Not the mowing. The other stuff. The job you put off every week. Mine was asking customers for Google reviews. So I built a robot to do it for me. It sends one review request a day to someone on my client list. So far it has sent 16 texts and got me 4 new reviews. I've gone from 87 to 91 Google reviews. The boring jobs are the ones worth fixing first. What's yours? Invoicing, chasing payments, texting customers when it rains? Drop it below 👇 If a few of you say the same one, I'll look at building the fix.

A 10-minute lawn isn't a 10-minute job. You drive there, unload, mow, edge, blow off, load up, and drive to the next one. That's closer to 25 minutes. Your minimum has to be paid for the whole stop. Here's how to work yours out: ✅ Your hourly rate. If you're new, aim for at least $60. You only get about six and a half productive hours a day once you count driving and breakdowns. $50 falls short. ✅ Your smallest stop. Time it from leaving the last job to pulling out of this one. ✅ Rate x minutes, divided by 60. Round up. $60 an hour x 25 minutes = $25. Round up. Mine is $35 now, and $60 for a one-off. Why is a one-off nearly double? It's out of your way, the grass is usually long, and you may never see them again. Get paid properly the first time. I take one-off payments up front. Then test it with your quotes: 🟢 Just starting? Aim to win 1 in 2 until work is coming in. 🟡 Got a steady round? Put prices up till you win 1 in 3. 🔴 Winning every quote? Too cheap. When someone says their lawn is too small for your minimum, don't apologize: "Most of the cost is getting there and setting up, so even a small lawn has a minimum. If it doesn't suit, no problems at all." Full write-up with the scripts and the mistakes that wreck your minimum: https://lawnmowing101.com/minimum-charge-for-lawn-mowing/ 👇 Your task today: time your three smallest lawns this week, door to door. Post your minimum and your hourly rate below, and I'll tell you if it looks right.

Just delt with the worst customer I’ve ever had. Wrote out an estimate for 2 men 16 hours. We were pulling honey suckle vines that had been left on a boxwood row about 200 ft for over 5 years. Then had to prune a lot of dead out of a fig tree. After me and my helper worked for 4.5 hours client came out and was telling me I wasn’t going to finsh today I could come back and I said ma’am we are already done with the box wood we are headed to the fig tree now there’s no way I don’t finish today. Well she then tells me that we agreed to weed another Shrub that was about 15ft high and 30ft in width. I said No ma’am I have the estimate you clicked Agree on right here this wasn’t quoted. I would have to raise the price $200 for that. Well she said she wasn’t going to pay that to stop what I was doing and she would pay me $300 for 4 hours of work when the job was for $1,200 I said that’s 75 and Hr for me not $75 per man like we agreed. So I packed up my Tools and left. Moral of this post is Always get a signed Contract on Top of the accepted Estimate. Some “Karen’s” will expect us to give them a premium service for little to nothing.

What do you do when equipment fails in the middle of the season? Do you keep backup mowers, trimmers, blowers, or other equipment ready to go? Or do you repair it and adjust your schedule? And here’s another question… What happens if you can’t make it to a customer’s property on their scheduled day? Do you have a backup crew, work late to catch up, reschedule for the next day, or have another system in place? I’m curious how everyone handles those unexpected situations. Share your strategy—someone new to the industry might learn something valuable from your experience! 👇

I am developing an Iphone app. Looking for lawnmowing contractors to test it. Beta testers will get the first 3 months free in exchange for reporting bugs and feedback. MowMeter helps you: - Track the time spent at each customer. - Record your mowing history. - Generate professional reports that can help document and present your mowing rounds or entire business for sale. - Exports data to spreadsheets so you don't have track anymore manually. Just message me if you want to be a Beta tester. App website is www.mowmeter.com