Thanks again Mike for the opportunity. The mentoring over the last couple years has been priceless. I very much appreciate it, and your media crew always crushes it!
Love this vid man.. Mike is right you have great people around you and you gotta let them have the trust that they put into you as well man.. I hope to get to follow yalls journey.
I’m rooting for you Dillon. You seem like a man of faith, remember even Moses had gotten advice from his father in law to delegate responsibilities to others. You got this buddy, I’ve been watching your growth, I saw you on another UA-cam channel like a year ago. You inspire me to bite the bullet and start my lawn care business that I’ve always wanted.
@@sebastiangarcia41910 thank you Sir. If you haven’t yet, just make one small step to get started. Doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you get started.
I’m curious about his marketing plans. He has crazy grow! I’m also curious about how he’s cutting with 22” Honda mowers. Not a zero turn or stander in sight. But good for him. He’s doing a great job at getting customers and being a good employer.
Im North located in S Seattle and seeing you're local was super cool. Im not in this line of work but the business content is amazing as I'm trying to grow and figure this out as well. Thank you for opening your business and life up to help everyone learn and grow. Keep up the good work and you deserve everything you're working towards.
I would love to meet you one day Mike! Ive got a call with Lee in a couple of weeks to talk about franchising with Augusta! Big inspiration to all of us landscapers.
Great stuff everyone. Having great work ethic, being passionate and caring about your business so much makes it hard to trust others but once you have the right people youir business can really grow. When you try and do everything, you really just burn out and in the process you don't allow others to grow into good employees. It's hard but I think it's worth the risk to define roles and your systems.
I love these videos. I’m starting my own lawn care and landscaping business. I understand marketing on the digital side. However I’m always looking for tips on doing door hangers or what’s the cheapest way to grab my first 20 clients fast
Wow! I learned a lot about myself watching this. I can relate to several different topics covered, I’m going through similar challenges myself. Thank you Dylan for sharing all of this with the community, well done!
Congrats Mike!!! You found something that helps your channel grow. I’m sure you love what you do. And most importantly expand your top tier business tips and great mentorship.
such gold FREE wisdom. mike has so many haters. Im tired of seeing people write he doesn't offer anything free like all his stuff all his videos like even before he started charging its free even going out here to help these people is free. i think mike is the same guy off camera. God bless you sir and congrates on your amazing success! i salute you. there's just far more haters then encouragers. stay focused mike. keep King Jesus first. keep going.
My observation from watching several videos the owners need to talk to their key employees. Folks have employed some extraordinary individuals and need to listen to them to keep the owners on track as to the reality of what is working and what is not.
Dylan your going to do great man ! I can tell you truly care about your family and kids and are an awesome dad. Your super close to getting the business figured out! Takes Mikes advice and you’ll do awesome man!
I get having your top guys on board but u gotta set your whole grew up for the future I believe in rewarding the lil guys too if they live up to company standards
addressing your point… autonomous taxis in conjunction with a drop in ownership is an urbanist super goal it remains to be seen how that changes the world… think of last mile shipping with autonomous 4 wheel vehicles… literally reduces all driven miles and would increase market efficiency massively
When Dylan said I work hard to set and example for my kids, if you don't communicate that's why youre doing it they may not understand and take it the wrong way, it'll hurt not having your Dad around, a LOT My Dad works way too much and I saw that and thought he's not getting rewarded for all the effort (still isn't) and I decided that I don't want that, I want to work for myself so I'll get more rewards (and more stress) and am vauled, in school and for years after I dreaded getting a job because all I associated jobs with was having no control in your life and being stuck forever
Mike, so you recommend having the sales person also answer phones and emails? This is what we did this year and found lots of things drop through the cracks in the spring bc it was just too much for one person during the spring rush. My answer to this was to jump in an answer emails/texts from the office computer. But it did create some issues bc there was more than one person trying to resolve issues or answer questions and stuff would still fall through the cracks bc there wasn’t clarity.
