I applaud TopNotch for going out of his way to seek out a "mentor" of sorts, and then trying to promote this mindset to other LCOs. Good job my man! I'm sure you're on your way to your ideal business after this experience.
LCM is an alien! He's appears comfortable taking what others would consider MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF RISK. I want to hang out with him for an entire week and face all my fears.
Keith Kalfas you have no more fears to face man you started at the bottom and you are successful I have watched and enjoyed so many of your videos and they have helped me at times much respect
Great video Brian. I know you already know but ignore the negativity. I commend you for being 100% honest and I don’t think any less of you for downsizing and basically having a restart. I know you will be big time and Top Notch🇺🇸
I was fortunate enough to meet Jonathan at the GIE, He give so much information it feels line a crime scene and Im steeling the info, because of the value of it all. Thanks for sharing,
I'm following his advice and have started by focusing my effort on only mowing and side lining landscape work to about 75% less than last year. I have to say it's working! I'm looking at downsizing to small truck and trailer. 🤔🤔
I went to Dallas to the Service Autopilot conference for the first time in 2017. The first time I saw him in person I got teary eyed. His knowledge has helped me so much over the last 7+ years. Incredible guy.
Yep! He makes perfect sense! This has been my mindset for these past few months. I saw a video from Brian's Lawn Maintenance on route density and how he sold off a part of his route . This made so much sense to me. Target a certain area and a certain type customer/property. Be disaplined and don't stray from your goal. Focus on what your good at . Great vid Brian 😉
Thank you my brother for the information. I just started being a full-time lawn care company. Been part time for 10 years and was scared as hell to walk away from truck driving. But you and everyone else pushed that spark to ignite and now I'm actually doing good for my first year thanks to you and everyone else. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT INFO!
Awesome Brian and thank you. I’m just starting out part time this year here in Georgia. Found Blake, LCM, YOU, and a few others on RUclips and have been blown away at what a resource this is. May make it to the GIE this year; if so I will look you up. Thanks again and look forward to future videos.
I had a house cleaning business. I totally understand the employees who do not do " so good a job" although they know what is expected. I went back to solo and changed my pricing. I had felt I was responsible for ALL house work. I finally decided what I was responsible for in weekly cleaning and what was "extra." Funny how people began having the the dishes done before cleaning day when they found what I charged to wash three days of dirty dishes, pots and pans before I could think of cleaning the kitchen. You provided great advice from personal experience.
Thank you guys so much!!! At least 2nd time watching this. I've been doing this for a few years now! Because of you guys, you've saved us a lot of trouble! Keep on sharing, learning and growing!
Brian Please DONT STOP PUTTING OUT THESE VIDEOS!!!! You are taking not helping me out But the Whole Industry as a WHOLE! Thanks again!! Maybe sometime you can do a video on numbers and figures. Shortcuts or tricks to be more efficient.
Takes great humility/understanding/wisdom to seek help - awesome 👏🏽 thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 During the early stages my ministry training we were taught - AND I BELIEVE- never compare or compete w/anyone! U are an original! 🥰🙏🏽 We never stop learning or evolving to become the best us ! Success!
I did the samething, the business out of Dallas was Just Mowing, and i had the privilege of learning from them and bringing it to the memphis area and took off like a rocket! Johnathans information is dead on, he shares willingly and shares a great plan that absolutely works! The one thing that is the weak link is labor!
Great video Brian! I am a huge fan of simplifying! The idea is super easy on the surface, but as you guys said, it's not. It usually yields better results though
Good insight on structuring your business by keeping it simple and selecting your own piece of the pie. It appears that you must have a good working system in place and grow/duplicate that system in order to avoid unwanted results.
Great video great advice from someone everyone knows in the business. Short sweet and to the point. The good the bad and the ugly of having a business.
it is like in the movie city slicker were you point your finger out and say that one thing in life that makes you happy and nobody can find it for you nice video
I def see his point. Focusing on what you want to do and then add. I want to cut lawns and mulch leaf cleans up. Maybe take a few smaller trees down. But not get into so many things i cant focus my time on the main ones.
