$500K Per Month Business Ideas

How you can still make money in 2020

What's up? This is Keith Kalfas with The Untrapped Podcast and The Landscaping Employee Trap.

We're doing a special talk today and also on video. So not only can you catch this on The Untrapped Podcast, but also here on video on YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram.

We have a special guest...

We have Brandon Vaughn from the brand Conquer           

Keith:

What's up, Brandon?

Brandon:

What's up, Keith? Good to be here man.

Keith:

Brandon is a very special person. Here is a guy who owned a window cleaning, soft washing, and pressure washing business. He brought it...

5 Tips for life

CAREFULLY Consider these tips (Especially If You are Young)

Here's some life advice if you're spinning your wheels and not actively pursuing your life purpose. Whatever you do, don't let negative people hold you back.

#1 Be selfish and obsessed with your own success

#2 Get away from loser friends

#3 Just because you date her doesn't mean you have to move in with her

#4 Get out of bad relationships

#5 Be realistic

What do I mean by Young? I mean if you're in your 20s. Maybe you're in your teens watching this, or maybe you are in your 30s. Maybe you are 30, 40, 50. Young is just a state of mind.

These 5 things I'm going to read you right now I believe are really important.

And why should you listen to me? Some 36-year-old dog? Because I know a little bit about this stuff.

I believe that my heart's in the right place.  So I'll name them real quick and then I'll go...

7 Steps To Marketing Your Business Online without being an expert at marketing.

The cool thing is most of these are totally FREE.

Here are seven things to do in 2020 that will help you crush it on your service business.

What's up, this is Keith Kalfas, and I've been in business for seven years. I've done over a million dollars in business. I've made a ton of mistakes and I'm still on the journey.

Here are the seven most powerful things that are working in my business that you can try and at the end of the video and blog, I'll give you this list so you can download and have it. I'm going to tell you the 7 Steps real quick and then I'll go through the bullet points in more detail.

1. Set up your free Google my business listing
2. Start collecting positive reviews right away
3. Set up a Google AdWords account for your company
4. Image branding, logos, fonts, and colors. Everything all set up so it looks consistent across all platforms. 
5. Create profiles on...

Why we chose Jobber for the CRM in our business

Why JOBBER? 

What software are you using to invoice your clients?

In today's blog post, we're going to discuss just that.

What's up this is Keith Kalfas from the Untrapped Podcast and KeithKalfas.com

And in today's post, we're going to talk about estimates, work orders and Invoices.

And why we use JOBBER to accomplish this in my home service business. 

If you're looking for great software to run your service business on, there's a ton of great options out there, and JOBBER is one of them.

Whether your just looking for basic invoicing software, or a full-on comprehensive estimate, booking, scheduling, work order, invoicing, billing, and money collecting software. 

Jobber is a great option. We use JOBBER in my Landscaping window cleaning business.

But in the post. I want to discuss the difference between an estimate, work order, and invoice, and why all 3 are completely different things.

This was a question...

"TRUTH EXPOSED" ABOUT YOUR FIRST YEAR IN THE LANDSCAPING BUSINESS

 What's up? 

I want to invite you to a very specific emotion of some of the crap I went through my first six months of business.

So, to the brand new guys, I’m going to tell you some stuff that I wish people would have told me. I wish this information was out there during my first six months of business. And here is the way it goes. During my first six months of business, I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know what to charge. I was an expert at being a landscaper but I didn't know anything about business or what to charge. I thought because I knew how to do landscaping that I could run a business. Well, I thought if I charge these people enough so I make $15 an hour, I'll be okay. I was dead wrong because I wasn't figuring in all the other prices and all the other you know, relevant costs. 

So, I'm doing these jobs, I'm working my guts out, I had just quit my day job, and I was working...

Have you ever gotten frustrated...

Because you're trying your best and working a million hours a week and it's not good enough.

You're stressed out because you're working constantly?

You're not making enough profit to be able to hire "qualified" people to help you?

And you're afraid to hire more people because you're afraid the work will slow down and then you will end up screwed.

You're in constant fight or flight mode and overwhelmed because all you know how to do...

Is pull the "work harder" lever.

But you're already working yourself to the point of a heart attack.

Well guess what?

It Seems Like Nobody Cares...

Nobody cares, so quit complaining. 

I read this amazing quote today.

"You're only a failure when you start blaming others"

-- John Wooden

So.. the bottom line is.
There's a simple truth.

That truth is that other people with worse problems than you, have gone before you, and figured it out.

Other people with flesh and blood like you.
Who grew up with nothing....