Understanding the legal ramifications of starting a company is important. CLIP Software explains the different business types recognized by the governement.
Why You Should Start A Lawn Maintenance Business
From startup costs to dealing with labor, every business has it’s obstables. CLIP Software shows you the advantages of owning a lawn maintenance business.
Can My Lawn Care Company Hire Workers With H-2B Visas? (Three Steps to Hire H-2B Workers During the Shortage)
If you’re unfamiliar with H-2B labor, it’s a visa that you can get to bring in foreign workers to do seasonal temporary work that American workers don’t want to do.
You’ve probably heard quite a lot about this on the news, especially since we’re coming off of the holiday season. However, for this industry, our busiest time is coming soon.
Should You Use GPS Tracking In Your Lawn Care Business
Let’s talk about using GPS trackers in your lawn care business. The Hard Sell on GPS devices You’ve seen the ads. You’ve likely had an encounter with the pushy salesperson. They probably hit you with the hard sell, too. “Just think! You can hide it out of sight, they’ll never […]
Managing Spring Contracts In Your Lawn Care Business
I know that even though it’s March, a lot of you still have snow, and it’s probably starting to feel like Spring will never come. However, you should view the snow as a blessing, because you’ll have a little extra time to get your records in order and manage the […]
Why You Should Manage Your Spring Cleanups With Piecework
It’s almost springtime and that means you’re going to be doing spring cleanups soon. That’s a good thing because usually they’re very profitable. In fact I know a couple of companies that all they do is spring and fall cleanups and they don’t mow grass. We’ve been talking about piecework […]
The Steps To Real Delegation In Your Lawn Care Company
Delegation. I often joke with people that my spiritual gift is delegation. I like to tell people what to do and give them the power to do it. Delegation is an essential thing because unless you want to continue to do what you’re doing and be involved in every different […]
The First Thing To Consider In Lawn Care Business Partnerships
At the beginning of the partnership, take a moment to step back and think logically. Ask your partner what you’ll need to do if you decide to undo this partnership. Decide who will owe money, who they’ll owe the money to, and how much they’ll owe so that you can dissolve the partnership.
How Do You Know When An Employee Is Maxed Out?
How can you tell when an employee has maxed out? Learning your employees’ limits I thought a lot about this many years ago, and this little scenario came to mind. Let’s say I hire a brand new employee into my company. I go to them and ask them to go […]
Do You Have an Exit Strategy to Sell Your Landscaping Business?
No matter what, you should always be thinking about your exit strategy.
The Pros and Cons Of Surcharges In Lawn Care
Considering the pros and cons of surcharges; yes, you make more money, especially with something like fuel. It’s obvious, it’s public, people drive past the gas station, and they see the price. It’s an understandable expense that you could probably get away with adding to a bill.
On the other hand, creating customer loyalty can’t be undervalued. Creating a nice, even, and boring business has a lot to be said for it.
Pulling Together With Piecework Part 3 – How To Implement Piecework In Your Lawn Care Business
You’ve probably noticed if you’ve been using CLIP that everything in CLIP is based on man-hours. Here’s how to use CLIP to pay with Piecework.
Pulling Together With Piecework Part 2 – How CLIP Can Help You Pay Your Lawn Care Employees With Piecework
Last week we introduced you to Piecework, or if you’ve been around a while, refreshed your memory. This week we’re going to talk about how CLIP helps you pay with Piecework. You’ve probably noticed if you’ve been using CLIP that everything in CLIP is based on man-hours. You have a […]
Pulling Together With Piecework Part 1 – What Is Piecework And Why Would You Be Interested
If you’re like most landscape companies, especially this year, labor is hard to find. And motivating your employees to do that labor is even harder sometimes. Piecework can help make motivation a non-issue. We wrote a book on piecework and all of this information and a lot more it’s in […]
Should I Raise My Lawn Service Prices Between Seasons?
We’re just about ready to get into winter time. Now is the time when most people sit down and say “Hmm, I should have made more money last year and I didn’t.” One way to make more money is to raise your lawn service prices, right? If everybody pays more, boom, […]
CLIP Lawncare And The Shrinking Effects Of H-2B
CLIP Lawncare And The Shrinking Effects Of H-2B Recently an “old time” customer asked me how CLIP Lawn Care, LLC in Maryland was doing. I responded, “Terrible!”. It has been a tough year and a half. Right before the elections in 2016, Congress neglected to pass the “Returning Worker Exemption […]
Is Your Lawn Care Company Ready To Sell?
People tend to spend months, maybe years, planning to start their business, but hardly any time at all on is their lawn care company ready to sell. Being born in 1960 places me close to 60 years old. At this point, I know that I will not be able to […]
Why Delegation Of Your Decisions As A Lawn Care Business Owner Is Vital To Success
Delegation is a process. Have you ever been “worn out” from making decisions? Have you ever felt exhausted from having to think about things over and over? The solution is likely, delegation. It is a fact that we can only handle so many decisions in a given time period. After […]
Piecework For Lawn Care – A Win-Win Situation
When I worked as a lawn care business’ crew manager, my guys would take 2 hours just to get their trucks ready and leave the shop. And when they finally started, they still made their regular stop at 7-11 for coffee plus random breaks throughout the day — all while […]
How To Determine Which Customers To Raise Lawn Care Prices For
How To Determine Which Customers To Raise Lawn Care Prices For Last month we talked about how raising lawn care prices can actually hurt your bottom line by causing your customers to get new bids which leaves you possibly losing your most profitable properties and keeping the worst ones. You might […]