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Every customer will act and behave a little different from others. Many would seem content to just do what ever they want and pay when they feel like it. This, as we know, will be detrimental to your lawn care business. But how do you get everyone on the same page? You can accomplish this [...]
October 16th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
As the economy falls deeper into recession, many homeowners are losing their homes for failing to pay their mortgages. As these homes get foreclosed they fall into disrepair. For a lawn care business owner that offers property maintenance services this can mean big bucks! Let’s jump to a post made on the Gopher Lawn Care [...]
December 16th, 2008 | Posted in Foreclosed Homes, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Uncategorized | No Comments
If you are like most lawn care business owners, you want to see your business grow over time. How are you going to do this though? Do you have a plan? What are your lawn care customer base goals? That is the amount of base customers you want to be servicing weekly.
I asked this question [...]
November 9th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Residential Customers, Uncategorized, Your First Employee | No Comments
You could even take this idea one step further and put up an inflatable halloween display on your property and maybe at the home of your family or friends in town too to help promote your services further.
Join this discussion at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
Use a stencil on the inflatable display.
Afterwards, you have [...]
October 17th, 2008 | Posted in Fall, Fall Leaf Cleanups, General Business, Halloween, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Signs, Marketing, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Uncategorized | No Comments
How cool would it be if you could get a whole bunch of these fall leaf clean up lawn signs? Have them cut into the proper shape and then insert them through out the neighborhoods you service.
It would be a really neat and visual way to offer your fall leaf lawn clean up services.
Here is [...]
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in Fall, Fall Leaf Cleanups, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Signs, Marketing, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Uncategorized, door to door | No Comments
What does $250,000 buy you when it comes to lawn care equipment? How about this set up? These pictures were sent to us by our friend Brandon. Check out his post here at the Gopher Lawn Care Forum.
May 9th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Truck, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Uncategorized, lawn care equipment | No Comments
A forum member made a post about bidding on a tree removal. I wanted to share this post from the Gopher Lawn Care Forum with you to help broaden your knowledge on creating an estimate for a tree removal.
Abryconlawn: “Hey everybody, I’ve been in the landscaping business for about five years now and just [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Tree Removal, Uncategorized | No Comments
Most lawn care business owners will want to cut a lawn weekly. It is more profitable and it keeps the lawn from becoming overgrown. Overgrown lawns take more time to cut and wear down equipment faster. Sometimes you might run into a lawn care customer who only wants their lawn cut every other week to [...]
April 24th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Mowing, Uncategorized | No Comments
I am trying to consolidate all the great content we have created at the Gopher Lawn Care Software site. Here is a great collection of all our lawn care business podcasts.
Check them out here
April 23rd, 2008 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Marketing, Podcast, Uncategorized | No Comments
I put this winter lawn care clean up flyer together based on Keith’s suggestions. You can download it and edit in any way you want. It’s created with openoffice.org which is a free program similar to Microsoft Word.
Download the file here Make sure you logged into the forum to download all files.
You can discuss this [...]
November 7th, 2007 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, GopherHaul, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Uncategorized, Winter | No Comments
Wohoooo! We are entering the blogging frontier. How neat!
March 12th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments