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Pricing Your Services & Setting Bids

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How a kid, teenager or adult can get started in Lawn mowing with Little to no Money

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This step outlines a straightforward pricing strategy for your lawn care services. The presenter suggests aiming for approximately $1 per minute of work, particularly when using larger 48-inch to 52-inch mowers. To accurately determine your individual pricing, he advises conducting practical experiments: first, time how long it takes to mow your own lawn using a stopwatch. Then, approach friendly neighbors or family members and offer to mow their lawns, carefully timing these jobs as well. This hands-on approach provides valuable data to establish a realistic baseline for your bids. It's crucial to adjust your per-minute rate based on the size and efficiency of your equipment; smaller push mowers will naturally take longer and yield less per minute, so your pricing must reflect this reality to remain competitive and ensure you are adequately compensated for your time. If a job takes excessively long for the price charged, it indicates your current rate might be too low, or your equipment isn't suitable for that specific task.

Goal: Determine competitive and fair pricing for lawn care services based on time and equipment efficiency.

Tools and materials

  • Cub Cadet Mower — Example of a large commercial mower
  • Exmark Mower — Example of a large commercial mower
  • Notebook — Recording mowing times and pricing data
  • Push Mower — Illustrating equipment for pricing discussion
  • Skid Steer Loader — Background equipment, showing range of tools
  • Stopwatch — Timing mowing durations for accurate pricing
  • Toro Grandstand Mower — Example of a larger, efficient mower

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i spec out all of my work trucks so you went ahead and you got your mower and now you want to go out and get your first account but you have no idea how much to charge them well don't worry we're gonna make this simple the average in the industry is around $1 per minute so that means every minute you spend on someone's line you should be able to pay yourself about a dollar all right you guys let's be very clear in this pricing strategy before we move forward when I set $1 per minute I was actually referring to something along the lines of this 52-inch Toro grandstand we get $1 per minute for this more it may take us 30 minutes to cut an average-size yard with this more meaning we can charge $30 but now if you're gonna try to do the same lawn with this push mower right here it may take you an hour that but that does not mean you get to charge them $60 because you're using a small or more remember your competition may come in with a much bigger faster lawnmower than you but you still want to be able to land those jobs so you have to adjust your price according to the size of the more that you have a smaller push mower like this you may only be able to get 50 cents per hour or 75 cents per hour to be able to go head-to-head with the bigger more and even a 52-inch more like this is going to be out competed by a 72-inch like this one or 72 inch like this one so if you have a bigger more you're going to be able to charge more per minute if you have a smaller more you're going to have to charge less per minute because you

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