168. 95% of Our Jobs Come From Google | Jason McLeod

So with the landscaping, I know I was with this guy in college and he actually had a lawn care business.

And it does, I think, look really nice.

You see the ticket numbers.

Obviously, your average customer is going to spend normally a lot more.

It could be up to thousands per average for a job.

Could be tens of thousands, depending on it.

depending on your area and what you do.

But I remember this guy in college, he thought, oh, this sounds so good.

And then as he got into it, he found himself taking way too long on the projects.

And he actually backed away.

Now, obviously, you can be very profitable in it.

You are.

I'm curious, when you got into it, was it as profitable as you thought? And then did you have to basically relearn how to maybe not do the work, but structure bidding, etc.? ?

Okay, so before I started my business, I was in a warehouse working and my days off, I worked with a friend that had a small landscape business.

Basically, I didn't get to learn a lot.

I was just kind of the gopher, but he had his structure.

So it was a little bit of mowing and a little bit of project work.

So I kind of was checking it out from then.

But basically, you have to keep feeding the fire is the difference.

You have to go in and get it done and move around, move on to the next thing.

We kind of keep the gaps filled, if you could call it that, with recurring is our applications.

And then we do drainage work as well as irrigation.

So summer months when it's hot, everyone remembers their irrigation needs something done to it.

Yeah.

When we get into the wet and rainy season, we do a pretty good amount of drainage work.

So with the landscaping, I know I was with this guy in college and he actually had a lawn care business.

And it does, I think, look really nice.

You see the ticket numbers.

Obviously, your average customer is going to spend normally a lot more.

It could be up to thousands per average for a job.

Could be tens of thousands, depending on it.

depending on your area and what you do.

But I remember this guy in college, he thought, oh, this sounds so good.

And then as he got into it, he found himself taking way too long on the projects.

And he actually backed away.

Now, obviously, you can be very profitable in it.

You are.

I'm curious, when you got into it, was it as profitable as you thought? And then did you have to basically relearn how to maybe not do the work, but structure bidding, etc.? ?

Okay, so before I started my business, I was in a warehouse working and my days off, I worked with a friend that had a small landscape business.

Basically, I didn't get to learn a lot.

I was just kind of the gopher, but he had his structure.

So it was a little bit of mowing and a little bit of project work.

So I kind of was checking it out from then.

But basically, you have to keep feeding the fire is the difference.

You have to go in and get it done and move around, move on to the next thing.

We kind of keep the gaps filled, if you could call it that, with recurring is our applications.

And then we do drainage work as well as irrigation.

So summer months when it's hot, everyone remembers their irrigation needs something done to it.

Yeah.

When we get into the wet and rainy season, we do a pretty good amount of drainage work.