Great advise mate. Thanks for sharing 🤙🏻 super stoked you are doing so well with it. Love to hear stories like this.

@@lovelawns he's just taken the piss out of your video mate

You certainly could do it the way you suggest and nothing wrong with that, and when starting out it might be good but I feel that if you want to make really good money doing this then there are certain ways to do things that are more professional, efficient and commercial driven. Working out of a wagon is not ideal, where do you put the mower, folding the handle down 40 times a day to fit it in isn't an option for us, how do you store the fuel, having it in the car with you is not an option, where do you put the green waste, very rarely would we fit it all in a customers green bin and they often want to use them for there own green waste. One mow in some properties and its full! I would never leave green waste at a customers house and ask them to dispose of it! We factor in the tip price with our quotes. Like I said, nothing wrong with doing it the way you suggest, plenty of blokes out there doing it like that successfully and if that works for you / them thats great, but we don't do things that way and this video is how I would recommend doing it from my experience. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, really appreciate you commenting. Cheers

Agree 100%, the quickest was to go broke is buying a 50K ute, 20K trailer and 12K worth of marketing and BS just to mow lawns $30-$70 a pop. All you need is a mower, blower and line trimmer and a way to transport it, I literally started off with my garden tools I already had in the back of my old Falcon I had with the seats folded down.

Hey Jamie, thanks for taking the time to send this message mate, really appreciate it. Messages like this really make a positive difference so I'm stoked you found it helpful. Good luck with your business 🤙🏻

Hey mate, thanks for the kind words. Stoked it helped you out. 🤙🏻

You need a point of difference to every one else - something that makes you stand out from the other gardeners.

Yeah I like a van setup too. Great advise mate thanks for watching 👍🏻

Hey mate, thanks for the suggestions. I really do need to do the follow up video to this asap…. Cheers

It sure is!

Thanks mate, really appreciate that. Good luck with you business. 👍🏻

Thank you. I'm working on it. Stay tuned.

Good shout mate. I use the large 7m yellow Silky pole saw heaps. Very useful tools. Thanks for commenting and watching. 👍🏻

Thanks for watching and commenting mate ❤️

Thanks mate, really appreciate the feedback 👍🏻 When watching it back myself there are heaps of little things I feel I missed out but it’s hard to get everything into one video. Will touch on those extra things in future videos. Thanks again for watching and commenting. 🙂

@@lovelawns It was great

Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Thanks Karleen, really appreciate your kind feedback and for watching.

Hi mate, thanks for watching and commenting. Yeah I’ve been meaning to make a video like that for ages as a bit of a follow up to my last video about business but just haven’t found the time. Thanks for the reminder that I need to do this lol 👍🏻

Thanks mate 👍🏻

Legend 👍🏻

Thanks, mate! I haven't done a specific video on how to price jobs yet, it's in the pipeline. In the meantime, you could go and check out McPhee's Gardening Services. He has done some beneficial videos about pricing and quoting etc. Cheers.

Hey Ross, thanks for the support mate, really appreciate it. With the mowers it depends a bit on what sort of lawns you will be mowing. I do recommend having both to be honest. The 196 is a great little mower and at 45kgs is lighter than the 216 but pushing it around all day does get tiring after a while if you are doing it all day every day and any slopes end up being a real workout, especially in the summer, it has a nice wide shoot at the back so doesnt get blocked up as easy as the 216 when the grass is wet too. The 216 is about 60kgs so is a bit harder to move around but with the self propelled feature it's much easier to use when actually mowing with it. You'll get used to the wheels spinning at the start and just push it a bit when you start, it's worse when the grass is wet. I use a zero turn on the larger stuff and when I upgrade I will get a stander as they are far more efficient, but this also depends on what sort of lawns your doing. With the whippys you really need a petrol and a battery in my opinion. Battery for all the regular stuff and sometimes you just need the petrol for power and runtime. The Shindiawa stuff is good. If you are getting the Husky 525 battery combo it might be worth getting the Husqy petrol combi so when you do need the petrol gear the attachments work in both. Unless you want a dedicated whippy and not a combi unit? I use the battery stuff all the time but still carry the petrol stuff for the old job that needs it. But that's personal, you could get away with just battery gear for sure. Good luck with the business mate, let me know how you get on and if you need any help with anything give us a ring or drop us a message. 👍🏻 Cheers. Ki

@@lovelawns Thanks so much Ki for your help! Much appreciated! : )

Microsoft offer laptops half the price of Apple too but how many people still choose Apple laptops. It’s not just about price. 👍🏻

$40 is way too cheap, don't charge by the hour otherwise you get penalised for working harder and your income is limited by the hours you work. Quote jobs, work out how long it will take you and tell them how much it will cost not an hourly rate, otherwise you will get customer time your jobs and say well I am not paying you $40 as it only took you 50 minutes.

Lots of different ways to handle that, you'd have to make a your own choices. No customer should know any other customers prices though unless recommended and then you know they know each other so you work out the prices accordingly. And yes prices should increase accordingly, but you also get faster, so that Elma down the road that used to take 1 hour for $40 would only take 30 mins now so it works out to be $80ph. As an example.

Thanks mate. For scheduling I’m just using a calendar app these days and Xero for all financial stuff. I used to recommend Jobber as a great app for customer management, scheduling and invoicing all rolled into one but they stopped supporting Xero which just makes it less appealing for us now and I personally just find using a calendar app along with a notes app does the job just fine. I looked at ServiceM8 and many others over the years too but I find them a bit overkill for what we do. Also quite expensive if sending large amounts of invoices which we do as a lawn and landscaping business. We might send 20 invoices a day and some of those apps give you up to 20 a week then the prices rocket up. So yeah, I just find that Googles suite of apps works well for us. We also use Stripe to process card payments. Cheers

@@lovelawns great thanks mate much appreciated hopefully you can talk about this in your next video

Sounds like you’ve been working with the council a bit too much mate lol…!

Not really the sort of info I share on social media platforms mate. Thanks for watching tho!

Thanks Wade 👍🏻

No idea how much you should charge. Depends on many different things.