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When Fall arrives, here is a great lawn care marketing idea. It’s a two part marketing idea. First you order a large amount of Poinsettias or mums to hand out to your customers. Then with the flowers you have left, why not consider setting up a farmer’s market style display in your area. Maybe at [...]

Here is a Free Green Grass Lawn Care Postcard you can download and use. I will show you the preview here and add the larger sized image in the free lawn care postcard section here.
I hope you are able to use it.

Rob recently shared with us some of his tips and tricks on how to perform snow plowing for your residential lawn care customer accounts. You can join the conversation further on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. One of his suggestions was this. Do get your snow plow accounts in place before it snows so [...]

Newspapers are being received by homeowners every day of the week. So why not consider this lawn care marketing idea. Get a bunch of newspaper bags printed with different seasonal messages. For the fall you could get ‘Leaf Cleaup Call Us.’
Then get the local newspaper delivery person to use your bags in the delivery. [...]

In a great discussion on running your snow plowing business at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, our friend Rob, shared with us some of his insights.
Here are some of his do’s and dont’s of the snow plowing business.

Do not do one price fits all season. Per push only.
Do not charge less than $25 per [...]

If you are starting to place bids now for snow plowing driveways and parking lots in your area, you are not alone.
Ron wrote us: “Hi i am getting into commercial accounts and I am not really sure how much to charge for plowing. I was wondering if i could get some ideas about charging for [...]

Tucker wrote me “I’m currently really close to starting up a single man op residential lawn care company and have been looking at the flier templates available here on the site. Considering the time of year (FOOTBALL!) and where I live (Sunny SoCal), I was wondering if you had anything in your vault that would [...]

This fall when you are looking for more services to offer, why not consider offering your lawn care customers, stump grinding services. Our friend Bob from plan-itgraphics.com put together this great flyer concept to help you sell your stump grinding services. Why not get some of these flyers printed up and then hand them out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our friend Brandon was on the forum sharing with us some of the photographs he has taken. He is a real enthusiast when it comes to taking pictures. As with almost any personal interest, it can be harness to gain you attention to help promote your lawn care business. This was my view on how [...]

Tom shared with us his marketing ideas for early Spring. In a post at the Gopher Lawn Care Forum He said “know your target market and let them know of services coming up for any given season well in advance. For example I plan to start advertising color change out and irrigation start ups in [...]

Our friend Tom wrote us on the Gopher Lawn Care Forum and shared with us his lawn care business aeration flyer you can download for free.
Tom wrote “I have tried direct mail targeted to “new Movers” with no luck at all. I have tried this before and also have had no luck but thought that [...]

In honor of Armed Forces Day we asked our viewers to reach out to your community and see if there is a (military veteran or currently active) resident you can assist. Do something nice for them by helping out in their yard, take some pictures, and show us what you did. Out of the photos [...]

Here is an idea to market your lawn care business on Memorial Day and the 4th of July.Order as many small flags as you need. Punch two holes in your business cards.

Then slide the flag through the holes.

Insert the flag pole into lawns.

One of our forum members tried this and said “I bought [...]

I thought this was a great idea posted by our friend Keith in this post at the Gopher Lawn Care Forum.
Keith wrote:
“This time of year if you stand still for more than just a few minutes you will notice your skin coated with a thick layer of yellow pollen.
This morning, I was thinking about advertising [...]

One of our friends from the Gopher Lawn Care Forum, Chuck, posted his latest lawn care postcard design and wanted some feedback on it. We got some really great responses I wanted to share with you as you may be designing your own lawn care postcard now as well.
If you have any thoughts you would [...]

I saw an article the other day about Fort Collins, CO offering their residents a $50 rebate if they traded in their gas mower and purchased an electric powered mower instead. Then Clean Air Lawn Care jumped on this current event by offering a discount if you signed up for an annual lawn care contract [...]

I wanted to send a big thanks to Chestin for taking part in one of our lawn care business discussions on our forum. If you would like to join in on the post where Chestin included this flyer you can by visiting the Gopher Lawn Care Forum here.
Spring Lawn Care Flyer from Chestin of http://www.lawncaremarketingmagic.com
Thanks [...]

Rob had posted his spring lawn care business flyer on our Gopher Lawn Care Forum. I think he did a really great job with it and maybe his design will inspire you to create your own.
Click on the flyer image to join in on the discussion.

Here is a lawn care flyer Justin posted on the Gopher Lawn care forum here to market his lawn care business for the spring.
Maybe it will inspire you to create your own.

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One of our friends on the forum needed some lawn care postcards made for his lawn care business. Bob from plan-it graphics.com put together some nice ones I wanted to show off.
Join the post discussion here.
lawn care postcard #1

Lawn Care Postcard #2

Here is a lawn care flyer that was made.

Here is a lawn care flyer concept our friend Lynn just posted on the forum. I thought it was pretty creative. The only suggestion I had was to maybe add some coupons and a limited time offer to get the potential customers to jump on the offer. What do you think about it?
Join in on [...]

I had a great chat tonight with Richard of thelawnblog.com. He was talking about his spring mailer that is going out the end of March. It will be mailed a month before he is to start mowing but two weeks before he starts his spring cleanups.
Richard wrote “Alright everyone…this is my flyer that I am [...]

Our friend Keith from startalawncarebusiness.com offered this lawn care marketing idea on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.

“If you haven’t thought about it yet, Valentine’s Day is coming up.
I know the traditional gifts are Roses and Chocolates for girlfriends and wives.
Lots of guys also buy presents for their Moms. Instead of buying [...]

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 [...]

Have you considered running your own lawn care business toy drive?
Here is a flyer to promote your lawn care businesses toy drive for the holidays. Offering to run a toy drive really positions your business as one who cares about your community. It’s a great way to show your community that you care as well [...]

Let’s all get into the spirit of the holidays. I created this flyer you can edit and hand out in your area. The idea of this marketing concept is that you are going to position yourself as the go to lawn care business in your area. You are going to be the one that is [...]

I put this winter lawn care clean up flyer together based on Keith’s suggestions. You can download it and edit in any way you want. It’s created with openoffice.org which is a free program similar to Microsoft Word.
Download the file here Make sure you logged into the forum to download all files.

You can discuss this [...]