About this Event
For landscape owners and operators · With Sahra Linnemann
Without a budget, every 2027 bid is a guess, and your overhead comes out of your profit. In this one-day workshop, led by landscape business owner and industry consultant Sahra Linnemann, you'll build your full operating budget for next year and have confidence in your profits.
Not a template. Your budget.
You walk out with:
- Your full 2027 operating budget, built from your own financials, ready to run the business on
- Your real net profit number, and the gap between it and where you want to be
- The markup to put on every estimate so overhead gets paid for, not absorbed
- A 90-day plan, so Monday morning you know what to change first
- A method you can repeat, so next year's budget is yours to build
- 30 days of LMN access, with your budget already built inside it, and the ability to export your budget work
Why a budget changes the margin
You hit your sales number and the year still ends tight. Usually it comes back to a sales target based on last year plus a little hope, field labor priced at the paycheck wage, equipment never priced to replace, and overhead and subcontractor costs that never make it into an estimate. A real budget puts all of it behind every price.
Taught by an operator who built it for her own company
Sahra Linnemann co-founded The Green Executive and Linnemann Lawncare & Landscaping. She built this budget for her own company and has taught hundreds of operators across Canada and the US to build theirs. She'll walk you through the method, step by step, so you leave able to do it again.
Hosted by LMN by Granum
For over 15 years, LMN has helped landscapers across North America build profitable operating budgets. Your budget is yours to keep whether or not you ever use LMN. No purchase required.
We’ll set up an LMN account for you before the workshop so you build with your real numbers. Current LMN customers build in their own account.
Who it’s for:
Owner-operators ready to grow and ready to know exactly where they stand. No minimum company size or revenue.
What to bring:
* A laptop is required.*
Bring these, printed if you can so you can mark them up:
- Balance sheet and profit and loss statement for last year and year to date
- Equipment list
- Payroll reports showing regular, overtime and PTO hours, not one lumped total
- Your insurance packet, so we can split inland marine and auto between overhead and field
- Your workers comp declaration page, with classifications, rates and weights
- Your state unemployment rate, from the state notice or your payroll setup
- A clear head, because we're going to put it to work
Sponsored by Granum & John Deere.
Event venue & nearby stays
Residence Inn by Marriott Arlington Ballston, 650 North Quincy Street, Arlington, United States
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