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Old 07-10-2006, 11:26 PM
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It's nice to have a plan, but really think about it? Who is the largest landscaper in your area? How did he get that big? One color trucks and equipment just keep the name there. but pricing and selling are what make you grow. As you get larger pricing of material just by the volume you buy can drop a couple of dollars per unit or more. Start with selling, learn to increase sales and keep the sales % up (hard to do in lean years) every years lets say 25% per year. Increase your customer mix, you can't grow big fast without a variety of customers, this means you need commercial, residential, and government. Next cover all your bases, the largest companies do it all, install, irrigation, maintenance, design.

So if your company is a $300K now in 10 years you should be almost $3M
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