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If you are watching any lawn care social media you will probably see all the creators telling you that you need the biggest and best leaf removal setup to be "the most profitable". The problem comes when you may not need that huge leaf removal setup. You may only need a backpack blower. Today I am talking about the top 3 leaf removal setups for the solo lawn care business and you may be surprised by number 3.  **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business website:  www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/

If you are like me you probably felt like people thought you were dumb when you were younger. Maybe you have learning disabilities and didn't do good in high school. Maybe your own parents told you that you are dumb and you won't amount to much. I am here to tell you, YOU"RE NOT DUMB! You may need to learn in a different way, but you're not dumb. You might even consider yourself dumb, but I do not believe that you are dumb and I don't believe you have to stay feeling as though you are dumb. Today Aaron talks about the Lawn Care University. What it is and how to use it so that you become a well rounded business owner and person.  **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business website:  www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com   WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/

Our culture today tells men specifiaclly that if they aren't making 150k - 200k per year that they aren't worth anything. That is a lie, but because so many people believe this we have a whole culture that is out there trying to get the bag and leaving their family in the dirt whether they realize it or not. Today's episode talks about hustle culture and the damage it did to my family and what I had to do to fix it.  **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business website:  www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/

A good runner never stops envisioning the finish line. A great runner fixes his eyes on the finish line but also thinks about all the little machanics of running from his shoes to each foot fall. Trying to move the body as efficiently as possible to waste the least amount of energy. This is not what I did in my lawn care or driveway repair business.  **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com   WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/

Many solo lawn care business owners have the belief that they can't take a vacation in the middle of the summer. They think that if they do it will negatively impact their business and cause them to fail. A vacation is NOT what is going to cause your business to fail. In fact, if your business fails because you take a vacation, there is something else wrong with your business.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

I recenty had to go back and resurface a gravel driveway that I put new gravel on last year. This was a huge mistake in my business and resurfacing cost 3 times as much as the original job. The real kicker is that I had to cover all the cost of the new aggregate. This was such a costly mistake, but instead of ignoring the problem or trying to find a way to get the client to pay for my mistake, I just manned up and took it on the chin. How should we handle major mistakes in our business?  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

The bigger companies will tell you that you need employees because if you get hurt your business will fall apart. A a solo operator for over 12 years now I can say this is not the truth. You do NOT need employees to keep your business running if you get hurt.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

The truth is rural lawn care is just different than city lawn care. The lawns are bigger and farth apart and the people are different too.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

The first hell week of the season has begun. I call the first week of the season hell week one because I'm out of shape and I am having to do more clean up than I would like. Hell week 2 comes when the grass goes to seed mid May. The Spring rush has also begun and believe it or not it can kill a business if your not careful. Taking on too much work is just as bad as not having enough work when your solo. But there is a way to escape the trap and build a lasting business and a stronger business through the Spring rush.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

There are so many businesses who have lost their Google Business Listings over the last few years do to the integration of AI at Google. But there is a way bit of a way around it so that you can still achieve the #1 ranking on Google without a Google My Business listing.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

The lawn care business can be a very enjoyable business, but there is one aspect of the business that all new beginners seem to struggle with, Estimating! Today I talk about some of the main things one needs to know and understand to be able to estimate accurately.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

Last year I screwed up a couple of driveway repair jobs and it is going to cost me a bunch of money. I was really struggling with feeling like a failure over the last couple of weeks as I am coming up with a plan to fix the driveway mistakes. I just have to keep reminding myself that I am not my mistakes.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

There are a lot of podcast episodes for lawn care business owners, but there aren't many that are focused on the young hustlers. Today's episode is for the young people who are ages 10-18 out there working hard in school and running their lawn care business are business.

If you are running a lawn care business you have to know your cost of doing business, your break even. In this episode I give you the formula for calculating your break even number.  Break Even Formula: Total Overhead / Amount of Lawns = overhead per lawn per season Overhead Per Lawn Per Season / Number of Total Cuts for the season = Break Even Per Lawn Knowing your break even number per lawn gives you a baseline of what you MUST charge per lawn to break even. Everything on top of that is profit. It is extremely important to know your break even number.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com

There are a lot of different CRMs on the market today, but there are very few that listen to what their users need and want and there are even fewer that are specific for one industry. Earthapro is all of these things. Today I talk with Courtney from Earthapro about the new and coming soon features of her CRM and why Courtney and Peter (her husband) decided to start a CRM for the Green Industry.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   **Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to have you on. [email protected] Support the Pod: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowinginthedark     Check out my business websites:  www.gravelblasters.com , www.sutterbrotherslawncare.com