You want your business to grow. We all do. But sometimes growth happens and, as business owners, we may feel unprepared to continue or propel the level of growth. Establishing growth-focused processes early on is difficult – especially if you started with a very small, tight-knit crew who built the plane as you flew it. As your number of projects expands, your revenue increases…but what do you do if your profits don’t seem to be increasing at the same rate?
There’s a hole in the bucket.
If you’re not familiar with the kids song “There’s a hole in my bucket” – it is a funny song full of silly remedies for patching a bucket that won’t hold water even though it’s been dipped in the well and filled to the brim.
Your business is the bucket, the holes are poorly constructed procedures, half baked checklists, and a non-existent master plan. You can use apps, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and TED talks to try and fill the holes, but if you’re not using a system that fixes the holes from the bottom up, you’ll never have a full bucket.
This is a common problem, and you are not suffering alone in this frustration. Most landscaping businesses find themselves using several disconnected systems – all of which are intended to help manage your growth – but they might also be the roadblock that is eating into your profits. No matter how sophisticated your network of systems, if they don’t all work together, visibility and oversight is being sacrificed somewhere. Lack of visibility prevents you from being able to see the big picture and make the kinds of decisions needed to manage and accelerate your growth.
What’s the solution?
Growth-focused, repeatable, and manageable processes that are tied into fully-integrated business management software. If that solution sounds unreachable or unreasonable with your current workload, I understand. I meet with landscape business owners all the time who have invested in business management software tools (like Aspire) to manage their operations, but are only using ⅓ – ½ of the tools that come with software because it takes time and resources to fully implement and use the full suite of products.
You wouldn’t cut an acre of grass with a push mower, and you shouldn’t be managing your business with less than adequate tools for growth.
Let Two Twelve Advisors help ensure your processes and procedures are built for your business and uses tools that work for your business now and can grow with you in the future.
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