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Ep 187. Building the Blueprint: Equipment, Shop Upgrades, and Future Goals (opens the original)
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Andy discusses the operational growth of his landscaping company, while highlighting the technical benefits of specialized machinery like screening and crushing buckets. He details his ongoing search for a larger loader and specific heavy-duty trailers with air brakes to transport his expanding fleet of equipment. A significant portion of the episode focuses on new infrastructure projects at his shop, including the installation of a custom-designed wash pad for cleaning muddy machinery. He also
Ep 186. Debt-Free Ventures: Building a Landscape Business Without Loans (opens the original)
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Andy explains that he and his wife have run and grown their landscaping business for 12 years without borrowing money, influenced by Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University, and are now fully debt-free personally and in business. Andy discusses how he accounts for his own labor by splitting his salary between overhead and job costs and clocking in when working on-site, while most estimating, design, and project management stays in overhead; he also describes hiring a full-time designer/site lay
Ep 185. How the "Little Things" Win High-End Hardscape Projects (With Zero Excuses) (opens the original)
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Andy discusses the importance of pricing confidence and client experience in the landscaping industry. Mulder argues that contractors often underprice their work because they undervalue their skills or fear losing jobs. He emphasizes that sustaining a premium brand requires meticulous attention to detail, such as maintaining clean job sites and ensuring proactive communication. By focusing on these high-level standards and deeply understanding his business numbers, Mulder has transitioned from a
Ep 184. Overcoming Contract Challenges And Price Objections. (opens the original)
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Andy discusses how fall project scheduling depends on weather and why he won't guarantee timelines in November or December, sometimes staging work like footings and finishing later if conditions allow. Answering a listener, he explains handling "lower bid" price objections by ensuring scope comparisons, emphasizing brand, service, and quality, and refusing to negotiate price unless the scope changes to avoid setting a negotiable precedent. He also shares a lesson from losing a project after doin
Ep 183. Two Crews, Three Jobs, One Owner — Something Had to Break (opens the original)
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Andy hit the wall this season: two crews running, three jobs in the air, and one guy selling, designing, project managing, and ordering materials for all of it. The choice was simple — go back to one crew or get real help. This week he walks through hiring his first designer/field specialist, the most thorough onboarding day he's ever done, and the weight already lifting off his shoulders before the work has even started. Also in this episode: a tornado that lifted a grill clean out of a grill i
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