Mowing In The Dark LAWN CARE Podcast

I recenty had to go back and resurface a gravel driveway that I put new gravel on last year. This was a huge mistake in my business and resurfacing cost 3 times as much as the original job. The real kicker is that I had...

The bigger companies will tell you that you need employees because if you get hurt your business will fall apart. A a solo operator for over 12 years now I can say this is not the truth. You do NOT need employees to...

The truth is rural lawn care is just different than city lawn care. The lawns are bigger and farth apart and the people are different too. **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at...

The first hell week of the season has begun. I call the first week of the season hell week one because I'm out of shape and I am having to do more clean up than I would like. Hell week 2 comes when the grass goes to...

There are so many businesses who have lost their Google Business Listings over the last few years do to the integration of AI at Google. But there is a way bit of a way around it so that you can still achieve the #1...

The lawn care business can be a very enjoyable business, but there is one aspect of the business that all new beginners seem to struggle with, Estimating! Today I talk about some of the main things one needs to know and...

Last year I screwed up a couple of driveway repair jobs and it is going to cost me a bunch of money. I was really struggling with feeling like a failure over the last couple of weeks as I am coming up with a plan to fix...

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...

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 /...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...