You make more money when you offer more services.....that is if you can get them done in a organized timely way. But if you dont have the capital man power or machine to do it then just focus on fewer services.
A very good video, a lot of great information. He sounds a lot like Truman Steemers a carpet cleaner who does you tube. Courtney talks about 2 things which every business owner should look at. 1. What is your business model and 2. Who is your ideal customer. He says everything that you do should go by these 2 things. The equipment you buy, your marketing you do, should you go owner operator , how you narrow your niche. etc. He says your business model should fit who YOU are, we are all different , not all of us fit the same model. Looking at his videos you can see his model its as clear as day. His model works great for him others need to find a model that works for them. By examining these 2 factors closely you will know exactly what you need in equipment, marketing etc.
One question is it okay to under price your lawn care costumers just to get the job at the beginning of your company. And then try to up charge them later on if not replace them with better costumers
I have found it very hard to lift prices. And easier to bid new clients at the right price. I have noticed that i win less work with the prices right. But you dont have to win everything.
How much is his invoicing system and is it easy to use I'm tired of floating /financing 60 days of work. We do all this work ,then invoice from the last 30 days and then it can take up to 60 days to get paid. I need to change my system asap
I don't know why I listen to my family but they keep telling me to charge by the cut I think that's a little Mickey Mouse I charge by the season or at least I'm trying to
I agree, we've all got a niche, and the key to success is discovering it, honing it and capitalizing on it. It's good to diversify, but never in the same business, your focus in a single entity needs to offer a product or service that makes you stand out from the crowd, not blend in. I was mentored by a man who told me that every facet of your business needs simplification (Keep It Simple Stupid). This method makes it easier to train your employees up and ensure they're all cross-trained, which is an asset to your business and they respect you as a business owner, because the workload is distributed evenly. If you are treating your employees as an expenditure, rather than asset, you're in the wrong business.
man......you keep mentioning the guy starting out....think about yourself......they wont pay your bills later on if theyre successful.......youre underbidding......big time.....you are struggling.....you need to change the mindset of undercutting and the guy u interviewed saw that.........
You must not be from this community. If you were, you would recognize who Jonathan is. Way before top-notch got to him. Jonathan is the don of the game.
quality level is hard to teach. new guys are like well we do that over there. every account we got it's different and we don't do everything the same at each one for quality. drives me crazy
Josh Woodley I’m about to be 18 I started with 2 push mowers. No weed eater no blower just a broom. Now I’m fully insured and have some real big jobs under my belt. All the to be said is you don’t need real nice fancy equipment just make the best of what you have and quality is key. If you do a good job than it take off from there good luck bud.
I just turned 20. I started doing lawn care when I was 15 to make extra money. I started out with small residential accounts in one neighborhood. I still have those accounts to this day with many other residential accounts in my area. Don’t go out and spend a ton of money on the best equipment possible. If you care about what you do, the quality will be the same. It just takes a little more effort
I’ll tell u something else to look into I’m sure he will tell u the same build business credit with out your SSN number .. use your EIN number because using personal credit to fund your business will only take down your personal credit and u no what I mean everyone reading this , my company I have done this and sky is the limit now growing my biz , I have had 3 trucks on the road and tap out my personal credit funding my biz never again you guys should look into and hit the ground running building Real biz credit with no PG and using only your EIN number he didn’t make that biz no other way . I live in Orlando fla .
Well I have a credit coach but everything about building biz credit is on utube it’s all there I have learned so much in a short time , u have to set your biz up right my take some patients but my friend it’s so worth it and you will see you can get a paydex score and doors start to open for your biz .. u can do it no matter what size company you have .
