The Downfall of a $2M Landscape Business Empire!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2024
- Mike Andes travels to Winston, Georgia to help turn around a $1.9M landscaping company. Jody and Adam of Southern Landscaping & Property Management are burning cash almost as fast as it comes into the business.
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Mike you have found your niche. These turnaround videos are second to none some of the best work related content on TH-cam. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.
"Kind of business consultant"
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We need follow thru and follow ups
What about the biggest issue? The owners are doing this as a side gig while playing firemen. 1.5 mil, 24 employees, no systems, and they're trying to run this as absentee owners
Yeah it’s trash tbh. I applaud their service but it’s time to pick a side and put the effort in to one or the other
That "consultant" looks and sounds like a waste of tax money. Dude is texting during a meeting where Mike is handing them golden information. Then saying the crew can't understand a simple P/L and showing off a degree as an accomplishment when he hasn't built anything himself.
I thought the same thing. He doesnt seem to be offering much, and went on full offense about the ideas.
I'm certain he's always worked as a cog for big business. Most SBA consultants haven't built a damn thing.
Yeah he was a perfect example of degrees don’t mean anything than just a piece of paper if you can’t produce much. Mike tried to cover for him with the part of he is not getting paid but that is a waste of space and time for consultant being there. Lot of promotion for Mirror Lake in this video that they could have kept out. Love Mike but feels like this one they took in one ear and it went out the other.
he said all the degrees he had , because Mike knows more then him without one.
Did you watch at 34:40 ?
Mike said don’t hate on the dude and explained why… free consulting from a biz dev group…
I see to many office personnel. For a 2 million company.
just what I was going to say. 100% with you
Too many people period. 24 employees for 1.5 million before office?
Lots of overhead
@@Gregoman89my brother owns a tree company it’s been me him and one other guy for 6 years were at around 300 - 450 thousand a year , we’ve had an occasional 4th guy but mostly just the 3 of us , and his wife does the office things . At 24 employees they should be at way more revenue than that . And we don’t even work year round , mostly just April thru end of September or so with a little snow work in the winter which the last 2 years we haven’t done
@@dylanstevely1443 comparing a lawn maintenance company and tree business is comparing apples to oranges. Your revenue per job and revenue per action item are astronomically higher compared to lawn Maintenance. I mean even if you charged 500 per tree which would be cheap you would break 3,000 on 6 trees at one site. That will never happen in lawn maintenance. The reason why: tree cutting is much more skilled and dangerous
Mike and Team, Just want to say that this is some of your best content. The information you are putting out for small business owners is invaluable. You are an extremely effective communicator and extremely charismatic. Its fascinating watching these an learning along the way how to eliminate waste from our businesses. I genuinely believe there is more to be learnt here than there is in a lot of business majors at third level. Well done, keep up the great work. Hope to see you working with a business in the Chicago area soon!
Wow, they only have $15,000 in cash?! They should have $150,000 in cash minimum and I would recommend for a 1.9 Million business to have $250,000 cash and an equal amount in line of credit.
Also, they only need ONE good sales person and their pay should be MOSTLY commission derived.
Good employees work hard for BONUSES not an HOURLY RATE.
It seems like all of the businesses that are failing are focused too much on looking like big shots and having 100 employees. Remember it’s not what you make it’s what you save. Don’t strive to be the biggest strive to be the most profitable.
I agree. It comes down to simple tasks.
All I saw was the UNWILLNESS to change.
I’m so glad Mike exists in the landscape industry. Dude was almost a doctor. Imagine a world with no Mike Andes 😢
Be firefighter or be a landscaper. Focus on being the best at one or you'll be mediocre at both.
This
So basically they did nothing Mike said 😑..
I was thinking the same thing. Why would you have Mr. Andes come out if you were going to just ignore what he says?
Lot of respect for the young AI guy from the previous turnaround because he actually implemented what was brought to the table.
It's hard for an old dog to learn new tricks.
Great video. Your editing crew does a really nice job on these videos and always appreciate it.
Great video, probably one of my favorite yet! Such a shame with that consultant, I know you said to not hate on him Mike, but you did more for them in an hour than he would do in a year!
24 guys for 1.5 million is not good. 😮
Yea that's horrible I have 4 guys and we did 1.2 million last year 24 guys they should be over 5million
@KalebJones803 yes at least million +. He does have nice trucks though 😅
@jamesvillegas877 yea I have one of those trucks also but my guys run it I still run truck and trailer I love it much more driving that truck 70 down the road is scary your right over top of the road and u can feel everything
@KalebJones803 I have one izusu with dump body but it's used for trees connected to chipper but mostly f150 for maintenance work. We don't need big mowers in Southern California most the grass areas are small.
If they each get paid 😭 50k they just paying 1.2 on that
Mike, THANK YOU for this series. It's so cool and entertaining to see you help people. It proves that you're not all talk. Keep making these series.
THESE VIDEOS ARE GOLD WHEN YOU WANT TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS
Only making 1.5 mil these are the undercut guys that are charging 1/2 of what they should
Definitely. Companies like this come and go all the time in my area
Thanks you for all of your hard work and dedication to this. Appreciate everything you’re doing.