Mikes advice to us was for me (sales person) drive to and write the estimates. The office person answers phones and emails and only forwards emails to me, if they can’t answer the question from clients. This frees more of my time up to focus on sales rather than jumping into operations or admin.
Any advice to someone working for someone else (who is pretty hands off) trying to get them to sell the business but yet has terrible credit so financing isn’t an option?
As someone who JUST started in this business this year, I am wondering what will the owner do once he delegates all of his tasks to his other employees?
classic service business owner mentality.....im at the higher end on pricing for my area....when he actually is not. We all think we know where our market can sustain pricing. But most of us are just wrong.
Your profit is low because you’re paying guys to push mow lawns . You’re raking shrub waste instead of blowing it into the yard and picking it up with a zero turn with bagger unit . Time is money . Not trying to hate , but productivity is every thing .
If I was Dylan, I would’ve stuck exactly where my ass was in 2022 a little bit under $600,000 in revenue with a 30% profit margin that looks fucking incredible
A long time ago we were waiting after we poured out a new house floor and we were watching some guys installing new Bermuda sod and one of the crew members was laying down with the green towards the soil. (Bottom up) 😭
DG5476 Our usual average for mowing is $2.80 per minute in high density routes. That’s driving time and mowing time. So , we do have $200 or more lawns. Quite a few actually.
It all depends on what market youre in and what youre after. We are in a smaller town around a smaller city about 100k people. The property values and local economy can only support x number of higher paying customers, y number of mid teir customers and then z number of budget people. You could definately service only to the higher tier customers but you would max out far before 1 million yearly revenue. It alld epends on what demographic you want to corner. Make sure the customer you are wanting to serve is well defined and you will get better and better at serving that customer until your margins are 20 +%
My ops manager is well worth the investment, even if he doesn’t stay long-term. I’ve adopted the mentality that I will position the guys to learn everything they need to know, to succeed on their own, if that’s what they decide. The hope is that they will stay long enough to catapult our business to a new level. I don’t like the perspective of keeping my crew ignorant. This is an old-school, fear-based mentality.
@urbanrootslandscaping3874 That's fair. I just exercise extreme caution when someone openly states they want to start their own business and be a direct competitor. I think that just good common business sense tbh. I appreciate your perspective though sir. All the best!
Thanks again Mike for the opportunity. The mentoring over the last couple years has been priceless. I very much appreciate it, and your media crew always crushes it!
Can’t wait to see you guys crush it!
Love this vid man.. Mike is right you have great people around you and you gotta let them have the trust that they put into you as well man.. I hope to get to follow yalls journey.
@@curbappeallawncarellc4263 Thank you!
I’m rooting for you Dillon.
You seem like a man of faith, remember even Moses had gotten advice from his father in law to delegate responsibilities to others. You got this buddy, I’ve been watching your growth, I saw you on another UA-cam channel like a year ago.
You inspire me to bite the bullet and start my lawn care business that I’ve always wanted.
@@sebastiangarcia41910 thank you Sir. If you haven’t yet, just make one small step to get started. Doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you get started.
This is awesome. I need this in my lawn care business! We grew from 23k last year to 160k this year.
I’m curious about his marketing plans. He has crazy grow!
I’m also curious about how he’s cutting with 22” Honda mowers. Not a zero turn or stander in sight.
But good for him. He’s doing a great job at getting customers and being a good employer.
This series you've been running lately is so unique & so informative/entertaining!
I agree
Im North located in S Seattle and seeing you're local was super cool. Im not in this line of work but the business content is amazing as I'm trying to grow and figure this out as well. Thank you for opening your business and life up to help everyone learn and grow.
Keep up the good work and you deserve everything you're working towards.
About to start my own landscaping business in San Diego and these videos are my guide to success.
Let’s gooooo!
This last year was the first where my small scooping business didn’t grow at all… Gotta try even harder to grow our clientele next year!
