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Skidsteer Choices
New business startup: Really want to go with Takeuchi, but the dealers are around 1-1.5 hours away. I have a Bobcat dealer in town. Is it worth going with them just for the ease of maintenance if needed?
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@Luke Prine If you can read the manual and follow directions (and search youtube when you get stuck) you'll be fine :)
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@Josh Rivers Thats the way!
Pipeline too full? (looking for opinions)
So this season is going gang busters. I now have over $100k of jobs on the books and my schedule is full almost to the end of June. Today I did another 10 estimate appointments, have another 10 next Friday, another 6 the Friday after that and another 10 leads I'm still chasing down and more coming in each day! For all of today's estimates I had to tell them I was booking new jobs in June. I booked 8 of those jobs with the other 2 being strong maybes. When I told each of them that my first available dates were in June they were all a little shocked but were already sold on the work so it wasn't a deal killer. Here's my dilemma; when I do next week's estimates I'll be telling some of them that I'm booking new jobs in *JULY* which is 3+ months away. In the past I've observed that jobs booked out too far are subject to more cancellations when the time gets closer to the job date. I'm considering pausing my ads for a bit (or maybe reducing the daily spend from $50 down to $10 or something?) So, has anyone else run into this problem? Am I crazy to think about pausing/slowing the ads down for 4-6 weeks? Any other suggestions/opinions? Before you suggest it, I'm just not at a place where I feel like I could or even want to find/train/equip other employees. Being the boss that just drives ads & estimates is a future goal but not yet.
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Well, in the immediate term I'm just trying to manage my lead appropriately. Since I'm now booked out halfway into *July* I'm having to tell folks at estimate appts that I can't do the work for them for 3 months. Several folks have expressed dismay at that timeline but booked jobs anyway and a couple have flat out told me they'll find someone else who can do it sooner. Also, my past experience is that folks are more likely to cancel when the job is booked out that far. In the past I've dealt with this problem by slowing down advertising (which I'm currently doing, dropped daily FB budget from $50 to $5 for a few weeks) but now I'm also actively raising my prices as well. Kinda wish I had just raised my prices even further at the begining of the season which I think would have slowed the number of jobs getting scheduled a bit. Obviously this is a quality problem to have and I could probably have another whole mulching rig/operator out there soaking up more of this work. To be honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed with the idea of finding an employee that I can trust, training them and then laying out a bunch of capital to equip them. It's a huge step and I'm not sure it makes sense to take it right now. (though, I am getting older and would like a semi-retirement plan in place before I'm too old to be the single owner/operator)
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@Josh Rivers Yup! Today was first day I had estimate appointments that I quoted at the new rate, closed 5 of 10 of them today, 4 others are maybes that I'll follow up with later
FB Ad set
I have a current ad set that just started with FB. I tried to set it up as close to Austin's guidelines as I could. I currently have Zapier set up to alert me via text when a new FB lead comes in. Hopefully I have that set up correctly. Lets see how this goes!
FB Ad set
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@Chris Green Wonderful! Nicely done.
APRIL WINS 🔥
How did April shape up for you? Share your WINS below using this template: Leads - (how many leads month of April?) Quotes Sent - (insert # of quotes sent) Jobs Won - (how many jobs did you book?) Revenue - (total revenue for the month?) 5 Star Google Reviews - (how many 5 Star Reviews?) Proof Posts - (how many before / after posts made to GBP/FB/IG ?) P.S. No matter how big or small... share your progress as measuring your progress leads to growth 💪 Comment below with your wins ⬇️
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Leads - 35 Quotes Sent - 28 Jobs Won - 13 Revenue - $28,400 5 Star Google Reviews - 7 Proof Posts - 13 It was a good month!
Annual Billable Days
Anyone one in the southern US, have some recommendations on actual working days as a single owner-operator they are realistically getting? For Florida, I'm looking at about 147 billable days (working four 10-hour days and having one full day account for maintenance and marketing and then around 40-50 days gone due to weather or other issues)
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I'm in New England and we get "real" winters here so I generally work from March-November (sometimes a bit into December) and aim at 3 days/week. The past 3 years I've averaged about 90 days/year
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William Swingle
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@william-swingle-3280
Owner/Operator at Third Hand Earthworks in Connecticut

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Joined Jan 13, 2026
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