How to Price MOWING and WHY NOT to!

WARNING! Watch this before you Mow! #needtoknow #truthmatters #mowing #lawncare #business. #lawncare #equipment #pricing #howtopricelawncare #success

[jamiepippin]

For a smaller business I think mowing can be equally as profitable as landscaping. You sell year round maintenance plans that’s include mowing, aeration, pruning, mulch and you have an easy schedule to follow all year. With landscaping you’re driving around meeting people, taking measurement, spending days gathering materials, days cleaning up and dumping debris, running into problems that require renegotiating the price. It might work for a medium or larger company doing a high volume of jobs, but for someone who’s solo or has a couple employees, maintenance work is great and sometimes it’s better to pick the low hanging fruit. When you’re professional about it, chucks in a truck aren’t really your competition.

[bigskyab]

Funny how someone will pay 50 bucks for a haircut that takes 20 minutes and a 20.00 pair of scissors but bemoan a guy asking 50 bucks to mow a lawn that takes half an hour and a 10, 000 dollar mower

[taw]

Stan this video takes me back how you used to do your older video were you would cover a topic in landscaping or lawn care. I like those videos over the new videos where its just about brand new equipment.

[Jesse-veoo]

Thanks for the info bro. I parole in a few months after being down 15 years and your channel has helped me manifest what my future is going to look like. Thank you!

[nikkoch]

2nd year here, just the guy who cuts tall grass short and loving it. This video def helps me a lot with pricing things. Looking forward to getting into aerator, thatching and over seeding someday to get me to the next lvl. Thank you for this video!

[phillyfanist]

Know your equipment’s limitations and when to say no on a lead. It can be real easy to get in over your head on an account because you bit off more than you could chew with your current equipment lineup

[saltylegion]

I started my lawn business with an Exmark 30" walk behind. Love it and still run it!

[charleshaskins]

We mow because it’s on my heart. We’ve been blessed with commercial
Con tracts and great residential. We are in a coastal tourist area so we get a fair amount of work in the “maintenance realmm. However, we also usually get first dibs on all concrete and hardscapes. Decks and other light construction projects I can feed my other crew. Be humble with the small
Jobs, do a COMPLETE, thorough and impacting job on the larger one….your name will circulate quite quickly. People tease me because I will be at a homeowners house pruning for what seems like small
Change to the six pallets of block we’re
Throwing next door. But next year, their pruned bushes will look great next to the new patio we do for them. Patience, respect for your customers and peers, take heed and learn from
Whomever you can and pass it on the next. All
Boats rise together and we can all
Command good pay if we’re all doing upstanding work.

[philtheninja]

about a year after i started mowing, i bought a commercial 21 inch mower, ( i started at 10 years old) I bought it from another landscaping compagny, and got a blower from them. I am slowly growing up. I do stripe, since my mower is quite heavy and grass is somewhat soft here. I slowly learned how to do trimming, and about 3 years ago, i started doing aeration in the fall. This spring is my first year of doing dethaching. So, i am 17, i started when i was 10, i bought a commercial unit mower, toro 21 inch. I'm still doing strong btw. but yeah, i always have trouble with pricing

[ernestorobles]

Preach brothers i’ve been saying the hair cut example for a while i don’t care what anyone says you shouldn’t be doing any lawn for less than $100 i

[howeequipment]

Well said at the end, on giving this valuable information away. All it does is raise prices which helps everyone in the industry.

[JJ]

I started a year ago after getting out of trucking because someone totaled my truck.

I bought a 30" exmark and a stihl Kombi tool to start.

My first season, I ended up with about 20 bi weekly yards, and I also started doing other jobs too. I ended up doing mostly other jobs, and it got to the point where I barely had time to mow my 10 yards a week.

I chose to buy a dump trailer, and In just my first 3 weeks of having it, I did enough work to pay for it.

I learned to trim small trees, clean out garden beds, property cleanups, and did rock and mulch delivery and installation.

[paulwatson]

This is exactly right! I mowed off and on for 42 years and tried 2-3 times to make a living JUST mowing and you absolutely CANNOT. I dabbled with some landscaping but was scared to venture into it because it required so much labor and I couldn’t even get someone to run a weedeater, much less dig holes. I absolutely love the business (I was made to do this) but was forced out of business and into a 9-5 because of laborers and not making money. I’ve hated life ever since and am now wanting to start a landscaping company. I have tremendous potential but just need to see success. I’m excited and scared at the same time.

[mlow]

In 1993, we charged $130 a month and up. For a mow, blow go with 2 guys 25 minutes. This was in Orlando with 42 mows a year. The same lawns in 2003 were $60 a month from other companies with 3 guys. I could not compete anymore and sold out. I miss the work though.

[loerber]

The challenge of extra services when you are starting out is when to actually do them. Even if you only mow 3 days a week so that you can do other jobs the other two days if something goes wrong and it takes more than 2 days (or 4 days if you give up your weekend) then you have to explain to the customer why you are taking 3 days off.

[briant]

Been cutting grass for five years solo an little help here and there its time for me to step up my game i have about 40 yards with in 5 minutes from my house

[danielstewart]

Man I mow about 2.5 acres each week of grass on my property, around lots of landscaping, and about 50 trees. Didn't realize how much I was saving myself by doing by myself. A nice 72" deck Zero turn sure helps out, guess it is worth every penny we spent on it.

[TheRealKingJorge]

Thanks for the great advice I started professionally in 2020 I like getting my own Lawn equipment and go not waiting on others

[larrylass]

So true. Love the Billy on the corner and Chuck in the Truck analysis. Find something that makes your lawncare business unique. The big thing here is total home care (lawns to changing lightbulbs in the house).

[juztyn]

I bid a job for the local school and community park, 12 acres total, I bid on the low side at $700 including trimming, and trash pickup. Only wanted to do it because its across the street from my home and I wanted it to look nice. The guy that won the bid halved my bid running 2 mowers with employees. Don't know how they are making anything at all.