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Tom McNish: Cultivating a Lawn Care Legacy - From Michigan Roots to Your Green Team's Flourishing Expansion in Florida

May 28, 2024 Mike Sedita Season 1 Episode 176
Tom McNish: Cultivating a Lawn Care Legacy - From Michigan Roots to Your Green Team's Flourishing Expansion in Florida
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Tom McNish: Cultivating a Lawn Care Legacy - From Michigan Roots to Your Green Team's Flourishing Expansion in Florida
May 28, 2024 Season 1 Episode 176
Mike Sedita

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Ever wondered how a simple mowing service could transform into a leading lawn care enterprise? Join us on the Good Neighbor Podcast as we sit down with Tom McNish, the district manager for Your Green Team. Tom takes us through the fascinating growth story of his company, which started in 2008 and has since expanded to serve 10,000 customers across multiple counties in Florida, including Orlando. Learn about the evolution of their services—from mowing to comprehensive care like fertilization, pest control, and irrigation system repairs—and how Tom's move from Michigan to Florida shaped his approach to landscaping.

Not all lawn care services are created equal. In our conversation, we debunk common misconceptions in the landscaping industry and discuss how Your Green Team sets itself apart with personalized customer relationships and consistent crews. Tom also provides a sneak peek into future plans for the company, including new services such as termite control and pet waste disposal. We even get to know Tom a bit better as he shares his favorite beach spots and how he balances his personal and professional life.

Finally, we wrap things up with a heartfelt exchange of gratitude between Tom and Mike, highlighting the positive impact of the Good Neighbor Podcast on local communities. Tom expresses his appreciation for the platform that allows him to share his story, emphasizing the importance of supporting local businesses and nurturing community spirit. Mike encourages listeners to nominate their favorite businesses for future episodes, reinforcing our mission to celebrate local heroes and foster a sense of togetherness. Don't miss this engaging episode filled with entrepreneurial insights and community-focused discussions!

Your choice of high-quality services with our NEW Value Packages: ornamental shrub care, aeration, insect control, grub control, disease control, flea/tick control, pest control and … lawn care!  – All with convenient monthly billing saving you hundreds of dollars from one expert, licensed provider you know and trust.

855-515-2644
https://www.yourgreenteam.com/

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Ever wondered how a simple mowing service could transform into a leading lawn care enterprise? Join us on the Good Neighbor Podcast as we sit down with Tom McNish, the district manager for Your Green Team. Tom takes us through the fascinating growth story of his company, which started in 2008 and has since expanded to serve 10,000 customers across multiple counties in Florida, including Orlando. Learn about the evolution of their services—from mowing to comprehensive care like fertilization, pest control, and irrigation system repairs—and how Tom's move from Michigan to Florida shaped his approach to landscaping.

Not all lawn care services are created equal. In our conversation, we debunk common misconceptions in the landscaping industry and discuss how Your Green Team sets itself apart with personalized customer relationships and consistent crews. Tom also provides a sneak peek into future plans for the company, including new services such as termite control and pet waste disposal. We even get to know Tom a bit better as he shares his favorite beach spots and how he balances his personal and professional life.

Finally, we wrap things up with a heartfelt exchange of gratitude between Tom and Mike, highlighting the positive impact of the Good Neighbor Podcast on local communities. Tom expresses his appreciation for the platform that allows him to share his story, emphasizing the importance of supporting local businesses and nurturing community spirit. Mike encourages listeners to nominate their favorite businesses for future episodes, reinforcing our mission to celebrate local heroes and foster a sense of togetherness. Don't miss this engaging episode filled with entrepreneurial insights and community-focused discussions!

Your choice of high-quality services with our NEW Value Packages: ornamental shrub care, aeration, insect control, grub control, disease control, flea/tick control, pest control and … lawn care!  – All with convenient monthly billing saving you hundreds of dollars from one expert, licensed provider you know and trust.

855-515-2644
https://www.yourgreenteam.com/

Speaker 1:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Mike Sedita.

Speaker 2:

Hello and welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. I am your host, Mike Sedita. Today we are joined by Tom McNish. He is the district manager for your green team. Tom, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3:

I'm great, Mike. How are you?

Speaker 2:

I'm doing excellent. Thanks for coming on the Good Neighbor podcast with us today. Just so you know what the Good Neighbor podcast is, we basically started the Good Neighbor podcast during COVID back in 2020 as a way for business owners and local entrepreneurs and charity groups to get their message out to the community, and over the last four years, it's grown into a national brand. We have Good Neighbor podcasts in Denver, philadelphia, atlanta, everywhere in between, and I'm the guy here in Tampa that gets to talk to folks like you. So, with that being said, tell us a little bit about your green team.

