Q&A Session: Stealing Customers, Automations, and Sales Funnels
8 Dec 2025 · 26 min
Podcast Q&A (Mike Andes, Oct 26, 2019) offering practical advice for landscape business owners on customer acquisition, sales funnels, pricing, operations, and CRM automations. Topics include targeted paid ads and route-density tactics, using Service Autopilot automations for follow-up/collections/dispatch, handling damage claims and pricing increases, staffing/office tradeoffs, and franchise support (Command Center).
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Hey everyone, it's Mike Andes and you're listening to the Landscape Business Course podcast. Today we're going to do a marathon of Q and A. Probably take us, I don't know, maybe 30, 40 minutes and just try to answer some of the questions that came in on Landscape Business Course Facebook Group. If you're not a part of the group, make sure you join and you can ask questions on the next Q and A. I wanted to make sure everyone has signed up for Landscape Business Course, the conference that we're having, Landscape Summit 2020. It's in January. Just go to landscapebusinesscourse.com conferen or go to the homepage and just click on the conference tab. On there you can see all the topics or at least the five main topics we're gonna be covering. We'll have a whole bunch of smaller ones while we're there, but we'll be talking about those five different topics as well as there's a little bit of a schedule on there. Thursday, we start at 5pm we'll be ending Saturday evening and we'll have a special kind of event on Saturday evening together. So looking forward to that. More details to come. Over the next couple weeks, I'll be rolling out a more detailed schedule and topics and things like that. So let's go ahead, jump right into the questions at the conference. By the way, we will be doing a lot of Q and A. If you were there last year, you know that probably 20 to 25% of the conference is literally Q and A, because at the end of each session I ask for questions. And even throughout sessions you're able to raise your hand and ask questions. The nice thing this is not like thousands of people. It's only gonna probably be 50 to 100 probably, I'm guessing. And so what's nice is that you're able to ask questions and everyone can hear you and really get some really detailed questions answered throughout the whole conference. So let's go ahead and roll through some of these. Again, this is coming from Landscape Business Course Group on Facebook. Brandon Tubik Excuse me, I haven't read all these questions, but I'll just go through them and if I don't know what the answer is, I'll just let you know. Brandon2big says targeted Google Ads to build density. Best strategy to implement. We have used Google Ads all season, but really want to dial in the proper demographic. So the major thing is your age that you have. You don't want to just target area because marketing lawn care services to 18 and 20 year olds is not really the best use of your money. So we usually target people 45 and up. Again, this is going to depend on your local market and who your target audience member is. Who's your ideal customer? If you're going after more of a 30 to 40 year old, that's a working professional because you live next to the headquarters of some massive law group or accounting firm, then you might want to change your strategy. But for us and for the, you know, Augusta, our Target market is 45 and up. So retired, affluent, residential, small, small.
Property owner. So that's kind of who we target. And in terms of building route density, I would just make sure that using Google, Facebook along with eddm, that's gonna be the best way to usually get a dense route. As well as putting door hangers on the neighbors of your existing clients. So five or nine houses. So if you're gonna do five, you do the neighbors of both the. If you view this person's lawn, you're gonna do door hangers on the people next door on both sides and then the three people across the street call a five around. Some people do nine arounds, but that's a great way to build density as well. Brandon continued with another question. He says new client intake flow or sales funnel? We started using Jobber and realized it's not very visual, so we started dropping leads into a sales board in Trello at the same time so the team can stay up to date. We throw voicemails, notes, hold people accountable, et cetera. How do you guys do at Augusta? By the way, thank you for the letter. We'd love to chat about having you out for zero turn next season if you're not crazy busy with the franchising. So in terms of. So Brandon's basically asking, do we have a sales funnel? Looks like he's using Jobber. It's not very visual for the sales funnel. And so they've been using Trello to make a sales board and things like that. So the beautiful thing about software is it makes your life easier. What I don't like about software is when you have to start duplicating inputs. So I hate having to put customers into one CRM and then putting them into something else. Or if I do an estimate here. That's why if people use QuickBooks, for example, alongside their service Autopilot or another CRM is like, I do not want to have to be going between the two back and forth and like fixing things back and forth. If they don't sync across and they're not, it's not a seamless sync, then I want to keep them separate. And the reason for that is because I hate double entry. I hate wasting time putting into two different systems. And we have to do that on some things because not every CRM is going to have exactly what you want. So for scheduling for us we use some other things, other softwares. However, for sales funnel we have it all automated. So with Service autopilot the only thing I like about them, the thing that I like them the most is their automations. Like without the automations I'd probably use jobber.
