Archive for the 'Internet' Category
As an lawn care entrepreneur, you are most likely keeping your eye open for additional work above and beyond lawn mowing. Although some tend to disagree with offering additional services, it seems those who keep their eyes open for extra work, tend to find it and find success.
A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business [...]
March 18th, 2010 | Posted in Cross Promotion / Synergy, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
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.
February 9th, 2010 | Posted in General Business, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, LawnMail, Marketing, Software, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
February 7th, 2010 | Posted in Direct Mail, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Podcast, Pricing, Referrals, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
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 [...]
January 28th, 2010 | Posted in Coupons, General Business, Gift or Discount Cards, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Press Release, Start up | No Comments
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 [...]
January 17th, 2010 | Posted in Door hanger, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Referrals, Residential Customers, Snow plowing, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
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 [...]
January 12th, 2010 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Postcards, Pricing, Residential Customers | No Comments
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 [...]
January 8th, 2010 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Landscape Project, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Mulch Jobs, Residential Customers, Website, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
December 17th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Website, lawn care equipment | No Comments
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 [...]
December 5th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Start up, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
November 30th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com | No Comments
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 [...]
November 28th, 2009 | Posted in Customer Retention, Door hanger, General Business, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Postcards, Referrals, door to door | No Comments
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. [...]
November 16th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing | No Comments
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 [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, How to sell, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
October 13th, 2009 | Posted in Direct Mail, Door hanger, General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
July 4th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Pressure Washing, Residential Customers | No Comments
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 [...]
June 20th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
May 11th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Podcast, Search Engine Optimization, Website | No Comments
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? [...]
April 28th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Marketing, Podcast, Search Engine Optimization, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
April 25th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Magnets, Marketing, Residential Customers, Search Engine Optimization, Website, Word Of Mouth, door to door | 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
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.
February 15th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Website | No Comments
$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 [...]
February 13th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Residential Customers, Search Engine Optimization, Website | No Comments
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, [...]
February 8th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Podcast, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
January 16th, 2009 | Posted in Estimation Software, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Internet, Landscaper Software, Landscaping Business Software, Landscaping Estimate Software, Landscaping Software, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Software, Lawn Care Estimating Software, Lawn Care Software, Mowing Software, Software, Website | No Comments
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
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January 13th, 2009 | Posted in Free Giveaway Contest, General Business, GopherHaul, Internet, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Search Engine Optimization, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Barter, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Internet, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business School, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing | No Comments