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Strategic Business Insights for Snow Removal Contractors

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What its like to be a Snow plow operator -a Long cold day in the life of a snowfighter

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For those involved in snow removal as a business or large-scale DIY project, understanding strategic business practices is key. The video highlights the difference between being a subcontractor (paid hourly, relying on others for clients) and a direct contractor (paid a flat rate for the season, covering equipment, and managing accounts directly). Direct contracts are advocated for providing stable income, regardless of snow accumulation, ensuring equipment expenses are covered. Advice is given on proactively seeking direct clients and structuring agreements to protect oneself. It's crucial to have clearly written contracts, verify payment terms, and be wary of contractors or companies that consistently delay payments, as this may signal financial instability on their part. Diligence in contract negotiation and payment follow-up is emphasized to avoid losing out financially.

Goal: Implement effective business strategies to ensure profitability and protect against financial risks in snow removal contracting.

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Now, guys, I plowed this 1.6 million square ft as a subcontractor, and I plow an additional 500 to 600,000 square ft as a contractor or so, which I thought was pretty cool, uh, you know, kind of way of phrasing it. Um, makes it just seem pretty massive. Then I realized growing up on a [music] farm that if my dad heard 32 acres, he'd be like, "That's nothing." He was a crop duster, so he'd go out and spray 400 acre fields. So 32 acres doesn't [music] seem like much. So all of the snowing Okay. So, one of the things, Elliot, when you scrape like that, you're not getting any more down pressure than if you scrape at a lesser angle. What could happen is you're going forward, if you hit something, you can bend slightly bend the hydraulic arms, the hydraulic cylinders, and then you'll get a weird leak out of them. Okay? All you got to do is have just the slightest bit. It doesn't improve anything. Now, if you hit something and you're less likely to bend those cylinders, Now, as a subcontractor, I get paid by the hour, but I also have accounts set up under my own contracts that pay me no matter what. That means, guys, if I don't even go out and snowplow at all, I still get paid for the entire winter. It's not as much as if I was working, but it covers all of my equipment expenses. I get paid if it doesn't snow, but I get paid even more if it does. Now, if you guys want to learn how to set up your own accounts to protect yourself and your business over the winter, no matter what happens, whether it snows a ton or it doesn't snow at all, go over to Dirt Monkey University because the good news is is right now we are putting on an intensive training seminar on how to optimize your snow plowing. But it goes further than that. We're also going to be dovetailing that into an entire bidding and estimating series and wrapping that up with what we call the Big Boss Workbook. None of this is available anywhere else but at Dirt Monkey University. The winter time is when you guys should be shoving your heads full of information, not playing the Xbox. Now, check this out. This thing is freaking massive. The amount of snow [music] this uh Quattro plow handles is insane. Look at him. He's going. He's articulating around [music] the corners. What a hot shot, actually. I love it. So all of the snow inside of here has to get pulled out and then we have to push it all the way down to over here. Um so we just toured one building. [music] Now the other building, let's see the the…

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