Did you know I live in Italy?

Hey guys,

Sorry I haven’t been very active lately.

A lot of you probably don’t know that for the last two to three years I have lived part time in Italy, and part time in Aus, travelling back and forth every few months for work and family.

My partner is Italian, we met 5 years ago while she was backpacking around Aus, she stayed for a couple of years until I got to the point where I was ready to sell my mowing business and start up this business Lawn and Garden Group full time.

So, we packed up and moved to central Italy where my partner would study biology.

You might be thinking that’s a bit weird to start up an Australian business full time right at the same time as moving to the other side of the world. Well, yes it is I guess ha-ha

Let me explain; I’d been planning this business for quite some time while I was running my mowing business near Ballarat in Victoria. I was constantly gathering information, taking notes, writing procedures on how I did things, speaking to other business owners and even helping people start their own businesses.

At that time, I had built my business to a point where I was making really good money and I was able to take 15 weeks of paid holidays off each year. I wanted to show people how they could get their business to this point too.

The problem was I found it hard to find the time to do this while still running my mowing business, and my holiday time was for travelling. And, I just had a huge mess of information and no way to share it, with 100’s of documents and notes etc in a scattered mess on my computer.

So, we decided to jump in the deep end, sell up the business and move overseas, using the time and freedom to build the new business, giving it structure and a vehicle.

I spent the first year (2020) building, researching, planning, testing, talking etc. We got the Facebook group going, built a website, constructed our main training course for people starting out, we even designed and produced the whole Grass ID Guide from overseas by paying consultants, agronomists, photographer’s, printers etc back in Aus to help get it all together, spending many hours at the desk with a coffee or red bull on the phone to people back in Aus at some ridiculous hour in the morning.

This first year overseas gave me much more time to work on the business than I ever would have had back home, we had built a substantial foundation and even started to bring some money back in by selling some courses, one on one coaching, and grass guides.

But we had invested a huge amount of our personal savings into the business with no income coming in. Enter 2021, I pitched my business to friends and family for investment, which was received well, this would keep the business going for another few months.

I hit the road mid 2021 back home to speak to as many new or existing business owners as I could to find out what they wanted help with and how we could do it.

I gathered a lot of useful info and met heaps of great guys and gals along the way (between lockdowns and crap). Back on the plane again to the Mrs and the land of pizza, I continued to build, tweak, advertise, invest, speak, teach, and learn, but alas the business ran out of money before I could give it enough momentum to take off and be useful enough to really help you guys the way I wanted it too.

This brings me back to my point. I’ve just spent the last few months back in Aus on the tools again! Hence being too busy to be active in the business. Keeping in mind that the business is still very small, and I run nearly every aspect of it because we can’t yet afford to be paying too many people.

I decided to dive back into it, firstly to make some money again because we were broke, secondly to be able to keep the business going, thirdly to get in touch with things again being back on the tools.

So, in the 4 or so months I was back working, with nearly no equipment or customers I managed to turn over more than $75,000 just by using my most simple principles. I also managed to sneak in a couple of weeks holidays in there too. Although I must admit, a lot of this work was landscaping with materials, so the profit it closer to $40k.

This is what I want to show you guys how to do, anyone can do it!

With my partner finishing her studies, we hope to see you back in the lucky country in October 2022.

A fresh injection of funds to keep us going I’m excited to share with you some of the jobs I’ve done recently, and even more excited to say that the business will continue, and we will be opening up memberships very soon!

All the best Tom