Landscaping Profits Unlimited Podcast

By Wayne Volz (Turf's Up Radio)

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This podcast series is for the lawn and landscape and snow and ice management business owner that wants to become more successful and profitable. I don't pretend to know it all but I do have 40 years of experience in the industry and I want to pass some of that knowledge, wisdom, and experience on to you. Our weekly podcast covers everything from how to figure out what to charge to why you need to be insured and much much more.


Episode Date
Are You Tired of Doing Things the Hard Way? Stop Wasting Time and Money
Sep 04, 2025
Try This Game-Changing Sales Tip in Your Lawn and Landscape Business
Sep 02, 2025
Why You NEED to Know Your Hourly Rate to Establish Flat Rate Pricing in Your Lawn Business
Jun 24, 2025
How Much Does it ACTUALLY Cost to Start a Lawn Business?
Jun 12, 2025
$30,000 Side Hustle Mowing Grass and How to Make it Happen
Jun 11, 2025
25% Price Increase for Lawn Mowing: A Terrible Business Model and Why It Hasnt't Worked for 46 Years
Jun 05, 2025
The REAL Cost of Mowing Grass: Why You CANNOT Charge $30 to Mow a Lawn and Actually Make Money
Jun 03, 2025
A Message to Mike Andes: $39 Lawn Mowing, Does Augusta Lawn Care Want You to Succeed?
May 29, 2025
Pick Your Price Lawn Mowing Advertisement: How Dumb Does it Get?
May 27, 2025
"I've Had 10 Lawn Services This Year" and Why You DO NOT Want That Customer
May 22, 2025
2 Reasons Your Lawn Business Is Not Profitable (IT"S NOT MORE WORK!)
May 20, 2025
Scaling Your Lawn Business: Software, Insurance, Bank Account, Scaling too Fast, and MORE
May 15, 2025
Start Your Own Profitable Lawn Business with These 7 Steps (Mowing, Landscaping, and MORE)
May 08, 2025
Gain Lawn Clients with a $100 Advertising Budget
May 06, 2025
Revenue or Profit? What's More Important for Your Lawn Business?
May 01, 2025
Do Your Lawn Business Clients Actually Know What Services You Offer? (How to Make Sure They Do)
Apr 29, 2025
Biggest Pet Peeves: Why Do Lawn and Landscape Contractors Do These Things?
Apr 24, 2025
DO NOT Take That Big Lawn Maintenance Client
Apr 22, 2025
Why Your Lawn and Landscape Business Website Needs a Blog and How to Create One for More Leads
Apr 17, 2025
WORST TikTok Advice For Lawn and Landscape Business Owners by Lawn Business "Influencers"
Apr 15, 2025
Why You Should NOT Take That Big Lawn Maintenance Client
Apr 10, 2025
3 Tech Tools to Generate AND Save Your Lawn Business Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Year
Apr 08, 2025
I Made $300,000 Mowing Grass and LOST Money! How to Properly Price Mowing Jobs
Apr 03, 2025
Meet or Beat Pricing is Putting Your Lawn and Landscape Company Out of business
Apr 01, 2025
Stop Push Mowing! The Fastest Way to Waste Time Mowing Grass
Mar 27, 2025
How to Sell More Lawn and Landscaping Jobs and Make More Money in Your Lawn Business
Mar 25, 2025
2 Tips for Growing Your Lawn and Landscape Business' Social Media Pages
Mar 18, 2025
Mowing or Landscaping: Which Service Makes More Money?
