Mike Andes visits a Long Island lawn care location struggling to hire workers. The owner raised base pay to $20/hour to attract applicants and recently hired four full-time employees. The location is expected to hit $50,000 in monthly revenue soon.
Questions this video answers
April 29, 2021.
$20 per hour.
Three employees (then later reported four full-time employees).
Two to three months (license delay).
$50,000 in monthly revenue (expected within the next couple months).
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Hey, everyone, it's Mike Andes here. And this video is of a trip that we took out to New York York.
Where one of our corporately owned locations is located. So what's really cool and a little bit different about this video is that I have never been here. I've never met the employees. However, technically, I'm the owner. Thank you.
So today the goal is really to fly in a pretty quick trip and really get a lot of marketing material, pictures, and video that we can use throughout the year.
So that's the goal for today, and I look forward to the trip with you.
We are rolling up on Felix and his crew now. We had to stop and get changed because I hate rolling up on guys working in other than work boots and work clothes. But we're rolling up on them, and you'll notice they do not have their trucks painted. The reason is because New York has literally been taking too much or three months to get our trucks licensed, and we cannot drive them unlicensed. So they're painted, they're decals all ready to go, and they're sitting at the shop. So right now, they were actually using some other trucks that are unbranded. But Felix has done a great job just kind of adapting to all of that. They're a little bit behind in terms of the spring here. They literally had snow just a few weeks ago, so we're just kind of getting things kicked off. We got three employees in the past two weeks, and we're really rolling. So we're gonna try to get a molt installation and a lawn mowing job and show you a little bit around New York, Long Island.
How's it going? Good, good. How are you? Good, good. Did Felix tell you we'd be dropping by? Yes. Good, good. Is he gonna be here pretty soon, did you say? I think he's mowing. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Mike. Yeah. Looking really good. Mattress. Yeah. How many yards do you know? Like 15. 15? Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. Very cool. Awesome. Well, maybe I'll hop in and help a little bit. Can I use. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right, cool. I'll bring you loads.
Sam.
So here with Felix, we were just kind of discussing overall, the team strategy as we begin to grow. The hardest thing in this market has been just finding qualified, experienced employees that are willing to work hard. So we've had to do what I've talked about on my podcast for the past couple weeks, and that is we've had to raise base pay on P2P all the way up to $20 per hour, and that's not easy because base pay, we usually want to be as low as possible so that performance dollars are as high as possible on P4P. And there's a bigger delta there between base pay and what they actually earn. However, in this case, dollars per hour, where a lot of people are looking at at these entry level jobs. And we had to raise that to $20 an hour just to get applicants.
So towards the end of the day I wanted to touch base with Felix just about the team and as we build the location in New York, exactly what the strategy was going to be in terms of hiring. And one of the biggest challenges in most of the country for growing our long term businesses in 2021 is hiring and finding good people. And it's been no different in New York. And since this conversation the past couple weeks, we now have four employees full time working. We have a third truck that we've purch. They're really clicking in all cylinders. I really do expect them to exceed $50,000 in monthly revenue here in the next couple months. And they've done a great job. Felix and the team. And then Felix is brand new to hiring. He's never had a lot of people working underneath him inside of the business. He had a landscaping business before coming to Augusta of his own, but it was smaller solo. It didn't get very big, it didn't scale the way we have in the past few months. So massive. Shout out to him for being so flexible, learning, working so, so, so hard and traveling literally an hour and a half in New York traffic most of the time to get to work and everything. So big. Shout out to him, the team there. I look forward to what they are going to do in Long Island, New York.
Hey, Mike here. Make sure you watch this other video because it's just as good, if not better than the one you just watched.
