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Nothing gets under your skin more than showing up to mow a lawn and maintain a property only to meet the customer and have them tell you to come back next week. When a customer postpones lawn service, it not only messes up your schedule, but it costs you money.
What can you do about this [...]

One of our Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum members put together this great letter to send out to his lawn care customers. When I asked him about the letter he said “A letter from me might just remind them that their lawn service is friendly & shares apart of itself, with them.
I also promote a [...]

If you live in an area where you get a lot of snow and are looking to expand your lawn care business into snow removal, you may be thinking how to land commercial snow plow accounts. That was a question brought up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when a member asked “as part of [...]

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I am constantly learning new things on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. The things that amaze me the most are the things that I just would have never thought of without the help of others. Take for example this simple topic. How many welcome [...]

When your lawn care business is submitting a bid for property maintenance, consider including this bid cover letter sample. It’s a great way to look professional and improve your chances at winning the lawn care bid.
Mr. Smith
123 Main St
Anytown, USA 90210
(800) 123-4567
RE: Weekly Lawn Maintenance
Dear Mr. Smith,
Thank you for inviting XXXX Lawn Care [...]

I added a great end of the lawn care season letter sample you can download and use for your lawn care business. This is a great way to reach out to your lawn care customers and say thank you.
Homeowner
10 Any Street
Yourcity, STATE 87392
Dear Customer,
I would like to thank you again for choosing Smith Landscaping for [...]

If you are looking to provide snow plowing services or property management services to home owners, here is a great sample letter you can send out in fall to line up potential customers. Tom wrote on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum “I provide property care taking and snow removal service during the non [...]

Reaching out to your lawn care customers and letting them know they are appreciated is very important. This is all too often overlooked because the average lawn care business owner is just simply overwhelmed with the day to day activities of running his business. As a small business owner, you have many great opportunities to [...]

If you are looking to increase your lawn care customer base, a great way to do it is by increasing your referrals. How do you increase your referrals? You can start by simply asking your current customers to help you out with a letter. You would be amazed at how your current customer base would [...]

Free lawn care customer cancellation letter and survey.
I’d like to thank one of our fellow forum members for sharing this letter you can download from our free lawn care business letter section here.
When a lawn care customer cancels, they are canceling for a reason. They may not want to tell you the reason face to [...]

I want to thank Gary for sharing with us this fall leaf clean up letter. Before fall comes along, why not send out this letter in your invoices to your lawn care customers. Ask them how you should handle their leaf clean up and also offer other additional fall services like gutter cleaning.
Gary also suggested [...]

If you are planning on taking a vacation you should let your lawn care customers know. Don’t leave them guessing what happened to you when they call and you don’t answer.
Thanks to Justin for sharing with us this lawn care customer letter he sends out when he is going on vacation. You can join in [...]

One of the top questions asked on the Gopher Forum is how to get new customers. Well I wanted to answer this question as best as possible and I put together two new books. If you are looking to gain more lawn care customers this Summer and who isn’t, check out my brand new books [...]

Getting your foot in the door is an important step when you are marketing to commercial clients but how should you go about doing this?
Greg: “I need some help in get some commercial accounts. I have one only because one of my customers has a storage place. How do I get my name to others [...]

This great discussion about who should you present your commercial lawn care bid to was taken from the Gopher Lawn Care Forum here. Feel free to visit the forum to join in on the discussion.
Rob: “Tim, do you already have a bid ready when you are going out prospecting?

How do you know what services they [...]

Here is a sample letter posted on our Gopher Lawn Care Forum. Your lawn care business could send this out to property managers to help you gain commercial lawn care accounts.
(423) ###-xxxx
2-29-08
Baxxxx xxxx
Emerald Green Lawn Care
Miss Clarke,
Hello, please allow me to take a moment of your time. My name is Bxxxxx xxxx and I represent [...]

Spring is here and many new lawn care business owners are going to be out and about providing estimates to new potential customers. Pat posted a question in our lawn care forum here and asked if we had any sample lawn care proposal or estimate forms he could download and use on job sites.

Here is [...]

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Thanks to Emerald Green Lawn Care for this property manager letter template. Make sure you visit our lawn care business forum for more great free lawn care letter templates.
(423) ###-xxxx
2-29-08
Baxxxx xxxx
Emerald Green Lawn Care
Miss Clarke,
Hello, please allow me to take a moment of your time. My name is Bxxxxx xxxx and I represent Emerald Green [...]

Greenmind jumped onto our Gopher Lawn Care Business forum and asked “I have about 35 maintenance customers that are either biweekly or weekly accounts.  Last year was my first year full time and non of my customers except for 5  of the 35 accounts stayed with me through the winter months. Most accounts were average [...]

I’d like to thank Justin for posting this Lawn Care Proposal Letter on the forum and sharing it with all of us. I hope you find it useful.
You can download the file here. Make sure you logged into the forum to download all files

Here is a lawn care customer credit card authorization letter from Mark as well. Thanks Mark!
You can download the file here. Make sure you logged into the forum to download all files

Thanks to Mark for this sample lawn care customer referral letter.
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Here is a new free lawn care sales letter to commercial property managers. To download the full letter visit the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here. Make sure you log in to gain access to the free download file section.
Your Address Here
City, ST, ZIP
PHONE
DATE
Contact Name
Company Name.
Address.
City, ST ZIP
Dear Contact Name
Hello, please allow me to take [...]

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Thanks to Casey Shields for bringing up this idea.
I put together a flyer where you could promote your Christmas tree removal service and possibly offer the service for free if the customer signs up for an annual lawn care service contract or they could simply pay a one time fee of $25.
What’s your thoughts on [...]

This is a letter Patrick sent to us to share with everyone.
Patrick prefaced this letter with this statement: “The other day I was doing random searches on Google trying to find different groups to whom I could market our services… of course, Property Management Groups were high on my list. I found TONS in [...]

Here is a letter Tim sent to us. He suggested you send this letter out in December. Thank you Tim.
These letters let potential customer know that you are there and ready to be placed on their bidders list.
Here is an example of one I use:
YOUR COMPANY NAME
123 INDUSTRY DR
HOMETOWN, US 12345
YOUR PHONE #
YOUR EMAIL
YOUR WEBSITE [...]