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Embrace Bigger Projects and Their Complexities

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How to do Big Lawn Care & Landscape Jobs for Big profits

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What happens here

The speaker prepares for a busy day involving various business tasks, including dropping off trash at a dump site. He stresses the importance of networking and building connections, even with competitors. He recounts how a contact at the dump, who also owns a landscaping business, helps him find large projects. The main focus of his day is an $80,000 retaining wall repair project in Maple Grove, requiring a 45-minute drive. He explains that larger jobs like this often involve multiple stakeholders, including city engineers, private engineers, developers, and townhome associations. He emphasizes the need for extra effort, such as attending evening committee meetings, to secure these complex projects, as it demonstrates seriousness and commitment.

Goal: Engage with complex projects, understand diverse stakeholder needs, and commit to securing high-value work.

Tools and materials

  • Personal Vehicle — Driving to meetings and dump sites
  • Truck Ford F-250 — Transporting materials and traveling to job sites
  • Waste Materials N/A — Disposing of debris from previous jobs

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why they have on all their bids they they have the right to choose who they're going to hire and a lot of times that low bid means that you miss something and when you miss something and you're the contractor what's going to happen is the customer is going to get bit in the end contractors we don't have a great reputation so what they the customer really wants to feel like they're in good hands that's a huge Point much different than lwn maintenance where it's about paying the least amount to get your grass cut in this case a customer will pay the medium guy but that's not the point to this video the point to this video is the evolution growing your company what that means the level of responsibility you're going to be taken on I hope by the time this video is done today you've gained something so let's take you on that Journey let's get the ball rolling hey boy where are we off to today that's right we're ride bike to school we can't do this nine months out of the year but the other three weeks we can right yeah we're at school like 20 minutes early hey you know what if he's pumped and excited about riding his bike to school that helps him get involved academically that's fine cuz I know boy takes a little bit after me not a big school fan but uh we're here and I want to talk to you about what we're going to be doing today it's all about engineering it's all about taking your business to the next level and what that means if you're in lawn care if you're Landscaping you will have bigger projects as they grow you're going to find you're going to make me dizzy in the background colon you're going to find that you have more and more responsibility and um I'm going to walk you through that Journey today it's going to be an interesting one it's going to be different than maybe what you're used to seeing so let's go on adventure it is a jam pack day today before I can get anything done I got to go to the dump look look at all this crap this is just it's not even a start of all the stuff I've collected from different houses and places and the for instance the two bikes I was riding in on this morning to school I pulled them both out of houses I'm so running far behind right now I'm at the dump dropping this garbage off you know I tell you to connect with every person possible well the reason I'm so far behind is because one of the guys that I've connected with he's works at the dump here but he also owns his own landscaping lawn care company and um we've been…

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