Oct 7, 2026
By the end of a long lawn and landscape season, it's easy to start making declarations: I'm never offering that service again. I'm firing that customer. I'm selling that machine. I'm downsizing. I'm growing. I'm done.
Some of those decisions may ultimately be right, but exhaustion isn't the best business advisor.
In...
Oct 5, 2026
October can be one of the toughest months for northern lawn and landscape business owners. You're tired, your employees are tired, and after months of weather delays, equipment failures, customer issues and your own mistakes, it's easy to mentally check out before the season is actually finished.
In this episode of...
Sep 30, 2026
Should you publish your prices, or are you handing your competitors an advantage? In this Q&A episode, John answers a listener's concern about competitors shopping estimates, copying flat-rate pricing, and using your own information to underbid you. After 550+ episodes of sharing how he operates, John explains...
Sep 28, 2026
Search isn't what it was five years ago. AI Overviews, AI Mode and conversational search are changing how customers discover local businesses. John breaks down what still matters from traditional SEO, what's changing as we head into 2027, and what lawn care and landscape companies should do now to make their businesses...
Sep 25, 2026
You charge a customer $100 for a job. How much did you actually make? In this short episode of Profits with Pajak, John follows a simple $100 sale from the moment the customer pays, through processing fees, labor, materials, equipment, overhead and taxes to show why revenue and profit are two very different...