The Cost of Doing Business

The Cost of Doing Business Podcast is here to help business owners find the path to profitability. We look beyond the glamour and glitz of the Instagram highlight reel by digging into the behind-the-scenes work necessary to achieve our goals. Your host, Weston Zimmerman, is the co-founder of SynkedUP. This award-winning landscape business management software is making a real difference for owners looking for a budgeting and overhead recovery tool and helps with estimating and job costing.

Ep 74. I'm Losing Money on Every Job - and Didn’t Even Know It w/ Robert Green
May 12, 2025 – 34:31
Ep 73. I Almost Quit After This Job - and I Was the Problem
Apr 28, 2025 – 36:17
Ep 72. How Knowing Your Numbers Changes Everything w/ AJ Wanders
Apr 14, 2025 – 30:49
Ep 71. Lessons from an Aquascape Artist of the Year - Joe Genovese.
Mar 31, 2025 – 39:03
Ep 70. Building a Business That Runs Without You w/ Greg Wittstock
Mar 17, 2025 – 32:08
Ep 69. Growing a Family-Owned Landscaping Business w/ Joel De La Paz
Mar 3, 2025 – 15:19
Ep 68. Scaling Contracting Business: Lessons from Alex Fransen’s Journey
Feb 17, 2025 – 29:38
Ep 67. The Power of Believing in Yourself with Leonardo Diez
Feb 3, 2025 – 34:13
Ep 66. Taking Responsibility for Your Teams Success w/ Kyle from Pacific Pine Landscape
Jan 20, 2025 – 32:11
Ep 65. What's the right work/life balance?
Jan 6, 2025 – 42:02
Ep 64. Faith, Family, and the Bottom Line: How Joel Lattimer Blends Business and Belief
Dec 23, 2024 – 37:35
Ep 63. From Hustling in High School to Building Luxury Pools: Christopher Castano’s Story
Dec 9, 2024 – 39:21
Ep 62. Learning How to Deliver Real Value to Your Clients w/ Justin Laughter
Nov 25, 2024 – 48:31
Ep 61. From Humble Beginnings to Industry Titans: The Morales Outdoor Living Story
Nov 11, 2024 – 51:09
Ep 60. Go on your own or stay an employee?
Oct 28, 2024 – 49:26
Ep 59. The hardest part of growing your business: letting go of control
Oct 14, 2024 – 45:49
Ep 58. From Solopreneur to Scalable Success: Overcoming Bottlenecks and Cultivating a Growth Mindset
Sep 30, 2024 – 50:29
Ep 57. I bought the business I worked for.
Sep 16, 2024 – 41:07
Ep 56. From landscaping to hardscaping to land clearing
Sep 2, 2024 – 48:16
Ep 55. A father-son team in business
Aug 19, 2024 – 40:55
Ep 54. Going from 80 hrs to 40 hrs a week as an owner.
Aug 5, 2024 – 36:00
Ep 53. Closing 10 out of 10 proposals... HOW!?
Jul 22, 2024 – 01:00:35
Ep 52. Transitioning a business from father to son.
Jul 8, 2024 – 01:00:26
Ep 51. Moving from solopreneur model to hiring first employees
Jun 24, 2024 – 22:55
Ep 50. From Surviving to Thriving with a 2 Man Landscape Company
Jun 10, 2024 – 57:21
Ep 49. What's the most efficient crew model?
May 27, 2024 – 41:34
Ep 48. Thriving as a 50/50 partnership
May 13, 2024 – 44:22
Ep 47. Commonalities Amongst All Contractors
Apr 29, 2024 – 58:43
Ep 46. Use Subcontractors or Build Your Own Team
Apr 15, 2024 – 28:44
Ep 45. The man behind How To Hardscape
Apr 1, 2024 – 28:00
Ep 44. Production vs Quality - Can You Have Both?
Mar 18, 2024 – 25:59
Ep 43. Talking to One of SynkedUP's First Customers
Mar 4, 2024 – 23:37
Ep 42. High School Friends to Business Partners
Feb 19, 2024 – 26:01
Ep 41. What WINNING Looks Like 3 Years into Business
Feb 5, 2024 – 26:17
Ep 40. How to win as an owner operator with Dan Preston
Jan 22, 2024 – 26:30
Ep 39. Moving from owner operator to business owner
Jan 8, 2024 – 38:51
Ep 38. Recovering from a Garage Fire
Dec 25, 2023 – 57:32
Ep 37. From Account Manager to Business Owner
Dec 11, 2023 – 55:13
Ep 36. Cutting all hardscape and only doing pools!?
Nov 27, 2023 – 58:13
Ep 35. 3 phases of marketing for landscape companies
Nov 13, 2023 – 52:29
Ep 34. Building a business vs owning a job
Oct 30, 2023 – 44:22
Ep 33. Taking Over a Design Build & Maintain Company During the Shutdown
Oct 16, 2023 – 37:02
Ep 32. From 12 crew & $1.3m to 4 crew & $1.4m in revenue
Oct 2, 2023 – 42:02
Ep 31. Hiring, Estimating, Business Systems for a 2 Man Show
Sep 18, 2023 – 50:46
Ep 30. The difference between a master craftsman and master business owner
Sep 4, 2023 – 45:48
Ep 29. Thinking ahead & planning the next 5 years
Aug 21, 2023 – 39:47
Ep 28. Keegan’s Story - Going From Surviving to Thriving
Aug 7, 2023 – 49:07
Ep 27. How Water Features Compliment Your Hardscapes w Luke Neathery
Jul 24, 2023 – 25:01
Ep 26. Do’s and Don’t’s of the Sales Process with Evan Newcombe and Nick Conley
Jul 10, 2023 – 59:44
Ep 25. Leveraging Profit from Knowing Your Numbers AND Being Efficient
Jun 26, 2023 – 47:06