And just because ease of use and just user friendliness. But with automations, that's my sales funnel is because it's already automated. Like I build the sales funnel, as soon as the estimate is created they automatically go into the funnel and I know it's going to go through that funnel exactly the same way every single time. And unless they mark that estimate as lost then or they reject the estimate, they're going to continue to stay in that sales funnel. And if at the very worst they go through the whole sales funnel and we've lost the bid, then they're going to go back into a monthly recycling them, recycling that estimate and recycling that lead to try to stay in touch with them. And that keeps them in the sales funnel all the time. So in terms of how to do that, I've never used trello, to be perfectly honest with you, I've played with it, but we've never used it. At Augusta we try to keep it all as much as possible on one CRM. And so if we didn't use service autopilot we'd probably have to use some sort of other out of the box automation software and start duplicating things. And I just wouldn't like that. So we try to keep it all as much as possible. On one CRM AB says, hey Mike, first off, I can't wait to meet you and being part of the first 10 Augusta franchisees. Augustanation. So AB is part. He's in New York, Long island and so he's a franchisee of Augusta. My two questions are a bit evil, but nonetheless. I don't think you meant evil. My two questions are a bit evil, but nonetheless. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay, got it. Number one, in my territory, 99% of properties already have a landscaper. So how do I take those properties from their landscaper? What's the best thing to say or not to say to the property owner? So this Is a case when.
You gotta let your professionalism do the marketing for you. Like, I am not an advocate of going after people's customers. Like, there's a way to maliciously use Facebook ads and even Google Ads to target the customers of other.
Competitors. It's not hard and use their names and your ads and everything. But it's just like, I'm a big believer of what goes around, comes around. What you do is going to come back to you. And so I'm just not a fan of that. I want everyone in my market to do well. All the other landscapers, if they're playing by the rules, if they are honest with their employees and honest with customers and doing things right, I want them all to succeed. So I'm not going to go tear them down. What I would say is that if 99% of the people in your market have a landscaper, that's a really good sign. There's lots of opportunity. You just got to make sure you're better than the other landscapers. That means cleaner trucks, more professional people, better sales material, better copy on your ads targeting specific dense routes. So that way they always are seeing your trucks when really like, so I saw something really cool one of the members was doing the other day where he made sure that he always did door hangers on the main streets of his town. So that way, like the main arteries. So that way his trucks would always be along those. So people from all the other cul de sacs and neighborhoods would always be seeing his trucks along those main roadways. And that's how he spread and began to grow. Is always marketing along the arteries and like where a lot of the traffic is going. And so things like that just being smarter. Like even for example, at our local shop, we were talking and it was brought up like, okay, a lot of the landscapers locally are listening to the podcast and getting educated from landscape business course. And they're starting to do a lot of things and it's becoming harder to get these estimates or that's the reason why we might not be winning some estimates occasionally. And so. But what I said is.
So some people, even in your market, you might be doing something and a competitor starts doing the same thing. At the end of the day, if a competitor is copying you, you're winning because if they're following what you're doing, it means one thing. It means you're in front of them. And so it's not a bad thing. I want the industry to improve. And if what I'm doing is working and other people are copying it. It's gonna be better for them, their employees, and their customers. Let's go for it. I'm all for it. But at the end of the day, if they're following what I'm doing and copying it, it means that I'm ahead of them. And I'm always gonna be ahead. I'm gonna figure out another marketing tool a year before them. By the time they catch on, I'll have something else. Just one new thing at the end. Right now, it's pay for performance. By the time a lot of people are on board with that, I'll have something else we're figuring out and conquering. And so that's why I'm so confident in the franchise working, is that we'll always be one step ahead of. Of the competition. So when it comes to a market that's saturated in your mind, you think everyone has existing landscapers. That's when you just gotta be better. At the end of the day, that's, you know, you gotta be better. Better marketing, more professional, getting the bids back faster. If 99% of people have landscaping services, I can guarantee you 10% of them are looking for new services or at least price checking in the spring or they're moving. Just people who are moving and getting to a new neighborhood. They'll ask other landscapers for B. You've got to be the fastest bid. You gotta be the most professional bid. You gotta have the best systems in place to be personable as well as professional, as well as timely, as well as cost effective. And so putting those combinations and just being better is what's gonna allow you to break into the market. Number two, once I find one particular landscaper in my area that isn't doing the best job, do I take advantage and grab