Leila Harmozi explains why landscaping works: low startup costs and steady demand if you target wealthy customers year-round. Adam Sand adds that construction faces the same seasonal problem in Edmonton, and predicts consolidation is coming to blue-collar trades.
I do think that a lot of people aren't really willing to do this kind of work anymore. Therefore there is opportunity for those that are willing to do more so like manual labor and start businesses like that. I love how low the startup cost is for a landscaping business. Like you don't need a facility, you just need equipment and you need customer. I think that where a lot of people get it wrong is they don't go after the right customers, targeting customers that have a decent level of income that they would be paying for landscaping year round and then also making sure that you put yourself in a place where there's good weather year round because we don't want as a seasonal business where the only time that you're making money is is four months of the year.
She's spot on with this. I agree completely with the weather. I happen to own a construction business that was in Edmonton that dealt with the fact that five months a year is underneath the snow and it was absolutely terrible. And yes, the goal is to find ancillary businesses that support it like Christmas lights, but that's always a tough racket to get people who think that this is their career and then they got to change and do something slightly different. She's also spot on on the fact that the blue collar businesses are going to be the ones that win in the future and you're going to see massive consolidation. Comment below this video with your thoughts.
