The Downfall of a $2M Landscape Business Empire!
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4 ай бұрынMike Andes travels to Winston, Georgia to help turn around a $1.9M landscaping company. Jody and Adam of Southern Landscaping & Property Management are burning cash almost as fast as it comes into the business.
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@landmarkcreations1183 4 ай бұрын
Mike you have found your niche. These turnaround videos are second to none some of the best work related content on KZfaq. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.
@bladelawncarellc6295 4 ай бұрын
"Kind of business consultant"
@nathanhearn2069 4 ай бұрын
💯
@happyman5389 3 ай бұрын
We need follow thru and follow ups
@carterdiana8441 25 күн бұрын
Yes Thank you Mike! Your turn around videos are filled with so much knowledge I’m able to apply apply a lot of it to my Soft washing company.
@derrickforeal 22 күн бұрын
Mike is the Gordon Ramsey of lawn care business rescues. I just found him and I love him. Crazy enough he is in my town
@joejames98 4 ай бұрын
What about the biggest issue? The owners are doing this as a side gig while playing firemen. 1.5 mil, 24 employees, no systems, and they're trying to run this as absentee owners
@slayz1515 Ай бұрын
Yeah it’s trash tbh. I applaud their service but it’s time to pick a side and put the effort in to one or the other
@ripvanwinkle3432 22 күн бұрын
You need to be there day in day out to build the system that allows you to be an absentee owner. Then they don't listen to the advice about open books and p4p. And the name who the hell decided on that name.
@jacobfrier8887 4 ай бұрын
That "consultant" looks and sounds like a waste of tax money. Dude is texting during a meeting where Mike is handing them golden information. Then saying the crew can't understand a simple P/L and showing off a degree as an accomplishment when he hasn't built anything himself.
@slicepal23 4 ай бұрын
I thought the same thing. He doesnt seem to be offering much, and went on full offense about the ideas.
@MrRevil3 4 ай бұрын
I'm certain he's always worked as a cog for big business. Most SBA consultants haven't built a damn thing.
@PM_Doug 4 ай бұрын
Yeah he was a perfect example of degrees don’t mean anything than just a piece of paper if you can’t produce much. Mike tried to cover for him with the part of he is not getting paid but that is a waste of space and time for consultant being there. Lot of promotion for Mirror Lake in this video that they could have kept out. Love Mike but feels like this one they took in one ear and it went out the other.
@cristobaldelacruz142 4 ай бұрын
he said all the degrees he had , because Mike knows more then him without one.
@OutdoorDiversions 4 ай бұрын
Did you watch at 34:40 ? Mike said don’t hate on the dude and explained why… free consulting from a biz dev group…
@waylonratcliffe 3 ай бұрын
This business model drives me nuts - Big fancy office, nice trucks, lots of chiefs with polo shirts yet the equipment looks un-maintained, the guys are getting paid the absolute minimum by industry standards, and the "chiefs" complain about guys not wanting to show up. This is the old school mentality, heavy overhead, and slave labor. The new model is low overhead and pay your guys $20-$35 per hour, they are the most essential part of the business yet the most neglected.
@Technotranceism 3 ай бұрын
Most don't consider what level of money per hour, management makes you for your business. If they can't match the crews income, than they are a drain on the business. Management is a finicky department.
@richardstone5241 4 ай бұрын
Wow, they only have $15,000 in cash?! They should have $150,000 in cash minimum and I would recommend for a 1.9 Million business to have $250,000 cash and an equal amount in line of credit. Also, they only need ONE good sales person and their pay should be MOSTLY commission derived. Good employees work hard for BONUSES not an HOURLY RATE.
@HaganHall 4 ай бұрын
It seems like all of the businesses that are failing are focused too much on looking like big shots and having 100 employees. Remember it’s not what you make it’s what you save. Don’t strive to be the biggest strive to be the most profitable.
@MRosati5000 4 ай бұрын
I agree. It comes down to simple tasks.
@EoinH100 4 ай бұрын
Mike and Team, Just want to say that this is some of your best content. The information you are putting out for small business owners is invaluable. You are an extremely effective communicator and extremely charismatic. Its fascinating watching these an learning along the way how to eliminate waste from our businesses. I genuinely believe there is more to be learnt here than there is in a lot of business majors at third level. Well done, keep up the great work. Hope to see you working with a business in the Chicago area soon!
@cristobaldelacruz142 4 ай бұрын
I see to many office personnel. For a 2 million company.
@tavos-construction 3 ай бұрын
just what I was going to say. 100% with you
@Gregoman89 3 ай бұрын
Too many people period. 24 employees for 1.5 million before office?
