Become a Course Member... for FREE! - Ep.39

Hey everyone, this is Mike Andes and you're listening to the Landscape businesscorps.com podcast. Long time I haven't been on here. I'm very sorry. It's been a few weeks since I've even uploaded an episode, but I wanted to come on the day to share some important news and announcement and also let you know that I haven't forgot about you. And I am definitely going to be uploading more frequently at least once a week here coming up. I've just been super, super busy. Spring has been crazy with the business and it's good thing we're growing. If you listen to the other podcast business Boot Camp podcast, you've heard kind of I'm up to with growing the business and really scaling it up. And so yeah, that's where I'm at right now. And the big announcement that I'm going to make today, number one, is just that I'm going to be uploading more frequently on this podcast. I'm sorry I've neglected it so long. And also if you would like to have a 15 minute conversation with me, I can't do these hour long things anymore. I'm just super, super busy. But if you want to have a 15 minute conversation, I wouldn't mind if you, if you know you have a problem or a question, something that's not answered on this podcast, like you listen to all the podcasts and you're like, there's still something I need to, I need to talk to Mike about. If that's the case, hit me up landscape businesscoursemail.com and I would love to jump on the phone with you for 15 minutes and that'd be fun. Now the big announcement. The thing I'm making this episode about today is that the course is now free. All right, so I haven't told anyone this, but like when I knew when I got to 100 members, I wanted to make the course work for free. Now it's not, doesn't mean it's free to free and clear because I still require that people buy the software and that's the Lawn Pro software. So if you go on to landscapebusinesscourse.com, you can click on the enroll button and it's going to cost 247, which is the same price as if you bought Lawn Pro at lawn pro software.com and so I'm not like affiliated with him. Like, I don't know Patrick beyond just a business relationship or anything like that, but I require that you have that because in the course Excuse me, In the course is what we, we use Lawn Pro so much for scheduling and for the billing aspect and for the accounting and all of that stuff. And so I require that you use it and I require that you buy it. And so I'm not going to have any exceptions or anything like that. It's 2:47, you get the course, you get the Lawn Pro software, and it's the same as if you buy it from Lawn Pro. And so you definitely want to check it out if you've been thinking about it, pondering. I've thought about this for a long time. I thought, well, maybe I can just keep doing what I've been doing and make, you know, make decent money. 100 people have, are on the course now. And in the next month we're going to be starting where I break everyone up into 10, into groups of 10, and then we have webinars where we can all join in together, live and talk about where we are at in the business plan in the course and where we are in that first three years. And so I want to clarify though, who this course is really built for. And sorry, I'm a little bit like clogged up. I have hay fever, which is like the worst thing for a landscaper to have. And so when the pollen starts to fly around in our area, I get like, nose gets clogged up, throat gets clogged up and it's just not cool sneezing and all that. It's a joke. So anyways, but I wanted to clarify who this course is for. This course is not for you. If you, if your business right now makes over 50,000amonth, because if you're over $50,000 a month, you're probably doing all the things and know what to do to get to a hundred thousand dollars in revenue each month. And that's the point of this course. The point of this course is to get you to get to a hundred thousand dollars in one month revenue. That is the entire goal of this course. And as proof, like my 36th month in business to the exact day was the 36 month marker. That third year, the 36 month of being in business is when we made $114,000 in revenue. And that, that is the entire blueprint of this course is to get you to that place. And so now we're, you know, obviously regularly going over that. But like, but now that's, that's where I wanted to get you to. And so the course now is going to be 2:47 completely free as far as the coursework. In the coursework you get all the templates as far as your marketing, you get all the video content. Obviously you get like, when I say templates too, you get like your, your, your, your contracts, you, for commercial clients, you get, you know, templates for your employees, the contracts they should be signing. And then it, they essentially will line them up, those contracts up with certain parts of the course. So advertising, it has what kind of template you should be having for your business card and for postcards and everything that I've used. So essentially this course is, you know, like I said, for people that are making under $50,000 in revenue every month right now. Like right when people are coming in, they're making between 10 and 15,000 and they just, they just can't figure out how to get double that, triple that next year. And so the big, the big module that is a lot of times a key and opening doors for the, for the students of the course has been module three, which is all about marketing and advertising, how to scale your business as far as online, getting more traffic from those sources from, from your website, from Facebook, Instagram in these different areas, using Instagram to have influencer marketing and using Facebook ads and how to create that. We have a module on that. And so that's who the course is for. People that are under 50,000 and then people that are wanting to get out of the minutia of being out in the field and having to push the lawnmower, trim the trees and you actually want to run a real business. And we talk about going from, you know, field labor in year number one to year number