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 […]
CLIPitc Updates
We’ve made some significant updates to CLIPitc in the last couple of months and I wanted to take a moment to highlight them. If you’re a CLIPitc user, you’ll have seen the red dot above “New” in the very top menu. This indicates that some changes were made in […]
10 Facebook Video Tips That Your Lawn Care Company Can Use To Increase Engagement
Video allows you to be dynamic and engaging and is one of the best ways to showcase the personality and quality of your business. Also, video these days doesn’t have to cost money, so even on a flat budget, you can make a Facebook video for your lawn care business. […]
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 […]
CLIP Live Webinar Feb. 20 – March 15
In February, we’ll offer a four week series of classes that will walk you through how to use both CLIPitc and CLIPxe in their entirety. Let us help you get the most out of CLIP so that you can shave some hours off your week and be as profitable as […]
How to Use Instagram Stories: A Simple Guide for Lawn Care Companies
Instagram Stories came along last August and what seemed initially like Instagram trying to copy SnapChat has quickly become one of the most popular new social media tools to drop in the past few years. Stories can be a massive boon to your lawn care business. What better way to […]
Should I Raise Lawn Care Prices At The Beginning Of My Season?
Most consultants and lawn care business blogs will tell you to raise lawn care prices every year. It makes sense on paper, if I raise my prices by 5%, I should get 5% more revenue, and since my costs don’t change, I should be able to see 5% more on […]
Snow Plowing — Living Through Feast And Famine
Snow plowing tends to be feast or famine — it might be 60 degrees on New Years Day one year, and you might have 2 feet of snow the next year. How can you still make money while maintaining all that expensive snow removal equipment? We recommend doing what the ski resorts do […]
4 Secrets To Extreme Profit – Systems
McDonald’s, Starbucks, and other franchises can have locations all over the world and offer a similar experience no matter which one you visit. They’re able to do this because they have systems in place that can be used by the average person when they’re hired.
4 Secrets To Extreme Profit — Revenue Tracking
Do you know which customers make you the most revenue? When you know who your most profitable customers are, you can make your other customers profitable as well. This post is the third post in our series “4 Secrets To Extreme Profit”. You can go back and check out “The Perfect […]
4 Secrets To Extreme Profit — Motivation
Do You Have Trouble Motivating Your Team? Last week we discussed the first secret to extreme profit — The Perfect Customer. This week we’ll tackle the next step; motivate your employees to strive towards excellence by using piecework. 2nd Secret To Extreme Profit — Motivation Here at CLIP, we get calls all the […]
4 Secrets To Extreme Profit — The Perfect Customer
Who is your perfect customer? It’s the offseason, and that can be the perfect time to take a step back and reevaluate your business. Dave Tucker has been in the Green Industry for decades and seen lawn companies of all shapes and sizes thrive and fail. In his research of […]
Why Piecework Is Revolutionary
As the season slows down, it’s a great time to re-evaluate your pay system for your employees. Piecework is becoming a favorite new way to pay employees, and there are a lot of great reasons for it. If you’re on the fence about paying your employees piecework instead of hourly, don’t […]
5 Reasons Why You Still Need A Business Phone In 2017
It’s 2017, and it feels like we should be able to handle all of our communication via apps, text message, and email, but you still need to setup and manage a business phone system. 5 Reasons Why You Still Need A Business Phone In 2017 1. Likely 20% or more of your […]
GIE+EXPO 2017 — The Largest Show Yet
This was my first year at GIE+EXPO and it did not disappoint. The folks over at GIE were Tweeting for days, giving little facts about the show. — How large the space is, how many miles you would walk if you saw everything, even how many basketball courts would fit […]
What Other Industry Pros Say About Winter Work
What sort of winter work do you typically do to get you through those cold months? Are you afraid of losing good employees? Maybe you’re just scared of cabin fever. Either way, these tips will hopefully give you some ideas of what you can do during the long winter months. […]
Is GPS Tracking Worth It?
Are you considering GPS tracking to keep tabs on your crews? With technology expanding it seems that there are almost endless options to do so these days. You can have instant updates, notifications when they leave an area, reports about where they’ve been, and on and on. As the list […]
If I Could Just Work Harder!
I just talked to my mechanic today. I was dropping off my minivan to get the struts repaired ($1000.00 job. I’ve done the work before but don’t enjoy that job). He had some business insights that we can learn a lot from in our industry! Working harder, not smarter He […]
Calculating Your Costs Per Man Hour
The off season is the perfect time to evaluate what you did last year, and plan for the next year. For CLIP Lawn care that means calculating our costs for last year, and forecasting or hourly costs for next year. As you grow you need something to measure your productivity […]
Leaders Anticipate Needs
I remember distinctly working on a tree house with my Dad on a bright sunny day (one where you squint your eyes because the sun is so bright). That day he taught me an important lesson about anticipating need. He was framing the walls for the tree house (think 10′ […]