I love laying sod it's good money it's hard work thanks for the video

They say the other guy did it cheaper and I say so where is he now?

I had a customer who said, "Hey man, you always leave trash in my yard. I said it was in the yard when I got here. I said I'm not here to pick up all your trash." You know when I'm coming, so you can have it picked up before I come."

I'm on a fixed income. I need it cheap but do a good job.

I had a guy, but it quit coming! I had a guy last year, but he didn't come back this year! Maybe you are behind on paying.

Cant you buy rolls of sod and save the back breaking part and reduce labor? Let the skid carry the weight, speed up day 2.

I’m just amazed you putting down those little squares of sod. Our sod comes in 2x5 ft rolls.

What’s your guys policy for mowing in the summer. Trying to decide whether each lawn needs it this week is a disaster.

Any of you guys doing sod yet or just sticking with mowing for now?

I have a brand new f250 and 2, 13k zero turns on my trailer and some well seasoned stihl handhelds. My trailer has 4 different rusty rims and bald tires to give the haters something to talk about. 😂 sorry too busy working to care about my trailer rims.

Great video

The first thing I would have mentioned to that church was installing proper drainage in the back. It would make mowing easier for y'all and make the property better looking and safer

Back up an hit the brakes and it will knock the dirt out or get a liner put in your trailer

I been doing it solo for 20yrs. Bought my truck an I got a house 2010 ....2day I owe less then 5k. Did it solo Dolo!

You left your car door opened bro. Come on man!!! 🤣😎

Thanks for showing the estimate side of things! Btw, I have been getting good results on your postcard. I do need to get a website and funnel them through that so it’s more on point. Can you break down how you price HOA and commercial? Do you just lower your per man hour rate compared to the residential?

Hey Johnathan, for your commercial work, are you primarily dealing direct or are you dealing with management companies

Love how you’re talking about convenience of having a dump trailer while you’re literally unloading it by hand!🤣🤣🤣

this is actually so helpful :D

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Up sell fert and weed control and the grass would recover.

Johnathan thank you for the video. What is the advantage of charging at your cost and divide per hour rate? What are the benefits of your formula versus looking at small shrubs and saying ok a small shrub is $10 per shrub, A medium size is $20 and a large $30 for example. Is it more profitable To do a piece work rate

Regarding the hedge job, don't you have a minimum visit charge? $40 to drive there, work, clean up, etc?

Is there any way to get around having to have a website to use stripe?

Youre the man! Do you find your doorhangers and post cards perform better than Mikes from his lawn card media site? Or is it around the same, im in aus and gonna hit the ground running from July

Question, I have an opportunity to buy about 30 clients from another business that is taking another job opportunity, how do you buy clients from another business?

Great content thank you

This is why / where jobber comes in automatically follows up 2 days after and 5 days after. If they don't reply after 2 follow-ups, then that's a hard no obviously meaning they want that cheap cheap

You include the hedges at 500 month?

I just picked up a family owned funeral home. Takes me about an hour to get it done by myself. Previous guy just let it go. Glad you said $500 on the church because that’s about what I’m doing this job for.

pure Gold thank you so much for sharing

Do you use mail chimp?!

This is gold 🙌🏽

Great strategy. How would you feel about selling all of your contacts? I ask because when I moved from Tampa to Tennessee, I too had thousands of contact emails from over 25 years of business. I sold off some equipment and some accounts before I moved, however, I had never Even thought of selling the contact info.... Thoughts?

I agree , idc if the yard looks like death....if it's profitable SEND IT!

We require pre pay for both residential and commercial. Invoice comes out the 15th of the month prior to service and is due by the 1st of the month of service. No pay no show

What tips/advice would you give someone who is going from solo to hiring an employee?

Email marketing has always been a hard one to wrap my head around. Personally I never open them, I guess maybe the older generation still does? I get so many each day, and I definitely don’t go to my email to learn or buy things, maybe that’s just me. I can see text working much better.

We invoice everyone on the 1st and if no payment by 10 days we suspend service. We are in next 30 on commercial but same if no payment at 37-40 days we suspend

Good info!

There are a lot of big mulch jobs in my market which is cape cod as well as all kinds of landscaping projects. The 1 ton dump truck in my opinion even for lawn cutting is optimal but Im taking my market into consideration. Furthermore the automated lawn cutting is coming. If you’re investing for the future think landscaping and just go ahead and get the dump truck. If the truck payment is $1,000/month thst works out to a really cheap employee on an hourly basis each month. Ive been running a dump trailer on my tundra for 3 years and Im looking forward to being able to haul debris and material at the same time.

Why don't you weed eat first

Thank you for this idea I think it’s geat and will definitely be trying this when I’m ready

When you put out Good Content/Energy it comes back to you. Thanks for all you do for this Community of Lawntrepeneurs! I am grateful and growing steadily!

Hiring peope is too much of a pain in the ass anymore..

I completely agree. I just struggle on how to gather more information from a customer when your schedule is full. Maybe there will be openings later this year or next year. So what is the best advice to gather information from a customer on the initial phone call?

@floridaturfpros man your videos are awesome thanks for the great content. I’m new to lawn game. First season in doing it part time while working ft job planning on going full time this next year. I would love to see a video, on how you attacked your first full time year. Like did you take all clients that called you, or did you focus on density right off the rip, how big was your service area in the beginning.i have the ability to be choosy right now because of my ft job but I’ve already got about 22 properties as of now. Been very selective on what I take and where I take them

What about busting out the push mower for that?

@Truealarmer Well said! I've learned a lot from Jonathan over the last year or two. I've been in the mowing business for several years and because of this channel, I'm finally timing each lawn and quickly finding out my prices are not equal across the board. I'm making a killing on a few lawns but making the bare minimum on others. I'll be trimming up my client list at the end of this season and I think I'll have less stress next year staying small and maximizing my profit during working hours.

I hate posting my own success stories, because I feel like I am boasting. However, I am not, I am simply trying to share that I have been following your advice for the past few months and everything, EVERYTHING, you have been saying has come to fruition. In one of your videos, you mentioned, "I don't have to have a KZfaq".....or something like that. That your income, work, everything you do comes strictly from cutting grass (your business). That was awesome. It makes me feel like you are preaching from actual experience. It's my first year doing lawn work, and I am currently at $2400 a month in revenue, just cutting grass. I know that is not much, but I have more peace than when I was a trucker making $100k+ a year. I haven't even started upselling for mulch, sod & or landscaping. Finally, like I said, this is not to boast. It is to provide a testimonial to others watching this channel that what this man says is TRUTH. Be patient, follow God and pay attention to what this man is saying. Thanks brother