the business owner is shocking, just disgraceful.
Jordan from Artisan Electrics spotted crossing the Channel with his tool belt after Corey from ØY Electrical declared the UK an ‘ØY-only’ zone. The electrics turf war got so intense, even the circuit breakers couldn’t handle it!
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All the best for the future. I do miss the videos with Lee etc
Thanks! I’m back on site with the whole team this week filming an install together! Stay tuned 👍
It's a real shame with what this channel has become. All it seems to be now is pushing sponsors. The old videos were about actual electrical work. This is just like watching a huge advert. Jordan, have a revisit as to why your channel became so successful. This is trash.
What kind of videos did you like to watch?
This video isn’t even sponsored LOL it’s just a vlog
@@artisanelectrics Flagged as including paid promotion...
@@artisanelectricsvideos where you actually did the work !!! Rather than your office team notions
@@IRISHWOODWORKERthis is my life now 😢
As they say in Oz - Good on ya mate!
Good to see someone happy and successful doing interesting stuff with their lives 👏
What a shame about this channel, no longer watchable.
Why?
@@artisanelectricstoo corporate
Agreed. This channel used to be great. Real shame
Yes I feel the same. Fed up with watching Jordan the egotistical maniac.
Hi
Missing the Pandemic Era newness of the Vlog back then. Too much going on with your clip assembly. Your emersed in the minute details that the uniqueness of getting to know the Team is lost. I am glad that your making it work for you.Time is so precious ,dont fill every second with busyness . Stop now again an breath, laugh at the sillyness of things and watch for those around you who may not be doing so well. I hope your Grand-dad is doing better. You are a good Man ,Jordan always .
Have you only got 1 x Electrician on your team?
This video didn’t really land looking at the comments😬🤣
Wicked Vlog mate. I know how hard it can be to balance a business with family across the world! Will have to come pay you guys a visit! 🙏🏼
Read the room, Jordan. The good will and loyalty people had towards you is dropping off now - like many others I have stopped watching the videos. Layoffs and then re-hiring happens, fine, but the tone of the recent videos has been much different to before. Good luck, but I'm off to watch Oy, which funnily enough, shows just how much Corey was doing for you.
In the past, there were lots of videos on electricals, solar installations and so every other week. Now it's mostly overviews on products, vlogs and I think that's why people are losing interest. Back to those various installs of solar, ev chargers and electrical, watch people running back.
Yeah this is going to end well.
John has started his own UA-cam at least, for when people actually want to see someone on the tools.
The channel dropped off big time
Since corey left
I would like to see more of the fellas doing the graft.
Turned into a shitty reality TV show. I've completely lost interest now.
I stopped subscribing when I thought the UA-cam business was taking over the electrical but came back last week when I realised I missed the team. Now I see what you’ve done I am afraid it’s goodbye
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See ya
You "stopped subscribing"?? You know you just have to subscribe once right, you don't need to keep doing it 😅
You're going off for the second time, after the first attempt which ended up a disaster.
Videos need to go back to the lads on site & the graft.
OY Electrical is catching up on subscribers 😮
Saw it all in the eighties when people had a pub or pubs in the UK and lived in Spain, eventually it will fall apart as their are inherent fault factors involved.
Pubs are massively different. Ran a few. Main issue is the barman claiming spillage and pocketing the difference. Also lock ins playing landlord.
The folks made redundant send there regards while you live it up in the south of france
“Live it up”. If that’s what you call living it up. I’d hate to see how it’s going for you haha
Gone boring tbh, sorry but this video left me wishing I hadn't watched it.
Hi Jordan -- long time viewer & software engineer by day at an investment bank. Very interesting to see your paths cross into the s/w industry, maybe this is why I have such interest in electrics!
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Great to see the old guys miss them 😎
What a kick in the teeth to those u sacked bad owner bad buisnessman
Serious question, who actually pays to be a member of channels like this and buys t-shirts and hoodies etc with an electrical company’s name on it? Maybe I’m missing something but the world has gone mental!