You got this 💪🏻🚀
This one hit hard🍃
I would love to meet you one day Mike! Ive got a call with Lee in a couple of weeks to talk about franchising with Augusta! Big inspiration to all of us landscapers.
Let’s goooo
Great stuff everyone. Having great work ethic, being passionate and caring about your business so much makes it hard to trust others but once you have the right people youir business can really grow. When you try and do everything, you really just burn out and in the process you don't allow others to grow into good employees. It's hard but I think it's worth the risk to define roles and your systems.
I love these videos. I’m starting my own lawn care and landscaping business. I understand marketing on the digital side. However I’m always looking for tips on doing door hangers or what’s the cheapest way to grab my first 20 clients fast
He should just join Augusta! I think he would crush it with all the Augusta support.
Wow! I learned a lot about myself watching this. I can relate to several different topics covered, I’m going through similar challenges myself. Thank you Dylan for sharing all of this with the community, well done!
Don’t use 22 inch push mowers like this guy .
im gonna open a company in the spring been watching for a long time thanks for the info and inspiration
Good work!!
Congrats Mike!!! You found something that helps your channel grow. I’m sure you love what you do. And most importantly expand your top tier business tips and great mentorship.
Nice job as always Mike, when the finance doctor shows up you know it’s going from the red to the green!
Would love to see an update video now that the spring rush is over!!
Another great one! It’s been cool watching Dylan grow since his first video on Mike’s channel a few years ago.
such gold FREE wisdom. mike has so many haters. Im tired of seeing people write he doesn't offer anything free like all his stuff all his videos like even before he started charging its free even going out here to help these people is free. i think mike is the same guy off camera. God bless you sir and congrates on your amazing success! i salute you. there's just far more haters then encouragers. stay focused mike. keep King Jesus first. keep going.
Dylan you are awesome. Train your clients. Turn that phone and email off on the weekends. They can wait until Monday.
Thank you. I will make it happen.
If you want to grow and be profitable, keep the phone on. Not working weekends is a luxury that desperate business owners should not feel entitled to.
My observation from watching several videos the owners need to talk to their key employees. Folks have employed some extraordinary individuals and need to listen to them to keep the owners on track as to the reality of what is working and what is not.
Keep up the great videos we all love watching
Thanks! Will do!
Dylan your going to do great man ! I can tell you truly care about your family and kids and are an awesome dad. Your super close to getting the business figured out! Takes Mikes advice and you’ll do awesome man!
❤️💪🏻
Thanks for your kind words! 😊
Used to work here dylan is the man. Was a good job..
Thanks dude!
Love these videos very informative and very well put together with the editing team good job guys 🎉
Great video, thanks Mike
I get having your top guys on board but u gotta set your whole grew up for the future I believe in rewarding the lil guys too if they live up to company standards
Yes P4P, profit sharing, and open book management are helpful
I truly enjoyed this.
Great content !
I love these videos they’re the best
AI helps a lot also by scanning the estimate video and summarizing what is said into bulletpints in seconds.
Dylan! Come join us in Augusta !
Lol! Thanks for the invite :-)
addressing your point…
autonomous taxis in conjunction with a drop in ownership is an urbanist super goal
it remains to be seen how that changes the world…
think of last mile shipping with autonomous 4 wheel vehicles…
literally reduces all driven miles and would increase market efficiency massively
i never comment, This was a fantastic piece excellent work
I appreciate it!
Great video and advice for Dylan he seems like a good guy 😀 I wish Dylan more success 😊
Thank you.
When Dylan said I work hard to set and example for my kids, if you don't communicate that's why youre doing it they may not understand and take it the wrong way, it'll hurt not having your Dad around, a LOT
My Dad works way too much and I saw that and thought he's not getting rewarded for all the effort (still isn't) and I decided that I don't want that, I want to work for myself so I'll get more rewards (and more stress) and am vauled, in school and for years after I dreaded getting a job because all I associated jobs with was having no control in your life and being stuck forever
Great words of advice.
