ChatGPT is free and genuinely handy for running a trade business. The catch, which we will get to, is that it only works when you actually sit down and use it. Here are five jobs it does well.
1. Chase a quote that has gone quiet
Paste your quote details and ask: "Write a short, friendly follow-up text to a customer who hasn't replied to my quote for a bathroom reno." You get something you can send in ten seconds, no awkward wording.
2. Reply to a Google review
A reply to every review, good or bad, tells the next customer you are switched on. Paste the review and ask for a calm, professional reply. We wrote a full guide on the tricky ones: how to reply to a bad Google review.
3. Win back an old customer
Ask it to write a text to someone you serviced a year ago. That one text is one of the cheapest jobs you can do, and we broke it down here: the 10-minute win-back text.
4. Write your Google Business description
Try: "Write a 750-character Google Business Profile description for a Werribee electrician who does switchboards, EV chargers and emergency callouts." Better than leaving it blank, which is what most tradies do.
5. Sort the words on your website
Headlines, service blurbs, the about page. It is faster than staring at an empty screen.
The catch nobody mentions
ChatGPT only does the job when you open it, log in, write the prompt, copy the result, and paste it where it needs to go. Every single time. Between jobs, that is real hours, and most tradies start strong then quietly stop after a fortnight.
Doing it yourself works if you have got the time. If you have not, BizEdge runs all of this for you automatically, for less than it would cost you in hours, let alone an agency. That is the whole idea: the AI does the marketing, you stay on the tools.