Lawncare Leaders
by Britt Dowd
We exist so the Lawncare Leader can:STOP working a jobSTART owning a business &ENJOY having a life!All of our content is created to help you navigate the ups and downs that small business brings. We want to help you fulfill that mission in your own business!
Episodes
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275. What’s New with the Lawncare Leaders?
In today's podcast, Britt covers exciting new updates that have been taking place within the Lawncare Leader community. ———————————————————— Website:https://www.lawncareleaders.com https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader Check Out Our Sponsors Below: GPS Track It: 844-394-9244...
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274. What is the Sprinkler Magician? With Guest Peter Olt
On today's podcast, Britt is joined by Peter Olt, Owner, and Inventor of the first intelligent and fully automatic sprinkler-based system: Sprinkler Magician. Listen as Peter tells the story that led to the creation of the Sprinkler Magician and how it differs from other products on the market....
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273. How Green Again Upsells Aerating and Seeding
On today's podcast, Britt discusses this weeks theme: Upselling. Listen as Britt goes over different upselling services such as fall cleanups, aerating and seeding, sprinkler system winterizers and blowouts. All of these services are things you should be thinking about upselling!...
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272. Sam Rankin's Competitive Advantage Part 2
Listen to Part 2 of Sam Rankin, Owner of Ankeny Lawn and Landscape, LLC discuss his competitive advantage in the marketplace. Sam discusses his design-build and how he manages growth with his larger projects. ———————————————————— Website:https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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271. Sam Rankin's Competitive Advantage Part 1
In today's episode, Owner of Ankeny Lawn and Landscapes, LLC Sam Rankin joins Britt to discuss his competitive advantage in the marketplace and what he does to stand out against the competition. ———————————————————— Website:https://www.lawncareleaders.com https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader Check…
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270. Competitive Advantage- What makes you different
This week's theme is Competitive Advantage. Britt and Zach kick off the week by discussing competitive advantage in the marketplace. We're all doing lawn and landscape. We're all service industry guys, and we're all attacking the same client base. So what is your competitive advantage? And how…
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269. Competing with Yourself - Growth Segment
Growth Segment with Zach Miller. Britt and Zach continue the conversation on Competing with Yourself, discussing their personal experiences managing stress within the business. Zach weighs in on how he's been able to build confidence in himself and not let external factors dictate his next move -...
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268. Competing with Yourself
The theme for this week is Competing with Yourself. In today's episode, Britt discusses ways that we limit ourselves without even knowing, and what this means for your business. Britt provides a personal example of how external pressures in his life created self-doubt, and what the outcomes of…
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267. Stress Means You Care - Growth Nugget
If you are driven, motivated and want to be the best at whatever you do... Then you better get use to stress and pressure. In this episode we y’all about testing your limitations and how stress and fear is not always negative. Having something your stressed about is a blessing because you are...
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266. Britt & Brooke Marriage and Entrepreneurship 2.0
Pt 2 - Opinions, Fighting, Laughing, Dreams, Differences, Emotions, Ambitions, Protecting, Nurturing, Providing, Risking, Fears, Doubts, Anxiety, Hard Talks, Winning, Success, Leadership, Moving forward, stepping backward... Marriage and entrepreneurship is a crazy journey. My wife and I discuss...
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265. Britt & Brooke Marriage and Entrepreneurship
Opinions, Fighting, Laughing, Dreams, Differences, Emotions, Ambitions, Protecting, Nurturing, Providing, Risking, Fears, Doubts, Anxiety, Hard Talks, Winning, Success, Leadership, Moving forward, stepping backward... Marriage and entrepreneurship is a crazy journey. My wife and I discuss some…
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264. Marriage & Entrepreneurship - Growth Nugget
In today’s show, I give 10 ways that I have screwed up in communicating business updates with my wife. I also talk about how important it is to get this right. My wife is the single most important person in my life and in the life of my business. Do NOT underestimate what your wife or spouse…
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263. Do I Need A Business Mentor?
Zach Miller and Britt dive into the importance of perspective through mentors. They lay out what a mentor really means and the important role they play in helping us make educated decisions. "These relationships are started with a handshake not a handout." Website: https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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262. Mental Clarity During Chaos
Growth can create chaos... New information can create chaos... New transitions can create chaos... If you own a business there is going to be something that pops up from time to time that rocks your world. Here are the 6 things that I have focused on the last couple weeks to help me create mental...
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261. Growing Pains - Updates and Changes
Hey guys on this episode we catch everyone up to speed on where we have been the last few weeks. We also discuss this weeks theme "Gaining Perspective and Establishing Your Viewpoints During Big Changes" ———————————————————— Website: https://www.lawncareleaders.com…
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260. Good Stories Take Time
Theme this week is Patience. All good things take time! They story of your business is a long game. It takes time, it takes a lot of patience. ———————————————————— Links: $7 Lawn Program: https://www.lawncareleaders.com/lawnprogram Website: https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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259. Giving Yourself Mental Margin As A Lawncare Owner
Growth Segment with Zach Miller, the peoples CFO. Britt and Zach talked about the weight of what they and business owners are going through. Owners need to be more open and honest, if not talked about or communicated well, things start going down the wrong road fast. You have to create mental...
