Startup Questions

[Ric]

I love that $15 an hour guy, I can have their customers when they can't complete their promises.

math question: LCO A, charges $15 an hour and works at customer A's house for 8 hours, compared to LCO B who charges $90 an hour but does 8 times as many houses with 3 times the operating expenses. Who makes more at the end of the day?

I have a set budget for marketing, every year. I have a monthly, yearly fuel budget, and one for employees ect. run yours how you want. I hope you the best of success. some of us want to operate on a larger scale get out of the nest of one subdivision, make a little more foot print. its called free enterprise. ask Carnegie, CP Morgan, make as much as you can, do as much as you can, get as big as you can.

if I ill advised the gentleman wanting advice on how to get started. then I apologize, but I've never witnessed a company start up and succeed on a dream alone. they worked their butts off, knocked on doors, and got their name out there through advertising.

I should have just posted that he buy a toro, small truck move into a subdivision and contact you.

I was just simply giving the gentleman some ideas. I would like to offer to send you a free hat, T-shirt and ink pen.

That $15 guy is an outfit that supply's a laborer at $15 hour to do a variety of jobs, leaf removal and Lawn care is just couple, it's called Laborly. It was just an example of some of the things that are taking place to cut the throats of lawn-care businesses.
Nobody said you ill advised anyone, you gave your opinion and I gave mine and neither one is wrong, we just have a different approach. You talk about all your budgets and that's fine but it also involves a lot of money but for a start up business those types of budgets are little over kill when you don't even own a mower yet.
The thing you apparently don't understand is the fact that not everyone has that kind of money to start a business or wants to work on the scale you set. Some of us are happy with new truck and a couple of new Commercial Toro mowers and an open trailer etc. As far as the free hat, T-shirt and ink pen you don't have to do that because Toro has already, Thanks anyway. :smile:

 

[jrelkhunt]

[ the lawn business is a good business ..About the only way you can go broke is to not show up every week to mow a lawn,,this means no vacations, having back up equipment, no fishing or hunting,etc...As soon as you don't show up once , mrs magillicutty will get a new lawn service...