How to grow my business, how did you grow yours?

[Thetreeguy]

We are in our 4th year of business too, I have been thinking / doing some calculations about going bigger, adding another team into the mix. We are always 4 weeks ahead minimum, 3 guys inc myself and taking an apprentice on in September. 

 

At the moment I have come to the conclusion that I would prefer to have 4 weeks ahead as we are than 1.5-2 weeks ahead with two teams running. 

 

See what happens in the future! 

[benedmonds]

36 minutes ago, Thetreeguy said:

We are in our 4th year of business too, I have been thinking / doing some calculations about going bigger, adding another team into the mix. We are always 4 weeks ahead minimum, 3 guys inc myself and taking an apprentice on in September. 

 

At the moment I have come to the conclusion that I would prefer to have 4 weeks ahead as we are than 1.5-2 weeks ahead with two teams running. 

 

See what happens in the future! 

I am not saying don't do it... But..

Be aware, productivity drops when the boss is not on site, and the more teams you run the more time you have to spend off site, quoting and doing all the other stuff.

Stuff also breaks more and more stuff is broken when the boss is not onsite, so you spend time off site fixing stuff and dealing with problems..

 

If your not careful you end up never being onsite and unable to do the work you got into the industry for...

Well that's what happened to me..