Speaker 3:

I love Tim White. Your green team started 2008. We actually started out as a mowing company and we, in about 2012, we started noticing there was our customers were asking for us to take over their lawn fertilization. So we also started that division and between those two Now we pretty much do anything to a landscape we mow, fertilize, fix irrigation systems, mulch, anything the property needs. But the only thing we don't do is we don't do any installs for landscaping or sodding, but we will treat trees and shrubs, pest control in the house, outside the house.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so a couple things. Number one um residential mostly, or is there some commercial as well?

Speaker 3:

it's both. Uh, our mix is probably 60, 40, 60 residential, 40 commercial, and that's mainly in the mowing part we do. Uh, tico is a large account for us for mowing okay that one, I'm assuming, would take up quite a bit.

Speaker 2:

So do you guys? Um, so what you're basically saying is the lawn has to be there. You're not going to come in and batco and rip up stuff and redo the actual landscape itself. You're, you guys are going to do the maintenance, and that's everything from the mowing to the fertilization and everything in between you're exactly correct.

Speaker 3:

Yes, we do not do the installation. Usually that's going to be the builder. When they or once you have issues.

Speaker 2:

There's companies out there that you know are specific to sodding yeah, I mean it's a tricky thing in florida, especially because we're so below the water table that if you dig, you know you could dig six inches too deep and have like Ponce de Leon in your front yard. So I mean, are you, what is your? Where are you guys? Do you have like a central office hub? Where are you guys located out of?

Speaker 3:

Our main office is in Plant City. We're on MLK.

Speaker 2:

And what is your service area?

Speaker 3:

We service. We actually have two other locations, one in sarasota and one in orlando. Our market is pretty much. We'll do hillsborough, polk, pasco. Uh, don't do much in pinellas nobody wants to cross those bridges.

Speaker 2:

I, I get it. Nobody wants to go across there. So hillsborough pas, Pasco Polk and down into Manatee, I'm assuming in Sarasota County, Yep and over to Orlando. Over to Orlando. It's a pretty big footprint. How many teams are you running every day?

Speaker 3:

We have 160 employees and we have about roughly 10,000 customers Mowing. We have 30 crews that go out on the road each day.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow. I mean since 2008,. That is a pretty. That's a pretty. I mean, how many did you start out with in 2008?

Speaker 3:

We started from zero. We actually yeah, we had nothing we had built from the ground up. We started, I think, the first year. We probably had five crews. We've built it now to what we are today. It's almost a $15 million business.

Speaker 2:

the guy who liked to mow the lawn and decided to make it a career Did you come out of like a corporate job and decided to do that. How do you go in 2000? Like, how do you start in 2008 and go, hey, I want to start this business? You must have some serious business acumen to be able to develop this company so far up.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it was a great question and when I was younger I was one of the ones that loved mowing the lawn. I used to always take care of the grass, actually spray the weeds. It drove me crazy if we had weeds in the lawn. That was me as a kid All right, all right.

Speaker 2:

It's like in your blood since you were a kid.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I never did know it at the time. Who knew? But? And then I got a job working for a lawn care company. I came from Michigan originally and it was a national company, michigan, yes.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you got grass and snow. You had it all Down here. Up there you'd have like two seasons. You could do the snow removal in the winter and then the landscaping in the summer. Here you only got the one long season.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I did do snow removal for 10 years. I could tell you that's not a fun business to get up in the middle of the night and uh, snow plow. One snow I'll never forget. We got like 20 inches of snow. I was out plowing 24 hours straight.

Speaker 2:

I was you know it's funny, people from florida don't quite understand. Like I explained to them, you had to go out and, like pre-shovel, like you couldn't wait until the storm was over and the 20 inches dropped or else you would never, you'd never get out. Like you had to go at two in the morning and get the first six to eight inches out of the way so that you could go out the next day and do the rest of it. People just never. I mean I mean, listen, it's been a long time since I've had to do it, but I mean just thinking about that just gave me like chills, like literally thinking about those days of doing that and being bundled up and the wind blowing sideways on your face. So how long have you been here from Michigan?

Speaker 3:

I've been in Florida now 14 years.

Speaker 2:

Okay, all right, so wait 14 years, so did.

