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I don't see why landscaping is "bigger and better." Is selling homemade birdhouses on ebay "bigger and better" than starting a giant fast food chain because it requires more craftsmanship and knowledge than flipping burgers? No.
Let's be real, we're all in business to make money; or at least most of us are. Mowing is a sweet deal: if you get the right equipment, equipment that any idiot could be efficient with, then the business can run itself. Customer retention rate is 80-90% every year, and once you push the pre-season advertising you're good for the rest of the year. Paychecks are steady. Come up with a good business model and you can repeat it and repeat it over a huge geographical area. Why do you say are profits limited? Just expand and keep true to the model. I'm convinced Diminishing Returns is usually the result of a poor model. The reason I got into mowing is that it will eventually give me an avenue to make a lot of money while I can pursue any other career or business venture. With a secretary and accountant, my workload to run the business will be minimal. The problem with most guys is they don't know how to advertise effectively and/or they get the wrong equipment.
Landscaping is 50x more stressful, is less of a reliable income, and requires constant advertising to maintain a client base. It also much harder to expand it across markets. What's easier to picture, a national mowing chain or a national landscaping chain?
To me, money is money. That is unless I'm making it off chasing ambulances or something (...like being a meter-maid, paying tax burdens of the poor in exchange for their houses, or hounding my family and friends to get involved in a pyramid scheme, etc).
Let's be real, we're all in business to make money; or at least most of us are. Mowing is a sweet deal: if you get the right equipment, equipment that any idiot could be efficient with, then the business can run itself. Customer retention rate is 80-90% every year, and once you push the pre-season advertising you're good for the rest of the year. Paychecks are steady. Come up with a good business model and you can repeat it and repeat it over a huge geographical area. Why do you say are profits limited? Just expand and keep true to the model. I'm convinced Diminishing Returns is usually the result of a poor model. The reason I got into mowing is that it will eventually give me an avenue to make a lot of money while I can pursue any other career or business venture. With a secretary and accountant, my workload to run the business will be minimal. The problem with most guys is they don't know how to advertise effectively and/or they get the wrong equipment.
Landscaping is 50x more stressful, is less of a reliable income, and requires constant advertising to maintain a client base. It also much harder to expand it across markets. What's easier to picture, a national mowing chain or a national landscaping chain?
To me, money is money. That is unless I'm making it off chasing ambulances or something (...like being a meter-maid, paying tax burdens of the poor in exchange for their houses, or hounding my family and friends to get involved in a pyramid scheme, etc).
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