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The Field Notes From Building a $60M+ Lawn Care Empire

I'm Mike Andes. I built Augusta Lawn Care to 200+ locations, created Home.works software, and I'm sharing everything I know about management, scaling, and building businesses that work without you.

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General Managers

Hiring, paying, and managing GMs at scale

Scaling Systems

Multi-location, franchise, and growth models

Software & Tech

Tools that run your business without you

Behind the Scenes

Real stories from Augusta, Home.works & more

Mike Andes — Founder of Augusta Lawn Care & Home.works

200+

Franchise Locations

About the Author

Mike Andes

Augusta Lawn Care Founder200+ Franchise Locations$60M+ RevenueHome.works CreatorAuthor · Speaker

I started mowing lawns at 16 and built Augusta Lawn Care into a 200+ location franchise doing over $60M in annual revenue. Along the way I made every mistake in the book — hired the wrong people, grew too fast, nearly ran out of cash, and had to rebuild from scratch more than once.

This blog is my field journal. Real numbers. Real stories. No fluff. If you're building a $1M+ lawn care or landscaping business, everything I write here is for you.

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Management

The Bottleneck at $1.2M: Why You Need a General Manager

A lot of $1M+ businesses think they need more trucks. Most of the time, what they actually need is a General Manager. Here's how to hire one and actually pay them right.

8 min readMarch 28, 2026

Leadership

Why Your Managers Don't Care As Much As You (And How to Fix It)

You hire a manager because you're overwhelmed. The problem is they don't care about the bottom line like you do. Here's how to change that.

7 min readMarch 28, 2026

Strategy

The 7 Stages of Wealth in Home Services (Where Are You?)

Growth feels good until it doesn't. You add a second location and suddenly your complexity doubles and margins disappear. Here's the roadmap.

9 min readMarch 27, 2026

The Software I Built for Operators Like You

Home.works: Built by an Operator, for Operators

I built Home.works because I needed it for Augusta Lawn Care. Every feature exists because I ran into the problem it solves. If you're doing $1M+ and you're still duct-taping your operations together, this is the system that changes that.

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200+

Augusta Locations Running It

$1M+

Daily Revenue Managed on Platform

38%

Average Revenue Growth in 1st Year of Use

24/7

Automated Customer Follow-Up

Operations

Stop Blaming Labor: Why Your Systems Are Actually Broken

Everyone says nobody wants to work anymore. That's usually an excuse for broken operations. Here's what's actually going on.

8 min readMarch 27, 2026

Scaling

How to Scale to Multiple Locations Without Losing Your Mind

Multi-location requires simplification, not complexity. Behind the scenes of Augusta Franchise's 200+ location model.

10 min readMarch 26, 2026

Finance

The Real Cost of Hitting Goals: Cash Flow vs. Growth Speed

Cash is more important than growth speed. A $1.2M business living paycheck to paycheck is a nightmare. Here's what I learned the hard way.

8 min readMarch 26, 2026

Compensation

Why We Switched to Pay for Performance (And Never Looked Back)

If you're paying hourly, you're paying for time, not results. Here's how P4P transformed Augusta and can transform your business.

9 min readMarch 25, 2026

Marketing

The Rule of 100 and Why You Still Need to Hustle at $1M

A lot of $1M businesses think they've made it and stop doing the gritty marketing that got them there. That's a mistake.

7 min readMarch 25, 2026

Operations

Don't Hire an Admin Yet: Do This First

You think you need an office manager. What you actually need is automation. Adding payroll on top of a broken system just creates a more expensive broken system.

7 min readMarch 24, 2026

About the Author

Mike Andes

Founder of Augusta Lawn Care (200+ locations, $60M+ revenue), Home.works software, and author of Copy and Paste Millionaire. I've been in the green industry for 20+ years and I share everything I know here.

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