two when you're an office manager, year number three, when you're an estimator and you're number four when you become CEO. And I'm in that phase right now. Year number four, we just started year number four and I'm working on filling in those roles that are behind me. And so that's what the course is all about. It gives you the exact step by step guide. And I always tell people when they are thinking about buying the course, like this is probably not the best advice in that. It's probably not the best advice on one Facebook ad. It's not the best advice on what type of equipment to buy. I give you very, very specific advice and step by step instructions in the course. And if you're looking for just kind of general advice, that's not what this is. And when you do that, when you get really deep and you start telling people exactly what I did and What I suggest people do, yes, it might not be the best advice for everyone. However, it's exactly what worked for me. And so if you're looking for the best advice in every single category, I'd suggest you go look on forums and research and get a very balanced opinion, because there's opinions on every single area of our running a lawn care and landscaping business. And you can kind of figure it out for yourself. Or the course is really, this is what I did. This is how you should do it if you want to get the same results. It's very step by step, kind of almost like a franchise. Just like gives you the systems, gives you the procedures, gives you the templates, gives you the paperwork. This is how you should run your scheduling, how you should run your billing, and then you go do it. And so that's what the course is, who the course is for. It's not for someone that wants to go out and figure things out themselves and go out and create new marketing methods. It's for someone that wants to kind of follow more of a process, but they don't want to go buy a franchise and they don't want to have to use someone else's brand. They can still use their own brand, but have all the policies, the procedures, how we run run the business, how we hire people in the course. I have video of our career fair that we had into the beginning of this year that really scaled our company up from four or five people. Now. We just had our company meeting, we had 12 people there, and we're looking probably to get more even this fall. It's like how we did that, how we scale is all in the course. And that's why I made the course. And like I said, when I got to 100, I knew I was gonna make the course part of the enrollment completely free. And so that's what I've done. It's 247. Go to landscapebusinesscourse.com and you can sign up today. Like I said, within the next four weeks or so, I'm going to be breaking up the entire class into 10 people, 10 person groups. And then we're going to be having live webinars. And that way we can collaborate, talk things through, see where people are having problems in the business model. And whether it be someone just starting out or someone that is in year two, going into year three, someone that's wanting to start the retail side of the business with the mulch and the gravel and the soil. So there's different parts of the business plan. The business model that we talk about in landscape business course. And I'd love if you'd be able to join. I really do believe that if, if you do join this course, you will absolutely, absolutely, absolutely get your money back. Just if you get the, the like just the, the software and you've heard me say this for just if you get long Pro software, the 247, like just that will save you, like you'll make, you'll save five times that in your first year. You'll make more money because of it. You'll get paid faster because of it through the Stripe and PayPal credit card processing and the billing and more efficiency. You'll say just in that let alone all the free coursework and the videos and the templates and everything that I give there. So like I do believe it's a no brainer. I really do. Like this is what I was looking for. I still remember typing in into Google when I was getting started landscape business course. And that's why I named it landscapebusinesscourse.com because I still remember typing into Google. I was trying to find a course that wasn't just like random tips all over the map. I was looking for something that was step by step and would walk me through the process of zero to a real business. And so that's what the course does. I encourage you if you've been thinking about it or if you're starting your business or if you kind of hit a plateau or you've been thinking about starting your business, definitely check it out. It's landscapebusinesscourse.com and I'd love to get you enrolled. So if you go and enroll today, you get immediate access to the coursework, that's the videos or all the templates, all of that stuff. And as you go through the course you get like multiple choice questions and fill in the blank questions to make sure you're actually absorbing the information. And so you can kind of test yourself throughout that. I kind of test you on or quiz you on the key aspects of each module as you go through. So that's important to do that and then you'll get immediate access to that. And then within 24 hours I will get you your Lawn Pro credentials and so I'll send you your login and password and you can log in there, start to play around with it and use it as you go through the course. And especially in the module 4 and 5 when we go deep into billing and how to use the software. So that's it for today. I am going to definitely be. You'll be hearing me more from me here. If you have questions on the course, what it entails, all of that, just go to landscapebusinesscourse.com if you click enroll, it doesn't like make you pay right away. You get to see everything that's actually in the course. You get to see all the titles of the videos. You get to see exactly what's in there. And so definitely check it out. And I'd love to see you in the class. So until next time, this is Mike Andes. You've been listening to Landscape Business course podcast. See you again later.