all his accounts in my territory? I will be seeing you, God willing, on the 14th. We could discuss then. So basically saying, hey, if you see someone weak in your market, should I go target all of their customers? I don't think so. Again, let your work speak for itself. Let your professionalism speak for yourself. Let your website speak for itself. There's a really good chance that most landscapers in your market that just have a single truck or a couple employees and just kind of do it on the weekends or whatever, they are not gonna look as good as you online. And usually they're not even gonna look as good as you in person if you have professional trucks and trailers and equipment and trained staff and all of that. But even online is a massive difference. Cause Most customers, if you look at the numbers and you look at the data right now, most consumers, even in the home improvement space, go online to vet the contractor. And so you being professional online, having a great website, having great pictures, being really open and honest about pricing online, all of those things is what's gonna separate you from Joe Blow down the street or from the landscaper that is quote, unquote, struggling and not doing the best job. And so you've just gotta be better. At the end of the day in a crowded market, it proves that there's a lot of work to be done. You've gotta prove yourself that you're better than everyone else to get into the market. All right, next question comes from Kosh. Josh, did Augusta learn essay automations on your own? Which ones are most useful? If you did, if you used an outsourced source to help build them, would you care to share? Do you use Service Autopilot for anything other than routing, invoicing, employee tracking, damage cases, assets recruiting, et cetera? Summed up, how can we use Service Autopilot most effectively? All right, so first question is, did Augusta learn Service Autopilot Automations on your own? Yes. We never had anyone else build any of the automations for us. And the reason I'm a big believer in this is because I truly believe that if something is super integral to your business, you need to know how to do it, you need to know how to build it, you know how to operate it, because otherwise you just become vulnerable. Like if I put the put automations in the hand of some other developer or another company because there's third party companies that build Service Autopilot automations and I'm not against them, I think they do a great job. But, but for me, I want to know how to customize them. I know how to use them to the most of their use them the peak like as much as I possibly can. I want to be able to customize them to my needs as well as the needs of the franchisees. I do not ever want to have someone my hands being tied because someone else built them and I don't want to have to pay them monthly fees to hold the key to those handcuffs. And so I'm not a big fan of anything in my business having someone else have leverage.
Against the thing that's core competencies. And with Service Autopilot I feel like automations is the only reason we have it. And so why would I let that core competency of the CRM be dictated by a third party? And so With Augusta, all the franchisees they get automation packages and that's going to be stuff we've built that I've personally used we've ran at Augusta. And so in terms of which ones are the most useful, I'll name a couple of them. Obviously the estimate follow up is really huge. We have several different types of follow up for estimates.
Let me see. So collections really important, keeps your accounts receivable down a lot. If you have really good automations for collections, automations for dispatch based upon like if you do treatments to let them know not to be on the lawn or put their pets out, that can be automated. Also automations for dispatch for like dog picking up their dog poop and then letting. Sometimes customers always say hey, let me know when you're headed over. Well instead of doing that manually, you can just have an automation do that. Other automations we do are things like when an estimator completes an estimate out in the field, it'll automatically email the office and let them know that it's ready to be sent. So that way it's just really fast.
This is the whole bunch. We use a whole bunch. And I think when you get started as an Augusta lawn care franchisee, we preload with about, I think it's like 8, 6 or 8. No, it's like 8 or 10 now. So anyways, we preload quite a few automations for the new franchisees and then we will continue to give them more complex ones as their business grows.
Summed up, how can we use service autopilot most effectively? Basically if you don't use service autopilot for automations, I would go use Jobber just because it's not easy to use. It's a very complex system really in comparison to other CRMs. It takes sometimes years to really figure out, even if you've been trained on it, to really understand how the system works and utilize it to its full capability.
I would use Jobber if you're not gonna use automations and service autopilot. Just my opinion. Amity Morales asked how do you handle customer complaints about breaking things at the property when there's no proof if, if it was your crew? Because if it's the crew. Because if it's the crew, we fix it of course. Okay, so Amity's basically asking, okay, if someone, a customer says hey, there's a damage case on my property, but there's really no evidence that it was your crew at the end of the day on these ones it comes down to do you want to risk a really Bad online review. And we're just going to assume that there's absolutely no evidence. Besides, maybe it happened the same day as your crew was there, or maybe even you don't even know that. Literally someone just convicts you of something. Like if it's so obvious, like for example.
