Transcript excerpt from a YouTube video featuring Mike Andes (founder of Augusta Lawn Care) speaking with another person about the difficulties of running/turning around a small business. Mike highlights financial concerns (low revenue and unprofitability across locations) and offers to help increase revenue or explore selling. The other speaker expresses emotional conflict (head vs heart, burnout) about whether to continue.
Questions this video answers
Over 150 locations.
$330,000 in annual revenue between two locations.
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They don't even care about their kid. They care about the perception of having a kid that's behind. I'm Mike Andes. I'm the founder of Augusta Lawn Care. We have over 150 locations, and we travel around the country fixing small businesses.
It seems like we paying the business, like, what is going. So my head is like, you better run. But then my heart is like, I don't know. We've accomplished our mission here yet.
My biggest concerns when I look at her numbers is the fact that between two locations, only $330,000 in annual revenue. But he's like, does it.
Make sense financially? I'm like, it doesn't make sense financially, but my heart.
Is still connected. If you actually care, just tell. Tell people how much you care because you do. Like, otherwise, if this was just a transaction, you'd be like, let's just get out of this. This can be very, very difficult. So we've got to find a way to either increase the amount of revenue. I shouldn't have to bend your arm.
For you to know your kid needs support. Like, I don't want to be that person. That's the hard part. It's like my head and my heart are going back.
And forth because it seems like you're just kind of burnt out on it.
I'm burnt. I'm burnt out.
Because they're losing money, they're not profitable, and she's thinking about trying to sell them.
If it's over, I'm okay. If the season is.
Over, we can.
Sell it and be done.
Let's see if we can turn this around.
Y' all just pray for me. Pray for a sister. Pray for sister.
