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

Ryan Trahan FAILS at Lawn Mowing

22 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Mike Andes, a lawn care pro with 15+ years experience, watches Ryan Trahan try to earn money mowing lawns across the U.S. Ryan's mowing was solid, but he only converted 1 customer from 100 doors knocked in 3-4 hours. Andes says the real money is in weekly recurring jobs, not one-off cuts.

Questions this video answers

June 22, 2022.

Over 15 years (started mowing at age 11).

Ryan charged $20 per cut; the speaker suggests charging $30, $40, or $50 per cut with edging and blowing included.

They knocked on about 100 doors and got one customer.

About three or four hours.

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Recently, Ryan Train is taking a challenge to take one penny and deliver it to Mr. Beast on the other side of the United States. Now, in that journey, he's got to make money. So what is he going to do? He went and mowed lawns. Now I've been mowing grass since I was 11 years old. So over 15 years I've been lawn care and landscaping industry and I'm going to give my feedback on what he did right and what he did wrong. First of all, he actually mowed the grass pretty good. Now I would recommend get a weed whacker and get a blower because Instead of charging $20 per cut, you could easily charge 30, 40 or $50 per cut. If you edge the lawn, you blow things off and make it look really tight. Now honestly, he knocked at a hundred people door and got one customer. That might seem like a lot, but it only took them three or four hours. If you could do that every single day and get one mowing customer and do that every single day, you'd build a really good business. As long as you could take that one time mowing customer and convert them into an existing customer that you mow their lawn every single week, then you build recurring revenue and build yourself a great business.