Good luck with the new lifestyle. Wish you all the best!
Did anyone else think David Brent when Jordan interviewed Ruban!!
Classic 😂
Enjoy watching your videos, especially as I am from Holcombe Hill in Ramsbottom !! .
Thanks for watching!
Hi Jordan, just back to watch Artisan after being away for a long time. Good luck buddy with the current evolution of your company. I totally get the situation where you moved to France as your wife wanted to be back besides her family...its a big consideration and one that puts you and the business under a lot of pressure. Been there got the T-shirt. Good luck running your company and growing it to be stronger and more successful. 👍👍👍
Thanks very much for the positivity! ❤
@@artisanelectrics Misplaced positivity, unfortunately. I hope you're getting the message, Jordan. Your best option now is to sell your business to your employees at a discounted price and let them be their own bosses.
@@KendalSmithy Your opinion buddy, thanks for taking the time to it.
I’m interested in how you are now tracking all job costs and profits. Are you still using Tradify or have you advance onto something with better reporting. Can you share with us?
We use SimPro now for our cost tracking, it’s still not perfect I hate it sometimes - Tradify is way more user friendly but it didn’t allow us to track costs and P&L on every job. It’s all a work in progress and we are constantly evaluating our systems to see if we can improve things.
@@artisanelectrics ah yes I am just starting my journey with SimPro after using Tradify for around 4 years. I agree Tradify is very user friendly, I will miss it I’m sure.
@@artisanelectrics Tradify sponsorship end?
Congratulations Lee!
I have to agree, think you’re over thinking it Jordan. I watch Nick Bundy because his so relatable. I don’t think you’re that relatable anymore..
I watch Cory because his relatable… and his genuinely interesting. Explains all the electrical stuff down to minute detail… you go off on a big tangent and it’s very corporate… it’s good for your business but I don’t think it’s good for UA-cam..
Your older videos ware fantastic because you was showing actual work being done; the process of going from a small 1 man to 2 man was interesting. The struggles but you made it… now it’s how to be big, stay big and be absolutely massive all the time and take on too many sponsors in your other videos…
I wish you good luck; recently a lot of subscribers boycotted another channel I like because they got absolutely doll with the content they was making because, you guessed it - it went way to corporate and out of budget for the smaller person..
you should be educating like you did before, like Bundy does, like Cory does. Things that we ain’t never thought of before… come on Jordan. We know you’re better than this.
The last load of videos I’ve sort of refused to want to watch because I know they’re mainly about your progress and useless stuff that I’m not interested in at all…
why haven’t your team been able to film some of there install stuff before? What’s going on here?
Sorry Jordan. Liked your old content, but I just can’t deal with this new style of video, I think you should rethink a bit (hope this wasn’t too harsh, don’t mean it to be…)
Running a proper business takes a lot of “over thinking” to make it work
@@artisanelectrics I’m talking more about the UA-cam side. You need to show us the interesting stuff to keep us interested. I have ran corporate level jobs before. I understand but this stuff isn’t what we want to see, what made the channel the channel was the amount of installation content you was doing.
You only live once....if at all possible, do what makes you happy.
With commercial solar, is it also looking at lithium battery storage, or do you look at some of the other battery technologies too like Liquid Vanadium flow batteries?
Forgot this channel existed
Fair play .. if you can make it work, I see no issue. Happy wife, happy life. If others have an issue, it is their problem, their green eye jealousy and attitude. It is your life, make it work for you, they can make their lives work for them. In this modern and online work life, I know several people who live in Northern France and commute via the Channel Tunnel. I heard of 4 people who own their own light aircraft and also live in France and fly into Lydd Airport Monday, and fly back Friday. Houses in France are cheaper, life is mostly cheaper and a lot more pleasant, flights are not expensive and the average weather better - so it isn't the financial rip-off that people can think it is. If it provides work and a fair income for the staff, I see no problem. Good to see Ruben carving his path.
