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Are you looking to place a sod bid for a new lawn care customer? Here is a great chance for you to compare how you put together your bid with how this landscaper put together their winning bid to re-sod a home with 750 sq. ft. of new sod. Read through this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and see if it points out a few issues you could benefit from in your own bidding.
Professional lawn care business owners really need to be on top of their equipment preventative maintenance. The more they stick to a schedule of checking and replacing parts as needed, the less down time they will have and the more money the will make because of a lack of break downs. Now you may change your oil and your air filters but what do you do to help keep your lawn mower’s carburetor clean? That is the question asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and it shed a lot of light on the issue.
How to price a lawn can be a tough question for many new lawn care business owners. Should they be priced based on the size of the property? Maybe even estimate mowing jobs by the amount of time it takes to mow the lawn? That is what this one lawn care business owner was interested in learning more about when he asked his question on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Knowing the proper method to use can make a big difference in your quest for success.
If you think you have had a tough time getting your lawn care business started, imagine trying to do it after you have been involved in a major auto accident and had to quickly learn how to run your business while you were in and out of rehab! That’s what happened to this lawn care business owner and all that stress really forced him to be more focused. What could you learn from his experience? Plenty! Check out his top 10 lawn care business improvement tips that he shared with us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and see how they can help you.
What to do with your lawn care customer’s yard debris? That question may not seem like a big deal early on but as you go, you will find it can quickly become a money sucking burden! If you haven’t thought about it or your policy is still undetermined, consider what this lawn care business owner does. He shared with us, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, how his policy had changed three times since he got started and how he now feels comfortable with his plan to deal with yard debris and compensate himself for the time and money it takes to remove it.
It seems like whenever we start something new, we are always trying to copy what we see others doing. Sometimes we do this even when it’s not something that works to our advantage. Take for instance this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. In it, one new lawn care business owner questions if he needs a landscape trailer and his concerns about getting one. Should he get one or should he made due without one?
Do you service commercial lawn care customers and due to contractual requirements, you need to have your crew chief and the property manager both sign a copy of the invoice? This signature is to show proof you were there on location at the time you are scheduled to be there and performed the jobs listed in the invoice. Does allowing your employees to know what you are charging make you a little nervous? I can understand why. Here in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, a business owner asks what is the best way to handle this and what options he has.
There are plenty of services you can offer home owners in your area above and beyond lawn care. Why not also consider offering gutter cleaning services. That is what this one lawn care business owner decided to offer. He spent some time designing a door hanger to promote the service and also created an estimate form that he shared with everyone on The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Check out how he did this and in one day attracted over $450 in new work.
If you have been scratching your head trying to come up with more lawn care marketing methods to reach out and gain new customers, why not consider what this lawn service business owner did. He got involved with his community and offered some free lawn care to local residents in need and because of this, he got a lot of attention. It’s this kind of attention that can really help you build a positive name for yourself. He shared with us his story on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and how it all played out. Try recreating this yourself and see what happens!
Do you ever find yourself wishing you landed more lawn care or landscaping accounts? Do you find after putting a lot of energy into your landscaping bid that you get negative feedback from the potential lawn care customer? If you do, you are not alone. Putting together a well oiled landscape sales presentation machine takes time and practice. Here is a great discussion on improving your lawn care sales from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. In it, you see an actual landscape bid and how the presentation could have been improved on. Compare and contrast the way you present your bids and see if you can pick up a few tips.
It’s going to happen to you inevitably. You are going to be called to a property to give a lawn care estimate, only to pull up and see a competitor already on site. How they handle themselves and how you do will decide who the potential customer goes with. But what should you do when this happens? That’s the question asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and the response to it may just help you land the account after all.
Are you struggling with your lawn care marketing? Do you feel that all your energy put into your marketing is just being wasted? The reason why may be in the methods you are choosing to reach out to new customers. Marketing methods tend to work better when they are focused and personalized as we will see in this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Compare what you are doing with these methods and see if they can help you improve your responses.
Have you ever been called to a new lawn care customer’s home to bid on a regrading job but didn’t know what to do or where to begin? Here is a great landscaping estimate example where a customer needed their front lawn regraded to allow rain water to flow smoothly away from the house and out to the street. Using this example from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, you should be able to better estimate such landscaping jobs in the future.
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How good can you get at performing a certain landscaping or lawn care service? Can you get good at performing such a service if you never have enough time to understand it thoroughly and perfect it? Can you really profit from performing a top notch service if you never get good at it? How can you compete and survive if you perform a lot of services marginally and none great? That is what one lawn care business owner discussed on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when he shared with us some of his insights and pondered what leads to success and what leads to failure.
As a lawn care business owner, you are going to be more knowledgeable than the average person when it comes to property care. You are also going to have a lot of lawn care equipment that most homeowners don’t have. This will ultimately lead to you taking requests from family and friends, to perform all sorts of services for free. How should you handle this? That is the question which was asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. This discussion should help you better deal with similar situations in your life.
