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

do NOT grow your Business

20 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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A brief spoken checklist advising business owners who are considering quitting or stopping aggressive expansion to stop the growth-at-all-costs cycle: avoid taking on debt and buying trucks, stop hiring employees, raise prices, and continue raising prices whenever you hit capacity (e.g., working overtime or weekends).

Before you quit your business, do these five things. Get off the growth treadmill. Stop trying to grow at all costs. Going into debt. Doing everything possible to grow top line revenue. Second, stop buying trucks. Number three, Stop hiring employees. Step number four, Raise prices. And step number five, every single time you hit capacity and you're working weekends and evenings and overtime, raise your prices again.