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You have your master craftsman certificate. We help you become your own boss.

Want to build your own trade business? As your partner we are with you from the first plan, through financing and trade registration, to your first jobs. And we stay with you after that.

Talk to us about the partnership
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Two members of the smalt team

You bring the trade. We bring the business experience.

Starting your own business means taking on a lot of business jobs on top of the work on the tools. We handle the ones that decide whether your start goes well, together with you.

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Your trade
A partner meeting at the smalt office
Our experience

Six weeks from the first conversation to your first job.

We take you through the steps that matter when you start out, and help you get them done.

Business model & business plan

We work out your business model together and put the numbers behind it.

Financing

We get you ready for the bank meeting, check which KfW start-up loans you qualify for, and look at the right legal set-up for your business.

Run the KfW check

Trade registration & insurance

We walk you through the paperwork that makes it official, and the cover you need in place.

Website & winning customers

We build you a proper website and help you win your first customers.

Run the marketing check

First jobs

We are alongside you on the first jobs, and on everything else that comes with running the business.

We think about the money side of starting out too.

From working out how much capital you need, to KfW start-up loans, to the right legal structure: we bring our experience and stand beside you on the decisions that cost money.

Run the free KfW check

Capital requirement planDraft

Company van€38,000

Tools & test equipment€14,500

Starting stock of materials€9,000

Cash reserve€25,000

Capital needed€86,500

FinancingKfW start-up loan

StructureGmbH or sole trader

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YOUR PARTNER IN IDSTEINYour reliable master electrician for the Taunus region.

Becker Elektrotechnik: wallboxes, meter cabinets, solar and heat pumps across the Rheingau-Taunus. Personal service, from people nearby.

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Customers can find you from day one.

We sort out how your business shows up: a proper website, local visibility, SEO and the basics that bring customers in.

You get the benefit of everything we have already built.

Proven ways of working, playbooks and templates, from years of working with trade businesses.

Business planning

Costing your work

Winning customers

Running the business

The smalt team talking with partners

We do not stop at your first job.

Once you are up and running we keep working on the business with you, on the money and on how it is organised. We sit down regularly, go through your figures, talk about what is not working and help you make the calls that matter.

Strategy & growth
Alpha Energy
“Without the smalt team our start would have taken a lot longer.”
Alpha Energy · Newly founded · 7× revenue since starting
Elektrotechnik Hummler
“I wanted to be my own boss and set up my own way of working.”
Elektrotechnik Hummler · Newly founded · over €40K revenue in three months

Let us start your business together.

Become a partner
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