The garage is smashed in the garage door, and you can look at all your trucks, you can track them and no one was by that house, or.
There'S no paint on any of the trucks or any damage and their whole garage door is smashed open, then obviously that's something I'm not going to do. But when it comes to he shed versus he said, versus she said sort of thing back and forth, at the end of the day, it's gonna come down to how bad do you not want to have a negative online review? And that's up to you. If it's a $200 repair, maybe you do it. If it's 10,000, okay, probably not. So it just really is going to be, how bad do you not want to have that online review? And then if you decide, look, if this is like too expensive, it's a $5,000 repair and I don't think our guys did it. Or at least there's no evidence of it. And.
Then it's like, maybe you go negotiate, maybe you talk to the customer, maybe you try to have like a third party come in and try to mediate between the two. It's gonna depend on like, are they malicious? Are they really super mad? Or is it just like, oh, I think this broke the other day. So it's, every single customer's gonna be a little bit different. But at the end of the day, it's really gonna come down to how much, how bad do you think they're like, how mad are they? Are they gonna go make a horrible online review that's worth 20, $30,000 of damages to your business in terms of future revenues? Or is it worth just paying 150 bucks and fixing the little edging or a little figurine in their lawn care or in their bed? So that's really a call that you have to make on an individual basis. But again, having your trucks tracked, great way to do truck damage stuff. If people say that a truck was a certain spot and you can prove that it wasn't, that helps clock in and clock out on jobs. That helps to know timing. Little things like that can help sometimes on those. Keith Dodget asks, what time does it start? Oh, okay. No, he thought it was live anyways. Cecil Perkins. Where Do I store all my training videos and screen recordings? What platform do you recommend for this? So two different ones I'd recommend is if you use, you can use YouTube and just do private videos. So that way people, only people with your login information for YouTube can access the videos or just use Google Drive and then you can share certain users access and then like if they get fired or they leave you can just take access off so that way you don't have to change your login details for YouTube all the time. Marcus Love has a few questions. It looks like.
Full service package contracts or no contracts. We don't do contracts but we also focus mostly on residential and one time jobs. So we do not do full service packages at Augusta. Take that back. We do have some but we focus on just a one time mo's and clean up per service and treatment per service. We might sell them a treatment package but we are going to charge them on each treatment, not like on an annual basis. Office administrator procedures and procedure to help with quoting, scheduling, how to respond back to emails, messages and reviews. So again an office person is an expense, they are an overhead, but they can make up for their pay in leaps and bounds. And so recently with Augusta Lawn Care, the franchisees we've launched what's called Command center where we're going to answer their calls at our call center here and that way they can be in the field, they can be doing estimates and not have to worry about hiring an office person. We're also building the functionality to send estimates for them through service autopilot as well as take calls and sell estimates, all of those things. And so it's a huge part and that's why we've done it for the franchisees, to give them the value because there's a massive amount of overhead that comes with hiring an office person simply due to the fact that when you need them, when you need them to get started is usually around like the 3 to 500,000 in annual revenue marker. But that's also a time when you don't need them full time and it's tough to find a good part timer. So what ends up happening is you hire this person and literally half their day they are wasting just like texting or doodling or doing whatever on the computer. And so what we've done with Command center is basically make it where they only have to get, they only have to pay by the minute on the phone. So that way our call center staff is efficient. They are always answering the phone. It's not like you're not paying for someone to sit in an office that you're heating. You have to give them furniture and a bathroom and computers and have garbage and electricity and all these things. You can just be out doing your thing. All the field crew working, and then all the command center or all the calls and estimates are handled by the office at the command center. So. But if you're not, obviously, if you're not a franchisee, an office person's a tough one because until you get to a certain scale, you can't keep them busy. And usually I see between 3 and 500,000. That's when people need to get their first office person in the door and start having someone running estimates, answering phones, emails, all those sort of things, scheduling, all of that. And so.
