Big Announcements That Will Change Your Business

Hey everyone, it's Mike Andes. You're listening to Landscape Business Course Podcast you might be watching on YouTube or on Facebook. Want to say a big thank you for joining today? Today is really just two big announcements that I have for you today. Two dates I want you to put on your calendar and I need you to register for. So the first one is May 21, 2018. That's going to be not this, not tomorrow, but it's next, next week, Sunday. And it's gonna be Sunday at 2 o', clock, May 21, 2018. It's gonna be a webinar. And this webinar is gonna be about hiring, hiring 101. And it's gonna be all about how we've hired people in our company, finding field staff, crew leaders, estimators, project managers, and then obviously just office staff and things like that, how we have done that. There's a couple different ways. I'm gonna show you some of the stuff that we've done. I'm also going to be throwing in something additional and that is going to be throwing in. We're going to be Talking about the 12 month email newsletter that you can send out to all of your existing customers to really improve the lifetime value of your customers and get those mowing customers paying twice as much in the lifetime of them being a customer with you. So if they're spending $1,000 with you per year, your customers, how do you get that to 2000? One of the best ways to do that is by sending a 12 month newsletter every month. Giving them a newsletter reminding them that you perform services that they never even knew you did, and connecting with them even just on a level outside of sales. Not even just for instance, we just sent one about our employees and about the new employee that we've hired and gave a bio description about them, things they're interested in, funny facts about them making that connection, literally. We can fill our schedule up for a couple weeks if we get slow just by sending out one of these emails. Because as your business grows, you get thousands of these contacts that you can tap into and really book out your schedule when you start getting slower in the winter and things like that. Just by sending out these emails on a regular basis, monthly newsletters, we're going to be talking about that in the webinar as a bonus, but we're going to be really focusing on hiring or going to be focusing on using a career fair and we're going to be talking about how to interview people within our landscaping industry and make sure you find People that are great A players for your team. So check it out. May 21, 2018. How do you sign up for this? There's two ways to do it. Number one is just to grab your cell phone. Go ahead and text landscape business, one word, no space. Landscape business or one word, no space in between. Text that to 44222 against landscape business, one word to 44222. It'll set you up for the registration. It'll ask for your email address. You just text back your email address and that sets you in the sequence and registers you for the webinar. That's gonna be a live webinar. It's gonna be probably 45 to 60 minutes long, followed up by Q and A. And so you can ask any questions you have about hiring people and resumes, interviewing process, how we do it, our company. I promise you it'll be a value. The other way to do it is just go to landscapebusinesscourse.com@the very top there'll be a banner that says register for the free webinar. Go ahead and click on that and that'll also set you up for that webinar. The next date that I'm so excited to tell you about is January 17th to 19th, 2019. It seems like it's a far, far away. It's not too far. It's only like seven months away. And this is something that a lot of you have asked for and a lot of you have actually already signed up for because I gave some of you, the course members, some insider information and so some of you have already got pre sale tickets and things like that. However, it's officially live. If you go to landscapebusinesscourse.com and you'll see in the tab there's a conference tab. We are having a conference. It's gonna be called Landscape Summit for Landscapers by Landscapers. That's the name of the conference that we're having. We are gonna try to book out this entire hotel and really just have it for us as landscapers. My goal is to sell the whole hotel out basically through the get enough people to come to the course, to the conference where everyone that's attending is staying at the hotel is landscapers. That way when you're just like going from room to room, whoever you meet is a landscape business owner, someone you can talk to, someone you can network, someone that you can learn from. And so that's my goal and I'm really looking forward to it. It's a little bit of like a you know this is our first one. I'm crossing my fingers hoping that we can sell enough of these tickets. But I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not making any money on this whole thing. A lot of money goes into renting the facilities, paying the speakers, things like that. We have some world class speakers coming, people