Mar 17, 2025
The 4x Labor Rate Multiplier for Pricing Lawn and Landscape Jobs
Mar 13, 2025
Undervaluing and Undercharging for Ice Melter
Mar 07, 2025
Pick Up Your Standards: Raggedy Equipment and the Lawn and Landscape Industry
Mar 03, 2025
Why ‘Hit-A-Lick’ Lawn and Landscape Hustlers Will Never Succeed
Feb 28, 2025
How Lowball Bids Are Destroying the Lawn & Landscape Industry
Feb 13, 2025
The WORST Way to Bid a Job EVER: Why lawn and landscaping is in perpetual failure (cost calculation)
Feb 07, 2025
Calculating Mowing Efficiency and Mow Time
Jul 26, 2024
We Did Our First Landscape Lighting Job: How it Went and What We Learned! (Recap)
Apr 22, 2024
The Secret About the "Secrets to Success"
Mar 22, 2024
Bank Accounts and Credit Lines for Your Lawn and Landscape Business
Mar 18, 2024
Why TIME, MONEY, and BRAND Do Not Matter in Your Lawn and Landscape Business and What DOES Matter
Mar 06, 2024
7 Gotcha's of Advertising
Feb 29, 2024
Snow Event: Our Plan and Prep and How it Played Out
Jan 10, 2024
Gross Sales vs Profit in the Lawn and Landscape Industry
Dec 20, 2023
Perfection and Fully Insured
Mar 13, 2023
"It's All Profit From Here!" WRONG
Feb 28, 2023
Customer Carousel
Feb 03, 2023
Residential Snow
Jan 10, 2023
Everything to Everybody
Dec 30, 2022
Find a Way to Say Yes
Dec 28, 2022
Pigs Get Fed. Hogs Get Slaughtered
Dec 13, 2022
Do You Know Your Additional Overhead?
Dec 06, 2022
Picking Up Employees
Nov 20, 2022
Customer Evaluations
Nov 15, 2022
$400 Customer vs $15,000 Customer
Nov 01, 2022
Losing Customers for Price
Nov 01, 2022
Husqvarna Interview Equip Expo 2022, Autonomous Equipment and Trends in Lawn Care
Oct 25, 2022
Service Agreement and Why Customers Leave
Oct 06, 2022
The Price of Your Dream
Oct 03, 2022
Don't Put Your Eggs in One Basket
Sep 29, 2022
What You'd Do Differently
Sep 27, 2022
Free Time is Necessary
Aug 15, 2022
Networking
Aug 08, 2022
Interacting with Customers Over the Phone STORY
Aug 02, 2022
Branding
Aug 01, 2022
Fall Diversification and Guarantees
Jul 27, 2022
How to Handle "Slow" TImes of the Year
Jul 25, 2022
Overhead- EVERY Company Has It
Jul 19, 2022
1 Star Reviews and Gas
Jul 14, 2022
3 MASSIVE Profit Killers
Jul 11, 2022
Following Up
Jun 21, 2022
The Golf Course Lawn
Jun 10, 2022
Selling Yourself Short
Jun 07, 2022
Customer Service: 2 Angles
May 26, 2022
We Don't Need a Try-Out
May 23, 2022
Sales Dance
May 06, 2022
Spring Struggles for Lawn Services
May 01, 2022
Spring Rain and Employees
Apr 27, 2022
Bi-Weekly Mowing 2022
Apr 23, 2022
2 Questions to Sell ANYTHING
Apr 22, 2022
Do Your Customers Know What Services You Offer?
Apr 19, 2022
Free Estimates and Tire Kickers
Apr 16, 2022
CONFIDENCE
Apr 12, 2022
Taking Pride
Apr 08, 2022
The Mindset that is KILLING the Industry
Apr 04, 2022
How it Started, How it's Going
Apr 01, 2022
Calculating Gas Price within Your Cost
Mar 28, 2022
Daily Price Changes
Mar 25, 2022
TV Weather
Mar 21, 2022
"I'll Lose All My Customers"
Mar 19, 2022
Should You Be in Business?
Mar 15, 2022
Are You the Hammer or the Nail?
