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Why Blue Collar Home Service Businesses are Better than a Tech Startup

Why Blue Collar Home Service Businesses are Better than a Tech Startup

Update: 2025-01-04
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Mike Andes, Founder & CEO of Augusta Lawn Care & CoPilot CRM joins Enterprise Radio. Augusta Lawn Care is a franchise with 150+ locations around world wide. Copilot CRM helps service businesses organize and streamline their operations.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Mike Andes discuss the following:



* Tell us, why do you think blue collar home service businesses are better than a tech startup?

* How does one start a business on the side while working their 9-5?

* How can you get your first customers by doing free services?

* Why do most home service businesses die within 5 years?

* Why is being paid hourly a broken formula and how Pay-for-Performance can fix this?





Mike Andes started college at 13 years old, dropped out of medical school and started a lawn care business. 10 years later Augusta Lawn Care has 150+ locations around the world. Pretty cool story!

Mike Andes is an entrepreneur. He started mowing lawns when he was eleven years old. He used that money to pay his way through college as a pre-med student.

Mike started university at 13. But, he dropped out of medical school at 18 and started Augusta Lawn Care. Augusta Lawn Care is now a worldwide franchise with 150+ locations. Its annual revenue across the system exceeds $50,000,000 each year. The goal of Augusta is to change the level of professionalism in the lawn care industry.

Mike makes content for YouTube and online platforms and is the author of two business books. His goal is to help home service business owners get rich.

Mike is the founder of Copilot CRM. It helps service businesses organize and streamline their operations. The platform processes more than 1,000,000 dollars of revenue per day through the system.



Websites:

MikeAndes.com

AugustaLawnCareServices.com/franchise

CopilotCRM.com

Social Media Links:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/mikeandes

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themikeandes

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themikeandes



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Why Blue Collar Home Service Businesses are Better than a Tech Startup

Why Blue Collar Home Service Businesses are Better than a Tech Startup

Producer Eric Dye