What can happen to you and your business if you try to do everything yourself.

1. The Dangers
of Failing to
Delegate

2. Most lawn care business
owners start out in the field
and spend their evenings
catching up
on billing, marketing,
and other
office-related chores.

3. This works for a while, but they are in danger of
burning out if they continue to try to do
everything themselves.

4. Delegation is critical if you wish
to grow your business.

5. Most owners wait too long to hire
their first office person and begin
to delegate duties.
Why you should hire
an office assistant,
NOW!

6. One study shows
that only 1/2 of
the companies
surveyed felt
their employees
delegated properly.

7. There are many reasons for this:
• The belief that your employee can't do the job
as well as you can
• The belief that it will take you less time to do
the work than to delegate it
• The belief that your employee won't be as
motivated and committed to quality as you
• Guilt associated with giving more work to an
already overworked staff
• The need to feel indispensable

8. There are several
dangers to your
business if you
don't learn to
delegate.

9. 1. Higher Costs

10. If you're spending
time doing
something that
you could hire
someone else to
do, you're wasting
money.

11. If you spent two hours invoicing, and your hourly
rate is $40/hour, then you could have hired
someone for $14/hour to do the same work,
that invoicing just cost you $52.

12. Move non-billable tasks to an office person as
quickly as you can so your time is spent on
tasks that make money.

13. 2. Lack of Motivation

14. It's human nature to
not want to work on
the things that we
dislike or find boring;
so we procrastinate
working on them.

15. If you spend the day
working in the field
and then have to work
on tasks you dislike,
eventually you will
burn out.
What to do if you are
starting to burn out.

16. You have no time with family if you're doing
everything yourself and no time to recover.

17. Delegate those tasks to someone that likes to do
them and who can do them better.
How to grow faster by
offloading the tasks
you hate!

18. 3. Lower Revenue

19. If you’re failing to
delegate, you don’t have
enough time to focus on
growing your business.

20. Not only are you
costing yourself a
significant amount
of money, you’re
failing to grow to
your fullest
potential!

21. Your company won't
grow because you can't
work on sales and
marketing.

22. One industry expert believes that the top reason
that only 9% or 10% of companies in the
industry break the $1 million mark is because
the owners’ don't delegate.

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