Speaker 3:

No, actually since 2008, so I didn't do the math correctly okay, so it's gonna say so.

Speaker 2:

All right. So you, you guys, came down here, got out of. You, said I'm getting the heck out of michigan. You came down here with the family and started. You know, we started your green team right away. Yep, good for you. So so you said you, you were always the guy that that you hated the lawn being messy and all that stuff. What makes you? Were you doing this up there, like I know? You said you're doing snow removal, but were you doing this as well up there?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I worked for a national company and we were a lawn care company, did mowing, did snow plowing so I learned the business from that and got my learned P&Ls and all that good stuff. And then hooked up with a partner here, kevin Igoe, who still works for us as YGT, and him and I built this company up from the start to what it is today. So that's.

Speaker 2:

That's an amazing, that's an amazing story. Can I ask you like I mean look landscaping, and I don't, I mean this, I don't mean this derogatory, but it's pretty straightforward stuff. I mean, I'm one of those people that's the opposite. I am not good at it, in a sense that like I can go and mow the lawn, I'm good at that, but I kind of get lazy. So I like try to make designs out of the lawn and like I'm not one of those systematic lawnmowers and then, when it comes to edging, I screw that up, like I'm always, like I'm like daydreaming while I'm doing it and not paying attention to it. Is there like a misconception? When people come to you, like do they think it should be like 1980, where it's like 50 bucks a week? What's the biggest misconception you run into when you're talking to new customers?

Speaker 3:

The biggest misconception is that all companies are the same. We're all doing the same thing. One spray company is just like any other spray company, and that can be further from the truth. In a service industry, there's definitely different levels of service. It's not just the products, it's also the service. How long you've been in business, the kind of employees that you have, you know who owns the product or who owns the company. Similar, I guess the best way I can describe it box stores over mom-and-pop hardware stores. Who's going to help you out better when you have a difficult question? Somebody in Home Depot or somebody in Ace Hardware? So that's kind of who it was.

Speaker 2:

You bring up a great point with that. I mean you guys offer all these services and I mean I don't know the landscape pun intended of the landscaping industry in Tampa or Central Florida, like where you guys rank with you know 160 employees. I would think you're not the smallest, obviously, because anybody with a pickup truck and a lawnmower is those small guys. But there's got to be people bigger than you in the hierarchy. How do you overcome that? We're not too big to be your local landscaper type of thing? I mean, do the same crews have the same route every week? Do they get to know the people? How do you do that?

Speaker 3:

Yes, we have employees and our employee. That's one thing we pride ourselves on the tenure of our employees. Yes, the Moines crews go out to the same properties each week and it's the same people year after year. They get to know the customers. They get Christmas presents from people because they've been doing it so long. People know who they are. And same thing with the spray work. The lawn spray guys go out, they get to know their customers and they go in the same. Uh, the lawn spray guys go out in the same. They get to know their customers and they go in the same area. And we it's a monthly service, so we're out there each month. You get to know the lawn, you get to know the customer. So that's how we keep it local and you know we're local. We're, our phones are answered locally or people are local. Our managers are local, people are all local, so you're dealing with a local business.

Speaker 2:

So you start in 2008 with the mowing. What year do you start to add the spraying?

Speaker 3:

We started. It was 2012 that we started getting in. Okay, so four years in, and then the irrigation is that after that as well, we started getting in that probably about four or five years ago, and that was just another thing. Customers were asking about it and you know, instead of sending it to other people to do the you know, this is a good, you know revenue stream. Let's give it a try. Let's take care of our customers.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 3:

And it's you know. It just ties in People like that one stop. They don't have to find three different companies to do things. They can just call us and we can take care of all their property needs.

Speaker 2:

So is there a new revenue stream that you guys are kicking around that's coming in 2024, 2025? Have you thought of the next thing yet?

Speaker 3:

Actually, it's funny you ask that because it's an excellent question.

Speaker 2:

It's like I've done this a couple of times.

Speaker 3:

It's like it's your business. So, yes, we're going to be getting into termite. We've decided to do that and offer that service. We're getting the licensing together and that's something we'll be starting this fall and starting that service. We're getting the licensing together and that's something we'll be starting this fall and starting that service to complement the pest control You're already doing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there's special licensing for the chemicals and stuff like that. Right, you need that. So I mean that's kind of going after the big boys, because that's like Terminex and like Arrow is another one. Those are some big guys that there's a huge market for that. Can I give you another one that might be it's not going to be as big as that, but there's no chemical licensing involved with it but there's a huge market for pet disposal of like poop pickup, you know, for lack of a better term. I mean there's a bunch of businesses out there that do that and you guys are already in the yard. It's like literally having one person on the crew that goes out and does that before you mow over it type of deal. Another, I don't know, 20 plus bucks a week per house. It's another easy one. You could take that one. You could steal it, go with it. I'm giving you full license on it.

