How to Know If a Landscaping Job Actually Made Money
Most landscaping operators track revenue. Almost none track margin per account. Here is how to find out which jobs are worth keeping and which ones are costing you.
Job costing, margin tracking, and profitability for service business operators.
Most landscaping operators track revenue. Almost none track margin per account. Here is how to find out which jobs are worth keeping and which ones are costing you.
Third-party delivery looks like revenue until you do the full math. Here is what your actual DoorDash margin looks like after fees, labor, and packaging.
Most GCs know their total revenue. Almost none know their margin per job. Here is what job costing actually looks like and why it matters more than your QuickBooks report.
QuickBooks is not built to answer the question every service business owner actually needs answered: which jobs made money? Here is why, and what fills the gap.
Gut-feel pricing works fine when you are solo. The moment you hire your first employee, it stops working. Here is why that inflection point changes everything.
Most lawn care operators track time on site. Almost none track time in the truck. Here is how drive time destroys margin on accounts that look profitable on paper.
When service business owners want to know which jobs made money, they do not turn to QuickBooks. They open a spreadsheet. Here is why that is a problem and what replaces it.
After talking to landscapers, contractors, and restaurant owners about why they do not track job margin, the same problems kept coming up. Here is what I heard.
Most service business owners price by instinct and it works — until it suddenly does not. Here is what changes and when.
A business can be profitable for nearly two decades and still close. Here is how revenue concentration and margin blindness combine to create a catastrophic exit.
Most small business owners think a fractional CFO will fix their numbers. Most fractional CFOs know that is not quite the job. Here is the gap.
The operators who survive third-party delivery think about it completely differently from the ones who get squeezed. Here is the mental model that separates them.
Every lawn care operator has accounts they suspect are not worth it. Here is the math to find out for certain — and what to do about it.