Hey everybody!
I joined the forum a while back but haven't made any posts until now since I'm not really the type to spend a lot of time on forums. I don't like BS'ing and that sort of thing. Anyway, I'm 24 & from MN, I currently own a 6-figure lawn/landscape/snow company and I finally was able to put the key people into place so I had some more free time and I started another company back in April. Last week I finally launched my first digital product package that's being sold from the website I created. It is a how-to guide for starting your own lawn service business, the website is www.StartALawnServiceBusiness.com.
There are some competing eBooks/websites, but one of my USP's teaches almost the exact opposite that the others are teaching when it comes to obtaining commercial properties (for good reason) as customers, as well as going a lot more in depth with the financial side of owning a business since it's equally if not more important than the operations of the business, plus a few more things such as coming up with an accurate system to price your services. Nearly all the other guides say "take how long you estimate the job will take to do and multiple it by $1" or "take your materials and multiply it by 3", etc. those couldn't be further from the truth.
I've become a sponsor on the largest green industry forum and have also advertised on industry specific social media pages and am working on getting the page ranked higher in the search engines as well - I took time away from that to post this.
I have similar product packages in the works for the other sectors of the industry. There is quite a bit of difference in each sector in terms of the operations, marketing, customer communication, equipment, and more that it's best to put them into their own products
I've also uncovered a few needs in the green industry in which I could fulfill with the website I plan to build and some other products as well, I will be moving forward on them once I get my guides all up and running in the next month.
The ideal plan is to continue owning my L/L/S business for about another year as long as we reach our sales goal that I wanted to hit back when I started the business and then I'll likely sell it. I love the industry but after reading this amazing book I want to affect more lives than my L/L/S business can reach (even if it were to continue to grow exponentially) as well as solve bigger problems.
Thank you MJ for writing the book that changed my mindset on business for the better!!! I eat, sleep, and breathe the fastlane and I find myself uncovering needs once every couple days when I get frustrated with something. I can't even begin to list all the great things I've learned. One of my favorite parts of the book was learning the mantra of work 7 days per week with no days off to eventually have that ratio reversed and be financially retired as soon as possible! Which is why I love the internet based business so much - one can create a 7 figure internet company without hiring any employees.
Another great lesson would be to stop chasing money and chasing needs, I'll admit I started my first business because I was extremely good at operating equipment and saw the potential for making money in the industry, and I started my business while I went to college for Horticulture. Don't get me wrong, there certainly is millions to be made, the top companies in the industry merged last year to form a $2B/year company and that's primarily doing "commercial bid work"). The higher margin "niche" work in the industry is certainly there and I've been able to enjoy it and wanted to teach others how to find it as well with my guides. I could go on and on about how awesome this book is, I also loved the part about "looking big, but acting small" vs. the 4-hour work week mentality of "look small, act big". The only true way to become financially retired in a similar fashion that MJ did, is creating something of value and having it become the absolute best and creating customers that will want to rant and rave about your product/service, not take "mini retirement vacations" while the guy in India is talking to your customers as 4HWW preached. I read the first couple chapters and put the book down, I don't agree with most of what it was about.
I became a big fan of MJ after reading his interview on Secret Entourage, I'm a big fan of their website and the academy they have as well.
I can tell that I'm on a rant now, time to get back to work so I can bring my next products to market...
I joined the forum a while back but haven't made any posts until now since I'm not really the type to spend a lot of time on forums. I don't like BS'ing and that sort of thing. Anyway, I'm 24 & from MN, I currently own a 6-figure lawn/landscape/snow company and I finally was able to put the key people into place so I had some more free time and I started another company back in April. Last week I finally launched my first digital product package that's being sold from the website I created. It is a how-to guide for starting your own lawn service business, the website is www.StartALawnServiceBusiness.com.
There are some competing eBooks/websites, but one of my USP's teaches almost the exact opposite that the others are teaching when it comes to obtaining commercial properties (for good reason) as customers, as well as going a lot more in depth with the financial side of owning a business since it's equally if not more important than the operations of the business, plus a few more things such as coming up with an accurate system to price your services. Nearly all the other guides say "take how long you estimate the job will take to do and multiple it by $1" or "take your materials and multiply it by 3", etc. those couldn't be further from the truth.
I've become a sponsor on the largest green industry forum and have also advertised on industry specific social media pages and am working on getting the page ranked higher in the search engines as well - I took time away from that to post this.
I have similar product packages in the works for the other sectors of the industry. There is quite a bit of difference in each sector in terms of the operations, marketing, customer communication, equipment, and more that it's best to put them into their own products
I've also uncovered a few needs in the green industry in which I could fulfill with the website I plan to build and some other products as well, I will be moving forward on them once I get my guides all up and running in the next month.
The ideal plan is to continue owning my L/L/S business for about another year as long as we reach our sales goal that I wanted to hit back when I started the business and then I'll likely sell it. I love the industry but after reading this amazing book I want to affect more lives than my L/L/S business can reach (even if it were to continue to grow exponentially) as well as solve bigger problems.
Thank you MJ for writing the book that changed my mindset on business for the better!!! I eat, sleep, and breathe the fastlane and I find myself uncovering needs once every couple days when I get frustrated with something. I can't even begin to list all the great things I've learned. One of my favorite parts of the book was learning the mantra of work 7 days per week with no days off to eventually have that ratio reversed and be financially retired as soon as possible! Which is why I love the internet based business so much - one can create a 7 figure internet company without hiring any employees.
Another great lesson would be to stop chasing money and chasing needs, I'll admit I started my first business because I was extremely good at operating equipment and saw the potential for making money in the industry, and I started my business while I went to college for Horticulture. Don't get me wrong, there certainly is millions to be made, the top companies in the industry merged last year to form a $2B/year company and that's primarily doing "commercial bid work"). The higher margin "niche" work in the industry is certainly there and I've been able to enjoy it and wanted to teach others how to find it as well with my guides. I could go on and on about how awesome this book is, I also loved the part about "looking big, but acting small" vs. the 4-hour work week mentality of "look small, act big". The only true way to become financially retired in a similar fashion that MJ did, is creating something of value and having it become the absolute best and creating customers that will want to rant and rave about your product/service, not take "mini retirement vacations" while the guy in India is talking to your customers as 4HWW preached. I read the first couple chapters and put the book down, I don't agree with most of what it was about.
I became a big fan of MJ after reading his interview on Secret Entourage, I'm a big fan of their website and the academy they have as well.
I can tell that I'm on a rant now, time to get back to work so I can bring my next products to market...
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