Speaker 3:

If it takes off, I'm going to call you up and say thanks, mike.

Speaker 2:

Appreciate that. So let me ask you this I mean, if you're the guy who likes to mow the lawn, what do you do for fun, like when you are not like me? I used to when I owned a bigger house, had some property. I would like to put my headphones on and just kind of go walk the yard, like I said, I would get distracted, it would kind of take me out of my head, but that's what you do for your business. I mean, I know you're not out there pushing the mower every day, but when you're not in the office and you're not managing these 160 employees and all these crews going out, what do you like to do for fun?

Speaker 3:

Two things I like to go to the beach and enjoy going to either coast. St Augustine is one of our favorite cities. My wife and I like to go there, enjoy that atmosphere, and we like to go down to Fort Myers area for the beach, obviously after the hurricane. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah, we also and then you'll laugh at this one I'm a big disney person. Okay, season passes, love going to disney on the weekends. Enjoy that young kid at art, I guess.

Speaker 2:

Enjoy all right, I got a few questions. Number one on the east coast. I gotta tell you like I love siesta key, like I, because it's just nice. The sand is so nice. Everybody knows it's there. It's very. You know it's crazy, but I actually had a great time. I had never really been to the East Coast but I went to Flagler Beach not last year, the year before and I actually liked the sand better. It was a little more granular and it was so quiet. It reminded me of like a sleepy Pacific Coast highway type town. Loved Flagler Beach. I don't know if you've ever been there, but the big question I had about the disney thing is um, you have kids. I mean, how old are your kids?

Speaker 2:

my kids are all grown, so they're all grown so you still like to go. What um, what. So what is your go-to ride? I mean, are you a big roller coaster guy, like, do you like hitting the roller coasters? Not anymore you?

Speaker 3:

this is a funny one. Carousel progress is one of my favorite rides at magic. Are you a big roller coaster guy? Do you like hitting the roller coasters? Not anymore. This is a funny one. Carousel of Progress is one of my favorite rides at Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 3:

It's the one that takes you through. It's really dated. If anybody's ever gone on it, it's the one. There's never a line for it because no one goes on it. But it takes you through the history of America and it starts like in the 20s, the 40s and then they have the 60s and the funniest thing, if you go on it, they have the future. And it's really dated. So the future is actually not even what we do today. We haven't updated it in probably 15, 20 years.

Speaker 2:

Are they saying it's like 2050, but it's already stuff we've already done.

Speaker 3:

They don't put a time on it, but they talk about, like, having car phones and oh wow, they might need to update that one.

Speaker 2:

So it's funny I do. You know I'm like you said I might laugh at the disney thing. I do like the amusement park thing very much. I mean, I grew up in the northeast in new jersey and we had great adventure when I was a kid. But as I've gotten older my back is bad, like. I'm always like. I like going on the roller coaster. I love the adrenaline rush of it, um, but my I'm always afraid the one bump like I can't do, like in they used to have like the scream machine. It was like an old wooden roller coaster, almost it would rattle, couldn't do that. I can't do that one anymore. I get off of that and I'm like in traction. But I do like some of those roller coasters. It just depends on you know my back and how I'm feeling, but I so do you mainly go to like Epcot, like where, like yeah.

Speaker 3:

Epcot. Yeah, because they have the festivals, like really enjoy the food and wine in the fall, and then they have plant in the spring. Here they have the flower and garden, which is, you see, the topiaries, which fits in with, obviously, I like lawn care and I like plants. So you know, I enjoy that, seeing all the colors of the plants and enjoying that. So, and then the different foods of the. You walk around all the pavilions. They have different food from all different countries. So it's really it's a nice, relaxing day.

Speaker 2:

How many times, like how frequently, when you say you know you got the season pass, I mean even the season pass is expensive, but like how cause then you gotta? It's not so much the pass, but then it's getting there the parking, the you know all the food and all that stuff. But it's getting there the parking, all the food and all that stuff. But how many times a year? And you're going with your wife or who are you?

Speaker 3:

going with, and my kids too, so we'll all go as a family. Yes, they're grown, but we all go to Epcot just to walk the world. Probably not as much as when I first moved down here. We went all the time, probably 15 times a year Probably. Now we probably go like four or five times a year, all right?