During that time is tough. Ideally, you have a family member or a spouse or something that can kind of fill in occasionally until finally you need someone full time. But that's a tough middle ground because their payroll is 100%. Overhead just comes right off the profit margin. And so that's a tough one for a business kind of in that middle zone. And that's why you see a lot of landscaping companies, they top out at between 250 grand and 350 grand is because it's like you either jump past five and afford an office person or you stay at around 3. So that way you, as the owner can do the office stuff, be out in the field, do the managing of the jobs, do the estimates, and kind of be everywhere at once. And until you commit to having that office person, you're gonna continue to do that. And that will keep you from growing past usually about 300, 350,000. Best way to increase prices on clients who have been with you since the beginning, low pricing due to not knowing how to price at the beginning. We don't want to upset them, lose them, as they are our first supporters. So, Marcus, there's gonna be a new Zero Turn episode uploaded on YouTube and Facebook coming up here pretty soon. And I was at 116 Lawn Care in Jerseyville, Illinois, with Zach and Jessica Dahr. It's gonna be coming out here in the next couple weeks. That is the next. You know, we just posted several episodes, by the way, videos on YouTube and Facebook of zero turn, several different companies we visited. But in a couple weeks, we're gonna be launching a new one, and it's going to be that one. And in that one, we talk very much in detail about how to raise prices on your customers without them getting mad. And so if you haven't already, make sure you do watch those Zero Turn episodes. We just launched one called Ankeny Lawn Care over from Iowa. And so definitely watch those videos. You'll get something out of those. But just to answer your question here, in terms of increasing the prices, just be very honest with your customers and how you want to pitch it is how does it benefit them? And so what you do is like, hey, look, over the past five years we haven't raised your price. Here's the things that we have done and you talk about, okay, we've trained our staff, we've implemented a better website, we've allowed credit card processing, we've upgraded our fleet and our equipment and safety standards and all these things. And by the way, labor is getting more and more expensive and yet all this time we haven't raised your price. In order for us to be a sustainable business that can serve you for years to come, we're going to need to raise your price by X, whatever that price is in order for us to serve you and so that we can make this sustainable. And so even if you have to just be honest and look, we're losing money on your job and if they've been with you for five years and they love your work, most of the time they stay with you, sending them a letter and a nice email and maybe a phone call. Literally I'm seeing right now people that are using the letter on the course and things. We have the price increase letter that's on the course. I'm seeing between 2 and 8% of people that drop services after getting that letter and email. And so.
I'd much rather lose even 20% of those customers that I raised prices on. But knowing that the 80% that stayed on are now profitable instead of losing money. And it's, and it is ethically right for you to be making profit on those long hair jobs because if you're not, you're not running a sustainable business and you're putting the jobs of your employees at risk as well as the customer's dependence and need for your services is going to be in jeopardy. Because you know, if you go out of business, they have to go find someone else and if they go out of business, they have to find. So like to give that consistent, long lasting relationship with your customers, you have to charge a premium and you have to charge a price that is going to be sustainable so you can make a profit. What things to measure, keep track of when we discuss sales and marketing. Lots of things, a couple of ones that hit me off the head are close ratio and.
Profit percentages. That's the big thing. And against budgeted hours. So budgeted hours, profitability, and close ratio on sales and marketing, those are the few that just pop into my head. Keith asks, the county I live in has around 75,000 people with average salary around 41,000. And with about 30 landscaping companies. What do you think? Realistic. I could do you think it's realistic? I could grow a business with your model? So 75,000 is pretty close to where we're at in Whatcom County. I'm pretty sure we have about 81,000, 82,000 people in our county. And it's definitely possible. In our county alone, there's almost 100 landscaping companies. And that's like. That is. I know that for a fact because we sent out zero turn. We sent out the book to every landscaper in our county, and we sent out, I think like 80 or 90. And we only looked at the ones online. Like the ones that were just like. Just like guys driving down the street. We couldn't find their address. I know we sent out 80 to 90 books. In our market, we have 81,000 people, 82,000 people in our market. And it's a college town, too, so our age demographic skew's low as well as income because it's a college town in Bellingham. And we still. This business is successful. That being said, we grew the business to one and a quarter million in a town that has less than 8,000 people. And we scale it to one and a quarter before we even move to the larger shop and the larger market. So I do not believe that demographical populations is constraint on your business. And I do not believe that the number of businesses that are in lawn care is a constraint either. The more landscaping businesses there are, it means there's just more work to be had. And so, again, it goes back to the question AB asked, like, you just gotta prove why you're better. And that means that there's plenty of work for you to take.
Nick Sneddon asked three questions. It looks like best way to drastically increase route density for mowing. We talked a little bit about that. Facebook ads, Google Ads, eddm, and door hangers in very targeted areas. So Facebook, you can target neighborhoods and then do the door hangers and things like that. Number two, when doing pay for performance, would you guarantee a minimum hourly wage? Yes, by law, you have to pay the minimum wage. And we artificially raise that at Augusta to a higher rate just so that they have some Sort of stability in their workflow and in their pay. Number three, any tips for selling lawn care or mowing services door to door?