Mar 12, 2022
The "Meet or Beat" Pricing Method
Mar 08, 2022
Going to See an HOA
Mar 04, 2022
Scotty's Lawn Equipment Pro-Cutter University Review 2022
Mar 01, 2022
2022 Inflation
Feb 27, 2022
Managing Your Money
Feb 23, 2022
CARING is Company Culture
Feb 22, 2022
Past Due Money
Feb 14, 2022
Sending Renewal Letters- When and Why
Feb 12, 2022
Are You Big Enough for the Job?
Feb 09, 2022
GET WORK COMP- No Matter Your Size
Feb 07, 2022
Q&A Picking a Lane
Feb 01, 2022
Definition of Insanity
Jan 31, 2022
My 3rd Grade Granddaughter Asked Me what Profit is
Jan 29, 2022
2022 Goals
Jan 24, 2022
Can Money Buy Happiness?
Jan 22, 2022
Finding Quality Employees w/ Tim Hamilton
Jan 17, 2022
Saying Thanks w/o Being Selfish w/ King Darren
Jan 15, 2022
First SNOW Event of the Year w/ Smokin Joe
Jan 11, 2022
The Target
Jan 10, 2022
You Can't Fix...You Know
Dec 12, 2021
Benefits of Evaluation Forms from Customers
Dec 11, 2021
Have You Sold Yourself?
Dec 10, 2021
Don't Get Pushed Around
Dec 09, 2021
Services NOT Mowings
Dec 08, 2021
Social Media Warriors
Dec 07, 2021
Secure the Revenue
Dec 02, 2021
Paycheck Mentality
Dec 01, 2021
It's YOUR Money
Nov 30, 2021
Collecting Money
Nov 29, 2021
Don't Put Yourself Out of Business
Nov 26, 2021
Employee Struggles
Nov 25, 2021
Let's Talk Selling
Nov 24, 2021
Good Dealer Relationship
Nov 23, 2021
3 HUGE Profit Killers for Lawn and Landscape Businesses
Nov 22, 2021
Take Criticism, But Don't Get Bullied
Nov 21, 2021
Early Orders, Products, and MORE w/ Stephen West
Nov 20, 2021
Conversation with King Darren on Turf's Up Radio
Nov 19, 2021
Price Increases
Nov 18, 2021
Being a Business Owner
Nov 09, 2021
Wet Grass
Nov 09, 2021
Bulk or Bag Mulch?
Nov 08, 2021
GIE 2021 Blade Runners Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 GeoRipper Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Willett's Lawn and Landscape Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Green Touch Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Go iLawn Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Triple Crown Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Link 2 Pump Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Cutlass Blades Interview
Oct 27, 2021
GIE 2021 Graham Spray Equipment Interview
Oct 27, 2021
Goal, Target, Plan
Oct 20, 2021
Responding to Customer Complains
Oct 18, 2021
TO DOs and Dealers
Oct 12, 2021
"I don't have overhead"
Oct 09, 2021
Early Orders and Securing Product w/ Stephen West
Oct 06, 2021
Snow & Ice Management FREE Webinar Announcement
Oct 04, 2021
Building it to Sell
Oct 03, 2021
More Work Doesn't Mean Success
Oct 01, 2021
You Can't be Soft in Business
Sep 28, 2021
Customers who Call and Complain a Year Later
Sep 25, 2021
"Cheap" Branding and Business Name
Sep 23, 2021
The FIRST Thing to do in Business
Sep 22, 2021
THERE'S NO SECOND PLACE
Sep 20, 2021
Big Kenny from Big N Rich (Announcement)
Sep 04, 2021
Your Market Doesn't Matter
Sep 02, 2021
Talking to Darren
Sep 01, 2021
Why Know Your Numbers
Aug 29, 2021
Sharing Ideas
Aug 27, 2021
Stop Living on NOTHING
Aug 26, 2021
Diversifying for Fall
Aug 24, 2021
Snow Triggers!
Aug 22, 2021
Turf's Up Radio Time Machine
Aug 18, 2021
1 Year "Experts"
Aug 16, 2021
More Money Doesn't Equal Better Attendance
Aug 12, 2021
We use MATH Every Single Day!
