Archive for the 'Bonus Pay' Category
There are all sorts of methods you can use to figure out how to pay a lawn care employee. You might pay them by the hour, which is probably the most used method. You can pay them a % of what you make on a job. You can pay them per job. In this discussion [...]
December 29th, 2014 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Bonus Pay, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Your First Employee, training | No Comments
A one man show can only take on so much work in a day. Then going from a solo operation to adding your first employee can be a huge step. This one member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us his angst as he tried to figure out the next step he [...]
May 16th, 2013 | Posted in Bonus Pay, Business Failure, Growth, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Trials and Tribulations, Your First Employee | No Comments
There is a tendency with sole lawn care business owner operators to work themselves until they can’t work any more. They want to be in total control of every minute detail so they feel they can’t relinquish any control to staff. This can cause a lot of problems as the business naturally tries to grow. [...]
February 25th, 2013 | Posted in Bonus Pay, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Growth, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Mulch Jobs, Scheduling, Spring cleanups, Your First Employee | No Comments
When it comes to paying lawn care employees, there are many ways you can do it. The more complex the process is, the more opportunities there are for problems. As we will see from this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, keeping things simple with all parts of your operations is always the [...]
January 14th, 2013 | Posted in Bonus Pay, Business Failure, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Care Uniform, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs | No Comments
When it comes to figuring out how much you should pay your lawn care employees, there is a sweet spot. Pay too much and you are going to lose money on each lawn mowing you perform. Pay too little and either you won’t attract any applicants or you will attract the wrong kind of applicant. [...]
December 12th, 2012 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Bonus Pay, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Start up, Taxes, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment | No Comments
A good lawn care employee is hard to find. There is no doubt about that. But what should you do when you have a lawn care employee who seems to be seriously lacking motivation to get the work done and get it done right? That is the problem one business owner ran into when he [...]
April 11th, 2011 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Employees, Your First Employee, training | No Comments
Have you ever wonder what secrets the big lawn care business owners know that you don’t? Maybe from time to time you wished you could sit down and talk with such business owners and pick their brains for a little while? Well we may not have talked to the owner of such a large company, [...]
December 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, Growth, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, training | No Comments
Say you decided to start your landscape business with a friend of yours, one issue you may find yourself dealing with early on is how do you actually pay each other? That is a great question that came up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. When a new business owner asked “I am a [...]
November 17th, 2010 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Overhead Costs, Partnership, Start up | No Comments
Have you ever sat back and wondered what it is that is keeping your lawn care business from growing? Do you find it difficult to talk with new people? Do you have a difficult time trying to sell yourself and your services? If you do, you are not alone. I had a discussion on the [...]
March 14th, 2010 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Mowing, Podcast, Upsells, training | No Comments
Many lawn care business owners I have met on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum have found success through a lot of trial and error. Talking about what works and what doesn’t gives us all a chance to move on quickly from what isn’t working to find what is. One lawn care business owner in [...]
March 10th, 2010 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Overhead Costs, Your First Employee | No Comments
The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business School is now online.
If you look above along the brown bar header on the Gopher Forum, you will see a new section added to the forum. Our FREE online lawn care business school.
This FREE course the “Class 1 - Lawn Care Business Operator’s Certificate” is designed to give the new [...]
March 6th, 2009 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Bonus Pay, Business Failure, Business Plan, Business loan, Debt, Debt Collection, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Insurance, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Start up, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment, training | No Comments
One of our forum members created a post to show off part of his fleet of lawn care business trucks in this post at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. In the post I had a great opportunity to learn a little about what stops most small lawn care businesses from ever getting themselves up [...]
October 16th, 2008 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Care Truck, lawn care equipment | No Comments
I thought this business card discussion was very interesting and I thank James for sharing with us some us his insights. He posted his new business cards and they didn’t have a person’s name on them, unlike most normal business cards. I asked James why and got some great insight from him that you might [...]
July 15th, 2008 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees | No Comments