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One take away I have used from Tony Robbins when I become frustrated is this line. “At one time in my life I would have been happy to have this problem because I am now where I wanted to be then.” Sometimes we become numb to our blessings in life and forget that people would die to trade places. Mountain of work to do, at one time there wasn’t faith to have all the work. Tons of connections to get back to, at one time we wished we had those connections. Employees being a pain, at one time we didn’t have those employees to leverage to produce more profit. Outlook is everything.

Is the spreadsheet available for public?

Another great video, thank you for sharing your insight once again. Even though its not what I want to hear, I have realized I need to spend a little time every day on hiring.

My one thing is paying my employees cash. I need to stop andb figure out how to set up a payment system with tax, national insurance etc. i find all this terrifying as my emplyees wont like it

My one thing for some reason I can’t get out of my head is should I leave local services ads on or not/advertise as much. I make a good living but it could be better. When I turn the advertising off I have this overwhelming intuition to keep it on. I can only leave it off for a few days. When I do the math it makes sense, for every $135 spent, I gross $785 per closed lead annually. Do I continue throwing marketing dollars at this and grow it even more? Or do I start getting more net profit out of it and start living a little more lavishly and let it grow by word of mouth, truck wraps, lawn signs, seo and google my business- everything organic. Been at it for 19 years now.

So good!

I love this perspective. There is so much fluff and feel-good B.S. out there in the coaching world and none of it is helpful. Thank you for your videos and wisdom. I have enjoyed everything so far, and look forward to learning as much as I can from you and your experiences.

Great video! Thanks.

Thank you for the honest, concise video. I really appreciate that you consistently post quality content that is to-the-point. This is so refreshing to watch.

What if you don’t have an office yet?

Very solid advice JP! I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing sometimes and I have a BSBA with a major in Marketing and 13 yrs of executive level sales experience selling $100M - 1B deals. Got burnt out and left to follow my goal of being a businese owner. Your right about skipping college if you are confident you want to start or buy a business when your young. In your previous videos with the deck business owner points out, your network and marketing are your most valuable ways to grow a business. I agree and also remind myself daily that I can't grow my businese without other people willing to help me do it. Free help is great but paid help is even better when done right. The skillsets and people you need to launch, build, or scale will cost you equity or cash/profits but in the long run will reward you better than 10x returns 10-15 years later in your business. 100% ownership of a $400k revenue business is much less annual earnings than 30% ownership of a business that produces 2-3 million net profit per year and does 5-7 million in sales a year. You gotta wear every hat in your business in the begining til you find someone else each hat fits better.

Would love to see a video from you on strictly marketing. Maybe a step by step guide on what you’d do, and also how to determine if your market area is large enough to support the business or should someone consider moving into a larger market.

Love the content. Thank you for the wealth of knowledge you provide on UA-cam. I have a question and would like to get your perspective on it. Is it wise to rent satellite locations for a lawn care business to expand into new areas in the market or stick to a central location where all employees meet. I see some of the potential pros and cons of having satellite locations but I’m curious of your thoughts on the matter.

Can you speak about how macro economic trends impact the success of a company? For instance, how does the level of household debt in non-US countries (e.g. Canada, Australia, etc.) affect the growth rate and profitability of companies in those regions vs. similar companies in the US?

Thank you! "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman is another great one for the psychology of marketing/human decision making.

Great points!

Thank you.

Great points! Thank you.

Great conversation. Thank you for sharing!

This is great !

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Absolutely love your new content!! A common “insinuation” I’ve noticed is that you are not bullish on Lawn Mowing service as a business model… In Your Opinion, what would be the most viable (if any) mowing business model?

Me you us we should invest in Augusta so we can change not to our communities, but the “changing the level of professionalism, in the landscape industry starting with the front line employees”

Amazing chat! I really enjoyed when yall talked about combining it with lawn care. I asked the guys last year if they would want to scoop before mowing and all said no 😅

Two thoughts on this: 1. It’s not the best product that wins. It’s the best known product. 2. I have a masters degree, 4.0 gpa. Slowed me down. Waste of time.

I feel school just helped me be a good employee not a good entrepreneur… I’m having my daughter who is 11 now, start working on public speaking, reading body language, speech, which I am actively working on myself.

Thanks so much for the response. It means a lot! I really appreciate the specific recommendations on who to listen to. I would also be interested in hearing your thoughts on the pros and cons of joining a franchise.

How much should I hold in my s corp if I’m running multiple llc locations?

100% agree it's your network/community that will help you get bigger. If your network/community doesn't believe in what you're doing and want to help you succeed, the ability to grow will become much more difficult.

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Pro tip: Cut the shrub rake in half and then add a rubber bicycle handle to it. Makes scooping more efficient than keeping a full-length handle.

When I had my lawn service in Atlanta, we had this as an add on and in neighborhoods we had lawn care clients, and it was by far our highest margin service. Great stuff if you really attack it and build good routes.

Spot spray weeds and preen them quarterly. Bushes every 2 weeks Can be added on or sold separately, in my opinion, and in a perfect world, better quality run separate bur can be decent money and a schedule can get stacked with alternating weeks

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Love seeing you cover the pooper scooper industry

You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I am learning a lot!

Thank you! Super helpful video.

Great video, I love this personal interview. Besides the obvious that potentially someone’s market is not able to have a large company. People I believe somewhat have a capacity level. They get in a comfort zone and think this is it. They don’t like the uncomfortability it takes to go big. Some people are able to just keep pushing no matter what it takes. Example being, I just found out today a fert trailer was stolen from my company, my management team did not itemize it because it was just bought. Our company insurance is not going to cover the trailer. This is a small blip of uncomfortable moments you have to deal with but people just give up. People with a larger personal capacity don’t think twice about closing their business over it, they use it as motivation to keep going and use it as a team learning moment. Think big and don’t give up, ever. Use rough moments to build your character. How are you going to react as the leader? Your people are watching.

My plateau is $250,000

Can you specify what a bad margin vs. a good margin is in terms of net profit percentage?

Thanks for the video. I have watched a lot of your content and learned a lot from it. Can you speak about business education and the resources/people/degrees (e.g. MBA) you would or would not recommend? Thanks!

Love the spreadsheet videos!

??? wot ... three minutes into this video, I'd say it's either clickbait or you have no idea what you're talking about. Bottom line you're discussing vertical integration - and yes if you decide to integrate vertically you'll have to have certain skills in house. end of the story.

None of these points have to do with software development, but everything to do with «everyday it operations»

Fixed you title: "Custom Software Will Destroy Your Business (if you´re an idiot)" Now it's clear that its the "idiot" parts not the "custom" part that fails you 🙂

As a software development consultant, I completely agree with your general sentiment. Building custom software can be highly beneficial if done correctly. However, most businesses (especially small businesses) make the mistake of underestimating the cost and complexity of developing custom software. There are ways to get around this, but you have to jump into the details of how the system works and make various tradeoffs to reduce the technical complexity of the software.

It’s not horrible idea it’s good idea if you have a right team. Video is misleading

To many jacks of all trades, master of none. Always searching for the next best thing when if they just spent all their effort on one service company offering, perfecting it, life would be completely different.

I was looking at my face in the screen and I told myself man I thought I had long hair but no I'm a nerd looking 53 year old loving life.

I feel attacked! Jk haha. I totally understand trying to piece together to many programs/ building my own things has cost me a lot of marketing/ sales time.