France is getting expensive supermarket food is awful, if you work here the tax and social charges are terrible and they are going up every year for the next 3 years. Wine is cheap so are houses not as cheap as it once was. Roads are great
@@CookWithWood-iz5hi so I understand about food and DIY material costs ... but the roads, houses etc make it better than UK
@@mdshovel it’s all about location, but if Mr Artisan can make it work for him that’s great but realistically how long can he keep this up also the vids have gone downhill a bit
Love these weekly vlog videos and great to get a catch up on the status of everything. Not an electrician but a business owner, loving all the current content and nice to see everything is going better. Glad to see you are taking care of yourselves as well as the company. All the best!
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Lots of hate in the comments but clearly not business owners 😂
So James’s green screen makes it look like you’re in Marseilles? Clever stuff 👍
Since Corey left, and the first venture abroad I haven’t watched many Videos from Artisan.
I am not an electrician, but found the videos interesting and informative
But found myself less and less interested. I suppose from when you left the UK the first time…
Me too
Well done Jordan ❤
Thanks 🙏
Company seems very top heavy now, seems there is more office staff than site staff? With a company this size I have absolutely no idea how you are making this work.
Thanks for the update, Jordan! All the best with the software venture. And wow, look at Reuben now. Four years. Yikes. The early starts and early finishes are the standard thing for tradies down under. Cheers
Haha thanks Jim! Great to see Reuben's progress eh!
@@artisanelectrics sure is!
Dudes going to be a content creator full time eventually
Living your best life. You will get massive amounts of jealousy from people here that CANNOT do what you do!
They are stuck, in their job, in their life and in this country.
Life should NEVER stand still. Keep it going!
Yeah the hate in the comments is mad. Like he's not allowed to have a work life balance. Good luck to him I say, life's too short.
Absolutely agreed! I've seen quite a few unnecessary comments, but that's just part of the journey. If you don't have opponents or jealous people, it might mean you're not on the right path. Keep up the fantastic work, Artisan team!
@@Evergreensands I disagree. The content has changed. Its now about management b@!!@€£$ and contracts, not about the coal face end, where experienced sparkles helped apprentices to learn. Jordan is fully entitled to his work life balance, but in doing do, he has lost the plot which built his following on UA-cam imho. Its a shame, and this isn't based on jealously or hate but comparison.
@@mikeypc3592 It is NOT hate, it's people who care trying to show him the reality of what he's doing.
I can say that this model doesn't really work. I once had a boss who adopted this idea and after 18mths I was made redundant, with the rest of the company going 6 months later.
Need to get back to the electrical content imho. Get the lads back behind the camera with some laughs and knowledge. Lost it's mojo since Cory and now John have left. Sorry Jordan, but it's the way it is - but with 1.4m subs, your lifestyle is probably all paid for by us numpties!! 🤣
Chill out people. Save yourself for things to come.
Thank you
Haven't seen much of lee in recent videos. Shout out to the haverhill massive brap brap.
Hi im an electrician from malaysia.got 8 years of expiriance here. I need a bit guidens about how can i start work as an electrician in USA
How NOT to keep viewers ....and influence people 😢 Goodbye
People seem to be giving him a lot of grief about not being on the tools, or living abroad etc. I've worked with sparks who try and manage their business while staying on the tools and it's a disaster in most cases. If he's creating jobs and working for his team, providing income and security to employees that's positive in my eyes.
I wonder if John’s watched this video…👀
Beautiful stuff to see your business doing so well.
Much love from Australia 🦘⚡
Nice to see the good guys grow in the team
"Artisan Media"
He needs to start lifting, get a hair transplant and a neck tattoo and I’d believe him.
how did you get a long stay shengen visa?