Love these videos, learn something new each one.
Great Video Mike,very informative!!
Hey Mike I'm in Ireland love the videos the turnaround videos hit so well its a world wide problem that you are helping to solve
Majority of people who start labor industry businesses don’t have the discipline to take care of their bodies so they can’t handle the labor themselves very long. So what do they do… take on debt with employees and equipment to do the labor they don’t want to do.
Love this series! Really valuable to see how you think when doing a business turnaround.
Great vid Mike.
This business model drives me nuts - Big fancy office, nice trucks, lots of chiefs with polo shirts yet the equipment looks un-maintained, the guys are getting paid the absolute minimum by industry standards, and the "chiefs" complain about guys not wanting to show up.
This is the old school mentality, heavy overhead, and slave labor. The new model is low overhead and pay your guys $20-$35 per hour, they are the most essential part of the business yet the most neglected.
Most don't consider what level of money per hour, management makes you for your business. If they can't match the crews income, than they are a drain on the business. Management is a finicky department.
I love these turnaround vids. Learning something new every single day!!!
Thank you for doing the 6 week update. I HOPED they would do the 48 hour hard shift, but doesn't look like they wanted the work it would have taken. A shame because it would have really showed off how well Mike's strategies could work.
Keep it up Mike! You’re killing it!🤙
Mike said it could turn around, and turn around quick. But I don’t think these guys will do it
Agree.
From what I've experienced, most business owners are like geese. They going to fly the path they know 'works' and do it till they day they die. Even if there is a much better path, they gonna keep doing what 'feels' safe.
Mike, great video! I met you at the Chicago O’Hare airport on Monday, March 4th. It was nice meeting you
It was great to meet you! Best of luck on your garage door business out in the great state of North Dakota!
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Are you new to the industry?
@@MikeAndes I also have to find out where the profit is going,!!
Mike, you are my mentor.
Thank You Mike, Learned a lot from your videos.
this was one of my favorite episodes in this awesome series, we havent seen you dive into it quite like this its fascinating,
Another banger Mike!
God damn I love you content bro. So helpful to my pressure washing business. I’ve been binging your videos the past week and I’ve learned so much.
Exodus 20:7
Mike, This was a super informative and helpful video. They way you broke down some of the categories on profit, employees, etc was great. My difficulty right now is that we are using an existing crews for our landscaping contracts but want to build in house and it has proven to be kinda hard to find, and train and keep people withought paying out an existing crew a good bit of the contract revenue.
What a video. Mike you need your own show on discovery. Thank you for this info.
Why the hell do they have a consultant?! Hes not doing his job fire him
This is the best turnaround video to date
The turn arounds are pretty good.
That is just not adding up, 120 hours each week would be 17+ hour days, seven days a week
They work 24 hrs per day cause fire dept sleeps there so 5 days
Man I really wish I discovered your Augusta franchise a month ago. I had the money to start in the solo operator program and plus some. Look I will give you guys one of my chevys as payment lol.
‘Consultant’ paid for by tax money?? 🤦🏻♂️
Charging the government a lot more than $60 a man hour I bet
I love mikes bedhead in the thumbnail, best thumbnail I’ve seen in a long time lol
Absolutely swear by your way my man! Best video is your marathon video 😆 I share that with so many new entrepreneurs in my field that ask questions! I had that business card/door hanger mentality before watching your video and after my motivation for door to door went from 60% to 200% 🪜 Building my Clientele list under 2 years to 250 window cleaning clients by my self!
That business coach...paid for by the government...has the value of the average government program...$0.
Love that one Mike let’s go
Mike is the man!❤💯
“I don’t know is that’s legally compliant, but it will make you more money” - A true entrepreneur 😂
Hey mike, awesome vid! Might be my favorite turnaround yet. What did you think about the follow up? Do you feel like they did what they needed to and it will turn around? I think it would be cool to add that to the end of the video. Thanks!
Right, probably 300 in management
I am staying small. No way I will go big.
I was gonna say the dude in purple needs to bounce, but none of them even listened to Mike. What a bunch of tools
Raise Prices!!!!
I love your content. I am from Denmark 😉🙂
I was hoping to learn more details about the incentive or payment for performance structure for each crew. What does that look like? Please share in detail or share the link to the related video about it. Thanks.
“Default to violence” so b’dass! 😂
Their claim about the hours they work as firefighters is non sensical and he should have dove into that. Can't start fixing something if they are feeding you bs.
That consultant is full of crap. IDK how big his business ever was, but it sounds like he studied theory and not reality. Nobody cares about your college studies.
The posturing and arrogance are unreal.
When you got money Makin Mike in the house, you shut your mouth and listen, baby
That consultant is more focused on acting cool then saving their business what a joke, awesome video Mike!
Mike, Will from Cutting Edge Lawncare OA. How can I calculate P4P?
How are you suprised you’re struggling, you’re grossing 1.5 million on 24 employees. That’s 62k per employee. Subtract their pay, benefits, taxes, and workers comp. Then subtract your insurance, and debt payments and you’re suprised you’re struggling. You have to be higher grossing per employee.
