The last time that I sat down to blog was a couple of months ago. It isn't like I have millions of people flocking to my site just to see what I have on my mind, but I really plan on doing this at least once a month this year.
As most of my customers already know, we decided to hire a consultant for the business. There were a bunch of reasons that we decided to do it, but we haven' even gotten to those yet. Instead, we have been busy discussing all kinds of actual business stuff. Things like budgets, market share, prduction rates, market density, and on and on. With discussion of those things comes planning for them too. I am confident that the True Landscaping that everyone sees this year will be a much better, more efficient, and more affordable version of the old. We are streamlining most of our prices and services. Many of our services will either be discounted or free when you bundle them together, and we are also going to be stepping up our referral rewards program. I could go on and on about this stuff, but I'll spare you.(for now).
In the past, January, February, and March were typically months that I personally relaxed, did some things to the house that I didn't have time for the rest of the year, or just kinda took a state of veg. I haven't looked at a paintbrush, or any other home improvement object this winter. I have been busy with the business side of things this winter, and there is definitely more to come.
Until next month. -steve
Monday, January 24, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
And then it happened
As I sit done at the computer to write my blog,(and I really mean peck)I am again reminded that winter would eventually arrive. No matter how much I tried to deny it, or how much I didn't want it to happen, winter made it. Now I know that there are going to be a warm day here, and a sunny day there, but for the sake of this and many other conversations, it's here.
As the busy summer winds down, I get a chance to take a breather and look back at the summer that flew by. We saw a spring that was abolutely perfect! I mean we had days that were sunny and 75. The lawns were thick and green, and the weather was perfect to work outside, and everybody was happy to see it after the winter. I even remember making a comment during a phone conversation with a third year customer. Something along the lines that I hope this was not a sign of things to come, that even though the weather was great for work, I hope we weren't going to fall into drought conditions...and then it happened.
We got sooo much rain that it made it nearly impossible to make it through a day of work without getting soaked and falling behind in the schedule. Our mowing schedule was "upside down" for 4 or 5 weeks because of the rain. We had mulc and planting jobs that had to be rescheduled because we were so backed up with mowing...and then it happened.
We went from one extreme to the other. The summer was so dry that a lot of lawns actually died out this year. Every month I was making sure that everyone knew that they should be watering. I just read an article in a landscape magazine that talked about our drought. For the ENTIRE month of August, our region got .37" of rain. Are you serious? When the rule of thumb states that your lawn should recieve at least 1" per week, you can see why the lawns looked the way that they did.
I am sitting in my office at the computer wearing 2 sweatshirts and a hat too. I am looking out the window at a few flurries coming down, and I am wondering...WHEN will it happen?
As the busy summer winds down, I get a chance to take a breather and look back at the summer that flew by. We saw a spring that was abolutely perfect! I mean we had days that were sunny and 75. The lawns were thick and green, and the weather was perfect to work outside, and everybody was happy to see it after the winter. I even remember making a comment during a phone conversation with a third year customer. Something along the lines that I hope this was not a sign of things to come, that even though the weather was great for work, I hope we weren't going to fall into drought conditions...and then it happened.
We got sooo much rain that it made it nearly impossible to make it through a day of work without getting soaked and falling behind in the schedule. Our mowing schedule was "upside down" for 4 or 5 weeks because of the rain. We had mulc and planting jobs that had to be rescheduled because we were so backed up with mowing...and then it happened.
We went from one extreme to the other. The summer was so dry that a lot of lawns actually died out this year. Every month I was making sure that everyone knew that they should be watering. I just read an article in a landscape magazine that talked about our drought. For the ENTIRE month of August, our region got .37" of rain. Are you serious? When the rule of thumb states that your lawn should recieve at least 1" per week, you can see why the lawns looked the way that they did.
I am sitting in my office at the computer wearing 2 sweatshirts and a hat too. I am looking out the window at a few flurries coming down, and I am wondering...WHEN will it happen?
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