Can't believe this was three years ago. Just seeing it now. Phenomenal lesson. Just looked at his website and it's great to see that he's made the expansion he was talking about. The website kicks ass too. Thank you for this amazing interview - really helpful for me as a landscape gardener too.

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Phenomenal video! he's so low key and well spoken and you don't even realize the nuggets he's giving until after. I'll have to watch this one again with a notepad. :) Thank you!

Such a good episode! Love the trajectory of their business and then how they dealt with things. One thing that drives some of us out there to look at starting a tree service, from another adjacent trade - like gardening and landscaping - is that we can't get an arborist to come out! They're all so dang busy!

You know what’s funny is I feel a lot of people underestimate starting off with a stump grinder that’s how my dad started off. Glad to hear somebody else did the same way.

Its not working in gulf countries

Hi Wes, thanks so much for providing such outstanding advice and marketing strategies for tree business owners like myself trying to grow their company. If ever you start offering your services in Australia, I'd be interested to explore what you can provide us especially in terms of cohesive google SEO and google / facebook ad optimisation. I've followed your suggestions for months and am stoked to be seeing solid success across all areas of my business so really appreciate your work.

What number shows up on the caller ID? Can you tell its a number coming from the google ad?

NUMBER ONE - get a generative AI chatbot that can handle all your inquiries, texta phone calls etc. hook it to a qr code and a custom link. Put that on everything including your business cards and signage etc Offer a free incentive for people to give you their email address. Market to them in emails sms and fb messenger

Thank you

From Timor Leste, we were attending the Zoom meeting in Jakarta this morning.

Your video quality presentation is so amazing but do you know why your video is not getting the expected views? Your channel needs some updates to increase the view

Great👍

Right now we're basically booked until Christmas vacation. We work all winter long (other than a couple weeks off around Christmas). What's the best way to incentivize people to wait until January to get their work done? What's the smallest discount you've seen to be effective for that?

Thanks!

I’m in week four of running local service ads. In that time I’ve had nine calls. Two of them were Robo calls six of them were people shopping for prices. Only one call out of the nine booked an appointment. I am now over $500 in the red And really wondering if this is even worth it. Yesterday alone I paid $160 for two people to call and ask about prices I’m starting to dread the caller ID coming up and saying it’s Google. How do you solve? The problem of paying for calls from people were only looking to get a price ?

Listening to this may have been the most uplifting pods I have witnessed in quite some time. Thank you both. Hell of a great job Doni Jones. And God bless to both of you! 🙏🏼💪🏼

Great information thanks for sharing

Thanks for the Inofrmative content!

do you have a number I can call to ask questions? I have some problems with my LSA account. My competitors are seemingly out ranking me, without having more of anything than me. I answer every call, I have 100+ pictures on there. I have 1400+ reviews, 99% of them are 5 star. I have a 4.8 right now. I have competitors with 5 reviews and a 5.0 and 4 pictures out ranking me. I have competitors with 10 pictures and a 4.6 out ranking me. I'm not sure what is going on here. I could use some guidance.

How is the tree industry doing overall for your clients? Have contractors had to drop prices on work to stay busy? In my area, it seems a lot of my competitors are bidding way too low. About 40% of my competitors don't have worker's comp. Trouble is those companies are usually much cheaper, and if the prospect gets 3 quotes, they're likely to get at least one of those companies that aren't fully insured to submit a quote. Many of those companies just say they're "insured", which is misleading, as it's illegal to not have worker's comp if you have employees, or even "fully insured", which is definitely untrue, and many times the customer doesn't actually verify they have worker's comp insurance or even general liability insurance. On a $3,000 job, a company that can submit a quote for $2,500 will most likely get it, even if the only reason their costs are lower is due to them paying their employees cash under the table with no worker's comp. Other than marketing to affluent towns, which I've experimented with and the jury is still out on that, what do you recommend?

Thank you for sharing your experience with Tree Service Digital; very helpful.

I need pricing for a Website and have you do my Facebook Marketing

Before Google changed things, I was getting several calls a week, and now I barely had any calls in over a year

Thanks for sharing boos. I follow you all time❤❤

Why it is happening?

Confused. Is there a tree specific template for Jobber?

Spot on. After 15 years in the business, I can confirm this has happened almost every year.

How is the industry overall doing? Is there a recession affecting other tree companies and putting more competition on prices, or are things about the same as last year?

Hi Wesley, this is gold ! Its hidden away in the marketing plan but the marketing automation is such a good idea that can be used for every type of local business!

Not just land scapers but construction workers also so where I am at in Michigan I grab a stack of business cards and go to the lawn dudes the landscapers and contractors even a lot of the local businesses I had them a stack and every job they get me I throw them 100$ or 50$ whatever a little incentive. Don’t dress like a bum either,34.99$ on amazing button down short sleeve shirts with custom stitching their cheap and look great and they breathe well when your climbing, we get comments all the time about how good we look 😉I promise that it does make a difference.

We are getting ready to start a tree business with a gentleman that has been working in this business for about 10 years . I love all of these ideas but being that it is a new and not established business do you have a different video I can watch to see if this is something we may want to invest in right away . Thank you

Interested for your leads generation

thank you for sharing this. We just reactivated our LSA account. We haven't used it in about three years so it's nice to know that they are monitoring for bad lids. I'll keep you posted and and thanks for sharing Jim.

Google rips basically everyone off to some degree. I think EDDM postcards and a good website are a workaround to paying for Google Ads or GLSA.

How do i get a hold of Erich about the software he uses for his business..Thanks in advance…Tyson A

Hi Wesley, I emailed you

Google's algorithim no longer helps me find what I'm looking for. It's been broken for a long time.

One-handing a saw is what the best pros do when necessary. The only people that generally say you need two hands on a tophandle saws are professional trainers that don't actively work production in the field. Two hands on the saw is generally better, but one-handling is fairly safe if you watch out for your other hand and watch out for kickback.

What a thrilling event packed with adrenaline-pumping rigging sessions and groundbreaking tree care techniques.

Is it “trimming” or “tree trimming”?? Or does it even matter??

I was told because I’m black i may not want to put family on the website..what do u think?

Also talk about raising prices to meet inflation.

Please talk about what should a net profit be for a 1. Small tree service. 2. Medium tree service 3. Large tree service 4. Extra large Also talk about what percentage of your money should go to business savings, business expenses. Also talk about firing people that do not meet the goals established.

Solid info

From transforming your website into a lead-generating powerhouse to mastering Google Maps visibility, this is the ultimate guide for tree service businesses looking to dominate in the digital realm. So many actionable tips and insider insights - definitely worth a watch if you're ready to take your online presence to the next level! 🚀🌳

great video

is tree service profitable? the work sounds like hell

I run a house cleaning business and this video was very helpful

As a new local locksmith company on local service ads, i am getting many price shoppers and am paying 30-40 per call. I haven't started doing google ads yet