Preferred the old videos 😢
Rubens thinking of becoming a plumber ;)
🤣
More videos of installing stuff and showing us old mates shoddy wiring jobs.
Haha those were fun videos to make - I don’t get so many opportunities to do those now but we have a corker coming up soon…
Hi, good news... Would you be willing to take on a job in Croatia?
What a great way to run people and a company
Openquote; did your mom find that photo on the website 😃
Why do you receive so much hate from just trying to better yourself. Seems your main audience won’t be happy unless you’re working yourself into the ground until you’re 70.
Any tradesman out there. I have a simple fact for you. You can work weekends. You can work nights. You can do your own projects (to fill in nights and weekends if customers don’t want to see your mug). Work hard for a few years, get some investments and then chill out in your late 30s rich af. If you’re still breadlined into your mid 30s. You didn’t something seriously wrong.
I have to be brutally honest here, because i actually really enjoyed your content.
No one is really interested in behind the scenes of the business, or you telling stories, or comparing products. We want to see the team out on the tools. I'm a telecomms engineer, not a spark, but I loved watching the lads working. I picked up a few tips and tricks here and there, eapecially from Corey.
You need to get back to that. Take a back step, run the business, and get someone in that can get out there day to day with the team showing the work on the ground. You dont have to be the face of the business anymore. It worked when you lived in England.
Thanks for the feedback - some people have been asking me how the business is going and wanting an update which is why I created this video but clearly it’s not everyone’s cuppa tea
FWIW Your balance sheet is still really weak and now you are distracted. You have three businesses Artisan the software business and UA-cam, you need to focus on just one if you want to be successful.
Yes because no one has ever became successful with multiple streams of income.
So no domestic in the future.
Well done for getting away and living on your terms. I can tell you don’t listen to the negative comments anyway, just a bunch of losers who for some reason are trying to tell you how to run your business lol
I thought you needed to sack staff to survive etc etc and now you're living in Southern France. . unsubscribed... Corey clearly made the right call
Did you even watch the video LOL
@@artisanelectrics watched the first 10 minutes of it before finally giving up on the channel. I loved your early videos when you were focusing on electrics but ego clearly took over. I wish you and your partner the best and hope you take things in a more positive direction.
@@manyshnookssure Jordan will be fine with his other 251k subscribers😅
@@artisanelectrics Agree with the sentiment but no need for the 'LOL'... Either ignore, shadowban or explain your position. Seems a bit off laughing at one of your viewers. Your decisions cost people their livelihoods. No amount of time makes that right. It's good you've got the company into a more stable position but Laughing at people over this is very low...
What did you expect him to do? Give up on what makes him happy and not move to France? To keep people employed who are clearly capable of getting other work easily
Need to get back to the old school stuff. The actual graft people wanna see that. Im sure i speak for many of us we dont care about how good teslas new powerwall is. We like to see the ins and outs of the job the pain in the arse jobs the dodgy electrics.
I left your channel when you left the country the last time and it all went tits up and you lost control and started laying off staff , the first video I’ve watched since and low and behold Deja vu , in this video you talked again about laying off staff , you got it in the neck from subscribers the last time and felt sorry for yourself and here we are again , know wonder poor Rubin is one of your longest employees, real shame.
I knew electricians' rates were off the charts but now they get to live in South of France? And people say bankers are the villains...
😂😂😂
Yea this isn't a good look for the business
If you had family living somewhere else in the world, you might understand the balance he is trying to find and the feelings involved. It's not like Jordan is living on a million pound yacht and flying a private jet. 😂
How much you think it costs to live in the south of France? Man’s literally flying Ryan air for god sake…. England just has some weak minded people. If he was in America. He’d be making 5x as much and people would celebrate him on his private jet. Only in England do we knock people down 24 7. If you own a business that’s turning a profit. You don’t need to be on the ground daily.
