Archive for July, 2016
Most new lawn care businesses start up with very little money and with no money in reserve. This opens the door to financial troubles when you begin to run into the standard problems of equipment breaking down, or not being able to find enough customers, or not having enough money set aside to get you [...]
July 29th, 2016 | Posted in Business Credit, Debt, Lawn Care Business | No Comments
Good lawn care employees can be so difficult to find. So if you are in a situation where you are going through employee after employee, don’t feel like you are alone. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from some entrepreneurs who are all experiencing problems getting staff to show [...]
July 22nd, 2016 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Lawn Care Employees, Trials and Tribulations, Your First Employee, training | No Comments
It doesn’t take the average start up lawn care business to figure out how much to charge to mow the average size lawn in their area. Once you start to branch out and begin to offer landscape services, properly estimating times and fees can become more difficult to do. In this discussion from the Gopher [...]
July 15th, 2016 | Posted in Brush Clearing, Edging, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscape Project, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Residential Customers, Spring cleanups, Start up | No Comments
It can be difficult to scale up your lawn care estimating ability from working on smaller postage stamp size residential properties to larger acreage commercial properties. In this discussion, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how much time it will take him to [...]
July 8th, 2016 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing | No Comments
Most every town has a nicer area and a rougher area. Nice lawns tend to be owned by people who care about what their property looks like and are willing to pay for lawn service. But what about those lawns in run down areas? Are they worth taking on? That is what one entrepreneur wanted [...]
July 1st, 2016 | Posted in How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Mowing, Pricing, Residential Customers | No Comments