Archive for the 'Internet' Category

LawnMail Lawn Care Business Internet Platform available for download.

I got the latest version of LawnMail up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum for you to download. This package of web code is jam packed with problem solving features.
First off, what is LawnMail? Basically it is a website platform that allows your lawn care customers to have more interaction with you.

Lawn care packages help you sell more.

We all like to know what works and what doesn’t when it comes to lawn care marketing. By reading such stories on the topic, we hope to cut out those marketing ideas that are ineffective. What amazes me about all the stories we see on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, it’s amazing how one [...]

Using a lawn care business niche and theme to stand out.

There is a constant flow of new lawn care businesses that get started up every year as there is a constant flow of lawn care businesses that fail. Finding a niche and standing out is very important if you are going to find success. I think we all learn best when presented with examples of [...]

Why I got out of property management and into landscaping.

A new member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us his experience with running a property management company and why he got out of it in order to focus on his landscaping business. This might help you gain some insight if you were thinking about expanding into property management in the future.
He [...]

How to market lawn mowing prices.

A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us a postcard he had designed for his lawn care marketing campaign. In the postcard he was promoting an annual contract fee that would include all sorts of services a lawn care customer would get throughout the year if they signed up with him.
When [...]

A $2,700 landscape project makeover.

I love to showcase some of the landscape projects, members of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum share with us. They are great learning tools because you get a chance to see a before and after image along with the bid price and the amount of profit the job generated. From this you can compare [...]

How to improve your website search engine rankings.

With each passing day more and more potential lawn care customers are looking to internet search engines for lawn care companies as those phone books are becoming a thing of the past. Knowing this will show you the importance of having a website but that is only the first step. You are also going to [...]

What you should include in your lawn care website.

Are you looking to create your own lawn care website? Or maybe thinking about adding some information to it but you are not sure what? Consider these ideas from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
The difference between success and failure can be very slight. So can the difference between good and great. That is why [...]

Is the customer always right?

We have a lot of discussions at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum on the topic of customers. How best to deal with them. How to attract them and in this discussion, are they always right?
A new lawn care business owner shared with us some of his thoughts on getting his lawn care business going [...]

How to improve your online lawn care advertising.

Do you find it difficult to create an ad for your online classified advertising? A lot of times you will see a lawn care business post an ad with just very bland text, but thanks to a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, you can now download some free graphical templates to edit [...]

When your ads don’t work, strong customer relations will.

Finding which lawn care marketing strategy works seems to be a topic of never ending fascination. Everyone seems to be looking for that magic key. Is it flyers? Is it door hangers? If not those two, what else could it be? That is a topic raised at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when one [...]

Is it email marketing or spamming?

Have you ever been in a situation where you were able to get a hold of a local organization’s email address database and wanted to send out email marketing material to their group? Would that be considered smart marketing or spamming? That is a great question brought up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. [...]

Help! My lawn care marketing isn’t working!

It’s one of the most frustrating things to have to deal with as an owner of a small lawn care business, when you spend money on marketing and nothing is working. It can make you feel like you are in a ship that is sinking and no matter what you do to bail the water [...]

Targeting vacant lot clean ups.

Slow economies tend to drive people that once were employed into finding side work on their own. Sometimes this sidework is offering lawn care. When too many people are offering lawn care services, the price in the area tends to drop. So what do you do?
This is the situation a member of the Gopher Lawn [...]

$300 a year lawn care customer upsell idea.

You never know when your next big idea is going to be right around the corner. Take this idea for instance. One of the members of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum had been at a lawn care customer’s home performing some power washing when a light bulb went on in his head and a [...]

Using craigslist to promote your lawn care business.

Are you looking for a free way to market your lawn care business? A new lawn care business owner wrote to us and shared his frustration about finding customers. He said “I’m 17 and I mow and landscape with a friend of mine. We are a pretty good team and we do good work but [...]

Lawn care business website search engine optimization tip.

Did you know you can appear on google’s search engine even if you don’t have a website? And if you have a lawn care website, here is a tip that you really need to take advantage of. The best part about all of this, is that it’s FREE. It’s amazing what you can learn when [...]

Where your phone number should appear in your lawn care website.

You would think by the title of this article, the story below would be so simple you didn’t even have to read it but that is certainly not the case. Most lawn care business owners don’t put much time into where their phone number should appear. Just ask yourself where does your phone number appear? [...]

How one lawn care business owner is attracting more customers.

Sometimes the difference between success and failure can be so slight we just don’t know when we are close to that line. Many times entrepreneurs can walk within inches of success but give up before crossing over. Recently one of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum members got on and posted on how he was [...]

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 [...]

New lawn care business animated banners added

I added some new lawn care business animated banners to our online designer. Now you will be able to offer more seasonal graphics to your lawn care business website or online advertisements.
Here is the Seasons Greetings animated lawn care banner.

How your landscaping business can make $200,000 in a month.

$200,000 in one month? Is your lawn care or landscaping business able to do that? Well if you’re not there yet, read this article and find out how to do it.
If you are looking to grow your lawn care and landscaping business you need to think big. Let’s take a look into how one of [...]

Make your own animated Lawn Care or Snow Plowing Banner Ad.

Have you ever wanted to make your own animated banner ad to promote your lawn care or snow plowing services and found it difficult if not impossible to do so? Well here is a simple online service that allows you to enter your lawn care business contact information and creates an animated banner quickly, [...]

Use your cell phone to access the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Web Tools

You can now use your cell phone to access all the functionality of the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Web Tools. If you haven’t created a user account yet, visit the site and register to create your own account. Then you will be able to unlock the power of the web tools.
Imagine pulling up on site [...]

Free Lawn Care Business Website Template Design.

I was contacted by Matt on the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Forum and we worked out this great deal to give away one free Lawn care business website makeover. I am really excited about this. Let me turn this over to Matt to tell us what he is offering.
Complete Lawn Care Business Website Makeover
Sponsored by [...]

How to use a squeeze page on your lawn care website.

One of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum members recently made a trade with a local publisher. He offered to do lawn care in return for ad space. In this discussion we learn how creating a ’squeeze page’ on your website can help you collect potential customer contact information to allow you to market to [...]