22 Year Old Starts a $200K/Year Lawn Care Business | EP. 3

Do you want to know how to start a lawn care business? Nic Reed opened his landscaping business last year and has brought in more than $200K in revenue in his first year—pretty impressive considering he’s only 22. We’ll hear about his progress and what’s next for his business in this follow-up interview.

When we first talked to Nic, he was in the process of starting a lawn care business with the guidance of his mentor, Augusta Lawn Care owner Mike Andes. Nic worked in Mike’s lawn care business for two years before setting out on his own, and we’ll hear how that experience has helped him transition to his new role as a franchise owner.

One of Nic’s biggest challenges has been hiring a team so he can scale up his revenue and client base. We’ll hear if he’s had any luck bringing on employees, and which talent pools and strategies have been most successful for finding and attracting reliable lawn care workers.

Part of the reason Nic needs to hire is the success of his marketing, which brought in more work than he could handle alone within a few months of starting lawn care business. Today, we’ll hear if he’s changed his advertising approach during his first year, along with his advice and hacks for quickly building a reputation as a landscaping business.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:30 Meeting Nic
2:04 How Nic’s Business Has Grown
3:32 Impact on Profit Margins
4:28 Revenue
6:07 Amount of Hours He Works Per Week
6:55 Salary
8:44 What It Was Like Working with Mike
10:25 Marketing
12:04 Buying Trucks
13:06 Marketing Platforms
14:35 Advantages for Starting Your Own Firm
15:58 Process For Hiring Employees
16:56 How To Grow During Slow Seasons
18:07 Cons of Franchising
18:49 Biggest Challenges
20:37 Project Management Advice
22:43 Monthly Coaching Calls with Mike
24:22 Blitz
28:22 What’s Next For Nic’s Business
29:09 How to Keep It Simple
30:28 Biggest Mistakes Made

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[matthanf]

My name is Matt. I work with Nick everyday. Couldn't be more proud to work with this individual. He started this. I'm thrilled to be his number 2 as you see in this video. We are a PERFECT 2 HEADED MONSTER 😎

[benjaminhartman]

I've watched these back to back and I noticed that with each one, his confidence goes up. He clearly has a vision and is making it a reality.

[Mike-bsxi]

Sacrificed my 20’s going to be 30 next week. Went from making 55-60k at 28 years of age until I started my own excavation business made 560k gross and 315k profit this year. I had little to no fun in my 20s had to work at work 55 to 60 hours a week. Than remodeled my house after hours weekends and holidays but it finally paid off. It’s a great feeling remembering the grind and working so hard for a small wage and now finally reaping the rewards, but it took 8 years of hard hard work for a small buissnes to finally start my own buissness.

[jayland]

I'm 23 and finally after 5 years of straight working and saving I'm finally going to start my business next month so I'm soaking in everything I can from you like a sponge, you are to me what Mike is to you. Thanks bro

[nofacemechanic]

You should continue to do more videos of business owners that are in their 20s. I’m 22 and seeing people my age gives me hope for humanity. That all of us young folks are not slacking around using parents or governments money we go out in the world and make a name for ourselves.

[larrymolina]

BIGGEST lesson future business owners should take away from this is that he TAKES a salary of only 30 stacks.. Most will sink themselves by paying themselves $170k

[hashrosinking]

I make 60k a year part time landscaping 4 hours a day by myself. I don't care about high profit margins. I like being a very small business owner. It let's me pick and choose what work I want to do and get really picky about what I want to do not what I have to. Currently 26 and this is my 4th year alone.

[urbanrootslandscaping]

Love keeping up on Nick’s business journey. Very inspiring.

[futbol]

Awesome content. It's a testament to Nic's modesty for using regular earbuds for all this landscaping, not even airpods!

[elmeno]

he is telling the truth landscaping is where you really make money but not a lot of people are willing to pay for those jobs

[BrenttheGreat]

I got to meet him last weekend. He will do big things in his career.

[eyeshezzy]

Great progress.. am proud of him. Work your work season, don't worry about social life, it will come

[NoCommentaryGaming]

I’ve just come across your channel and I’m obsessed! Love the content… What he said about client communication, not leaving them in the dark and explaining why is HUGE! Biggest takeaway on this video! Keep up the amazing work UpFlip 💪🏼😎

[davidmartin]

Great job Nick! You are wise beyond your years!

[aurafangz]

Major respect! Not many can live off of 15% off of their income.

[activegreenlawncare]

very good video I have a lot of experience in this kind of business but one thing I have seen that you never finish learning all these videos are helping me to strengthen my company every day. GOD BLESS YOU

[rmb]

My favorite UpFlip video!!
Thank you so much!!

[mwv]

Great info on hiring employees. I’ve been in business 12 years. And employees were/are the hardest part of being in business. I’m still learning.

[Largepapa]

Most of us who made it have no friends in our 20s and work 7 days a week. That's the life in a blue collar business. If you have the energy to hike, you have the energy to mow lawns.

[Sasasa]

I asked a question two months ago to learn more about the salary of the people that appear in UpFlip and they're actually listening to the feedback. Don't know if it was because of my comment but just wanted to compliment on engaging with your community, good job UpFlip!!