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

Owner isn't getting PAID... Off-Season Problems SOLVED!

7 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript of a YouTube video (June 7, 2025) where Mike Andes advises a service business owner who hasn't been paid. Key recommendations: convert customers to bi-weekly recurring services to smooth off-season revenue — target converting ~50 of 100 customers to generate roughly $8–10K/month; charge rates discussed are $80–$90/hour with customers billed every two weeks. Tactics include door-to-door conversations, framing recurring service as cheaper than seasonal cleanups (spring/fall), offering a list (~10) of tasks per visit, starting at the top of the property each visit, and sending property inspection videos to customers.

Questions this video answers

$8,000–$10,000 per month

At least 50 customers

$80–$90 per hour

Every two weeks

June 7, 2025

We haven't paid ourselves in two weeks. I don't know what to do.
We didn't get paid. So they, they came first. And we're not gonna just not pay our employees. That leads me into like the off season. When you do a leaseter, you can be generating 8 to 10 grand a month. Out of 100 customers. I'd be shooting for at least 50 to stay on recurring services on a bi weekly basis at their mowing price. What are you trying to charge out in the field?
80 to 90 an hour. Are they paying this amount no matter what every week or two?
Every two weeks.
Really?
The same week they're paying for mowing? Well, I would recommend doing when you have a hundred customers, is talking to every single one. I would knock on the door of every single one. Because if you knock on the door and actually explain that they're saving money, everyone goes for it. If you just like pitches, like I'm trying to make more money, that's how they hear it. But if you say, hey, here's the cost of your fall cleanup. Here's the cost of a spring cleanup. For half of that we can come every two weeks and chip away at it. Make the property look good all year round. Here's the list of stuff we're doing. And it's gonna be like 10 things.
Yeah.
We start at the top every single visit. And we work our way down. And we spend the same amount of time on this as we would with mowing your grass. The last one on ours is property inspection and send video to customer. Some people, they've said that we just do wish we get a video of our property every two weeks because we're in Florida for six months of the year.
Wow.