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This guy is super humble. He isn't trying to fake anything you can tell. We need more guys like this. You can really learn from people like this, when they are just completely honest and don't fluff it up. I see why he has a hard time letting go of snow, my contractors do snow, and we make bank every time it snows. But I am running around my office like a chicken with my head cut off 18 hours a day to answer all the phone calls coming in with my team.

Awesome to watch this. I am a Grounds Guys franchisee in Albany NY. I am actually shocked that Mike went out to help a franchisee of another franchisor. That shows his commitment to helping businesses succeed. I am also shocked that the Grounds Guys franchisor wasn’t the one to help Aaron. It really makes you think about the situation he is in. Also, everyone wants to talk revenue when profits is the most important part of running the business.

8:39 rip to that vehicles interior 😂😂😂

Finally! A Canadian... a fellow Ontarian even!!! 😃🇨🇦👍

Great to see that you came to Ontario! Insurance is a big problem here. When my insurance doubled in the beginning of covid my agent had said I will have snow insurance through them because I’m grandfathered in that if I was new I would most likely not be insured. I have since heard of other companies not insuring for snow. As well as companies quitting snow because it wasnt worth paying the insurance

Man!!!! You are the goat! Turning around other franchise’s franchisees!

Greatly appreciate the transparency, Aaron! You're awesome! Best of luck in your continued journey.

I hope his business stabilizes with the restructuring and away from snow, but more importantly I’m sending prayers that their marriage becomes stronger through this difficult time and they can live a joyous and loving life together going forward.

As the owner of a small landscaping company in Ontario i can not afford the snow insurance and make a profit doing snow on my own. I am forced to sub myself to a larger company as a loader op.

its Canada where the gov. does not like private business and women think men are just walking ATMs.....

Mike the fact you were in Ontario less then 45 min away and I didn’t know breaks my heart!!!! MY DUDE

I started January 23’ with $20,000. My GF also has been with me when I had nothing. I like this guy a lot and I’d love to sit down and have coffee with him

Snow is amazing money. It is a young man’s game though

I'm just getting into snow removal and the overhead to start is killer. I have done it for 3 years now with no profit. I'm hoping it will eventually pay off. My insure also went from around 6,000 to 12,000 adding snow removal. I also live in a rural town so not much here for parking lots.

At 18:45 Ontario doesn’t have a 12 month cutting season. 7 months is more realistic. Therefore 7 x $20k = $140k Good video. 👍

I feel *realllll badddd* for buddy at 8:38 just on the side of the road getting hit with a man made (and intentionally directed) avalanche!

The real take away here is, How are you supposed to do business in Canada when this is how insurance companies operate. Canada is not SMB friendly AT ALL!

Your snow insurance should drop significantly if you stop doing city and regional work.

He has a good head on his shoulders , 8:38 someone standing outside their vehicle gets avalanche of snow lol

I've owned a landscape company for 20 plus years , Hardscape is where I make money....Snow plowing sucks. beats up your gear on call all winter...took me one season to figure that out. Not for me

Ontario! Represent!

Unreal how mike was the one to go and help this guy. Wheres the help from these "coaches" he talks about?

This conversation about the snow business is one that many contractors in Ontario have been having in the past few years. One struggle with “cutting out” snow removal comes when your customers expect full service from you. The idea of quitting snow and focusing on summer work for 7-8 months is great in theory unless your customers hire you because you do everything. We had many contracts that want grass and snow done, they don’t want to have to find another guy for snow. And it sucks that finding reliable snow sub contractors is not easy. We got off really easy for insurance for a couple decades, but that seems like it’s gone now. The government needs to subsidize insurance.

4:10 ouch that plow touched it’s toes lol

Insurance costs all over the world is absolutely insane with Canada being the worst. 100k of insurance to do 1M in sales?

Did u see that snow plow truck completely cover that suv with guy standing on side of road. Lol

I know one lawn service in the USA measures every yard before he quotes it. Just eyeballing a yard can lead to many mistakes and working for little or nothing. Don't forget your cost of driving to each client for lawn care. I spoke to a lawn care service many years ago in my job and he told me it's a great job if you like working for minimum wage. good luck.

I really enjoyed this one. I appreciate the number breakdown. Thanks Mike and editing team 🙏.

This guy should be happy, this is how business is in Canada. LOL this is normal for 95% of operations from small, medium to public

I always look forward to these videos

Really great video!!!

Appreciate these videos, nice to see you in the GTA!

Interesting , Thank You .

If you don't like snow, skip it! It's okay!

Wow. 90k on insurance??? We run 9 peices of equipment from loaders to skids and trucks and don't pay anywhere near that. Time shop insurance. Get a new broker :/

I own a multi million dollar snow company. I really like Mike’s content and he is helpful to a lot of entrepreneurs. In this situation, I think the advice was only half correct. This year with the majority of this guy’s equipment is paid off he can make a killing with snow. His problem is the 50% drop in revenue. He could easily sell a few hundred thousand dollars in snow contracts and be very profitable. He can self perform some of the contracts and sub out a bunch. He definitely needs another insurance broker to shop his insurance. Ontario is a big snow market. I believe they can only cut seven or eight months out of the year so Snow is a big revenue driver for them. I see guys get into this trouble all the time. Buying brand new equipment and having extremely heavy payments for no reason except to have cool nice shiny equipment. I’m sure he could perform the majority of his work with a $50,000 loader that he puts a couple hundred hours on per year. I own over 20 loaders and they’re all under 50 grand. They start, run and work well. Stop focusing on having a nice shiny equipment and focus on profitability. Bottom line is more important than top line.

I from Denmark and i love your video👍

I love these videos 💯

Turn your lawn care business into the McDonald's machine. Rinse and repeat day in day out. Dummy down the services. There is an easier way.

Would love an update down the line on this guy and his company!

Awesome video

In my honest opinion, keep snow I used to work for a landscape company for 15 years and they always said they could get rid of all of the summer services and just do snow and they would be fine and they are $24 million company

What is the name of this work? And any license I can take

19:44 absolute gentleman lmao 👌🏼

God Bless him, his family and his business. Better things are coming for you! Great news is coming! Trust the Lord Jesus Christ!!!🙏🏻🙌🏻

Buy used machines and hire a mechanic and pay him well. Don't drop big coin on new equipment learn to scavenge and fix

Its a tough racquet alot of guys chase the work and lose balance of a good life it has its benefits and downfalls im 25 years in deep and have good crews but im burned out and my body is toast it cost me a divorce but has treated me well i have up to 10 years left and industry is totally changing and not for the good

SNOW was a great business in Ontario until the insurance companies ruined it for everybody. I can see moving forward but it’s just be kind of become on affordable for us contractors and the owners will be put on the property managers or owners to get their own insurance I’ve been doing this for 35 years.

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You guys should apply for grants

Seems left hanging as a viewer… like video ended before interview and start of turn-around started. I get winter 2024 not over… but even the girl question left dangling :( If follow-up intended… should have closed mentioning that.

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What he was doing in snow he should of been very profitable. I do $140k in snow and profit $100k off it. Would luv to get to $600k

90k for insurance? Nah somethings wrong bud

The guy literally has a newer mercedes GLC sitting in the garage in front of his plow truck and loader. Sell your damn luxury vehicle. Maybe your outside life is more expendive thrn it needs to be. Also snow removal sucks. Insurance is too expensive and the equipment isnt cheap either.

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