Archive for the 'Marketing on Craigslist.com' Category
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
Are you looking for more ways to improve your sales skills? A new member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us some of sales secrets. He wrote “I have 7 years of sales experience in retail and business. What got me to start my lawn care business is one day when I [...]
January 7th, 2010 | Posted in Business Card, Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Newspaper Ads, Residential Customers, 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
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
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
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
Are you finding yourself trying to compete with fly by night lawn care businesses that advertise they will cut a lawn for $15? Don’t try to compete with them. Any customer who hires such a lawn care business will quickly find out how unreliable they are. You don’t want these cheap customers anyway because they [...]
November 8th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Mowing, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door | No Comments
I just added a flyer you can use to promote your lawn care business fall home and yard clean up. The flyer’s title says Fall Clean Up Week. Then in the text below, it says you are a neighbor who owns your own lawn care business and you have rented a dumpster for one week [...]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Fall, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
August 13th, 2008 | Posted in 4th of July, Armed Forces Day, Billboard, Brochure, Business Card, Christmas, Commercial Customers, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, Coupons, Cross Promotion / Synergy, Customer Retention, Fall, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, Gift or Discount Cards, Halloween, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Book, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Lawn Signs, Mailing list, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Memorial Day, Newspaper Ads, Parade, Postcards, Prepay, Referrals, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Spring, Valentine's Day, Veteran's Day, Winter, Word Of Mouth, buying customers, door to door, home show, publicity stunt | No Comments
Fernando made a post on the Gopher Lawn Care Forum and asked a question about how best to use craigslist.com to market his lawn care business.
He said:
“Hi, everybody!
Well I startet using cragislist.com last month and so far I’ve gained 4 new accounts, (so I guess it works for me), but how many here use or [...]
April 17th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Residential Customers | No Comments
Hello and welcome to GopherHaul 24 - Lawn Care Marketing Business Show
In this episode we will be talking about
GopherHaul breaks the 800,000 view mark! Thank you everyone for watching us!
Inspirational Story:
Rob from Apple Lawns, a 15 year old entrepreneur wrote to us with his inspiring story. I think he will inspire others to start their [...]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, GopherHaul, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Videos, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Residential Customers, Video | No Comments
Our friend Fernando used craiglist.com to promote his lawn care business. In his add he mentioned if you signed up for a year’s worth of lawn care he would give you a dinner for two at the Olive Garden! Quite an interesting marketing inducement.
If you would like to jump into the discussion on this marketing [...]
February 12th, 2008 | Posted in Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com | No Comments
Thanks to Patrick for this great idea.
Lawn Mower Repair Flyer
I put together this flyer you can use to find more work in the fall and winter. You will notice, I included a coupon for a fall clean up with a mower maintenance. While you are fixing their mower, you might as well offer them a [...]
October 12th, 2007 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Software, Lawn Mower Repair, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com | No Comments