Lawn health (fertilizer, weed control, aeration)
Fits best: a detail-minded owner willing to earn an applicator license.
Pros
- ✓Program sales: 5–7 paid visits per customer per year
- ✓High margin per job
Cons
- !State license and chemical rules come first
- !Seasonal: busiest mar–Nov
- !Small tickets need volume and tight routes
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 125 visits a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 250 visits a month in season. Add yard maintenance for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add mosquito and tick on the same license, then a second truck.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add mosquito and tick on the same license, then a second truck.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck with spreader/spray rig
- Repeat customers
- High
- Licensing
- High
- Season
- Mar–Nov
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
State applicator license for fertilizer and weed control; aerator $3K–8K.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (250), times 8 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.