Archive for August, 2011
So much can go wrong with your lawn care marketing message that it can be difficult to figure out what happened after the fact. When you go door to door with hundreds of lawn care door hangers or mail out thousands of lawn care flyers, the last thing you can imagine happening is nothing. But [...]
August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Door hanger, General Business, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
This discussion hit on a bunch of important topics. First it talked about how to get going full time in lawn care when you have a full time job elsewhere. Next it talked about how to utilize employees to help you achieve this goal. Lastly, it showed how to gain lawn care customers through home [...]
August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Cold Calling, General Business, Growth, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Start up | No Comments
You only have so much time to spend marketing and so much money, so when you do perform different lawn care marketing techniques, you want to make sure they bring you the biggest bang for your buck. The whole point of marketing is to get your message to stand out so that it will be [...]
August 29th, 2011 | Posted in Community Projects To Promote Your Business, General Business, Goodwill, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Press Release, Residential Customers | No Comments
As if running a lawn care business wasn’t tough enough, how should you handle a situation where your lawn care customer pays you with a check and when you go to try and cash the check, it bounces? In such situations, you can get hit with a bounced check fee from the bank, that can [...]
August 27th, 2011 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, Invoicing, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Prepay | No Comments
Continuing on from part 3 of my previous blog article on lawn care business lessons I have learned, here are more insights one lawn care business owner learned from his experience of getting his lawn care business started. In the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, he shared with us his thoughts on [...]
August 25th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Growth, How to get, Job Tracking, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Marketing, Scheduling, Start up, Your First Employee | No Comments
Continuing on from part 2 of my previous blog article on lawn care business lessons I have learned, here are more insights one lawn care business owner learned from his experience of getting his lawn care business started. In the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, he shared with us service, pricing, and employee tips [...]
August 24th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to get, How to sell, Job Tracking, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up, Upsells, door to door | No Comments
Continuing on from my previous blog article is a further look into what one lawn care business owner learned from his experience of getting his lawn care business started. In the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, he shared with us his list of the top 5 mistakes he found himself and other business owners make [...]
August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Goodwill, Growth, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Marketing, Residential Customers, Start up, lawn care equipment | No Comments
There is nothing like learning from those on the front lines of the lawn care industry. They are the ones in the trenches, putting ideas, equipment and know how together to keep their businesses going and growing. Here are some great insight from a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum who is out [...]
August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Mower, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Residential Customers, Scheduling, Start up, lawn care equipment | No Comments
A little investigation on your part can really go a long way when it comes to finding a way to make your lawn care business stand out from others. By asking friends and neighbors about their lawn care service provider, you can learn a lot about what they like and don’t like in the service [...]
August 20th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door | No Comments
When you don’t have a full grasp on your business operations, disasters can sneak up on you and cause your business to implode upon itself. If you have never seen how such an event can happen, this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum is a great example of how things can go bad [...]
August 19th, 2011 | Posted in Business Failure, Debt, General Business, Growth, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, door to door | No Comments
There can be a lot of barriers to getting your lawn care business started, especially if you live in an area that is governed by a local home owner’s association. Another issue we will see in this discussion, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, is how having a criminal record can potentially effect your [...]
August 18th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Start up | No Comments
Should you be offering weed pulling in your list of lawn care services? Pulling weeds can be labor intensive but can make a huge difference in how the property appears as a whole. One lawn care business owner was questioning if this service was worth it or not when he wrote us on the Gopher [...]
August 17th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Pricing | No Comments
Should you lock yourself into a one year or multi-year lawn care contract? What about taking a customer’s money who offers to pre-pays for the entire year? That’s the question one lawn care business owner had on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. There are a bunch of variables you need to consider before you [...]
August 16th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Prepay, Pricing, Start up | No Comments
Finding your first lawn care job can be tough to do. When you are going from a stand still, it takes a lot of effort to overcome all the friction that is going to try and hold you back. Here in a discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we see a new lawn [...]
August 15th, 2011 | Posted in Door hanger, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mowing, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door | No Comments
Do you ever find a lawn care customer is late on paying his bill? How do you handle this? Do you continue to service the property or do you talk to the client about it? Maybe you choose a third option of sending out a few late payment reminder letters in the mail? One member [...]
August 12th, 2011 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, Lawn Care Business | No Comments
Everyone is looking for ways to grow their lawn care business and there are many ways to do it. One lawn care business owner shared with us a simple tip on how he has been able to grow his lawn care business over 100% in 3 years. His method is simple, he shows his customers [...]
August 11th, 2011 | Posted in Customer Retention, Direct Mail, General Business, Goodwill, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Website, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Are you trying to figure out how to improve your lawn care sales presentations to residential lawn care customers? Have you tried different techniques and not yet hit on a method that allows you to land 90%+ of the jobs you bid on? Well here is some insight shared with us on the Gopher Lawn [...]
August 9th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Residential Customers | No Comments
Are you finding yourself doing more waiting around for work than working? That’s the spot this one lawn care business owner found himself in before a chance encounter with a realtor friend opened his mind up to a new marketing method that seems to be getting him back out working. He shared with us his [...]
August 8th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mowing, Pricing, Start up | No Comments
You can waste a lot of time during your day when using the wrong lawn care equipment for the job you are doing. But when should you make the switch and upgrade the equipment you are using for something better? It all comes down to time. If you can save time with an equipment upgrade, [...]
August 4th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Mower, Mowing, Tractor, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Most people tend to have a fear of public speaking and trying to sell to new people is right behind it. So if you have a fear of public speaking and don’t feel comfortable selling, what is the best way for you to utilize door to door marketing in your lawn care business? That is [...]
August 3rd, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Upsells, door to door | No Comments
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August 3rd, 2011 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Pricing, Snow plowing | No Comments
There are many simple tricks of the trade you can pick up over time as you are in the lawn care industry longer. Most of these tips would be a lot better to know if you could learn them early on. Here is a great tip from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that should [...]
August 2nd, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Mower, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Email marketing is a real simple way of reaching out to new potential customers, but is it worthwhile? That is what one business owner questioned on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Interestingly enough, another lawn care business owner who is also a licensed real estate agent, responded with some insight that will surely help [...]
August 1st, 2011 | Posted in Cold Calling, Commercial Customers, General Business, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Mailing list, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers | No Comments