Archive for August, 2015
It’s not an easy thing to create a logo for your lawn care business. With a logo, you are trying to create a visual icon that encapsulates a mood, your companies technical skill level, how you will interact with a customer, and what they can expect from you. If you make the logo too detailed, [...]
August 28th, 2015 | Posted in Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
If you get your lawn care business started up later in the season, your first obstacle may be accurately bidding leaf removal jobs. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, such jobs can really catch you off guard and require a lot more time than you may initially [...]
August 25th, 2015 | Posted in Fall Leaf Cleanups, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Pricing, Start up, leaf clean up | No Comments
Have you ever run into a situation where you have already provided a fall yard cleanup only to have that same customer call you back a week later asking when you are going to be there to pick up the rest of the leaves? That is what is going on in this discussion from the [...]
August 21st, 2015 | Posted in Customer Retention, Fall Leaf Cleanups, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Problem customers, Residential Customers, Start up, Trials and Tribulations, leaf clean up | No Comments
Do you have a couple of bucks burning a hole in your pocket and are you considering spending that money on a business you found in craiglist? You may want to reconsider that option after reading this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, in which we hear from one entrepreneur who got burned [...]
August 18th, 2015 | Posted in Business Failure, Customer Retention, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Start up, Trials and Tribulations, buying customers | No Comments
A new mowing business may find itself having a difficult time getting customers to sign a mowing contract. If that is the case for consider this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Getting customers to sign up when you are new can be tough but there are definite benefits to it. If you [...]
August 13th, 2015 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Debt Collection, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Prepay, Problem customers, Residential Customers, Start up | No Comments
There is this myth n the minds of the newbie landscaper that if they come into an area and charge the cheapest price, they will be able to scoop up enough clients that the volume of clients will make up for the cheap price. The reality of it all is that doesn’t work. As we [...]
August 11th, 2015 | Posted in Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Mowing, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up | No Comments
When you are working on commercial properties or even large residential properties, you may at times be called upon to clear brush out of part of the yard. If you have never done such work before, coming up with a price for the job can be tough. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care [...]
August 6th, 2015 | Posted in Brush Clearing, Commercial Customers, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Wood Chipping | No Comments
A business, any business, whether it’s lawn care, window cleaning, house building, or whatever can eat you alive. If you don’t pace yourself, you can spend endless amounts of time chasing that next elusive customer or that next job. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we take a moment and look [...]
August 4th, 2015 | Posted in Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Problem customers, Trials and Tribulations | No Comments