Mowing In The Dark LAWN CARE Podcast

A good runner never stops envisioning the finish line. A great runner fixes his eyes on the finish line but also thinks about all the little machanics of running from his shoes to each foot fall. Trying to move the body as efficiently as possible to waste the least amount of energy. This is not what I did in my lawn care or driveway repair business.  ** Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and...

Many solo lawn care business owners have the belief that they can't take a vacation in the middle of the summer. They think that if they do it will negatively impact their business and cause them to fail. A vacation is NOT what is going to cause your business to fail. In fact, if your business fails because you take a vacation, there is something else wrong with your business.  **Backed by EARTHAP...

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 to cover all the cost of the new aggregate. This was such a costly mistake, but instead of ignoring the problem or trying to find a way to get the client to pay for my mistake, I j...

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 keep your business running if you get hurt.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card P...

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 checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://link.helcim.com/tNJop5Ll WaveApps: https://www.waveapps.com/   ** Please give the podcast a 5 star rat...

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 seed mid May. The Spring rush has also begun and believe it or not it can kill a business if your not careful. Taking on too much work is just as bad as not having enough work when you...

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 ranking on Google without a Google My Business listing.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim C...

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 understand to be able to estimate accurately.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit...

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 the driveway mistakes. I just have to keep reminding myself that I am not my mistakes.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to ge...

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 give...

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. ...

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.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https://li...

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.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25...

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. Advertis...

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.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE...

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.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first year! Helcim Credit Card Processing: https:...

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 b...

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.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off...

If you want to start a lawn care business in 2026 then this episode is the one for you. Aaron gives you 5 actionable steps you should take to make the lawn care business sart up process easy and enjoyable. There is a lot that goes into starting a lawn care business and there are certainly more than 5 steps that you will need to take to get your business off the ground, but these are the first 5 st...

These are the five steps that I have lived through every year for the last 11 years of my business. Every year I go through these steps and try to get better at each one. Surviving the winter is possible in a lawn care business. It is even possible to thrive in the winter with your lawn care business. Let's talk about it.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25...

This week started off with a fresh 6-8 inches of snow fall here in Michigan. I have 7 snow plowing clients, mostly residential. I let my emotions get the better of me this week due to me need for routine and order and I lost a couple hundred dollars because of it. Let talk about it.  **Backed by EARTHAPRO** Visit www.earthapro.com Use CODE mowinginthedark25 at checkout to get 25% off your first ye...

Welcome back to the Mowing in the Dark LAWN CARE Podacst! In the lawn care business sometimes money gets tight especially in the winter time. Don't be afraid to do whatever you have to do to make it through the winter.  ** Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please send me an email and let me know. I would love to h...

Welcome back to the Mowing in the Dark LAWN CARE Podcast! In today's episode Aaron sits down with Joey Dobbs of The Amazing Lawn Man out of Florida. If you want to connect with Joey after the episode you can find him at The Amazing Lawn Man on Instagram and Facebook.  ** Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be interviewed on the pod please se...

Welcome back to the Mowing in the Dark LAWN CARE Podcast! This year at Equip Expo I experienced something I have never experienced before. Was it stress? was it a heart attack? Was it a panic attack? I have no I idea. All I know is that I had a fluttering in my chest and I had a sense of dread.  ** Please give the podcast a 5 star rating and review in Apple Podcasts.** If you would like to be inte...