Some people have biz credit cards link to there SSN and it’s not a real biz CC cause they do not report to duns and Bradstreet etc go out and get a real biz CC that u use only your EIN number and that’s it real biz card not many people have them . Limits are way higher than personal CC that’s all I got .... let’s go Jon Jones Satty night !!!!
Why didn't you ask him where did he get the $50K for buying his first landscape business? Also he said he is a partner in another business with revenue coming in. So in other words he was rich to begin with and had a ton of cash to start. Also to add. What exactly is he doing now? He did say residential. But doing what? Cutting grass, trimming and weed spray? And he's worth $10 Million? I'm guessing $980K is in other businesses and $20K in his lawn care biz. How much is his house worth? What kind of car does he drive? Comm'on Brian get the low down with questions. Lawn care Millionaire could be $45K millionaire.
He's offering up free advice, no need to put the man on trial. If you don't agree that's fine, but I respect him for sharing what has made him successful. What you do with the info is up to you.
@@TopNotchLawns I think everyone should take advice from someone is is proven rich and successful in landscape only. He might be a fraud. He might be making $45K a year with his business and fooled you.
@@TopNotchLawns Your one gullible easily tricked guy. That's why your not successful. You believe anything someone says. By the way I'm a lawncare billionaire. Trust me i am.
I learned the hard way with commercial/industrial electrical contracting business. I found out pretty fast that I could have a stronger business and make a lot more money with 5 good guys and 2 trucks than I could with 30 guys and a fleet of trucks. This required turning down work which I didn't want to do but I selected the clients that had a great track record and reputation for constructing a lot of quality buildings and could lead me to more projects. Over the years of contracting I found out that you can hire 10 guys today, in less than one month you are hoping that 8-9 of them will quit. I am in a At-will State and would put everyone on a 90 day trial period, then go from there. Very few made it 90 days, people just don't want to work. You can pay them $20/hr for a helper position and they expect $50/hr when they struggle to show up for work. I got out of contracting and went into engineering where I could work from home office with no employees, my stress level went from Stroke/heart attack levels to enjoying life!
I applaud TopNotch for going out of his way to seek out a "mentor" of sorts, and then trying to promote this mindset to other LCOs. Good job my man! I'm sure you're on your way to your ideal business after this experience.
LCM is an alien!
He's appears comfortable taking what others would consider
MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF RISK.
I want to hang out with him for an entire week and face all my fears.
Keith Kalfas you have no more fears to face man you started at the bottom and you are successful I have watched and enjoyed so many of your videos and they have helped me at times much respect
Great video Brian. I know you already know but ignore the negativity. I commend you for being 100% honest and I don’t think any less of you for downsizing and basically having a restart. I know you will be big time and Top Notch🇺🇸
I'm jealous that you got to spend so much time with this man. Great video.
I'm very lucky for getting that opportunity.
I'm just asking how this happened?
I was fortunate enough to meet Jonathan at the GIE, He give so much information it feels line a crime scene and Im steeling the info, because of the value of it all. Thanks for sharing,
I'm following his advice and have started by focusing my effort on only mowing and side lining landscape work to about 75% less than last year. I have to say it's working! I'm looking at downsizing to small truck and trailer. 🤔🤔
Jonathan is a great leader in our industry. Listening and following him has been a great asset to our business. Thanks for the video!!
I went to Dallas to the Service Autopilot conference for the first time in 2017. The first time I saw him in person I got teary eyed. His knowledge has helped me so much over the last 7+ years. Incredible guy.
Excellent video. Thank you. I had to reinvent my operation this year. Thanks to the pros on RUclips like yourself, I have much more optimism for 2019.
Yep! He makes perfect sense! This has been my mindset for these past few months. I saw a video from Brian's Lawn Maintenance on route density and how he sold off a part of his route . This made so much sense to me. Target a certain area and a certain type customer/property. Be disaplined and don't stray from your goal. Focus on what your good at . Great vid Brian 😉
Thank you my brother for the information. I just started being a full-time lawn care company. Been part time for 10 years and was scared as hell to walk away from truck driving. But you and everyone else pushed that spark to ignite and now I'm actually doing good for my first year thanks to you and everyone else. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT INFO!
