Archive for the 'Business Plan' Category

If you get sick, what will happen to your lawn care business?

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 [...]

Dealing with heavy lawn care business competition.

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, [...]

Dealing with pain in the ass customers.

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 [...]

Learning from this year’s lawn care business mistakes.

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 [...]

How to turn my low profit lawn care business around?

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 [...]

What’s stopping your lawn care business from growing?

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 [...]

Profit markup lesson from an outdoor power equipment dealer.

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 [...]

GopherHaul Lawn Care Business School Now Open!

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 [...]

Lawn Care Business Loan.

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 [...]

The landscaping and lawn care business plan startup guide.

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 [...]