Dont see any reason for the hate no need for it, its only a vlog video, been watching the channel since it was you on your lonesome with an iphone doing eicr's lol, do miss the "jobbing electrican" videos though, hands on domestic stuff, cant knock it that Artisan is a different beast now but and its predominantly solar and EV but it just dont hit the same as the day to day domestic electrical vids with the lads.
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Don't forget to pay your taxes in france after 6 months
Yeah never watch anymore. Cory was the channel!
Finance economy booming, the real one slowly eating itself. The real one - where waged work happens, and those wages just as slowly can’t keep up with the demands from financial growth.
Of course, business owners choose to financialise - converting margin surplus to capital assets. Outside of the business itself, maybe even in a different place - because it’s possible and legal.
Well - it’s been a nice couple of years following the Artisan team, but I’m off. 😊
How are you managing the brexit time of 90 days in 180 out of the country scenario, Maybe a secret irish ancestor lol
I’m French I have a French passport now (dual nationality)
Get Reuben his own van or he will be gone next
So you pushed tradify, then admit you nearly went under despite having it? 🤔
I have a similar home office setup - what brand are your headphones? I am having major issues! Cheers from Oz!
Sennheiser ones very good quality bought off Amazon. Thanks for watching!
When you went away last time it went Pete tong, it’s more than likely going to happen again. I can’t watch most of the vids anymore, just the same stuff and nothing like it used to be unfortunately
How does tax work running the business from another country ?
The business is registered in the UK so tax is paid by the business in the UK.
Such shame this channel has gone downhill, I miss the days of actual electrical work instead if these sponsorship bs videos
Enjoy France. 🇫🇷
Goodbye
Jordan why don't let your team handle the vids?
Your multitasking to much,micromanage has its downside. It be great if you do a collab vid with john faultless. It would mean alot
I am so sorry. I’ve watched your channel since the beginning and I think that this video is a mistake on your part.
Why?
I've been a subscriber from day one when it was just you but I haven't watched a video in almost a year now. This video just made me unsubscribe, I'll stick with Bundy and Corey.
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Wounds interesting. What would be the difference to something like paperclip or easyMCS?
Poor little rich kid obviously…
He's gone from really humble beginnings to loot what I have he laid off good electricians he's had none qualified people doing installs so he can pay em cheap went abroad after saying the company is going down the pan and then taken on another person and his prices are ridiculous bad owner bad company and the disrespect he shows for customers and employees is shocking
Eugh, there's nothing more awkward than your boss "interviewing" you/performance reviews. I don't know where they learn it from but listen, we come to work for money, we don't like you, we don't want to talk to you, we want to do the job and go home to people we like.
Damn! This comment section is toxic!
I don't think there was anything wrong with the video and the comments don't seemed to be represented in the dislikes (using the dislike return chrome extension).
Yep 😫
Jordan fighting for his life in the comments, its just the nature of youtube comments though, everyone is an expert, people also relish in the drama, they will turn on people in an instant due to it just being " a guy on youtube" and not liking change. I don't watch many electrician videos anymore as i just find it all bit samey, you can only watch so many consumer units or solar installs before it just becomes mundane. Appreciate that Jordan is trying to do some "different" content and hope it works out for him!
What a sad little life Jordan
Hope French tax man not watching. Hope you have the correct visas, paying the correct social charges etc. they are pretty ruthless in France
It’s all sorted thanks 👍
Good man. Over watching mainly electrical now to be honest. Like some of your stuff but his channel far better for electricians. I spent many years as a finance Director and business restructuring guy. Absentee owners/directors were always a disaster. Seen people running things from boats etc. Never worked.
@@artisanelectricsFrance is the most visited country in Western Europe. Aside from just tourists, it is home to millions of digital nomads because of its high standard of living and fantastic lifestyle. However, digital nomads will need an appropriate visa to live and work in France for up to three or more years.
Just think it's fairer to point this out in the video. France has lots of regulations etc. Not everyone will be aware of the need to have the correct visas etc.