My name is Bob Underhill. I’m a greenkeeper and also Managing Director of a lawn treatment company called Lawn Master.
If you are like most of the greenkeepers and groundsmen that we have spoken to, then you enjoy doing your job, and do it out of passion for turf. This is despite the hours being so long and the financial rewards being extremely poor.
How long will you be expected to keep doing unpaid overtime, with minimal staff levels and no funds, or even under threat of redundancy? Wage rises are now a thing of the past, but you are expected to view where you work as a privilege or substitute for an acceptable salary.
In the last few years Lawn Master has taken top grounds and greens staff from some of the highest paid and most prestigious positions in the industry, as well as the poorest.
All have done extremely well,
because given the choice customers appreciate and prefer having an experienced trained person, rather than the new inexperienced players in the franchise world.
Ten new Lawn Master outlets have been started in the last 12 months with seven new outlets sold in 2009 so far. One new outlet this year, in his first month of trading had a turnover exceeding £8,800 and broke all our previous records. Some outlets in year two are already on track for £200k turnover. New starters this year have already reached between £5k and £7k per month by the end of month four. We are certainly having a record year in 2009.
Competitors are no problem for our outlets as we are the only lawn company in the UK to recruit pre-experienced franchisees.
Our funding packages make it easy for any experienced groundsmen and greenkeepers like you to own their own business. We need the right people that are experienced and motivated. In return, you’ll receive all the support that you need, and join the only network of like-minded real professionals in the UK.
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