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One of my friends has this with window cleaning, great reoccurring business and you can scale quickly because you come back every 8/12 weeks.about 4 years ago, I started a local lawn mowing and lawn fertilization business in California, just added pest control and removed mowing.
Hiring and retaining talent is not hard. I pay base + commissions for techs which makes their pay above industry standard.
BUT profit margin sucks and scaling is an f'n nightmare due to the complexity. I do 70K a month in revenue 90% recurring revenue with net 25% margins.
I just don't see a pathway to hitting $100k net monthly profit
thats why I am switching to a online business in this industry.
The “luck” of a technical service business is that we can sell maintenance + quick help when needed. We can have our normal crew doing 40 hour weeks, plan them to do check ups at the client and when there is a problem they pay our hourly rate.
€13,95 a month and extra payment when there is a problem, I spoke to someone who payed all of their employment costs simply from recurring(and you don’t even have to see your clients except every 18 months for maintenance)
Hard to do in less “technical” service businesses. But you are already doing 90% recurring, why not raise prices?
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