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5 Hard Valuable Lessons I've Learned Estimating and Quoting Landscaping Jobs | Owners Profit 📈
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hard lessons I’ve learned from 7 years of estimating and quoting landscaping jobs. So many mistakes I’ve made that cost me time and money. Calculate owners profit into all of your bids and estimates.

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37 Comments

  1. Gil Bozeman

    Lean into the pain. Your always in such a deep state of self awareness, and you always overcome my brother. Your an amazing human being and your honesty about the business world and the world in general is a beacon to many including myself. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your patients, perseverance, wisdom and guidance. Keep on Keepin on my brother!

  9. FortNikitaBullion

    I've also learned that if you've accidentally lowballed yourself think about what exactly you promised and see if there's anything outside of that, you can always negotiate the extras.

  10. FortNikitaBullion

    How do you raise your prices? I do private tutoring. I find that rising costs erode profits doubly fast. E.g., if I have a student (or maybe a family) I'm tutoring for 3 years straight, by the 3rd year my gasoline to go to their home has gone up 20%, traffic is worse (I'm in Eastside Seattle), and then, the (fewer) dollars I do get to keep as profit don't go as far either. So a 10% inflation is actually a 30% loss per hour because it takes more time to do as well.

  11. FortNikitaBullion

    When you said calculate profits first it kind of reminds me how I handle my 401k. I contribute as early in the year as I can instead of counting on investing what's left over. Besides, markets generally go up on average so the earlier in the year the better. If you wait for what's left over nothing will be.

  12. Curb Appeal Lawn and Landscapes

    Just got your book on audible! I love it. Thanks for all your info and time bro. It really has helped and inspired me. I finally got my business off the ground from literally the one trimmer one mower and one blower.

  15. Christopher Smithey

    Minimum time variance for any job should be no less than %30. If you are certain that a job will take an hour. It needs to be billed for an hour and 20 mins. No substitutions. The 30% rule has kept us happy in business over 15 years. An old timer shared the %30 rule and I’ve played with it to the point of not getting jobs because of over bidding and also barley having enough time to get jobs done within the allotted time. It’s a great rule and I hope whoever reads this puts it into practice and reaches a new level of satisfaction from it.

  18. Ale. G.X.

    This is just some good advice in general if you don't listen to it for business ethic and advice.

  20. Scott Horning

    This is a really good video Kieth. Keep em coming. Chinese proverb for you…the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago… the second time is right now.

  31. Lancer Lax

    I've been starting to watch all your videos. I love the pauses when speaking. You make sure the point is clear and correct.

  32. Forgotten Knowledge

    I just left a crew of 4. I was fed up earning fugg-all for maximum work. I'm starting my own lawn maintenance & garden service. I'll even quote dog poo.

  33. Jodi Richardson

    Ive bern a landscape gardener,stone mason for 20 years,i took 5 years off to raise my son ,i do all work myself.and let me say,your video really helped me.im always the "nice gal"with more knowledge and better work Then most of the larger companies.but like you said i always was left with what ever was left over.always scrapping buë and working my ass off.ive always hated doing estimates and having not much left over.well not anymore.thanks to your video.again,thanks you

  35. Isabella Arellano

    Hi Keith, I just started a landscape maintenance business in Colorado, and I was wondering what a good hourly price is to start at? (Pulling weeds, trimming, lawn mowing, hedge trimming, raking) I’ve called a couple of companies here and nobody starts lower than $50/man hour

  36. S. P.

    How do we learn,well EA$Y ,you make video ,we watch ,Repeat,watch,Repeat🙊Did I say too much.Thanks for sharing.

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