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Like all Business, application is depend on Production and Volume. Quality will help bring volume, and is essentially the best way for a small business to compete with Corporate America.
One of the ways application is more profitable is Overhead or the lack there of. $35.00 per man hour for mowing is less profitable than spraying. Overhead of mowing machines and there maintenance can cut into profit big time. While application equipment does need maintenance, it requires less cost for maintenance.
Now for that $ 70.00 average application stop, let us say you use $ 20.00 in chemical products or 30%. That still leave $ 50.00 gross profit to pay one man and his equipment plus overhead. Now if that same stop was for mowing, How much could you charge and how many men and equipment would be required? Production depends on your equipment and experience. I am forever refining my Methods and Equipment. These methods have come full circle with me. I started with all Granular and went to all liquid. I am now back to Granular and liquid combination. There are advantages to both and I am now trying to capture the best of both. Volume is another subject, but one man can easily handle 300 accounts.
Now Lorenzo is correct about Failed Landscapers ending up as Teacher, Sales People and Industry Consultants. I have seen this in my own town as well as at seminars and the internet. Look for people who are running successful business full time and doing consulting or seminars on the side. Bob Kessler who has posted on this forum is such a person. I have taken seminars by him and learned a lot. He has set up a good business and has good people running successfully.
Like all Business, application is depend on Production and Volume. Quality will help bring volume, and is essentially the best way for a small business to compete with Corporate America.
One of the ways application is more profitable is Overhead or the lack there of. $35.00 per man hour for mowing is less profitable than spraying. Overhead of mowing machines and there maintenance can cut into profit big time. While application equipment does need maintenance, it requires less cost for maintenance.
Now for that $ 70.00 average application stop, let us say you use $ 20.00 in chemical products or 30%. That still leave $ 50.00 gross profit to pay one man and his equipment plus overhead. Now if that same stop was for mowing, How much could you charge and how many men and equipment would be required? Production depends on your equipment and experience. I am forever refining my Methods and Equipment. These methods have come full circle with me. I started with all Granular and went to all liquid. I am now back to Granular and liquid combination. There are advantages to both and I am now trying to capture the best of both. Volume is another subject, but one man can easily handle 300 accounts.
Now Lorenzo is correct about Failed Landscapers ending up as Teacher, Sales People and Industry Consultants. I have seen this in my own town as well as at seminars and the internet. Look for people who are running successful business full time and doing consulting or seminars on the side. Bob Kessler who has posted on this forum is such a person. I have taken seminars by him and learned a lot. He has set up a good business and has good people running successfully.
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