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258. Pro Panel - Margin
Pro Panel is back! Britt and everyone went over team and team margin. They discussed everything happening in their own business's right now and how they're navigating the hectic busyness of the season. ———————————————————— Links: $7 Lawn Program: https://www.lawncareleaders.com/lawnprogram…
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257. Where Your Business Is Vulnerable
Creating margin through these three pillars Finance, Time and Mental Creating margin by highlighting someone or something that is a linch pin in your business ———————————————————— Links: Delegation PDF - https://www.lawncareleaders.com/Delegation https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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256. When Does My Lawncare Business Need An Admin
GROWTH SEGMENT WITH THE PEOPLE'S CFO! Zach and Britt talk about the importance of having admin. With Lawncare Leaders Coaching and Community that started recently, having an admin made all the difference in the world. It gave Britt and Zach more time so that they could add value and focus on...
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255. 5 Delegation Principals To Scale My Lawncare Company
Britt goes over the 5 key principals of delegating effectively 1. Shared Vision - 4:30 2. Desired Outcome - 7:15 3. Slow Down - 9:30 4. Micro Delegation - 18:12 5. Establish Feedback Loops - 26:50 ———————————————————— Links: Delegation PDF - https://www.lawncareleaders.com/Delegation...
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254. Delegation, My Pleasure
Britt walks you through some of the systems and process's he uses at Green Again Lawn about Delegating. Make sure as you begin to distance yourself from a task you're use to doing that you're now delegating to a team member, you trust but verify. Use a feedback loop. Britt tells you how to keep...
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253. Don't Throw Away Your Dreams For Health Insurance
We have the peoples CFO back in the saddle on Todays Episode. This week we've been going over priorities during Spring rush and identifying problems specifically. A lot of guys have been held back by the amount of mowing they have or all the customer service calls they have to catch up on. The...
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252. What’s A Priority As A Lawncare Owner - With Thiago
Was able to rope in Thiago to talk about Priorities. We know you guys love him so if you want to see him go to our YouTube tomorrow to see this episode! Britt and Thiago go over what winning looks like when your priorities change and that winning will look different in new seasons. No checklists...
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251. How To Iterate Yourself As The Business Owner
Many owners aren't iterating themselves as the business owner. Britt goes over how you as the leader can figure out where exactly you’re bottlenecking your company. ———————————————————— Links: Pricing PDF - https://www.lawncareleaders.com/Pricing https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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250. Identifying Priorities During Spring Rush
Important vs Urgent. How do you decide what takes the top of the list during the crazy spring chaos? This week we're going to go over how to identify priorities during this busy time.———————————————————— Links: Pricing PDF - https://www.lawncareleaders.com/Pricing https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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249. Buying The Right Equipment Matters w/ Guest Jason Wilk from Echo
We start from the beginning with the Echo Brand, speaking with Jason, Echo's product manager. We're in full swing of things with the spring rush and knew that this chat would be a great time for Jason to weigh in on the new products and some of the ways for you guys to capitalize on investing…
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248. Thought Process Around New Crew/Equipment
Britt and Zach discuss the thought process that goes on behind getting new equipment and hiring new team members. You guys are killing it in sales and now you're trying to figure out how to manage the capacity you forced yourselves into. We've got an outline in this episode to go over everything...
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247. Hire A New Crew or Buy New Equipment
Britt goes over our topic for this week of "New Crews and New Equipment". Nationwide people are adding clients, booking jobs at an insane pace. Lots of new jobs and new opportunities but with all the new comes with having to hire more employees and needing more equipment. So what do you do?...
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246. Indirect Labor & Overhead Costs In Lawn Care
Today Britt and Zach do a Growth Segment capping off the weeks them around “Pricing” your lawn and landscape services. Zach does a fantastic job simplifying the indirect labor and overhead cost buckets for us. Then they both give practical takeaways to make sure these costs are factored into your...
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245. Eat Your Pricing Mistakes
Britt gets to talk to his subcontractor Ted Ross, with his four year old company "Statement Lawn & Landscape". Ted dabbles with a lot of different things but he really knows what he's talking about when it comes to pricing everything landscape! Pricing Your Services PDF...
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244. Pricing Your Services Correctly In Lawn Care & Landscaping
Todays Episode Britt talks about the 4 key principals of Pricing your Services Correctly - Margin - Knowing Costs - Comparing to the market - Supply & Demand ———————————————————— Links: Pricing Your Services PDF https://www.lawncareleaders.com/Pricing Website https://www.lawncareleaders.com...
