Top 5 Reasons Successful Lawn Care Companies Measure Time

Time management is an important skill for any business owner but knowing where to invest your time and how to schedule it can be a struggle. Here are the top 5 reasons why the most successful lawn care and landscaping businesses are measuring time and will make a big difference to your company.

How do you spend your time working an 8–10+ hour day? Scheduling helps you keep track of everything from managing your workforce to tracking deadlines. It serves as a boon to all levels of the hierarchy – increasing the productivity and efficiency of the entire company. Scheduling helps you better manage your employees' tasks, giving them the tools to perform better. 

2.   Routing – start the day knowing that you have the right resources in place to optimize your route after all you are not getting paid for drive time. 

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more done with less? Route optimization software will help you plan a better and more streamlined route for employees, saving you time, and money, and making your business run smoothly from top to bottom getting to more addresses with fewer resources. This allows your business to save time, cost, and ultimately increase your revenue.

3.   Quoting – charging a fixed price above material costs is common, but often the premium on time is based on gut, guesswork, or missing altogether. 

Charging by materials plus square footage has its benefits, but often jobs are not all created equally given terrain, gates, kid’s toys, animals, etc. The most successful companies evaluate job time to maximize the return on all assets - materials and time - to quote jobs right.

Establish a baseline expected time for each job to compare performance for crew management. Comparing the actual results against this baseline time gives you a clear picture of your crew’s performance. This helps you know where they are excelling and where they can improve to get more done in less time. 

5.    Customer Feedback – are you going too fast or not showing up on time? 

The old phrase the customer is always right has been challenged more recently; however, if you begin to see the average time to complete jobs is increasing but your customer feedback rating slipping then it might be time to slow down before you lose a customer or damage your brand. Measuring your time helps connect the dots. 

Time is one of your most valuable assets. With Lawnager start and stop job function it makes measuring job time easy so you can get back to growing your business. Learn more.

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Lawnager software helps free up your time with job time tracking, automatic payments, professional invoices, crew management, email marketing, etc. so you have more time to focus on providing outstanding service! Clients may also provide helpful feedback in the Lawnager app.  Potential clients build more trust as you keep your ratings soaring higher. 

Lawnager software assists in keeping your customers happy by solving their communication, pricing, and maintaining quality services.  Find out more here. 

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