@WaterDesignirrigation 3 ай бұрын
Lots of overhead
@dylanstevely1443 3 ай бұрын
@@Gregoman89my brother owns a tree company it’s been me him and one other guy for 6 years were at around 300 - 450 thousand a year , we’ve had an occasional 4th guy but mostly just the 3 of us , and his wife does the office things . At 24 employees they should be at way more revenue than that . And we don’t even work year round , mostly just April thru end of September or so with a little snow work in the winter which the last 2 years we haven’t done
@Gregoman89 3 ай бұрын
@@dylanstevely1443 comparing a lawn maintenance company and tree business is comparing apples to oranges. Your revenue per job and revenue per action item are astronomically higher compared to lawn Maintenance. I mean even if you charged 500 per tree which would be cheap you would break 3,000 on 6 trees at one site. That will never happen in lawn maintenance. The reason why: tree cutting is much more skilled and dangerous
@meateater4life551 3 ай бұрын
Be firefighter or be a landscaper. Focus on being the best at one or you'll be mediocre at both.
@ddfelder2 3 ай бұрын
This
@kenjon4444 4 ай бұрын
So basically they did nothing Mike said 😑..
@chosen317 4 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. Why would you have Mr. Andes come out if you were going to just ignore what he says? Lot of respect for the young AI guy from the previous turnaround because he actually implemented what was brought to the table.
@Pantera972 4 ай бұрын
It's hard for an old dog to learn new tricks.
@IlluminatingThoughtTv 4 ай бұрын
All I saw was the UNWILLNESS to change.
@TT-ik3kd 4 ай бұрын
Only making 1.5 mil these are the undercut guys that are charging 1/2 of what they should
@ttgk8506 3 ай бұрын
Definitely. Companies like this come and go all the time in my area
@CopperCreekCuts 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for doing the 6 week update. I HOPED they would do the 48 hour hard shift, but doesn't look like they wanted the work it would have taken. A shame because it would have really showed off how well Mike's strategies could work.
@xbebe 4 ай бұрын
I’m so glad Mike exists in the landscape industry. Dude was almost a doctor. Imagine a world with no Mike Andes 😢
@benjaminwright1807 17 күн бұрын
It would be glorious, also isn't this the same guy who constantly tries to make his customers or their neighbors the bad guys in yt shorts by having them say he did something to them and he claims he did nothing wrong like blowing grass on their drives or something along those lines.
@Zackarybryan 4 ай бұрын
Majority of people who start labor industry businesses don’t have the discipline to take care of their bodies so they can’t handle the labor themselves very long. So what do they do… take on debt with employees and equipment to do the labor they don’t want to do.
@kevinelmes5767 4 ай бұрын
Great video. Your editing crew does a really nice job on these videos and always appreciate it.
@jamesvillegas877 4 ай бұрын
24 guys for 1.5 million is not good. 😮
@KalebJones803 4 ай бұрын
Yea that's horrible I have 4 guys and we did 1.2 million last year 24 guys they should be over 5million
@jamesvillegas877 4 ай бұрын
@KalebJones803 yes at least million +. He does have nice trucks though 😅
@KalebJones803 4 ай бұрын
@jamesvillegas877 yea I have one of those trucks also but my guys run it I still run truck and trailer I love it much more driving that truck 70 down the road is scary your right over top of the road and u can feel everything
@jamesvillegas877 4 ай бұрын
@KalebJones803 I have one izusu with dump body but it's used for trees connected to chipper but mostly f150 for maintenance work. We don't need big mowers in Southern California most the grass areas are small.
@BoZo-lh4oo 3 ай бұрын
If they each get paid 😭 50k they just paying 1.2 on that
@S-cm7nx 4 ай бұрын
Mike, THANK YOU for this series. It's so cool and entertaining to see you help people. It proves that you're not all talk. Keep making these series.
@luisaperla9288 3 ай бұрын
THESE VIDEOS ARE GOLD WHEN YOU WANT TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS
@keithhitch3454 4 ай бұрын
Love these videos, learn something new each one.
@pjsites1985 4 ай бұрын
Thanks you for all of your hard work and dedication to this. Appreciate everything you’re doing.
@fabricioalmeida348 4 ай бұрын
Great Video Mike,very informative!!
@ronjclm8590 4 ай бұрын
That business coach...paid for by the government...has the value of the average government program...$0.
@ctplastering4536 4 ай бұрын
Hey Mike I'm in Ireland love the videos the turnaround videos hit so well its a world wide problem that you are helping to solve
@thejcsparks 3 ай бұрын
Love this series! Really valuable to see how you think when doing a business turnaround.