that. I've heard all the speakers before, they're fantastic. Absolutely phenomenal. I promise you it's gonna be hardcore. It's gonna be. You're gonna get so many ideas on how to grow your business skills, scale it up, save money, hire people, create a great team, lead your team market, advertise. It's gonna be absolutely phenomenal. And I'm cutting out all the fluff. We're cutting out all the fancy stuff that usually you're paying a lot of money for. We're also cutting out things like trade show, like vendors and sponsors. I don't want it to be a commercialized event. I want it to be just hardcore. Three days of just raw advice, tactical skills and great learning for you as a business owner. It's gonna be cutting out the fluff. We're not gonna have no. I'm not putting money into the swag bags, fancy dinners and fancy. It's not a five star luxury hotel. The great affordable rates that they have given us for the landscapers. If you go to landscapebinninesscourse.com click the conference tab and you can sign up right now. It's early bird pricing because this is the way the conference, like the hotel is kind of set up. The earlier we can book people in, the better rates they're giving us. So it's only $2.99, $299. It's going to get you those three days. It's right next to the airport in Bellingham and so it's an international airport. You can get fly into Bellingham and literally walk across the parking lot to this brand new conference center that was just built. It's absolutely beautiful. If you fly into Seattle, you can just take a shuttle up. It's like an hour and a half shuttle ride, beautiful i5 and come to the conference as well. But it's. I can't wait. It's gonna be absolutely phenomenal. I'm really looking forward to the speakers. I've listened to them all like I said and they changed my business back when I listened to them. I promise you they'll do something amazing for yours. Just being with everyone there is gonna be phenomenal. I'll be taking a keynote Each day we're gonna be doing Q and A live Q and A with the entire group there. And I really, really look forward to it. It's gonna be, I hope it's kind of the first of many a tradition that we do annually. And so if you want to be part of the group that gets to say in five years that you were at the first one, I really hope I can see you there. So this is the conference, it's called Landscape Summit for landscapers by landscapers. January 17th, 18th and 19th. So that is Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It's gonna be jam packed right from 9 o' clock in the morning till 6, 7 o' clock at night. We're going to be having sessions, multiple speakers and just a phenomenal event where you can network with other landscapers and share information. And so how do you register for that landscapebusinesscourse.com conference or just go to landscapebusinesscourse.com and click the conference tab. You'll want to sign up for that asap. It's going to fill up fast. A lot of the course members are jumping in already, so. So if you haven't already, landscapebusinesscourse.com conference, it's just $299 and it's going to cover the expenses of renting out the big halls and the sound and the video and everything so that we can get everyone there and it's going to be fantastic. I can't wait to see you. It's something a lot of you have asked for mention, course members have hinted at. And I finally, I'm going to pull the trigger. I've already signed the paperwork for the hotel. It was a little bit nerve wracking. I'm not gonna lie to reserve a hotel with the conference halls and everything, it's not cheap and then not really know if people are gonna buy or not. But I really do look forward to seeing you all. I promise you, you will not regret coming to this conference. There's gonna be so much important information that's shared that can help you scale your business. But more importantly, it's the network with other landscapers. Literally. You'll be able to meet, you know, dozens, hundreds of other landscapers that can add to your repertoire of skills and knowledge and really cut out the learning curve in growing your business. That's the only way that I was able to scale my company up so quickly is by going to these conferences, going to these places, meeting other landscapers, learning and getting the skills and experience that would otherwise have taken years, but I was able to get that from other people and learn from their mistakes. I promise you it'll be worth it. It'll be so much fun to see you. And. And I am looking forward to it. That's the big thing I'm talking about today, January 17th to the 19th. Reserve your ticket right now for the next. I think it's like five weeks. This is when we get the early bird pricing. That's $2.99. You can go ahead and buy that. And after July 1, as long as you book your ticket before July 1, that's when you get $2.99. After that, it's going to be going up to $3.99. So book your ticket today, $2.99. It's at Landscape Business Course. Com Conference, so I can't wait till that. And until next time, guys. Be great because nothing else pays.