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

running a business like a tricycle … vs a jet 🛩

6 May 2022 · 0 min

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Short YouTube advice segment by Mike Andes (uploaded May 6, 2022) contrasting running a small business "like a tricycle" with operating at higher scale ("like a jet"). Andes urges business owners—especially in home improvement and contracting—to differentiate from competitors by investing in dashboards and employee training, tracking labor efficiency, and aiming for greater community impact rather than remaining small-scale operators.

If you're going to make more profit than the average in your industry or above your competition, you are going to have to do things that are different than the person riding the tricycle. Because otherwise we'd all just be on tricycles and we just run our little small business and we do good and we'd be working hard all the time, but we wouldn't get very far. We wouldn't make a meaningful impact in our community. So I highly recommend start investing in the dashboards, start investing in training, especially home improvement and contractors. You got to know the efficiency of your labor.