@backfive6231 4 ай бұрын
Great vid Mike.
@Matthewjameshawks 4 ай бұрын
Keep it up Mike! You’re killing it!🤙
@joehostetler9707 4 ай бұрын
Mike, great video! I met you at the Chicago O’Hare airport on Monday, March 4th. It was nice meeting you
@MikeAndes 4 ай бұрын
It was great to meet you! Best of luck on your garage door business out in the great state of North Dakota!
@abebergen2418 4 ай бұрын
@joehostetler9707 Are you new to the industry?
@fabricioalmeida348 4 ай бұрын
@@MikeAndes I also have to find out where the profit is going,!!
@paulwerle1 3 ай бұрын
Great video, probably one of my favorite yet! Such a shame with that consultant, I know you said to not hate on him Mike, but you did more for them in an hour than he would do in a year!
@KPVFarmer 3 ай бұрын
I love these turnaround vids. Learning something new every single day!!!
@pandaman1869 4 ай бұрын
Mike said it could turn around, and turn around quick. But I don’t think these guys will do it
@alphacharlie65ms 4 ай бұрын
Agree.
@pepsilove6306 4 ай бұрын
From what I've experienced, most business owners are like geese. They going to fly the path they know 'works' and do it till they day they die. Even if there is a much better path, they gonna keep doing what 'feels' safe.
@JusticeTiger1980 4 ай бұрын
That is just not adding up, 120 hours each week would be 17+ hour days, seven days a week
@trentneville2273 4 ай бұрын
They work 24 hrs per day cause fire dept sleeps there so 5 days
@MATTHEWLINDEMANN 4 ай бұрын
this was one of my favorite episodes in this awesome series, we havent seen you dive into it quite like this its fascinating,
@ulsterpropertyservices8511 4 ай бұрын
Thank You Mike, Learned a lot from your videos.
@lawncareservices-jg4zt 4 ай бұрын
Mike, you are my mentor.
@RaymondUrias 2 ай бұрын
Why the hell do they have a consultant?! Hes not doing his job fire him
@backfive6231 4 ай бұрын
‘Consultant’ paid for by tax money?? 🤦🏻♂️
@NickHarvey. 4 ай бұрын
Charging the government a lot more than $60 a man hour I bet
@seanslawns 4 ай бұрын
I love mikes bedhead in the thumbnail, best thumbnail I’ve seen in a long time lol
@tytythefly 4 ай бұрын
God damn I love you content bro. So helpful to my pressure washing business. I’ve been binging your videos the past week and I’ve learned so much.
@clevercloverlawncare5066 4 ай бұрын
Exodus 20:7
@konstantin9959 3 ай бұрын
Mike, This was a super informative and helpful video. They way you broke down some of the categories on profit, employees, etc was great. My difficulty right now is that we are using an existing crews for our landscaping contracts but want to build in house and it has proven to be kinda hard to find, and train and keep people withought paying out an existing crew a good bit of the contract revenue.
@TheStrongestPoolBoy 4 ай бұрын
Another banger Mike!
@pavlogris1675 4 ай бұрын
That consultant is full of crap. IDK how big his business ever was, but it sounds like he studied theory and not reality. Nobody cares about your college studies. The posturing and arrogance are unreal. When you got money Makin Mike in the house, you shut your mouth and listen, baby
@user-cu9mv6mk3r 3 ай бұрын
What a video. Mike you need your own show on discovery. Thank you for this info.
@LiamSunstrum 4 ай бұрын
“I don’t know is that’s legally compliant, but it will make you more money” - A true entrepreneur 😂
@patricksquires6348 4 ай бұрын
The turn arounds are pretty good.
@alphacharlie65ms 4 ай бұрын
I am staying small. No way I will go big.
@handyscapersllc 2 ай бұрын
This is the best turnaround video to date
@blakeg7529 3 ай бұрын
This is stupid. Those dude are complaining about the company when they steal 120 hr work weeks from the community tax dollars. They dont know how to run a company. This is bs
@DiamondClearWindowCleaningLLC 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely swear by your way my man! Best video is your marathon video 😆 I share that with so many new entrepreneurs in my field that ask questions! I had that business card/door hanger mentality before watching your video and after my motivation for door to door went from 60% to 200% 🪜 Building my Clientele list under 2 years to 250 window cleaning clients by my self!
@sdrammm696969 3 ай бұрын
Mike is the man!❤💯
@Ninjaraf626 3 ай бұрын
Man I really wish I discovered your Augusta franchise a month ago. I had the money to start in the solo operator program and plus some. Look I will give you guys one of my chevys as payment lol.
