Archive for the 'Business Plan' Category
The vast majority of lawn care businesses that exist are solo operations. What I mean by this is that they are a one man show. There are good sides to running your operation like this because it’s easy to get started and you get to keep all the profit. There are downsides too. The big [...]
January 22nd, 2010 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Business Plan, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Partnership | No Comments
If you are a lawn care business owner you would probably agree with me when I say no matter where you go there will most likely be heavy competition. This is a discussion we were having on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Another business owner shared “I feel this is correct. Where I am, [...]
January 10th, 2010 | Posted in Business Plan, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, lawn care equipment | No Comments
A member of the Gopher lawn Care Business Forum had just posted about how he won his bid for mowing a large commercial property. This new commercial lawn care job is really going to help his business grow next year. And I asked him:
When you read some of the post on this forum and see [...]
December 4th, 2009 | Posted in Business Plan, Commercial Customers, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
For every year we are in business, I hope we are all able to reflect back and learn from what we had problems with so we don’t recreate the same issues next year. I asked the members of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum what they were able to learn from the previous year when [...]
October 18th, 2009 | Posted in Business Plan, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Start up | No Comments
Do you find yourself in a situation where you are running your lawn care business yet you feel after paying bills, you have no money left for a salary? That is the subject of a question asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A new business owner wrote “I started my biz 2 years [...]
August 29th, 2009 | Posted in Business Plan, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Start up | No Comments
Do you find yourself at times reflecting on your business and wonder what is stopping your lawn care business from growing? Do you wonder if what’s stopping you also holds back others? Or maybe what you feel is holding you back is unique to your situation. I think I would like to know it’s not [...]
August 28th, 2009 | Posted in Business Failure, Business Plan, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Start up | No Comments
We are always having great lawn care business discussions in the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and to miss a day of the latest posts is to miss a chance at reading some real quality information. This discussion started off on the topic of dealing with customers. From that it morphed into a profit markup [...]
March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Business Plan, General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing | No Comments
The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business School is now online.
If you look above along the brown bar header on the Gopher Forum, you will see a new section added to the forum. Our FREE online lawn care business school.
This FREE course the “Class 1 - Lawn Care Business Operator’s Certificate” is designed to give the new [...]
March 6th, 2009 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Bonus Pay, Business Failure, Business Plan, Business loan, Debt, Debt Collection, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Insurance, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Start up, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment, training | No Comments
We had an interesting discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum on the topic of lawn care business loans.
One of our lawn care business forum members told us “I did start my business with a loan, but I made sure that it was one that the business could easily pay off.”
Steve: “Do you have [...]
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Business Plan, Business loan, Debt, General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Book, Start up, lawn care equipment | No Comments
New lawn care business book now available.
The landscaping and lawn care business plan startup guide.
If you ever had thought about starting your own lawn care or landscaping business but weren’t sure how to go about putting together a business plan, this book will show you examples of lawn care business plans created on the Gopher [...]
September 17th, 2008 | Posted in Business Plan, General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Book, Start up | No Comments