Awesome Brian and thank you. I’m just starting out part time this year here in Georgia. Found Blake, LCM, YOU, and a few others on RUclips and have been blown away at what a resource this is. May make it to the GIE this year; if so I will look you up. Thanks again and look forward to future videos.
I had a house cleaning business. I totally understand the employees who do not do " so good a job" although they know what is expected. I went back to solo and changed my pricing. I had felt I was responsible for ALL house work. I finally decided what I was responsible for in weekly cleaning and what was "extra." Funny how people began having the the dishes done before cleaning day when they found what I charged to wash three days of dirty dishes, pots and pans before I could think of cleaning the kitchen. You provided great advice from personal experience.
Thank you guys so much!!! At least 2nd time watching this. I've been doing this for a few years now! Because of you guys, you've saved us a lot of trouble! Keep on sharing, learning and growing!
Brian Please DONT STOP PUTTING OUT THESE VIDEOS!!!! You are taking not helping me out But the Whole Industry as a WHOLE! Thanks again!! Maybe sometime you can do a video on numbers and figures. Shortcuts or tricks to be more efficient.
Takes great humility/understanding/wisdom to seek help - awesome 👏🏽 thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
During the early stages my ministry training we were taught - AND I BELIEVE- never compare or compete w/anyone! U are an original! 🥰🙏🏽
We never stop learning or evolving to become the best us ! Success!
So many gold nuggets. valuable information thanks for sharing
I did the samething, the business out of Dallas was Just Mowing, and i had the privilege of learning from them and bringing it to the memphis area and took off like a rocket! Johnathans information is dead on, he shares willingly and shares a great plan that absolutely works! The one thing that is the weak link is labor!
Top Notch Interview good job 👏.
Jason Kreel of lawn care life was talking about this the other week too. Very good video for guys starting out. Thanks man
Good stuff my friend! 💪🏾💨
Hey Brian, Thanks for Sharing ... Great Stuff 👊🏻
True wisdom and knowledge. Thank you so much for posting this 👍
Nice I see you got the shop nice and clean great video Brian.😁😁😁
Thanks for the information u put out iknow what I'm about to do this year
Great video Brian! I am a huge fan of simplifying! The idea is super easy on the surface, but as you guys said, it's not. It usually yields better results though
Hey that’s the guy that makes the software I use!
A most see video!!! Thanks Brian!!
Thanks LCM!! 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
He absolutely correct. Repetition creates efficiency. Efficiency is money.
Incredible information. Jonathan is amazing to be around with. Those are the kinda people you want to take advice from.
Good insight on structuring your business by keeping it simple and selecting your own piece of the pie. It appears that you must have a good working system in place and grow/duplicate that system in order to avoid unwanted results.
Great video great advice from someone everyone knows in the business. Short sweet and to the point. The good the bad and the ugly of having a business.
Loved this! Thanks for sharing great content brother.
Great vid man. Ive watch alot of his videos. Love raw q and a's
Couldn't agree more.after 20 years I am just learning!
Good job with this segment. Very informative.
I got an impeach trump add before the video😂
Great video Brian, really appreciate you putting this type of content out there!👍
it is like in the movie city slicker were you point your finger out and say that one thing in life that makes you happy and nobody can find it for you nice video
That is really good advice!
PRICELSS INFO! I've done this myself. Anyone new to this should see this.
I have to fire a client this year, reorganize my routes ect. Time to streamline. Great video.
I def see his point. Focusing on what you want to do and then add. I want to cut lawns and mulch leaf cleans up. Maybe take a few smaller trees down. But not get into so many things i cant focus my time on the main ones.
