A lawn care business owner explains when to stop winging it and build systems. If you're still experimenting with what services to offer, systemizing too early locks you into the wrong model. Figure out what works first.
Let's imagine you are a new lawn care business. You're just getting started. You are desperate to make ends meet. You're just trying to get your foot in the door. If you are not sure how you want to offer your services, what your services even look like, whether you're mowing lawns or doing commercial exterior landscaping renovations, if you are not sure about that level of detail, it is probably too soon to systemize. You can only really effectively systemize something when you have four focus and you know what your end destination is going to be, at least for the short term. If you are in the phase of business or of life where you are purposely trying to experiment, there's no point in adding rigidity right now. It's kind of the opposite of what you want. Rather than adding all these systems and structures, just go do it. Go mow the lawns. Go figure out what kind of offer you want to have. And once you figure that out, usually within the first six months to two years of being in business, then let's talk systems.