Speaker 2:

Well, still, you're getting your money's worth out of the past for sure.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

And are the kids older? But are they still?

Speaker 3:

at home? Are they in college? Are they part of the family business? What are they doing? No, they're all here. Two of the three One lives in Wesley Chapel, one lives over right by us here in New Tampa, and then my other son lives up in Chicago.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so your office is based out of Plant City, but you're here in New Tampa where I am.

Speaker 3:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

All right, so we're right down the street from one another, even though we're recording this remotely. One of the big questions I always like to ask entrepreneurs and this could have been you know the move in 08. It could have been COVID. And this could have been. You know the move in 08, it could have been COVID. It could have been the real estate market, when people weren't paying their mortgage, let alone landscaping. There could be a whole bunch of stuff with this. But in this journey for your green team, where has there been a hardship or challenge where you were like you know what, I don't know. I don't know if we're going to get through this one? I mean, has there been that time? And then, how did you?

Speaker 3:

The biggest was when the market downturn and that was tough, especially in the service industry. People are cutting back on money. Instead of paying me to mow their lawn, they're going to mow their own lawn because it's going to save some money. Same thing with fertilization. So that was right when we were starting up. So we had to get through that. It got lean and it was just hanging on to our accounts keeping and just constantly trying to get new accounts and just you know, there were some tough times in there that we thought maybe we won't make it through this, but just staying on the path, taking care of your customers, taking care of your employees, and we got through it. And that's when we really, once you got through it and then the bubble, you know, kind of crashed and started back up and we just started growing and growing. And then actually during covid was one of our biggest growth spurts because people were staying home and they wanted to take care of their home.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's funny that in in oh wait, well, like really starting in, oh wait, like 2009, 2010. I was living in atlanta and it was funny. It was kind of like it is like if you're in new tampa, you know, if you go up to like 56 and go towards 301, the way there's just, there's just new developments just popping up everywhere, right like in that section, like right between zephyr hills and westley chapel, and when I lived in atlanta that was happening. So, like all of a sudden I moved there and we buy this house as the market is just, it hadn't really bottomed out, but it was pretty close and we got in like right under the wire, and then we bought this house and then all of a sudden you drive through these neighborhoods and there would just be like the green piping coming out for like sewer, like sewer pipage coming out on these lots, and they would just sit there overgrown for like two to almost three years, like from late 08 to like into 2011, ish.

Speaker 2:

And it was crazy. People weren't like forget, hiring a landscaper, they weren't worried about their lawn, they couldn't make their mortgage payments. So to get through something like that, when you get through it, when you get to the other side of that. Does it make you feel like you know what, listen, we just made it through this, we can, we could make it through anything. I mean, when COVID hits you're probably a little nervous, but then things kind of work out. Does it give you that confidence as a business owner that you know nothing's going to break us at this point we, you know we're doing the right thing and we're working hard.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it gives you the confidence and that's one of the reasons we got into lawn fertilization, Like we got through this and you this and things are turning around.

Speaker 3:

We can get through that we can start this up and see what can happen. That kind of mentality as a business owner or as an entrepreneur. You're right, you get a confidence, you get a hey, if I can do that, I can do anything. Let's try it. You try it and good things happen. It's not like some things you try don't work out, or don't work out as good as you thought they were going to, but you know you've got to give it a try. And all the good things that have happened to us, you know we all started from zero.

Speaker 2:

It's that old saying. You know you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. You know I had this. You know, because I do marketing and that's part of what I do. I just put out this video recently and talked about.

Speaker 2:

You know, I was in a meeting when I was in my corporate career and I was in a meeting with all these people that I didn't really feel like I was on the same level as them and I sat there for weeks and didn't say anything. And then finally one day they were talking about something and I kind of like raised my hand and said, have you guys ever thought about doing it like this? And it was like they all were like annoyed with me that I even raised my hand. But then, after I asked the question, it was like you could see like light bulbs go off around the room and they were like, oh, we never did think of doing that. And then they ended up changing this whole process and saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. And it was like being in that moment not knowing should I raise my hand? Are they going to turn around and hiss at me? Same thing with. You know, you get through those things Now you don't have that. That that lack of confidence Sounds like listen, we can roll out, you know, a spray in lawns.

