Archive for the 'Debt Collection' Category
For many new lawn care business owners, there is this tendency to be a wishful thinker. If a lawn care customer owes you for one month’s worth of work already, you might find that you try to justify in your head if you keep working, they will eventually pay you. You may also be afraid [...]
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers | No Comments
It can be really difficult to keep your lawn care customers signed up with you for service all year long, especially when the season slows down. If you lose contact with them during the slow months, it can be tough to get in touch with them to sign up and start again in the Spring. [...]
March 26th, 2010 | Posted in Debt Collection, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to sell, Invoicing, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Pricing, Residential Customers | No Comments
All too often, accounts receivable, is over looked by new lawn care business owners. When a new lawn care business owner is just getting started, they figure they would rather be working than not working. So as long as they are working, they feel like it is money in the bank. But it is so [...]
December 26th, 2009 | Posted in Debt, Debt Collection, General Business, How to sell, Invoicing, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Prepay, Pricing, Start up | No Comments
Do you have troubles getting paid from your lawn care customers after you mow their yard? This is a big problem that can easily sink a lawn care business. But what should you do about it? What’s the best way to handle this situation? Have you considered post dated checks? One lawn care business owner [...]
October 16th, 2009 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, Invoicing, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Prepay | No Comments
New lawn care business owners quite often think about if they should or shouldn’t be using lawn care contracts with their residential clients. What works best? This was a question that was posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A business owner wrote “My thought is to steer away from “paper” contracts with residential [...]
July 5th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Debt Collection, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | 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
Are you find it difficult to collect on your overdue lawn care business accounts? Are your lawn care customers holding off on paying? This article should help you with some tips and tricks on how to collect payments.
Gary got on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and asked ” last year was my first year [...]
February 1st, 2009 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, GopherHaul, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Podcast, Residential Customers | No Comments
Do you have a customer or customers that are telling you repeatedly that the check is in the mail? Maybe they have even go so far as to tell you they aren’t going to pay you. One of our Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum Members had to deal with this issue until she sent out [...]
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, GopherHaul, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Podcast | No Comments
This was a great post made on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. It asks what do you do when a lawn care customer refuses to pay their bill? How should a lawn care business owner handle this?
Amy: “Hello everyone! I’m sure it’s happened to most of us…a customer that wants the garden weeded and [...]
October 5th, 2008 | Posted in Debt Collection, General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers | No Comments