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Usually slightly on average … depending on time of year

Stilh Kombi System

Anything one-time…. Projects, one time/initial mows etc

Not recurring work though

Did you figure things out? I hope so. Quick assistance for you but I can go in depth if you need me to. As the owner/operator you and your company have fixed yearly/monthly expenses. I'm going to generalize/round some numbers. Lets assume that monthly your expenses are as follows: business insurance $100 truck payment $500 Truck insurance $100 Repairs/maintenance on truck and equipment $300 Equipment fuel at $5/hour, 20 hours per week and 4 weeks per month for $400 Truck fuel for business at 300 mile/week times 4 weeks at 15 miles/gallon at $5/gallon is $400 Miscellaneous expenses of $200 Monthly business expenses estimated at $2,000 or $500/week or $100/day or $12.50/hour at 8 hours. Now, not knowing your real numbers for how much you need to "live" or pay your normal household bills, I'm going to assume you need $60,000 per year before taxes in your pocket plus the $24,000/year business expenses noted above. Assuming you live in a northern state an mow 6 months (26 weeks) and do fall cleanups and spring cleanups for a month each, you're working 8 months. Here is the quick breakdown $60,000+$24,000=$84,000 needed per year. 40 hours per week for 8 months is rounded to 1,300 billable hours for a single person. $84,000 year/1,300 hours = $65/hour minimum necessary billable rate working 40 billable hours per week for 8 months. This must include drive time too. You would need $2,600 per week of income. If you charge $40 per lawn you would need 65 lawns/week or 13/day. Each lawn should take about 30 minutes to mow, trim, blow and drive to/from. There may be a few weeks on either end of the calendar where you have extra time to make more money but that is "savings". Also, perhaps you can add snow removal in the winter months or work for another job a few months/year. Calculations I've done in the past indicate that it is not monetarily prudent to hire someone until you have been working a steady 55ish hours per week. That worker doesn't necessarily cut your work time in 1/2 since they may be slower than you or at the very least, have no billable drive time. Therefore if you take the 65 lawns noted above and get up to 100 lawns at $40 average taking 30 minutes each you're working 50 hours minimum and probably closer to 55 hours. The extra 35 lawns at $40/lawn over the 65 gives you $1,400 more money per week. If you assume that your employee will work 40 hours at $15/hour plus workers comp and misc. insurances/expenses you can assume they are close to $25/hour all in for 40 hours so $1,000/week. $1,400 new business minus $1,000 new employee equals $400 in new profit per week. Work 32 weeks and that is $12,800/ year more. Is that worth the extra employee for you to work under 40 hours/week.

Trying to use conservative numbers so people don’t use that as excuse to why they “can’t charge that in my area”

You do realize that hes got franchisees all over the US now, right? He's way past small business

@@jlbf0786 each business is a small business technically plus he can promote franchises

Yes. Correct. In that case we would charge half a trailer of debris ✅👍🏻

@@MikeAndes Hey Mike. Is a full trailer load roughly 2 yards for $149?

@@JJ-pv9rf only 2 yards for a full trailer? He mentioned a 7x14 dump trailer, which is about 7.25 cubic yards assuming only 2' tall sides. 4' tall sides would relatively fit 14.5 cubic yards.

The client doesn’t know the rate… just the total price. They just want the job competed to satisfaction at the price quoted.

@ha lol ha lol im doing quite well thanks. Appreciate your concern though thats dope.

@@Timothypayn I bet you are but he's kinda right though lol

@@JohntehGman its incredible how you all think my one man super power of a company is whats breaking your part of the industry all the way in...where ever youre from. Every other company around me is paying their FOREMAN $16/hr if the foreman is lucky. So what i am making is just perfect for me, it keeps me busy, it pays my bills, and grows my profitability. See the theme? Its me, im the theme. Honestly its a great theme, but if you think its me breaking your guys bank....its probably the truth. I am a NORDYKE take out the Young Kool Entertainer at the end and i am still a Nord. I go hard, ive always gone hard, i always will go hard, and ill raise my prices when i choose too, or lower them when i choose too. If i decide to kick the green tip i may even upgrade to gas powered equipment....but right now im killing it with $0 net loss, 100% customer retention, and a 5 star rating....so who is really doing it wrong? 🤔

@@Timothypayn I never said you are breaking my bank lol and props to you doing well. My point was referring to the part where he said know you're worth in essence. Sounds like you're doing a fantastic job and offer a personalized experience and probably attention to detail bigger companies probably won't provide. So charge for it lol, you seem very hostile when I am just trying to help bud

@@JohntehGman well i catch a lot of beef from a lot of angles for a long time on numerous topics. Being where i'm from youre always surrounded by doubt and an angle to get over on someone. Truth is i love nature, plants, animals, the whole lot. So the experience with me is always unique. I avoid engine powered devices when possible. Id rather provide discounted all natural weed control over the un natural barrier thats always put in, no plastic edging ever, no chemicals, just natural remedies. I can eyeball grade, fix water issues, prevent landslides and erosion, balance a contained ecosystem, im not allergic to poison ivy, and i can tree climb like none other. But when absolutely neccesary i can run skidsteers, forklifts, bucket trucks, excavators, or even a dingo. But i can mostly do what a dingo can, just spread out but still cheaper and cleaner. I'm about this earth said and done. I'm sure you are too 🙂