Aug 09, 2021
"The Internet Says This" Customers
Aug 06, 2021
Don't Question Our Ethics
Aug 02, 2021
How to Handle a Price Increase
Jul 28, 2021
Rude Customer Story
Jul 26, 2021
1 Egg or 2?
Jul 23, 2021
Skipping Mows, Order Taker vs Salesman
Jul 21, 2021
King Darren Calls in!
Jul 19, 2021
Culture and Employees
Jul 09, 2021
Customer Satisfaction VS Profit
Jul 05, 2021
Training and Delegation
Jul 03, 2021
Calling for Money
Jul 01, 2021
Mow or Trim First?
Jun 24, 2021
STOP Neighbor Discounts
Jun 22, 2021
Inform Your Clients
Jun 20, 2021
Done with Bi-Weekly Mows
Jun 18, 2021
YOU Have to Drive the Bus
Jun 16, 2021
Are You Overbooked?
Jun 14, 2021
1 Time Services
Jun 12, 2021
Supply and Demand is INSANE!
Jun 09, 2021
Mowing Dawn to Dusk w/Kelty
Jun 07, 2021
Watering Sheet
Jun 04, 2021
Stripes and Price Match
Jun 03, 2021
Paying 70 Hours/Week
Jun 02, 2021
The Weekend Review.
Jun 01, 2021
Clients Who Take Advantage
May 27, 2021
Permits, Permits, Permits
May 25, 2021
Go Back to Work
May 24, 2021
$45/Hour Don't Get It
May 21, 2021
Tire Marks?
May 19, 2021
Test Mows
May 16, 2021
Business is Business, Regardless of the Industry w/John Stuber
May 06, 2021
Do You Stick to Your SOP's?
May 04, 2021
Rainy Forecast?
May 01, 2021
Have You Sold Yourself?
Apr 29, 2021
$28 MOWING LAWNS?! Destroying the Industry
Apr 26, 2021
Challenges Getting Product
Apr 23, 2021
Chasing Due Money
Apr 21, 2021
When You Should Start Services
Apr 19, 2021
BI-Weekly and Neighbors
Apr 17, 2021
"I have a small yard"
Apr 14, 2021
"I used to mow grass"
Apr 06, 2021
Answering the Phone
Apr 05, 2021
A Convo about Growing Your Business to Full-Time and Why You Have to Have a Mindset Shift
Apr 01, 2021
"I Care Philosophy" can Change Your Business
Mar 30, 2021
STORY: Upset Customer
Mar 24, 2021
Handling Customers Who Don't Pay w/Dan from Contemporary Landscape
Mar 19, 2021
Do You Have a Job or Business? w/King Darren
Mar 15, 2021
"See you Monday"
Mar 12, 2021
Complacency, Bi-Weekly Mowing. and MORE
Mar 04, 2021
$11,000/Week Mowing Grass: 40 Years of Stories and Wisdom w/Chris Kelty
Mar 02, 2021
Make Money on the BACK of Your Truck
Feb 23, 2021
Recap of Crazy Snow Week: Call-in
Feb 22, 2021
We Talk to King Darren About Finding the Answer, Not Just Getting it on Social Media
Feb 10, 2021
Everybody Doesn't Get a Trophy
Feb 09, 2021
How Much Should You Charge?
Feb 08, 2021
Bidding: "I'd Rather Guess"
Feb 05, 2021
Q&A on Bi Weekly Mowing
Jan 27, 2021
Do You Offer Discounts for Larger Properties?
Jan 26, 2021
Be Proud of More than Stripes!
Jan 25, 2021
It's OKAY to Take a Vacation!
