Heat wave or no, Monster Tree Service is making cool millions

Monster Tree Service were recently featured in a great article on the Upstart Business Journal titled, "Heat wave or no, Monster Tree Service is making cool millions". The article features our CEO Josh Skolnick and Reporter Teresa Novellino discussing the importance of keeping employees cool during a heat wave. It also provides us with a recap of Josh's entire success story and how he started Monster Tree Service. The article also provides us with advice on running a profitable business and franchising plans for the brand. Click here to read the article or begin below.


"Heat wave or no, Monster Tree Service is making cool millions"
By Teresa Novellino



For the founder of Monster Tree Service, keeping his team cool in the heat is nothing. He turned a job known for shirtless teens and pickup trucks into a big money franchise.

For outdoor workers, the heat wave that is stretching from the East Coast into the Midwest sending temperatures into three digits is not something you duck into your office job to escape: it's inescapable. So what's an entrepreneurial company that specializes in outdoor work to do? A good person to ask is Josh Skolnick, founder of Monster Tree Service, a multimillion dollar tree removal business that he launched in 2008 and turned into a national franchise last year.

"We advise them to start earlier than usual, get out before the temperatures get really high," Skolnick says. "There should be a 5-gallon iced water jug on every crew and they should try to limit the manual labor work and schedule work that's more machine orientated (and thus less physically challenging in the heat)."

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Local Entrepreneur has never cut down a tree - Monster Trees branch out, grow to millions of dollars

Monster Tree were recently featured in an article in the Chestnut Local titled, "Local Entrepreneur has never cut down a tree - Monster Trees branch out, grow to millions of dollars". The article discusses the history behind Monster Tree Service. It discusses Josh Skolnick as an entrepreneur, his background, and the future of the company. Click here to read the article or begin below.

Local Entrepreneur has never cut down a tree - Monster Trees branch out, grow to millions of dollars.
By Grant Moser

Monster Tree Service is just another success in a string of businesses for Josh Skolnick, 29. When the Fort Washington native started the company, he had never cut down a tree in his life. “Everyone doubted me. There wasn't one person, even my accountant, that thought this was going to work,” said Skolnick. “Now I’m making millions of dollars.”
In middle school, Josh began push-mowing neighborhood lawns. He was soon busy enough that he had to hire help. Every afternoon when school finished, he would head straight to work and wouldn't stop until the sun went down. By the time he got to high school, he had invested in some commercial lawn mowers, and by the time he graduated from Upper Dublin High School in 2002, he had 80 residential accounts.
His business was so profitable that he worked out an arrangement with the school that let him leave school at 10 a.m. every day to run his business while earning school credit. Shortly after he graduated, he acquired several other landscape companies and had close to 400 full-service lawn care accounts.

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