Summary
Benchmark Gardening is a fast-growing, well-reviewed gardening and property-maintenance business servicing Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
Revenue
$10,000 pm
Potential
As a relatively new and rapidly growing business, Benchmark Gardening offers significant room for expansion. Strong demand across the south-eastern suburbs presents opportunities to scale quickly by adding staff, increasing marketing, and expanding high-margin services such as hedging, irrigation, body-corporate and NDIS work. Aggreements with local councils offer consitent stream of new work that is paid for by council.
Skills
Basic garden maintnenace skills prefereable but full transition provided and training can be included.
Hours
Part time whilst i've been at university. Generally about 30 hours a week of work which generates over 10,000 a month.
Employees
Uses a few casual employees which can be introduced to with sale.
Reason for Sale
Moving overseas.
About the Business
Benchmark Gardening is a rapidly growing gardening and property-maintenance business servicing Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. The business has built a strong reputation for reliability, high-quality workmanship and excellent customer service across residential, commercial, aged-care and NDIS clients. Services include lawn care, hedge trimming, irrigation installation and repairs, mulching, garden clean-ups and regular maintenance programs.
Genrally charge $130 an hour which includes 2 gardeners, labourer paid $33.50 and hour cash leaving a healthy hourly rate for owner.
Work is a split between regular mowing and weeding (bi-weekly or monthly) and bigger hedging jobs done quartely to semi annualy (roughly). Between both, roughly 30 regulars. Perfect for someone looking to start their own gardening business and don't want to start from scratch or an established business looking to expand
A key asset is the professionally built, SEO-optimised website valued at $5,000, which consistently generates a steady stream of new enquiries. The site ranks highly for local search terms and continues to drive organic leads without relying heavily on paid advertising, giving the business a strong competitive advantage.
Also all social media accounts, which aren't massive but provide traffic to the website.
With a growing client base, streamlined scheduling systems, repeat work and outstanding 5-star reviews, Benchmark Gardening is positioned for continued rapid expansion. The business operates efficiently and offers the option to transition existing casual staff, making it a turnkey opportunity for an owner-operator or a business looking to scale its service offerings and footprint.
History
Started as a way to earn money whilst at uni which has quickly grown intoi something much larger with work being turned down.
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