Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

$1.2M Business with no GM, the Owner Becomes the Bottleneck 😓

24 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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Transcript excerpt from a business coaching/conversation where Mike Andes raises concerns about scaling a commercial/maintenance business: whether adding projects will increase headcount or require price increases, and the risk that the owner becomes the bottleneck as the team grows (mentions current headcount and potential unsustainable growth).

Questions this video answers

22 people

30 people

So say we get a couple more commercial projects, we get more maintenance, Is that going to increase the headcount, or do you think you're going to be raising prices to achieve that? Because, like, I'm concerned that we have 22 people already. Yeah. And let's say we're trying to get to 1.6, 1.7, which I see a lot of times like a wilderness of profitability, between 800,001.5. In terms of just. You usually need that second overhead person, an operations manager or a salesperson. Yeah. My concern is you're still juggling all the balls, and we have 30 people in the crew, and now it becomes unsustainable.