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Offer Services for Experience (Free/Cost)

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How to go from LawnCare to Landscaping, Excavating and Demolition jobs

What happens here

Once you have some basic experience, seek out clients who are looking for a bargain. Be transparent with them, explaining that you are building experience. Offer to perform the labor for free or at cost, while they supply the materials or rent the necessary equipment. This allows you to gain real-world experience, get your 'feet wet,' and learn under pressure without significant financial risk to the client. This builds your portfolio and confidence for future paying jobs.

Goal: Gain practical client-based experience by offering discounted or free labor.

Tools and materials

  • Construction Materials Various — Materials needed for the specific project, supplied by the client
  • Rental Equipment Various — Heavy machinery or specialized tools, rented by the client

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excavation demolition field how do you expand your services well you know you can't work for free forever so you only do it for one or two jobs where you strike up a deal where you supply the labor they Supply the materials you get your feet wet when you're out there when you're doing that job the headphones aren't on Jack the the phone isn't ringing you're concentrating you're timing everything you're calculating how much material you're trying to figure out the fastest and best way to do it because the next time you do that job you're going to want to charge okay so that's how you get your feet wet in new Services now if we're going to if we're going to break into Excavating let's use that as an example and you're wondering well how to I do that well do you have an aunt or an uncle that's thinking about doing an addition onto their home or maybe their yard isn't level or graded or something like that you simply say to them I'll dig your addition I'll grade your yard I'll do whatever you want me to do you rent the equipment this is what I need I'll do all the work a lot of people will go for that they don't feel comfortable doing it themselves but if they feel that they believe in you they'll let you go out and learn at their property it's a great way to start doing it that's how I got into it I started out digging additions scared nervous as a longtail cat in a room full of rocking chairs but I dug an addition then I dug a full basement for a house and then pretty soon I'm knocking down a garage just a just a little tiny garage I'm going okay I learned how to knock down that garage now I'm going to knock down a small house okay I know how to knock down a small house now I'm going to knock down a big house okay I got a big house down

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