Lawn Care Marketing and why you need to always be doing it - GopherHaul 72 Lawn Care Blog Show
Here is the latet GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Sow episode #72 available online in video format also in podcast format. In this episode I discuss why it’s important to always be doing some sort of lawn care marketing and you will see why.
Lawn Care Marketing Discussion - GopherHaul 72 Lawn Care Podcast
It seems like 90% of your lawn care customers will never be a bother and will pay on time. They won’t ask for additional free lawn care services. They won’t try to haggle you down to the point you are losing money on a job. They will just be pleasant to work with. But then there is that 10% out there who will cause you more stress than you want to deal with. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, you gotta pay attention to the early warning signs with your new customers. When your warning alert goes off, it may be time to leave them and move on.
Do you know a little about the different types of lawns in your area? If you are running a lawn care business, you probably know more than the average home owner. Did you ever think you could turn that knowledge into a lawn care marketing method that could bring you new customers? Well it can! Check out this story from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and see how one business owner put on a presentation at a local big box store and got a bunch of jobs out of it! Check out how he did it and see if you could do it too!
As you get your lawn care business started, do you ever just feel like winging it and seeing where things go? Or do you feel that you should be planning things out more? From this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we will see how having a lawn care business plan can really help you get to where you want to be. A veteran lawn care business owner shared with us his experiences and steps he took to make it through his rough first years of operation.
Miscommunication with your lawn care customers can lead to a break down. Break downs in communication can lead to cancellation of mowing services. The steps you take to interact with your customers and keep them in the loop can keep them happy and lead to a long profitable relationship. But what happens when you don’t communicate well with your customers? We will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum how things can get all screwed up real quickly and how such situations can be easily avoided.
Have you ever run into a situation where you were called to give an estimate on a lawn mowing job that had the potential to become a new annual lawn care contract customer for you, but the property was a mess? How did you handle that situation or how would you if presented with one? Did you include a clean up charge first in your estimate or did you absorb the added cost? That is what one lawn care business owner was curious about when he wrote us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum to find what his best choice was.
When you are called to present an estimate for lawn care on a commercial property, there are a few tips that will help you improve your accuracy. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, knowing the previous bid price can be helpful. Breaking down the job into more easily biddable sizes can also help as well. To further illustrate this topic let’s look at how some business owners handle commercial lawn care bidding.
Where do most lawn care businesses get tripped up when it comes to growth? It seems the big answers are, growing too fast and losing money due to non-payments. Here are some great lawn care business lessons from a veteran who has had a lot of ups and downs in his entrepreneurial career thus far. Hopefully the heads up he shared with us, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, will keep you on a proper path for steady sustainable growth.
Sometimes we get into such a rush to expand our lawn care business that we don’t think of the bigger picture. We don’t take into consideration how one action is going to have a reaction. For instance, buying a larger lawn mower and only realizing when you get to the lawn care customer’s house, that it won’t fit through their gate. What should you do? That is the question which came up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Quite a few creative responses followed which should help you deal with such situations.
What lawn care equipment is right for you? There are many options available and the choices can be daunting to the new lawn care business owner. When it comes down to commercial lawn mowers, a big choice is to either go with hydro or belt driven mowers. But which one would be best for the properties you maintain? That is what one lawn care business owner was curious about when he wrote us on The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
We’ve all heard the saying, don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill. There is a reason such a saying exists. It’s because we all have a tendency to do it at times. Sometimes we make a big issue out of something that is not an issue at all. The downside to doing this too often is that it can hurt us financially, especially if you operate a lawn care business and are constantly looking for new lawn care customers. Let’s take a look at a great example of this from a discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Hopefully this story and learning lesson will stay in the back of your head as you meet with your new customers.
Are you looking to offer your lawn care customers more services this spring? Well here is a great idea one member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us. The idea is creating and planting a vegetable garden for your current customer base. I think it’s going to be a big seller as more and more people are concerned about where their food is coming from and what it is being treated with. There is also a bigger green / self sustainable movement now than ever before to help you sell this concept. Let’s take a look at how this business owner plans on marketing, packaging, and selling this service.
As a lawn care business owner, you are going to be called to some jobs that are going to be easy where all you need to do is show up and mow. While there are going to be other properties where you totally need to re-do the entire lawn. Starting a lawn from scratch, especially on a larger property can be very intimidating for a newer business owner. That is why this one entrepreneur got on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and asked for some help on how to perform and estimate a 3,500 sqft lawn renovation job.
Finding lawn care customers can be a lot easier than you would expect and cost a lot less too when you are harnessing the right lawn care marketing methods for your business. The problem is, when you are starting out, you just don’t know which ones to choose from. So in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we see one business owner find himself frustrated while trying to get his bearings when he write “I haven’t seem to gotten this lawn care marketing thing down yet. For those of you who have been around for a while, what do you think is the most efficient form of advertising to attract new customers?
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