Archive for the 'Your First Employee' Category
Running your lawn care business as a one man show has it’s advantages and disadvantages. When it’s only you performing the work and dealing with the customers, you know you are getting the job done and treating the customers the way you want them to be treated. But what about when you grow. When you [...]
November 9th, 2009 | Posted in Customer Retention, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Your First Employee, training | No Comments
I can never get enough of good start up business advice. When ever the opportunity arises, I like to ask successful business owners to share some insight as to how they were able to cross that very difficult mine field from start up business to successful operation. The best answers are never quick two or [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Business Failure, Debt, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Marketing, Overhead Costs, Trailer, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment, training | 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
If you are like most lawn care business owners, you want to see your business grow over time. How are you going to do this though? Do you have a plan? What are your lawn care customer base goals? That is the amount of base customers you want to be servicing weekly.
I asked this question [...]
November 9th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Residential Customers, Uncategorized, Your First Employee | No Comments
This is a great discussion I wanted to share with you about hiring lawn care employees form this post at the Gopher Lawn Care Forum.
Steve: “What is tougher, hiring your first employee or having to hire and manage a second crew?
Which was the bigger jump for you, do you feel?
A lot of small business owners [...]
July 14th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Your First Employee | No Comments
Title: GopherHaul 25 - Lawn Care Marketing Business Show
Show description:
Hello and welcome to GopherHaul 25 - Lawn Care Marketing Business Show
In this episode we will be talking about
GopherHaul breaks the 900,000 view mark! Thank you everyone for watching us!
Lawn Care Business Question:
“I need help selling my accounts.”
April 20th, 2008 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Videos, Marketing, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material, Video, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment | No Comments
I had a great podcast last Thursday night with lawn care business author Ken LaVoie . Check out his site at http://www.lawnguru.net. The podcast lasted about an hour and we covered a lot of interesting topics. We also had many of our Gopher Lawn Care Forum friends call in and ask Ken questions as well. [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customer Survey, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Referrals, Residential Customers, Your First Employee | No Comments
I got a great podcast lined up this Thursday 4/10 at 8pm est with author Ken LaVoie. Check out his site at http://www.lawnguru.net.
He wrote the book “How to start a lawn care business a whole new way.”
Some of the topics I want to cover with him:
Talking about his experiences of getting started and what happened [...]
April 7th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Your First Employee | No Comments
Thanks to Clifford from Sideline Property Management for asking the following question:
Question: At what point did you decide to take on your first employee? Was it determined by revenue, time constraint or did you set a specific profit amount that would determine time to add help?
Answer: Good question Clifford, the decision to take on [...]
February 11th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Your First Employee | No Comments