Jan 21, 2021
What a Bank Looks for in a Lawn &Landscape Business, PPP and MORE w/ Bank Area Manager Ben Allgeier
Jan 15, 2021
Prepays DO Work
Jan 14, 2021
2021 Snow: "Are You Going Out?"
Jan 13, 2021
Raising Prices: More Work isn't Always the Answer
Jan 12, 2021
The Importance of Role Play in Selling
Jan 05, 2021
Most Important Thing in Selling
Dec 30, 2020
We Need HOURS, Not DAYS of Work
Dec 29, 2020
Know Why You Charge What You Charge
Dec 28, 2020
How NOT to Bid a Commercial Job (Social Media Response)
Dec 27, 2020
Pick a Lane in the Green Industry
Dec 25, 2020
"I paid $X and you were only here for 8 minutes?!"
Dec 24, 2020
Perception of Your Business
Dec 23, 2020
Staying in Touch and Using Evaluations
Dec 21, 2020
Don't Give THIS as a Holiday Present to Customers
Dec 20, 2020
HUGE Unemployment Fraud in Kentucky
Dec 18, 2020
Interview w/.Erick Brehob of Mother Nature's Finest Nursery
Dec 16, 2020
NO MORE INVOICES
Dec 15, 2020
Respect Your Competitors!
Dec 14, 2020
Dealing with Customer Property Damage
Dec 12, 2020
Training and Education for Green Industry Pros
Dec 10, 2020
Starting the Holiday Season and MORE!
Dec 01, 2020
Perceived Professional
Nov 28, 2020
Smiling on the Telephone and More Phone Techniques
Nov 27, 2020
Do You Do Gutters?
Nov 26, 2020
Who's Running Your Business? Competition and Customers?
Nov 25, 2020
Retail vs Wholesale Nursery, Industry Pride
Nov 24, 2020
Goals
Nov 18, 2020
EGO
Nov 17, 2020
Cut THESE Excuses and Watch Your Lawn and Landscape Company Become more Profitable
Nov 15, 2020
The Most IMPORTANT Aspects of Insurance for a Lawn and Landscape Business w/Brad Stewart
Nov 08, 2020
Pick a Lane!
Nov 04, 2020
SiteOne Floods and STILL Comes Through for Customers
Oct 29, 2020
Why You Should Offer Leaf Cleanup
Oct 28, 2020
Why Some Companies are Successful (Are YOU One of Them?)
Oct 21, 2020
Handling Rainy Days in the Green Industry
Oct 20, 2020
Finding the PERFECT Snow & Ice Client
Oct 18, 2020
What to do When a Customer Wants Repeated Come-Back Services
Oct 16, 2020
Lady Calls Back in 7 Minutes STORY
Oct 14, 2020
Why You MUST Follow Up and HOW TO Properly Follow Up with Missed Calls
Oct 12, 2020
GIEEXPOTOGO.COM
Oct 06, 2020
Do Your Customers Know What Services You Offer?
Oct 05, 2020
What to do when a Customer Isn't Satisfied STORY
Sep 27, 2020
Lance Dudley and I talk HR Services, Payment Methods, and What Would You do w/ $20,000?
Sep 22, 2020
Spraying the Wrong Lawn and Someone Else Mowing Your Customer
Sep 13, 2020
Productive Rainy Days and Handling Holidays
Sep 06, 2020
FREE TIME! Another Lawn Pro Tells Us Why it's Important
Sep 01, 2020
Aeration and Fall Diversification: A Snippet of Profit Time
Sep 01, 2020
You Don't Need to Take EVERY Job
Aug 23, 2020
Pricing Jobs, Finding Your Cost, and Being YOURSELF!
Aug 16, 2020
Lawn Service Truck Maintenance Pro Tip!
Aug 09, 2020
What Kind of Grass Seed Should You Buy for Fall 2020? Understanding What You're Buying
Aug 09, 2020
Podcast Rewind: Do You Trust Your Employees?
Aug 02, 2020
Why $60/Hour is NOT THE RIGHT ANSWER!