Mike, so you recommend having the sales person also answer phones and emails? This is what we did this year and found lots of things drop through the cracks in the spring bc it was just too much for one person during the spring rush.
My answer to this was to jump in an answer emails/texts from the office computer. But it did create some issues bc there was more than one person trying to resolve issues or answer questions and stuff would still fall through the cracks bc there wasn’t clarity.
Mikes advice to us was for me (sales person) drive to and write the estimates. The office person answers phones and emails and only forwards emails to me, if they can’t answer the question from clients. This frees more of my time up to focus on sales rather than jumping into operations or admin.
I remember watching his guy last year tho king he is going to KILL IT. Looks like he grew really fast just NOT profitablly!
Any advice to someone working for someone else (who is pretty hands off) trying to get them to sell the business but yet has terrible credit so financing isn’t an option?
Amazing Video!! Thank you
Thanks!
As someone who JUST started in this business this year, I am wondering what will the owner do once he delegates all of his tasks to his other employees?
Killer video brother👊🏻 what church do you go to? Im baptist
classic service business owner mentality.....im at the higher end on pricing for my area....when he actually is not. We all think we know where our market can sustain pricing. But most of us are just wrong.
Your profit is low because you’re paying guys to push mow lawns . You’re raking shrub waste instead of blowing it into the yard and picking it up with a zero turn with bagger unit . Time is money . Not trying to hate , but productivity is every thing .
If I was Dylan, I would’ve stuck exactly where my ass was in 2022 a little bit under $600,000 in revenue with a 30% profit margin that looks fucking incredible
Tigrans long lost brother
Who is doing book keeping in this system? The admin or is this hired out?
Hired bookkeeper
There's somebody who makes YT shorts that sounds exactly like Dylan.
I would slow down where he can afford because when you can afford five profit sharing him the owner we'll have more
Tried to unsubscribe from your service and you charged me for 6 months. How do I unsubscribe? Someone help please.
Email media@mikeandes.com
Hire a Mexican. Juan will grow your business 😂😂
Bro that sod install clip was so cringe
Timestamp?
A long time ago we were waiting after we poured out a new house floor and we were watching some guys installing new Bermuda sod and one of the crew members was laying down with the green towards the soil. (Bottom up) 😭
When you say over 100 per hour are you talking per head? My company charges 60 per head per guy. So two guys for one hour would be 120
Correct. $100 per man
We should up our prices. We are at 57.50 per guy but in Canada...
@@MikeAndesso you charge a customer $200 to mow their lawn?
DG5476
Our usual average for mowing is $2.80 per minute in high density routes. That’s driving time and mowing time.
So , we do have $200 or more lawns. Quite a few actually.
It all depends on what market youre in and what youre after. We are in a smaller town around a smaller city about 100k people. The property values and local economy can only support x number of higher paying customers, y number of mid teir customers and then z number of budget people. You could definately service only to the higher tier customers but you would max out far before 1 million yearly revenue. It alld epends on what demographic you want to corner. Make sure the customer you are wanting to serve is well defined and you will get better and better at serving that customer until your margins are 20 +%
His top labor is not a good investment
I agree. Why would you train up your own future competition?
What if he decides to stay though after he gets more responsibilities?
My ops manager is well worth the investment, even if he doesn’t stay long-term. I’ve adopted the mentality that I will position the guys to learn everything they need to know, to succeed on their own, if that’s what they decide. The hope is that they will stay long enough to catapult our business to a new level. I don’t like the perspective of keeping my crew ignorant. This is an old-school, fear-based mentality.
@urbanrootslandscaping3874 That's fair. I just exercise extreme caution when someone openly states they want to start their own business and be a direct competitor. I think that just good common business sense tbh. I appreciate your perspective though sir. All the best!
@@justinmaidment4345Thank you. I appreciate your perspective as well.
He's more worried about paying people than making money.
Mike. Love your content. Go to speech therapy. Your videos will do so much better if you learn to stop mumbling and combining words.
....one day ill be successful lol