Speaker 2:

We can roll out irrigation. You know we can actually bring in termite stuff. The next step but it's doing it in a smart way that, as an entrepreneur, like look, you can't just like the expression go big or go home doesn't work when you're an entrepreneur because you don't want to go home, you want to keep the business going. So you got to kind of test it and go from there. So with the termite stuff do you have, how do you roll out that? Like, because you have such a wide footprint, do you pick a section and say we're just going to roll out here to get started and see how it takes, or do you roll it out all the way out?

Speaker 3:

We're going to roll it out just in the Tampa market and that's where we're going to concentrate on, and then, if it takes off like we think, then we'll go down to Sarasota and Orlando too. But just, we're going to stay in with our customer base first, start with that and then it's going to be. The product is called Centricon. It's bait stations.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's what we had in Georgia too. You put a hole in the ground around the house, you put the termite food in there and it kind of brings into that. Yep, yeah, yeah, the termite food in there and it kind of brings into that. Yep, yeah, yeah, that's cool, that's really cool. So, as we start to wrap this up, tom, what is the one thing like if people are listening to this, like I know what I've taken from what you've said, but what's the one thing you want to convey to the listener, like why we need to do business with your green team over the I don't know thousand other different landscape people out there that work on your property?

Speaker 3:

The biggest is you're getting what you get with us. You know, like I said, there's a lot of people out there but not all of them are insured. I can tell you. All of our employees go through background checks, mvr checks. So these are people that are coming to your home, you're trusting to be on your property each week. So it's kind of important that you kind of know what kind of individual is coming out to your property and that's going to be walking around your home. So that's the kind of people we hire and we do that as an expense and, yes, it makes hiring more difficult, but we take it seriously and not every company is the same, and we take pride in what we do. That's why we've grown and we can handle.

Speaker 3:

There's a lot of companies that do some of these things, but not all these things. And we can mow your lawn, fertilize your lawn, take care of your trees and shrubs, trim them, mulch them, your fix your irrigation. You know anything that you need. So I think and and we're local, we're not and we're gonna you're gonna talk to somebody when you call our phone number. You're not going to be talking to somebody in a foreign country or you're going to get an answering machine. You're going to get an answering machine.

Speaker 2:

You're going to be talking to a person, so you bring up a great point. And that is really, as an entrepreneur and having done this for a while and I speak to hundreds and hundreds of business owners every single week, painstakingly taking the time and effort to go out and find staff period lately in the past, since COVID, really finding people to staff a business is difficult. I've talked to countless number of home service companies and say, look, I just can't get enough staff to grow my business. Not only are you guys getting the staff, but then you are putting them through the process to make sure they're at the, you know, the your Green Team level to be able to go to people's homes, which is it's an amazing feat to do. That should be commended and definitely should be earning your earning people's patronage from that alone. But what is the best way?

Speaker 2:

If someone right now is sitting here going, I need to. You know, I need to get my lawn cleaned up. It's a mess, it's summertime, we need to fix it up. We need to get these services in here.

Speaker 3:

What's the best way to get a hold of you guys? The best way we're on, you know, on the web. You can look us up yourgreenteamcom and it has all our phone numbers, different locations. You can click on them if you're on your phone, you can dial right from your phone. If you click on that phone number, you'll get our office and you can talk to our sales reps. Our sales manager, my sales manager, is Donato. He'd love to talk to you and get you taken care of. We're right in Plant City. If you want to stop by the office, we're at 902 West MLK, plant City, and our phone number is on the website, but it's 877-665-0901.

Speaker 2:

So, folks, if you're out there, you're listening to this and you are looking for a business that has stood the test of time 16 years growing from one lawnmower into a fleet of 160-plus employees all over Central Florida, from Sarasota to Spring Hill to Orlando, everywhere in between. You definitely need to reach out to your green team. Tom and his team will give you the personal attention that your property needs. It's your biggest investment that you're going to own. You want to make sure it looks good. You're going to call and speak to Donato. He's obviously just waiting by the phone, waiting for you to call and talk to him. The number is 877-665-0901. Or go to yourgreenteamcom and find the location nearest you and reach out to these guys. Tom, thank you so much for being a good neighbor. Thank you so much for being a part of the Good Neighbor Podcast today.

Speaker 3:

Thanks, mike. Thanks for all the information, Thanks for the opportunity to talk.

Speaker 2:

Have a great day.

Speaker 1:

You too. Thanks for listening to the Good Neighbor Podcast PASCO. To nominate your favorite local businesses to be featured on the show, go to gnppascocom. That's gnppascocom, or call 813-922-3610.

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