We recently connected with Chase Gallagher and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Chase, thanks for joining us today. Let’s start with what makes profitability in your industry a challenge – what would you say is the biggest challenge?
However, in my industry specifically, some of the biggest issues that beginner business owners have in the home services, they did you not know the true costs, for example, many business owners that I talk to as I coach them through my coaching platform, CMG university many students do not know their actual overnight what it cost to run their business every day, whether you have Sales or not, and then the landscaping industry specifically you have to know how many working days you have in that year within your market it’s gonna be different for Pennsylvania business owners, and it would be for Florida business owners, and so in conclusion, you can fix so many problems in your business by just knowing your number a true costs to run your business. And that is the biggest thing I see and why contractors don’t make a lot of money in the beginning is because they don’t know their real costs
Chase, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
Really to start out if you’re asking, who is Chase Gallagher I would define myself as number one of blessed individual, positive forward thinker, who values human beings weather I know them personally or not.
I started in my industry, which is the home services industry when I was 12 or 13 years old I want to earn more money as I was just mowing my lawn once a week and that was the only service I knew how to provide so I’ve been on the Internet found a flyer. I can print out my Mom🏡 stay late at our Copper job And cleaned out a bunch thousands of flyers in that spring when I was 13 I passed thousands of them out got my first 10-22 clients and I’ve been going at it ever since.
Fast-forward 10 years later from that starting point, I own a multi million dollar landscape, construction company, real estate portfolio, rental property real estate portfolio here in Chester County Pennsylvania. I’ve been through many hardships, even though I’m only 23 but that’s healthwise or business wise and that’s something I value a lot as I view it that my biggest weaknesses have fueled my biggest strengths, this is a long story but three years ago when I was 20, I had a kidney transplant this whole situation stemmed from a rare kidney Diease. At the time I would ask God why has my health is declining I was only 19 years old. I just went all in for my landscaping company, salad staff and new Cruz new equipment.. and I was sitting in my kidney doctors office when he also told me that I would need a kidney Transplant.
There’s so many more hardships within that one story but looking at that situation three years later, I actually look at it as a benefit as I have a perspective that not many other 23 year olds have I have a thankfulness for the most simplest things in life like my breath, my words and my steps these were things I did not have the days after waking up out of my transplant.
Looking at my future, I would love to continue to grow my following across social media impact on peoples lives, as well as grow my businesses and impact my teams lives, I have many business aspirations that I could go on on for
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
This lesson is in regards to business when I first got started mowing lawns when I was 1314 years old I always used to tell myself all the money is in the mowing, as I got around experience, people industry, I assume found out that all the money is in the landscaping projects and so at the age of 1819 I completely got out of what I started with as lawn mowing.
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Another business lesson I learned I used to tell myself I would never buy someone else’s business “the roi just wasn’t there” I used to believe this so have both these opinions most recently has I studied a business atmosphere and see what big companies are doing it’s all buying selling businesses so this is the second lesson to myself that you have to unlearn certain things, opinions, and feelings.
Can you talk to us about how you funded your business?
Yes, when I transformed my business into strictly project based work I had Just turned 19 years old I just sold all my lawnmower equipment for cash but I also need a very expensive machine at $32,000. I spent by 10 $12,000 cash on the dump trailer and I had my truck at the time. A buddy of my industry there’s a lot older said at one point just walking to John Deere. See if you can finance for machine the worst I can tell you no.
So I randomly went A local John Deere deal Dealer that had the machine I wanted it was like early early spring and I remember they had the exact machine and I sitting at the salesman‘s desk by telling him my age and info as we’re filling out the application shaking nervous and after a few minutes, he said I was approved and the next week I picked up my tractor And I was off to the races and that’s how I originally got my start was taking the risk and signing my name to Loan that pay me a lot more money than the payment
Contact Info:
- Website: https://cmglandscapes.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chase_gallagher_/profilecard/?igsh=MThkc3BwMDhmeHhxcg==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/XJ9M3BuRfXbnxhNE/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chase-gallagher-309036177?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@chasegallagher?si=KxnWnfTPcHp5dkUk
- Other: TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@chase_gallagher1?_t=8qp8KLphSEV&_r=1