Archive for March, 2012
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 [...]
March 30th, 2012 | Posted in Door hanger, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, door to door, home show | No Comments
One of the many benefits of always doing some sort of lawn care marketing is you gain new customers. Now that is a good thing, but there is an even better benefit than that. You can get to the point where you don’t have to take every customer that calls. Instead you can be picky [...]
March 30th, 2012 | Posted in GopherHaul, Growth, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Pricing, Problem customers, Residential Customers, Start up, Video | No Comments
Which lawn care marketing method will work best for a new start up mowing business? More than likely it is going to be one that requires less money and more time. When you get started, you tend to have more time than money so harnessing that time seems to be the key to finding success [...]
March 28th, 2012 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Postcards, Referrals, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
When a storm hits, depending on the strength of it, a lot of damage can occur both to property and to structures. How you prepare for such situations can mean the difference between attracting many storm cleanups or not. In this discussion on The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we get some insight as to [...]
March 27th, 2012 | Posted in Chipper, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Postcards, Tree Removal, Wood Chipping, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Wealthy lawn care customers are unique creatures. They are more capable of paying bigger bucks for mowing their larger properties and will look to be sure they are getting high quality service in return. They will also look for confidence from their service providers. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn [...]
March 27th, 2012 | Posted in Business Failure, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Pricing, Problem customers, Uncategorized | No Comments
It’s fascinating to see how your lawn care business can change and grow over time. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, one entrepreneur talks to us about how he is considering firing a lawn care customer he took on early in his career but he has since grown beyond and now [...]
March 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Growth, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Pricing, Problem customers, Start up | No Comments
Do you find it difficult to estimate the amount of time a hedge trimming job will take and figuring out how much to charge for such a bid? Well here is a great example from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that was shared with us by a new lawn care business owner who wasn’t [...]
March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Mowing | No Comments
It can be very difficult to figure out what lawn care equipment you need when you are just getting started out because the equipment need is going to be based on the services you offer and the size of the properties you plan on mowing or landscaping. That is why it is so important to [...]
March 21st, 2012 | Posted in Business Failure, Business Plan, Growth, Lawn Care Business, Start up, lawn care equipment | No Comments
To grow your business, you can buy lawn care accounts and get a bunch of them in one fell swoop or you can utilize your lawn care marketing and build them up more organically over time. Either way, it’s going to cost you to do it. Either time or money. So if you have the [...]
March 20th, 2012 | Posted in How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
Have you ever considered using lawn signs or bandit signs in your area to attract more lawn care customers? At the right time of year and with the right message, they can be a very effective lawn care marketing method. But what kind of message should you be using on your sign? That is what [...]
March 19th, 2012 | Posted in Lawn Signs, Marketing | No Comments
There are many ways to grow your lawn care business. Should you do it by buying more lawn care equipment? What about by hiring more lawn care employees. Or how about by increasing your lawn care marketing budget and working as many customers as you can by yourself? That is what one lawn care business [...]
March 16th, 2012 | Posted in Growth, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Marketing, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Has your lawn care business been contacted by a sales person trying to get you to spend your lawn care marketing budget on radio or TV ad space? Were they super energetic and made you feel this was a no brainer and you would come out ahead if you did it? Another lawn care business [...]
March 15th, 2012 | Posted in Marketing, Radio, Television | No Comments
There are all sorts of lawn care marketing methods you can use to attract new lawn care customers, but what about having a lawn care customer referral program? Where you offer something to motivate your current customer into getting you more customers? That’s what this business owner was wondering when he asked for ideas on [...]
March 14th, 2012 | Posted in How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers | No Comments
Are you looking to improve your lawn care sales techniques? What about your lawn care marketing? Well, there is nothing like learning from a veteran of the industry and after 25 years, this lawn care business owner had a few tips and tricks to share with us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. So [...]
March 13th, 2012 | Posted in Business Failure, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Start up, Upsells | No Comments
It’s quite the nature of the beast when you run a lawn care business, especially early on, to try and take on as many jobs as you can. There may be times you find yourself taking on lawn care jobs you really have no idea how to perform. With a little research on your part [...]
March 12th, 2012 | Posted in How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Renovation | No Comments
Every lawn care business owner dreams of being swamped with worked. Of having such effective lawn care marketing that you just have too many lawn care customers. But as we will see in this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, sometimes you reach the point of too much and when that happens, changes [...]
March 9th, 2012 | Posted in Business Failure, Growth, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Trials and Tribulations, lawn care equipment | No Comments
If you keep your lawn care marketing message out there consistently throughout the year, you just might be amazed at the calls you. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, one member shared with us his experience bidding on a local water treatment plant to provide them with lawn mowing and weed [...]
March 8th, 2012 | Posted in How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Mowing, Mowing | No Comments
With every lawn care marketing method you use, there are going to be variables that when tweaked can make the difference between them being effective or not. There will also be signs that can point to reasons why certain methods turn out to be ineffective. Here is a great discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care [...]
March 8th, 2012 | Posted in Business Card, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals | No Comments
When you are trying to attract new lawn care customers, the last thing you want to do is get them mad at you. There are certainly plenty of ways to trip up with your lawn care marketing and here is one that was discussed on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that you should absolutely [...]
March 6th, 2012 | Posted in Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, door to door | No Comments
It seems every new lawn care business owner is looking for the one secret that will allow them to find success. As we will see from this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, sometimes there is no single tip that will make or break you but a bunch of simple steps when combined, [...]
March 6th, 2012 | Posted in Growth, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Start up | No Comments
It’s amazing how a kind gesture can help really improve your relations with a lawn care customer and with such an improvement comes a lot of positive things your way. Word of mouth advertising is born this way. From a simple seed grows good will through out your community. Consider this discussion from the Gopher [...]
March 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Community Projects To Promote Your Business, Customer Retention, Goodwill, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Pricing, Referrals, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
If you ever had to hire a lawn care employee, you know how desperately hard it can be to find a good one. With that being the case, you may need to consider looking at your potential pool of lawn care employees with a new light to find a real gem. That is what this [...]
March 1st, 2012 | Posted in Lawn Care Employees | No Comments