I would basically not do it as a pitch. I would do it as basically saying, hey, we're next door. Would you like, you know, just wondering if you ever need services, let us know. Here's the card. I'm not into the high pitch, like the high pressure door to door. I'm much more like, hey, maybe you don't mow the area. So and you're just kind of coming in new. I would say, hey, my name is so and so. I'm with some such and such lawn care services and we're new to the area and we just love to prove our professionalism. And if there's ever anything you would need done in your lawn care or in your landscaping, just give us a call. Here's my name and number on this card or pamphlet or brochure or whatever. We'd love to do business with you and just do that. If you are mowing in that area, that's really powerful because you can literally be having a crew mowing and be like, hey, we were just down the street pointing to your guys, hopefully a nice truck and a well uniformed crew. And we just wanted to introduce ourselves. Obviously we do this property and this property and Mr. Jones across the street from you here, we do his property and name drop and then basically say we'd love to do services for you. If you ever have the need, just give us a call. Again, low pressure, but again using your crew and your. Because now when they drive by that property every single time and it looks really nice, hopefully they're going to be thinking about your services and what you could do for them and their property. All right, one more question here. Nick Stedden asks, when using Pay for Performance, do you use the same system to judge employees performance for a mowing route versus a much higher dollar per man hour job like cleanups, for example, paying employees 30% of revenue for cleanups is much higher hourly wage than 30% while mowing. Again, this really is going to depend on your market. It's going to depend on your pricing structure, what type of services you're focused on. So again at conference we're gonna talk a lot about pay for performance and you can ask these questions and I can get some more context. But this is going to depend strictly based upon what your strategy is for your business. Like if your strategy is get people in the door with lawn care and then upsell them to higher priced and Higher margin services, you're gonna flip pay for performance differently. If you have a model where you wanna have consistent profit margins across all services, then you manipulate your budgeted hours as well as your hourly rates so that a guy working out mowing, when he does a good job, he can make just as much as someone doing cleanups or landscaping. That might mean bringing your rates down for mowing or for landscaping. But again, it's all about your business model, your demographic, your route density is a big deal. Your crew setups, like your equipment setups are going to be a big deal because you can artificially help the mowing crews get more money by simply giving them bigger equipment, nicer equipment, newer equipment. And so how you make that balance is completely predicated upon what you're getting, business goals are and your market and your pricing and a whole bunch of other things. And so at conference, we are probably going to spend 40 to 50% of the time of conference developing your personalized pay for performance system. And so I want everyone to leave there having a very clear system for their business, specific for their business. Not just because like I just threw out percentages or I just like gave you a ballpark like doing that and it failing. And I've seen this happen. Companies just take a percentage that they hear on a video or whatever and they implement it. It doesn't work because they didn't customize it. And then the crew retaliates and they will never be able to institute pay for performance again, or at least for a long time. I know, I just talked to a landscaper at GIE who every single one of you would know if I mentioned his name. And they tried instituting pay for performance about five, six years ago and it didn't work. Because of that reason they had stop it. And then they just recently been able to institute it because it's been some time now. And so you do not want to do that, like shoot yourself in the foot, lose money, lose employees over and create a huge amount. This is the biggest thing, huge amount of mistrust in the culture because you don't transition correctly, you don't explain it correctly. And then when it doesn't work, you got to rescind it and you got to take it away. It's absolutely horrible. And so if you don't do it correctly and you're giving them too much money, you could literally put yourself out of business or have to reduce their pay, which looks horrible to the employees, looks like you're manipulating and using them, or you go into the system and you're not charging, you're not giving them enough. And it makes them mad because it feels like, again, you create the system just to artificially reduce their wages. And so you've got to go in with numbers, data. How do you make the transition and how do you customize it to your particular market, your services, your pricing, and what you want for the business? And so that's why at the conference, we're gonna customize it. And I want you to leave the conference with a system in place that is going to be different than every other person at the conference. And so I'm working on that. It's gonna be a big topic at the conference, and literally it might be the majority of what we talk about. So that's all the questions for today. If you have a question and you want to ask me that, go to Landscape Business course group on Facebook and make sure that you ask me that next time I post a question. Question answers request. Again, make sure you go to landscapebusinesscourse.com conference. Book your tickets, because last year we the last week and a half or so, we couldn't get any more rooms at the hotel. And so make sure you book now. And I promise you, you will not regret it. Thank you so much and have a great day.
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