Jul 29, 2020
Camp Fire Talks: Why Free Time is Important Based on 150+ Years of Business Experience
Jul 21, 2020
Podcast Rewind: You Don't Sell Lawn Service, You Sell FREE TIME
Jul 14, 2020
Podcast Rewind: Are You PROUD of Being a Lawn and Landscaper?
Jul 06, 2020
Podcast Rewind: Should You Use Per-Cut or Seasonal Contracts Mowing
Jun 30, 2020
"How Much Should I Charge?": The Most Asked Question in the Lawn and Landscape Industry
Jun 22, 2020
Mowing vs Everything Else: $750 IS NOT $750
Jun 16, 2020
A Talk on Fungus and Fungicides w/ Stephen West of Sigma Organics
Jun 07, 2020
The 3 Keys to Selling in 2020
May 31, 2020
Your Lawn and Landscape Business Needs to Pick a Lane
May 24, 2020
Using Service Contracts in 2020 for Lawn and Landscape Businesses
May 17, 2020
Developing Crew Leaders and Employees You Can Trust
May 10, 2020
Podcast Rewind: 3 Strategies to Keep Your Customers Longer
May 03, 2020
Podcast Rewind: Bad Ways Lawn and Landscapers Bid Jobs
Apr 26, 2020
Podcast Rewind: Why You DON'T Want to be "Fully Insured"
Apr 19, 2020
Here's When You Should Be Filling Up Your Gas Tank
Apr 12, 2020
Should You Stop Advertising Because of COVID-19?
Apr 05, 2020
Podcast Rewind: How Bi Weekly Mowing is KILLING Your Lawn Service
Mar 29, 2020
How Your Lawn Service Will Survive COVID-19
Mar 29, 2020
Podcast Rewind: The 4 P's to Lawn Service Success
Mar 15, 2020
Get Over Winter! Lawn Service Edition
Mar 15, 2020
Amazing Story of Lawn Service Rags To Riches
Mar 15, 2020
Marketing And Advertising Options For Lawn Care Companies in 2020
Feb 25, 2020
This Insurance Classification for Lawn Mowing Will Save You Thousands of Dollars
Feb 18, 2020
How You're Losing $40,000/Year Mowing Grass
Feb 04, 2020
Finding the Right Equipment Dealer For YOU!
Jan 28, 2020
Making 2020 Your Best Year Yet!
Jan 12, 2020
Crushing Your Lawn and Landscape Goals in 2020
Jan 08, 2020
Correctly Pricing Ice Melter
Dec 19, 2019
First Snow Event of the Season!
Nov 16, 2019
Benefits Of Offering A Prepay Option
Oct 29, 2019
Per Cut Vs Seasonal Contracts
Oct 06, 2019
Who Makes The Call During a Snow and Ice Event
Oct 02, 2019
The Benefits of Offering Deicing Services
Sep 24, 2019
How to Gain Great Snow and Ice Management Accounts
Sep 24, 2019
Staying Busy In The Winter
Sep 10, 2019
ROI of Industry Education w/ Adam Russell
Sep 04, 2019
The Benefits of Offering Snow And Ice Management
Aug 20, 2019
The Benefits of Joining an Association
Aug 06, 2019
Sell the Sizzle, Not the Steak
Jul 12, 2019
Are You Really Fully Insured?
Jul 03, 2019
HOW TO ATTRACT AND KEEP GREAT EMPLOYEES
Jul 03, 2019
Why Me
Oct 05, 2018
Leaves On A Large Scale
Sep 28, 2018
Leaves 101
Sep 28, 2018
This is why your advertising doesn't work
Mar 26, 2018
Why Bi-Weekly mowing is putting you out of business
Mar 26, 2018
The 4 P's To Success
Mar 26, 2018
Landscaping And Knowing Why You Charge What You Charge
Mar 20, 2018
Are you Proud of your profession or do you apologize for it?
Mar 14, 2018
How Confidence and Professionalism will take your business to the next level
Mar 14, 2018