Believe it or not, there are some basic ingredients to growing your company to a million-dollar business. Now, nobody is saying that the recipe is easy; however, there are logical and achievable steps that you can take to grow your company to become a member of the million-dollar landscape club.

In this episode, some of the topics we are going to discuss include:

-How to create an annual budget
-Job costing do's and don'ts
-Estimating for profit
-MOR's vs. SOR's vs. T&M
-Estimates vs. Proposals
-How to create a P & L statement
-Man vs. Machine
-Adding Managers
-Creating a balanced landscape portfolio

Joining us is Jerry Gaeta, a Green Industry Business Advisor and Coach helping business owners increase their performance and quality of life since 1994.

Gaeta and his business associate started a design/build commercial landscape, irrigation and landscape maintenance firm in 1975 and sold it 28 years later. Gaeta was chairman for the development of the Nursery and Landscape Certified Landscape Technician Program for South Carolina and ALCA (now PLANET) and was awarded in 1991 Nurseryman of the Year, the first landscape contractor to receive this award.

Jerry is a successful estimator and entrepreneur who has bid hundreds of millions of dollars in landscape construction and maintenance projects, has consulted, and lectured for the Green Industry in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, and Guam on budgeting, overhead recovery, estimating and bidding, managing work crews and overall business management and planning. Gaeta helped many small and mid-sized companies with financial success while working with Charles Vander Kooi as senior associate for 17 years. In these challenging times he guides his clients to maintain their financial performance with the experiences of guiding his own company through the difficult economy in the late 1970's.

For more information, visit http://jerrygaetabusinessplan.com/.