Dustin runs two lawn care locations in Illinois and is down $25,000 this year, with winter revenue drops and burnout eating into profits. Mike Andes coaches him to stop chasing big one-time projects and add 100 mowing customers instead to stabilize the business over the next six weeks.
No, you stink at being a gm.
You did exactly the opposite of what.
You told you to do. Today we're in Illinois visiting Dustin with Augusta Lawn Care.
Today's like a breaking point day. Shut up for a minute and like, I'll handle it.
He owns two locations and wants to open up a third one next year.
Dude, I have no idea what I'm doing. We're negative like 25,000 between the two locations for this year. We're just burning money.
However, in order for those locations to operate without dust in there every single day, we want to reduce the reliance on big one time projects and increase the amount mowing customers by at least 100.
I know working for me is not easy.
In terms of the third location, I'm.
Almost inclined to say wait another year. I wish I was a better leader and an easier guy to work for. I'm just probably not.
Also during the winter his revenue falls off a cliff. We've got to fix that.
And to be completely honest, I was burnt out. I got super burnt out because we fired the whole team with champagne last year and I was running that one completely by myself.
Stay focused on your location. Like just make more money over there. This is the Business Breakthrough show. My name is Mike Andes. I'm the founder of August to Lawn Care. We have over 170 locations around the world and I travel around the country helping small businesses get.
To the next level. I want to get a location to the point where I can overpay the GM based upon my my increase in hitting capacity.
Our goal is to give Dustin a strategy to break through this plateau and grow the business in the next six weeks.
