
About this episode
Closing on his 2nd acquisition in 10 months, Mike Botkin just became Central Florida's largest landscaping business.
Themes from Mike's interview:
- Acquiring a second landscaping business
- Dropping customers to grow
- Developing a playbook for operating a landscaping business
- Treating your employees right
- Downsides of SBA loans and traditional search funds
- The invaluable resource of keeping the previous owner in the biz
- Viewing landscaping from a logistics perspective
- Why landscaping businesses are great acquisitions
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