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243. What To Pay My Guys
Zach and Britt dive off the deep end into incentives. Zach unpacks the financial side of compensation and explains the three levers you should be pulling as the owner. Britt talks about how to motivate your team when you simply can’t pay them any more. -When to hire first guy in lawncare and...
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242. Do The Best You Can In The Moment
Britt and Thiago talk about Hiring and Growing your team. What they have learned through experience running Green Again, there is no perfect system, all you can do is the best you can in the moment. Don't stop progressing and keep moving forward even when hardships head towards you and your...
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241. What You Look For, You Will Find
How to hire and grow your team! In todays episode we talk about what should be on your job description. How to utilize certain focuses to weed out candidates that will waste your time. We also talk about not selling the wrong thing within your lawn and landscape business. Do not be ashamed of…
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240. Stop Negotiating With Yourself
You're going to lose every. single. time. if you negotiate with yourself. You may not know your goals or have good quality goals. First you have to have clear set goals. If you do not create a clear metric driven goal that can be held accountable you WILL start negotiating with yourself....
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239. NOT Hitting Your Lawncare Goals?
Our theme for this week: Goals, Vision and Reality. All of our Podcasts and Youtube videos will be centered around this topic. Check out the PDF in the links below on how to create Goals, Vision and get through the reality of your current situation. GO TO OUR WEBSITE:...
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238. Working Hard In Lawncare Is Not Enough
Hiring & Growing Link(Free PDF Link) - https://www.lawncareleaders.com/hiring This week theme is Goals, Vision and how to be self aware of the reality of your current situation. Website - https://www.lawncareleaders.com (Free PDF Link) - https://www.lawncareleaders.com/hiring All Links -...
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237. Britt Guest On LCR Media Podcast
LCR Media Podcast has Britt on as a guest! In this episode, Britt talks everything Lawn Care with Green Again & Lawncare Leaders ———————————————————— Links: https://www.lawncareleaders.com https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader
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236. Lake Lawn And Landscape
Hiring struggles in lawn care.
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235. Jobber Gives Back To Service Industry
Britt gets to sit down with Nick Keyko, the director of marketing at Jobber. Jobber is the leading provider of business management software. ———————————————————— Links: https://www.lawncareleaders.com https://jobber.grsm.io/brittdowd7100 https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader
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234. Sales Revenue Goals Not Mowing Client Goals
Pushing towards your sales goal based on revenue rather then clients. Focusing on committed revenue and knowing where you stand currently with your existing clients.
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233. Close More Overpriced Lawn Care Sales
This episode we y’all about the sales funnel process we use. We also discuss how to overcome the objection of someone saying you are too expensive. We also overcome the objection of a prospect trying to negotiate with you on price.
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232. I'm Getting Other Bids
If you are waiting to hear back from a lawn care or landscaping quote listen to this! If you think they are going to call you back after getting other bids you are wrong! Interested our Lawncare Leaders Coaching and Community platform? www.lawncareleaders.com https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader
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231. Diversify Your Lawn And Landscape Services
Post IG Live Interview. Diverse revenue with @Steven Knight presented by jobber. Steven is the owner of Mosaic Home Services, he had the chance to speak @Jobbers Professional Development Day! After his presentation we hopped on this quick live chat and discussed: Diversifying your revenue,...
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230. “Stop Trusting Your Gut” Mike Michalowicz- Jobber Professional Development Day
“Doing hard work is actually easier than doing hard thinking.” Mike talks about finding your current weakest link. He goes on to discuss tips on moving from just running your business to thinking like a shareholder in your business. https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader http://getjobber.com/pdday2021
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229. Landscapers Can Increase Sales Quick
People do business with people they: KNOW, LIKE & TRUST In this episode we unpack the value of going after your existing clients first. Lawn Care owners and Landscapers can easily default to looking for new clients when experiencing new problems. But our first response needs to be to tap into our...
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228. 3 Things To Track When Marketing Lawn Care
1. Money/Time Spent 2. Incoming Leads 3. Number of Leads Closed https://linktr.ee/Lawncareleader http://getjobber.com/pdday2021
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227. Lawn Care Leadership Growth
This was a documented episode of a weekly meeting I have with my top leader, Thiago. We are in a coffee shop near our warehouse. We call this meeting our feedback loop. We go over 1. Our top 20% of leaders in our company. 2. Finances 3. Current Issues/ Improvements 4. Long Term Needs 5. Bottle...
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226. Breakfast w/ Lawn Care Trainees
This is a documented episode from our company Green Again Lawn. We give you behind the scenes access to a breakfast we had with our new trainees. We asked them 4 questions and received 2 hours of good feedback and conversation. 1)What’s the best thing about the trainee program thus far? 2)What’s...
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We exist so the Lawncare Leader can:STOP working a jobSTART owning a business &ENJOY having a life!All of our content is created to help you navigate the ups and downs that small business brings. We want to help you fulfill that mission in your own business!
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