@soloboss2464 3 ай бұрын
Love that one Mike let’s go
@jacobgarcia8224 4 ай бұрын
Their claim about the hours they work as firefighters is non sensical and he should have dove into that. Can't start fixing something if they are feeding you bs.
@bytepvp3892 4 ай бұрын
That consultant is more focused on acting cool then saving their business what a joke, awesome video Mike!
@pandaman1869 4 ай бұрын
Right, probably 300 in management
@HigherPhoto 4 ай бұрын
Raise Prices!!!!
@Lawn-Stewards 4 ай бұрын
You have no idea how cringe it is when a person feels the need to say "Bachelors in... Masters in..." I mean this with no disrespect, degrees are meaning less and less
@renedyrbergjrgensen6615 4 ай бұрын
I love your content. I am from Denmark 😉🙂
@LaPentaLandscapes 3 ай бұрын
How are you suprised you’re struggling, you’re grossing 1.5 million on 24 employees. That’s 62k per employee. Subtract their pay, benefits, taxes, and workers comp. Then subtract your insurance, and debt payments and you’re suprised you’re struggling. You have to be higher grossing per employee.
@wesleyp3024 Ай бұрын
the reason businesses dont like to share their numbers with their employees is because they dont want them to see whats happening. they dont like telling someone "hey you busted your butt for us, but your making less than bill who sits around all day and does nothing" or worse "hey i know im the owner and i dont do anything, but im making 20x more than you and your doing all the work." that is what they are hiding. they are ashamed.
@nathanhearn2069 4 ай бұрын
“Default to violence” so b’dass! 😂
@richardcollison9117 14 күн бұрын
Well we did not listen to Mike and put the crews on salary's and are trying to figure out how to give them bonuses without any incentive on working harder for us. People are amazing.
@MatthewRobinson-0070 4 ай бұрын
Hey mike, awesome vid! Might be my favorite turnaround yet. What did you think about the follow up? Do you feel like they did what they needed to and it will turn around? I think it would be cool to add that to the end of the video. Thanks!
@PM_Doug 4 ай бұрын
I know the Mirror Lake customer and think they propped up them to much. Definitely need a switch to residential customers more for better profits. Commercial is great if they know how to work the relationships and budgets of HOA boards like Mirror Lake. Warehouse’s in West Ga probably will be bottom dollar clients and might be good to drop if losing profit. My opinion drop the consultant, as it’s a waste of time, which yes is wasting money even not paying for his time. I also think he would have negative influence after Mike left. To many degrees and my opinion archaic way of thinking on business. His input was not even of value add to the video. Thankful they serve as FF’s but feel bad since they don’t get paid well enough for that job.
@ttvilaxell2742 4 ай бұрын
this makes my head hurt just thinking about this buffoonery.....fire fighters and business should never be used together in the same sentence.
@kevinogrady9446 4 ай бұрын
Biggest goal being defeating someone else is a massive flaw
@xbebe 4 ай бұрын
I dream of the day that I get Mike to help my business 😂
@ToddyRackz 4 ай бұрын
The one thing I dont like about these videos is how some other rando does the follow up call
@urbanrootslandscaping3874 4 ай бұрын
The guys doing the call are the guys on the media team who film and edit everything. I’m sure Mike delegates this call because they know the whole storyline well.
@ToddyRackz 4 ай бұрын
Ya im sure they know all the details and it also a good testimate to mikes delegation skills. Although, with things like this people are super interested in the follow up and if mikes suggestions actually worked. Just feel like the follow up gets thrown to the way side a lil bit. But Mikes a smart guy I am sure he has a reason for everything he does@@urbanrootslandscaping3874
@trentneville2273 4 ай бұрын
That guy is great but would be better with Mike doing the follow up
@jordankendall86 2 ай бұрын
I was hoping to learn more details about the incentive or payment for performance structure for each crew. What does that look like? Please share in detail or share the link to the related video about it. Thanks.
@CurationHub 3 ай бұрын
The consultant’s default response: “It’s all psychology.” 😂😂😂
@marcuslinton310 Ай бұрын
I saw one thing on that talent sign that is absolute BS, "Doing a little extra". Yeah, no thanks! Unless that business is "doing a little extra" for you as an employee, then you don't ever "do a little extra" for them. Also, if that other guy did $100k fraud, why isn't he in jail?
@SunsetPlumb 4 ай бұрын
First 3min I already knew this company has too much manpower and chiefs.
@Pantera972 4 ай бұрын
$60 an hour? I'm a small operation of two people and I charge $75 per man per hour. This is crazy.
