Mike Andes tells a lawn care owner to skip hiring a third employee now and instead stack cash for the next few months. Without that third person, revenue caps around $35,000, but building a cushion first lets you confidently scale to four employees next spring and step out of the field.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess kind of like on that note, so what, what do you think so for like moving forward now? I guess so for September, October, November, like what do you think? Like, what are those gonna kind of look like? Am I gonna be staying around the 30k revenue and mix, like, mix some projects and reoccurring, or am I still trying to like increase revenue every month or kind of like what should be your plan moving forward just to finish off this year?
Yeah, like if you're not going to hire a third person, you're probably not going to grow a whole lot beyond 35,000 in revenue.
Because if you right now it's two employees and you. And you're already part time out of the field just doing estimates. So I do believe that if you don't grow anymore in terms of people or equipment, that at 35,000, you should be able to pocket a good chunk of change for the next six months, or at least the next three months during the growing season. Right. And so let's focus on that and get a nice cushion. So that way next spring when you go jump to four employees, you have that cash cushion because like, literally that's what I'm gonna push you to do is next spring. P4. P4 employees, you basically out of the field unless someone doesn't show up to work. Right. And so to have the confidence to do that, you need to do it. You do need to have somewhat of a crash cushion, which honestly I think you already have enough. But just for your own psych, build that up for the next three months.
Okay, Perfect. All right. Yeah, that sounds good.
