970. What to Do When Rain Wrecks Your Lawn Care Schedule
Fullerton Unfiltered
Brian Fullerton
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Rain days can either destroy your momentum… or become one of the biggest opportunities to grow your lawn care business. In this episode, we break down what smart lawn and landscape companies actually do during rainouts including crew management, equipment maintenance, sales follow-ups, marketing, training, customer communication, and operational planning. If spring weather has your routes backed up and your schedule chaotic, this episode will help you stay productive, profitable, and ahead of the competition.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're now listening to the Fullerton Unfiltered Podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | Straightforward. No nonsense business advice. Completely on. |
| 0:14.5 | Unfiltered. Grow your business. Grow your life. Now, here's your host, Brian Fullerton. |
| 0:21.5 | Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Fullerton Unfiltered Podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | It is your host, Brian Fullerton here. Hang in with you guys. And good morning. |
| 0:28.7 | Today's podcast episode, I want to talk about rain days. I've noticed a lot of chatter across |
| 0:33.4 | the ethos, the podcast blog is fair, Facebook, link. We've seen it everywhere. |
| 0:39.0 | Everybody's getting rain. Us, no different. |
| 0:41.5 | Ironically enough, we're getting about 85 degrees and sunny heat for the next couple of days, |
| 0:45.0 | but that doesn't mean that we haven't had our fair share of rain days. |
| 0:47.9 | And so what I wanted to do for a few minutes today was talk to you guys about some practical tips about rain days. |
| 0:53.1 | Now, for some of you guys that are |
| 0:54.9 | out there, you have been in the business for 2510, 20, 255 freaking years, right, or whatever. And you guys |
| 1:03.3 | have been around since the scythe, you know, or the scythe or sickle or whatever it is that, |
| 1:08.6 | you know, you used to use the Grim Reaper, you know, sword and cut the field grass. Some of you guys are old as dirt like me and, uh, oh, young, young, you know, at the turn of the new century, right, with all this metallurgy stuff. And, uh, you've been cutting grass for a long time. So you're like rain days, of course, dude, I know what to do on a rain day. Okay, cool. |
| 1:27.8 | That's awesome, bro. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm going to give you a couple tips that maybe you'll jog the memory of some things you can do or maybe pivot to now do on a rain day to be even more productive. But for some of you guys that are just getting started in business, maybe you've only been here for a couple of years. rain days are still an enigma. |
| 1:43.2 | You're like, dude, we want to cut grass. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't know what to do. |
| 1:46.2 | Schedule gets all in disarray. here for a couple of years. Rain days are still an enigma. You're like, dude, we want to cut grass. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't know what to do. |
| 1:46.3 | The schedule gets all in disarray. People are unorganized. Crew members are like, are we in, are we out, et cetera, et cetera. And it just creates confusion. And one thing I'll just tell you, here's the big tip, here's the big takeaway. I want you guys to write down a honey-do list, |
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