You make more money when you offer more services.....that is if you can get them done in a organized timely way. But if you dont have the capital man power or machine to do it then just focus on fewer services.
Great video! Hope you will have more like this. Thank you
Yeah Blake always holds my camera too, that little rascal 😀
I don’t have an lawn care business but this is valuable information thank you
This is gold
Excellent advice, thanks guys
Excellent...thanks for sharing the info.
Thank you for the the video.to all three of you.would love to see more of possible
Great video Brian, man he has some very good tips!
Great content
Nice advice!
A very good video, a lot of great information. He sounds a lot like Truman Steemers a carpet cleaner who does you tube. Courtney talks about 2 things which every business owner should look at. 1. What is your business model and 2. Who is your ideal customer. He says everything that you do should go by these 2 things. The equipment you buy, your marketing you do, should you go owner operator , how you narrow your niche. etc. He says your business model should fit who YOU are, we are all different , not all of us fit the same model. Looking at his videos you can see his model its as clear as day. His model works great for him others need to find a model that works for them. By examining these 2 factors closely you will know exactly what you need in equipment, marketing etc.
Nice, congratulations you deserve it for your hard work and dedication..!!!
Great video
Thanks Brian!
It all comes down to time to dollar ratio. Residential will almost always yield higher margins. What I will tell a new guy is WATCH your clock.
KISS rule is always the best rule!
One question is it okay to under price your lawn care costumers just to get the job at the beginning of your company. And then try to up charge them later on if not replace them with better costumers
I have found it very hard to lift prices. And easier to bid new clients at the right price. I have noticed that i win less work with the prices right. But you dont have to win everything.
The pumpkin plan works
How much is his invoicing system and is it easy to use I'm tired of floating /financing 60 days of work.
We do all this work ,then invoice from the last 30 days and then it can take up to 60 days to get paid. I need to change my system asap
Make them pay for the month up front. Or the whole year up front if you can
I don't know why I listen to my family but they keep telling me to charge by the cut I think that's a little Mickey Mouse I charge by the season or at least I'm trying to
I agree, we've all got a niche, and the key to success is discovering it, honing it and capitalizing on it. It's good to diversify, but never in the same business, your focus in a single entity needs to offer a product or service that makes you stand out from the crowd, not blend in. I was mentored by a man who told me that every facet of your business needs simplification (Keep It Simple Stupid). This method makes it easier to train your employees up and ensure they're all cross-trained, which is an asset to your business and they respect you as a business owner, because the workload is distributed evenly. If you are treating your employees as an expenditure, rather than asset, you're in the wrong business.
Awesome awesome video!!!
This guy is on Point
How do you deal with picky clients
I have tremendous respect for Johnathan but he acts like it's nothing to make 1m per year.
@R V thanks brother.
man......you keep mentioning the guy starting out....think about yourself......they wont pay your bills later on if theyre successful.......youre underbidding......big time.....you are struggling.....you need to change the mindset of undercutting and the guy u interviewed saw that.........
I guess I don't understand what your saying at all.
Top Notch Lawn Care neither does he
He got 10 thumbs up??@@RippleRacing39
You must not be from this community. If you were, you would recognize who Jonathan is. Way before top-notch got to him. Jonathan is the don of the game.
quality level is hard to teach. new guys are like well we do that over there. every account we got it's different and we don't do everything the same at each one for quality. drives me crazy
Hey... when im 17 i wanna start this lawn care stuff, any tips?
Josh Woodley I’m about to be 18 I started with 2 push mowers. No weed eater no blower just a broom. Now I’m fully insured and have some real big jobs under my belt. All the to be said is you don’t need real nice fancy equipment just make the best of what you have and quality is key. If you do a good job than it take off from there good luck bud.
I just turned 20. I started doing lawn care when I was 15 to make extra money. I started out with small residential accounts in one neighborhood. I still have those accounts to this day with many other residential accounts in my area. Don’t go out and spend a ton of money on the best equipment possible. If you care about what you do, the quality will be the same. It just takes a little more effort
Dave Larned thank you
Powerful!