A Mike how can u help an give advice when agusta is here in my town and u Guys are working for dirt cheap charging 28 dollar a mowing
He's been very open on how he established his business, he's talks all the time about when he has had to raise the rates. In this video he talks about how a similar sized location he operates charges $80 an hour. What it sounds like is in your area the Augusta location is attempting growth, by charging a low margin for a service to encourage growth. I'd imagine he may do a rate adjustment in a couple months to weed out the bad customers and also achieve his normal hourly rate. Pretty common and sound business practice in my opinion. I'd say that he is very qualified to be helping and giving business advice.
Hey Mike, really nice video! I was wondering if i can help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts out of them.
I know the Mirror Lake customer and think they propped up them to much. Definitely need a switch to residential customers more for better profits. Commercial is great if they know how to work the relationships and budgets of HOA boards like Mirror Lake. Warehouse’s in West Ga probably will be bottom dollar clients and might be good to drop if losing profit.
My opinion drop the consultant, as it’s a waste of time, which yes is wasting money even not paying for his time. I also think he would have negative influence after Mike left. To many degrees and my opinion archaic way of thinking on business. His input was not even of value add to the video.
Thankful they serve as FF’s but feel bad since they don’t get paid well enough for that job.
the reason businesses dont like to share their numbers with their employees is because they dont want them to see whats happening. they dont like telling someone "hey you busted your butt for us, but your making less than bill who sits around all day and does nothing" or worse "hey i know im the owner and i dont do anything, but im making 20x more than you and your doing all the work." that is what they are hiding. they are ashamed.
The consultant’s default response: “It’s all psychology.” 😂😂😂
How much do they charge for the employee by the hour
I dream of the day that I get Mike to help my business 😂
Perfect editing choice at 19:38 🤣🤣
I saw one thing on that talent sign that is absolute BS, "Doing a little extra". Yeah, no thanks! Unless that business is "doing a little extra" for you as an employee, then you don't ever "do a little extra" for them. Also, if that other guy did $100k fraud, why isn't he in jail?
This is stupid. Those dude are complaining about the company when they steal 120 hr work weeks from the community tax dollars. They dont know how to run a company. This is bs
this makes my head hurt just thinking about this buffoonery.....fire fighters and business should never be used together in the same sentence.
The one thing I dont like about these videos is how some other rando does the follow up call
The guys doing the call are the guys on the media team who film and edit everything. I’m sure Mike delegates this call because they know the whole storyline well.
Ya im sure they know all the details and it also a good testimate to mikes delegation skills. Although, with things like this people are super interested in the follow up and if mikes suggestions actually worked. Just feel like the follow up gets thrown to the way side a lil bit. But Mikes a smart guy I am sure he has a reason for everything he does@@urbanrootslandscaping3874
That guy is great but would be better with Mike doing the follow up
What is the name of this license
First 3min I already knew this company has too much manpower and chiefs.
You are in any state I want to study and get this license and work like you
$60 an hour? I'm a small operation of two people and I charge $75 per man per hour. This is crazy.
The owners need to hire someone to run the day to day, and when the owner are able to work, the need to have fix work and what I means work they can Clearing of land mulching hedge and tree work. each owner takes one worker and do those types of jobs. You know when they are off form the fire department so you schedule those bigger job and then and train some of those employee's to do and take pride in those jobs when the owners are not there. Great Video
You’ll only get crackheads for 10-15$ per hour. We pay $22+. CDL +$5. Spray license +$3.
W videos as always and im getting ready to start my owm business by the start of 2025!!!!
1.8 million business and there’s 50K in the bank. Something is way off. 🧐 We have 3 employees at my company and we have more $ than that in the balance.
I love how the guy is online while being paid from his government job.
HOW do you keep workers for $15-16 ??????? 2024
No idea
If Robert California was a real person... he's in this episode
A “great value” Robert California
“Some people don’t work for money, they work for vacation or retirement” that dude with all those degrees is delusional. And I love the way it was edited right after the workers saying money definitely matters.
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The consultant Todd is a pure bluffer. There is no way this business would be in this position if you had a competent advisor on board. Like not raising prices in years, basic stuff.
First thing I see is there is a lot of management for 1.5 million
You have no idea how cringe it is when a person feels the need to say "Bachelors in... Masters in..."
I mean this with no disrespect, degrees are meaning less and less
lol, why is Grimace there
Too many office management people. Get rid of them and only have 2 people running the place and a secretary.
They should unionize,just like they are in their full time jobs!
Biggest goal being defeating someone else is a massive flaw
Love the videos.....But who the hell is hiring people for $15 an hour these days.
So they do around 120k a month with a landscaping crew and 6 maintenance trucks is terrible then you got some idiot saying “we need more staff”
I feel like my bosses would ask for your help and then ignore everything else
Step 1. Lose that consultant. Things will probably start to get better from there...
Free advice from nthe government...exactly what it's worth. Lose the "coach from SBDC...who speaks and gives advice like an academic.
We all are trying to knock bright view back into their senses
These guys are tired. They don’t want to do this anymore. I have been in irrigation for 33 years