There are a lot of podcast episodes for lawn care business owners, but there aren't many that are focused on the young hustlers. Today's episode is for the young people who are ages 10-18 out there working hard in school and running their lawn care business are business.

If you are running a lawn care business you have to know your cost of doing business, your break even. In this episode I give you the formula for calculating your break even number.

Break Even Formula:

Total Overhead / Amount of Lawns = overhead per lawn per season

Overhead Per Lawn Per Season / Number of Total Cuts for the season = Break Even Per Lawn

Knowing your break even number per lawn gives you a baseline of what you MUST charge per lawn to break even. Everything on top of that is profit. It is extremely important to know your break even number.

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There are a lot of different CRMs on the market today, but there are very few that listen to what their users need and want and there are even fewer that are specific for one industry. Earthapro is all of these things. Today I talk with Courtney from Earthapro about the new and coming soon features of her CRM and why Courtney and Peter (her husband) decided to start a CRM for the Green Industry.

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We are racing toward the lawn care season. Michigan is going through a major thaw and heatwave for this time of year. It has me looking back over the winter at what I have been doing and how I have stayed busy as the season inches closer.

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I have been attanding trade shows for the last 11 years. Over those years I have had times when i have learned a lot at trade shows and times when I wished I hadn't even gone. There are various reasons people go to trade shows and all of them are valid. Today I want to see if trade shows are still worth attending in 2026.

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There are so many things that a solo lawn care provider has to think about as they are running their business. Getting the work done, taking care of the books, equipment maintenance, and the most imortant of them all, ADVERTISING!

Advertising is the one thing that you need to bring in business. It is especially important when you are first starting out. No one knows your business exists. Advertising is the thing that will get your community buzzing about your business. But how should you go about it? Is there a specific time you should start advertising? Do you need a website? Is google my business really that important?

In today's episode Aaron answers all these questions and more.

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We are racing toward the start of the 2026 lawn care season and it's time to start looking at all of your processes to make sure that your business is running as effiecently as possible. In today's episode I talk about 4 things that you are a small business owner need to look at and maybe even rethink as you prepare for the upcoming season.

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In every business you have to be careful so that you don't get ripped off, but in the snow removal business it is very easy to get taken advantage of. This episode is here to help you set your sno business up so that it doesn't happen to you.

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Have you ever completed a job and said to yourself, "man, that looks so good!" only to get an emergency call in the middle of winter that something terrible happened with your project? That was my week this week. A customer called me and told me that her driveway was so sloppy and muddy that a UPS delivery truck got stuck. I was so proud of this driveway project because it turned out so good and beautiful, but apperantly there was something lurking underneath that I didn't know about.

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Welcome to 2026! This could be your best year ever, but there are a few things to keep in mind as we sprint toward the 2026 lawn care season. There are 5 must do things that I believe every business needs to look at in there business and life to have a successful 2026 season. Let's jump into it.

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