Does anyone know what his second business was?
I don't know anyone with a Walker that clean
This is an awesome video, I would love to go meet with him
Way to go.
I’ll tell u something else to look into I’m sure he will tell u the same build business credit with out your SSN number .. use your EIN number because using personal credit to fund your business will only take down your personal credit and u no what I mean everyone reading this , my company I have done this and sky is the limit now growing my biz , I have had 3 trucks on the road and tap out my personal credit funding my biz never again you guys should look into and hit the ground running building Real biz credit with no PG and using only your EIN number he didn’t make that biz no other way . I live in Orlando fla .
who do you go about doing it that way
Well I have a credit coach but everything about building biz credit is on utube it’s all there I have learned so much in a short time , u have to set your biz up right my take some patients but my friend it’s so worth it and you will see you can get a paydex score and doors start to open for your biz .. u can do it no matter what size company you have .
Some people have biz credit cards link to there SSN and it’s not a real biz CC cause they do not report to duns and Bradstreet etc go out and get a real biz CC that u use only your EIN number and that’s it real biz card not many people have them . Limits are way higher than personal CC that’s all I got .... let’s go Jon Jones Satty night !!!!
@@andydavis1508 my business is 15 years old and LLC but I don't know how to make it have its own
Josh Harris u tube biz credit you follow the steps and u will be on your way to Financial freedom.
Pumpkin plan baby. Profit first model
Why didn't you ask him where did he get the $50K for buying his first landscape business? Also he said he is a partner in another business with revenue coming in. So in other words he was rich to begin with and had a ton of cash to start. Also to add. What exactly is he doing now? He did say residential. But doing what? Cutting grass, trimming and weed spray? And he's worth $10 Million? I'm guessing $980K is in other businesses and $20K in his lawn care biz. How much is his house worth? What kind of car does he drive? Comm'on Brian get the low down with questions. Lawn care Millionaire could be $45K millionaire.
He's offering up free advice, no need to put the man on trial. If you don't agree that's fine, but I respect him for sharing what has made him successful. What you do with the info is up to you.
@@TopNotchLawns I think everyone should take advice from someone is is proven rich and successful in landscape only. He might be a fraud. He might be making $45K a year with his business and fooled you.
If you can't believe a guy that invites you out and shows you his business first hand then you will never believe anyone.
@@TopNotchLawns Your one gullible easily tricked guy. That's why your not successful. You believe anything someone says. By the way I'm a lawncare billionaire. Trust me i am.
@@Michshnly Trust me, I've already figured out who you are. LOL
Good video ....but You know lawn care millionaire guy was like sure I'll do a interview but only 15 min. He probly had a clock in front of them.
Every video that LCM has is gold
🔥🔥
I learned the hard way with commercial/industrial electrical contracting business. I found out pretty fast that I could have a stronger business and make a lot more money with 5 good guys and 2 trucks than I could with 30 guys and a fleet of trucks. This required turning down work which I didn't want to do but I selected the clients that had a great track record and reputation for constructing a lot of quality buildings and could lead me to more projects. Over the years of contracting I found out that you can hire 10 guys today, in less than one month you are hoping that 8-9 of them will quit. I am in a At-will State and would put everyone on a 90 day trial period, then go from there. Very few made it 90 days, people just don't want to work. You can pay them $20/hr for a helper position and they expect $50/hr when they struggle to show up for work. I got out of contracting and went into engineering where I could work from home office with no employees, my stress level went from Stroke/heart attack levels to enjoying life!
He bought 50k worth of accounts and that's starting from the bottom? Naaaah. Good stuff but yeah
Go CHEIFS! Your garage looking organized
👍🏼👍🏻
😂 quick and in a hurry, no mincing of words.
Amazing video