What about you - Robbie from Premier Lawns.
Can't believe it - weather in November! We're actually filming this week, you'll be seeing this video this week.
So I'm going to talk about my grass cutting and how we do it, I'm going to show you some of the
gardens that we cut, Danny is just up in this next garden here, doing some grass cutting.
So what I'd like to say is something that has transformed the way we cut grass, because I was considering
giving the grass up because it's so time consuming and it doesn't actually give that much reward.
Now I know there'll be grass cutters watching this, saying "Oh Robbie,when we cut grass all the time there's great money".
There's better money in other things. The good thing about grass cutting is, that it provides a stable
income for six months a year, eight months of the year, we only really start cutting in March and
this is quite a late cut. We wouldn't usually cut into November, so this is why I thought I would
do this video, just to sort of explain and tell you about something I started doing this year that
has worked really really well for me. Last year I tried it, we took all the monthly, took
all their bills for the grass cutting, and we've divided it so we have two sets of customers.
We have customers that want their lawn cut once a fortnight,
and we have customers that get their lawn treated and want a bit of a higher level of service, and we
do 20 cuts a year. With those customers, so we take our 20 cuts and we'll throw in the lawn treatment.
prices as well, and we add it all up and then we'll divide it by 10 and then it means I have
a steady income coming in the whole way through the year - 10 months a year anyway -
and that pays for Danny's wages and my wages in the leaner months. So it's something that's
worked for me really well and I do it through my invoicing software, which is Get Jobber.
Now I'm going to talk about Get Jobber more in other Videos but it's a CRM package
that I use to manage my whole business. I'll leave an Affiliate Link down below . Now, I do
get a small commission if you sign up to it.
So just more about how we do the monthly payments. As I say, we add all the charges up together.
Like say if a customer says to me can you cut hedges or can you do other stuff
we'll just charge for that on an ad hoc basis
but for grass cutting and the lawn treatments, we'll put them all in, take payment over 10 months.
The system takes care of the invoices and you know you're going to get paid
you know there's a set amount coming in,
and it saves me so much time from writing invoices and chasing customers for money and
most of our customers pay on time - the ones that don't, we usually bin anyway -
but it it saves you an extra amount of admin, and it just makes the grass cutting a bit more
appealing to me. So today I'm just going to take you around and show you some of our gardens - so let's go!
All right so that's this lawn done. My best lawns feature quite often on
Instagram. Anybody doesn't follow me on Instagram, Premier Lawns NI, make sure you follow me
down below, but I would put pictures of this lawn all the time on Instagram, because it always looks really well.
The start of November, we're filming this on.
We don't usually cut grass this late.
Now this garden here usually gets striped up, but as it's been a bit damper than I would like so Danny here's just finishing off.
Just a quick tidy up with a blower, to give the driveway a quick blow before we go.
All right - so I thought I would just show you this garden, now this lawn here is a lawn that I've looked after
for a long time. We just do the fortnightly mows here. Now loads of weeds here but
it actually looks amazing all the daisies and the clover and everything else this garden
is just an absolute wash with colors come the summer. These customers don't do lawn treatment
and that's fine. Well there's a big garden there's plenty of other work for us to do so
just thought I would show you this - now we're gonna do the grass cutting - here comes the rain on.