For landscape owners doing $1M to $5M a year with crews in the field
Book a Profit Leak Fix Review. It's a 30-minute talk with Jim about your business. You'll find out what a company your size should bring in and what you really keep. You'll find the one price you should bid from. And you'll see the three leaks that eat the difference.
Jim Wertz ran landscape crews for 35 years. He's not a marketer, and he doesn't sell a course.
Be honest
You do estimates at 11 pm. It's the only time the phone stops ringing.
You win 8 out of 10 bids, and you're kind of proud of it. (If you win 8 of 10, your prices are too low.)
It's 6:45 and three guys are just rolling back into the shop. The job would have been there tomorrow. Now you're paying them $39 an hour for it, not $26.
The customer "adds a couple things." Your crew stays four extra hours, and you eat the cost to keep the account.
Every receipt goes on one card. The accountant sorts it out in January. You find out what you made in April.
If you're not in the yard at 6:15 loading trucks, the day falls apart. So you haven't had a real vacation in years.
You have plenty of work. The problem is your numbers, and you can fix those.
Here's what the review findsThe Profit Leak Fix Review
If you had to guess at even one, you're running your company on a guess. On the call, we find the real answers.
A maintenance company should bring in about $175,000 a year for each field worker. For landscape and install, it's about $200,000. I talk to hundreds of owners a year, and those numbers hold. So 25 guys doing $3M should be doing $4.3M or more. We start with that gap.
What not knowing costs you
You keep adding guys and trucks, but the bank doesn't grow. For those 25 guys, that's more than $1.3M a year that never comes in.
Most owners tell me they keep 20 to 30%. When we look, it's 8%. You'll see your number next to two marks. 10% is the least you should keep. 18% is what the best-run shops in the network keep.
What not knowing costs you
You think you keep 25%, so you buy the new truck. At 8%, that truck comes out of your own pocket.
This is the price that pays for all of it. That's labor, overhead, hours you can't bill, new gear, insurance, and taxes. Then profit goes on top. What the guy down the road charges doesn't matter. This is your number, and your estimator bids every job from it.
What not knowing costs you
Every job you bid too low, you pay to do. If you win 8 of 10 bids, that's most of your work.
Think slow mornings loading trucks, or overtime that gets no work done. Think jobs that grow while the price stays the same, or mowers paid for out of savings when your bids should have paid for them. It's never one big thing. It's a lot of small holes in the bucket, and they drain it.
What not knowing costs you
Small leaks don't show up on one job. They show up in April, when the accountant tells you what you made.
Try it now
I do this math on every call. Put in your crew size and last year's gross.
That's number one of four. The other three take 30 minutes and your real numbers.
Simple
Give your name and cell, and answer three quick questions. Then pick a time.
It's a real talk about your business. I ask how you bid, how your crews run, and where the money goes. You answer. Then I point out what you're too close to see.
You'll know where you stand and what to fix first. If it makes sense to keep working together, I'll tell you how the Profit Leak Fix works. If not, you keep what you learned.
Who does the review
I started my landscape company at 19 and ran it for 35 years in Altoona, PA. We did installs, hardscape, and snow. I hired hundreds of guys.
In my twenties I hurt my back. Twelve workers showed up at the shop, and nobody knew what to do. That's the day I started building systems, so I didn't have to be the system.
Those systems let me take my family to Florida for 15 days each February. That's the middle of plow season. They also let me retire at 52.
Now I run the 7 Figure Landscape Network. It's a small group of owners doing $1M to $5M, across the U.S. and Canada. We take about 20 companies at a time. I do one thing: I help landscape companies make more money.
I don't care what you gross. I care what you keep.
Real owners
"I need someone that's actually done this before, not a social media personality."
Said on a review call by a $1.2M owner in Jacksonville, FL
30 minutes with Jim. You keep what you learn either way.
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My promise
I'd rather you keep your money than pay me for what you already know.
Quick check
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It's a review call, and you keep what you learn either way. If I see that the Profit Leak Fix would pay for itself, I'll say so and tell you the price. If not, I'll tell you that too.
Bring last year's gross, how many guys you run in season, and about what you took home. If you have a price per man‑hour, bring that too. If you don't have one, that tells me something.
Now. The leaks show up in season, when the trucks are rolling. That's when you can see them and fix them. Winter is quiet because nothing is going on.
Me. Bring your wife, your partner, or whoever runs the office. They already know where the money goes.
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