@Justin Surine She was hesitant! Leaving a sure thing with benefits after having our first kid was super scary for her. And it was thru FB ads! That’s the way to go! 90% of my revenue comes from that lead source

@Jason Scholze Thank you so much for the kind words. Trusting in the lord will show us the way! I started at 50 per day. Now I’m down to around 40. I will look up my total ROAS when I get back to my office.

I had a comment saying “Get out of Idaho, we don’t want you in our state!” For context I am a born and raised 5th generation Idahoan. Some people crack me up.

@John Tyznik Good stuff, welcome to the grind! Just starting off it is okay to have your minimum job at your crew day rate, but not lower. After mob and demob, you’ll hardly break even with a 1000 job with a day rate of 2300. As the leads come in from your target customer, (and they will eventually!) you’ll want to set it at 2-3k. I had a mentor once tell me “We’re only in the business to make money, and if we aren’t making money there isn’t any reason to be in the business!” For example my day rate is 1600 and my minimum job is 3000. If it’s close I upsell certain aspects (tree felling, soil conditioning, surface grading, debris piling) to make it to 3000.

@Matt Maycroft Education is always my go to. Make sure they they understand how the scope of work changed and what they were actually dissatisfied with. I had a similar situation with a client that needed a fence cleared. I told him that I can do it, I’ll clear 6-10 feet back of the fence, and get him a great start. I made sure to have in writing that we get within 12’ of the fence. Keep in mind this property had 14 years of neglect. After I was done doing everything I could with my skid steer and by hand, he still asked the question “why are there still trees on my fence?” I told him that the trees were larger than the scope of work, and the trees that I had to fall by hand were only necessary to continue working safely. 2500 quoted day job, he wanted to pay like 2000. I couldn’t give him a 20% discount on something that I knew I did 110% from what I said I would do, but I didn’t want to argue with him. So I told him that i understood where he was coming from, but I couldn’t discount my quoted price. We went back and forth discussing some things and then my verbatim was “Okay, I don’t normally do this for customers, but I will make an exception with you. I’ll give you 200 off from the 2500 for a total of 2300.” And he wrote me a check for that. You will never satisfy everyone, but you want to communicate that you’ve done everything you can do and then some from the original scope of work. Sometimes it be like that.

@Matt Maycroft I use OnX personally.

@Nik McKee i am going through this too currently, video option is the best way to fix it!

@Nik McKee https://youtu.be/dlyhwB8SYeE This is a good video to use as reference