@Lgspropertymaintenance 3 ай бұрын
A Mike how can u help an give advice when agusta is here in my town and u Guys are working for dirt cheap charging 28 dollar a mowing
@irish_claymore4163 3 ай бұрын
He's been very open on how he established his business, he's talks all the time about when he has had to raise the rates. In this video he talks about how a similar sized location he operates charges $80 an hour. What it sounds like is in your area the Augusta location is attempting growth, by charging a low margin for a service to encourage growth. I'd imagine he may do a rate adjustment in a couple months to weed out the bad customers and also achieve his normal hourly rate. Pretty common and sound business practice in my opinion. I'd say that he is very qualified to be helping and giving business advice.
@tyler558806 3 ай бұрын
Perfect editing choice at 19:38 🤣🤣
@revfred2008 3 ай бұрын
Mike, Will from Cutting Edge Lawncare OA. How can I calculate P4P?
@Keyur904 3 ай бұрын
Hey Mike, really nice video! I was wondering if i can help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts out of them.
@matthewhughes4092 Ай бұрын
W videos as always and im getting ready to start my owm business by the start of 2025!!!!
@thewhiteknight02 4 ай бұрын
You’ll only get crackheads for 10-15$ per hour. We pay $22+. CDL +$5. Spray license +$3.
@GeorgeDaBarber777 3 ай бұрын
“Some people don’t work for money, they work for vacation or retirement” that dude with all those degrees is delusional. And I love the way it was edited right after the workers saying money definitely matters.
@jonwalker914 2 ай бұрын
The owners need to hire someone to run the day to day, and when the owner are able to work, the need to have fix work and what I means work they can Clearing of land mulching hedge and tree work. each owner takes one worker and do those types of jobs. You know when they are off form the fire department so you schedule those bigger job and then and train some of those employee's to do and take pride in those jobs when the owners are not there. Great Video
@alvinmendaros 3 ай бұрын
1.8 million business and there’s 50K in the bank. Something is way off. 🧐 We have 3 employees at my company and we have more $ than that in the balance.
@mckinneysoutdoorservice1231 4 ай бұрын
HOW do you keep workers for $15-16 ??????? 2024
@ttgk8506 3 ай бұрын
No idea
@nadaalward3345 3 ай бұрын
How much do they charge for the employee by the hour
@digitalbowser 4 ай бұрын
If Robert California was a real person... he's in this episode
@MiguelVeneros 3 ай бұрын
A “great value” Robert California
@nadaalward3345 3 ай бұрын
What is the name of this license
@shaneq1932 4 ай бұрын
The consultant Todd is a pure bluffer. There is no way this business would be in this position if you had a competent advisor on board. Like not raising prices in years, basic stuff.
@romaroma955 4 ай бұрын
🤝
@user-se4iv2lp5h 3 ай бұрын
So you take the government workers and try to run a business. What could possibly go wrong here.
@Pantera972 4 ай бұрын
Too many office management people. Get rid of them and only have 2 people running the place and a secretary.
@Sodsquad 2 ай бұрын
First thing I see is there is a lot of management for 1.5 million
@toddsullivan7611 4 ай бұрын
I feel like my bosses would ask for your help and then ignore everything else
@nadaalward3345 3 ай бұрын
You are in any state I want to study and get this license and work like you
@markdickinson-pd4ip 3 ай бұрын
They should unionize,just like they are in their full time jobs!
@Mr_rdharris 28 күн бұрын
I was typing this long message right when Mike said that he was probono 😂
@markdickinson-pd4ip 3 ай бұрын
I love how the guy is online while being paid from his government job.
@CarlDoesStuff 21 күн бұрын
Wild. They literally took none of his advice. There are so many videos like this in this series.
@Sodsquad 2 ай бұрын
So they do around 120k a month with a landscaping crew and 6 maintenance trucks is terrible then you got some idiot saying “we need more staff”
@TT-ik3kd 4 ай бұрын
$1.5 million and how many guys? 24?? Are you fucking kidding me???? 4 people should do 1.5 mil not 24 wonder why your making no money 😂😂😂 thats $62k per head ur bleeding $ on payroll
@cristobaldelacruz142 4 ай бұрын
When the cats away the mouse will play. A guy made 1 million with 2 employees.
@kolbyburcham3932 3 ай бұрын
375,000 per employee? Thats 180$ an hour based on 52 weeks/40hours a week.
@Noel-Perez 3 ай бұрын
@@kolbyburcham3932I was thinking the same thing, I have 4 guys and they produce $1,050,000 in gross revenue. $1.5 million is very difficult on 4 guys. They would have to be 100% efficient
@cheapcharlie7 2 ай бұрын
lol, why is Grimace there
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