Archive for the 'Commercial Customers' Category
The GopherHaul guide on how to get customers for your landscaping and lawn care business - Volume 3 is now available.
Anyone can start a landscaping or lawn care business but the tricky part is finding customers. This book will show you how.
Coming up with marketing and service ideas to keep busy and profitable all year [...]
November 17th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Book, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
Have you had difficulties landing commercial snow plowing accounts? It can be difficult to break through a companies layer of insulation before you get to the person in charge of making such decisions. Persistance seems to be a big part of the key to success. Let’s look into this discussion that took place on the [...]
November 14th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Snow plowing | No Comments
To some lawn care business owners, the client has two jobs. One is to accept the bid and the other is to approve the finished project and make payment. Between those two points they may not want to hear anything from the client at all. But as we have seen on the Gopher Lawn Care [...]
November 6th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Customer Retention, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
Do you ever wish you could ask what your competitors are doing with their marketing? What about business questions to help you find out what makes some businesses successful while others fail? A new member on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us some of his fascinating business insight. You see he is [...]
November 4th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Customer Retention, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
We often talk on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about the importance of social networking. How getting to know other business owners in your area can help your business grow. However what I have noticed is very few lawn care business owners I have talked to are members of their local Chamber of Commerce. [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Here is the follow up conversation I had with a property manager on the Gopher Lawn Care Business forum. He shared with me some really important insights you must know as a lawn care business owner if you want to win him or others in the industry over and get them to accept your bid.
I [...]
October 16th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Uniform | No Comments
This is a very interesting topic. Lawn care business owners are always looking for ways to land commercial lawn care bids. But what’s the best way to do it? There are many ways to go about getting close with property managers to win bids but there is nothing like hearing the inside scoop straight from [...]
October 11th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Residential Customers | No Comments
What a great topic! Do lawn care business door hangers work? That was the question posed to us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. In early June a lawn care business owner had just put out 500 door hangers and didn’t get a single call from them. Here is what he wrote “I just [...]
September 15th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Door hanger, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
As Summer turns to Fall and Fall turns to Winter I am seeing a lot more questions on how to get your snow plowing business started. How do you get customers? What’s better, residential or commercial snow plowing? This is a topic that was brought up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and I [...]
September 14th, 2009 | Posted in Cold Calling, Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers, Snow plowing, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Direct Mail, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Snow plowing | No Comments
We all tend to learn best by example so here is a commercial lawn care bid example that was posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. If you haven’t gotten into creating lawn care bids for commercial properties, this will at least shed some light on the process.
A member wrote “I tried searching the [...]
August 28th, 2009 | Posted in Apartment / Condo, Commercial Customers, General Business, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Irrigation, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Parking Lot Cleanups, Pricing | No Comments
Fear is an interesting topic. It is amazing how the fears we have can effect how we see the world and what we do in the world. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum brought up a great topic that has popped up in the past, leading me to think many lawn care [...]
August 16th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Direct Mail, General Business, GopherHaul, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
If you are a newer lawn care business owner who hasn’t made the jump yet to servicing commercial properties, you might be thinking, how do I land my first commercial lawn care bid. This questions seems to come up often and when I hear stories from those who made the leap I love to pass [...]
August 14th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers | No Comments
New lawn care business owners quite often think about if they should or shouldn’t be using lawn care contracts with their residential clients. What works best? This was a question that was posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A business owner wrote “My thought is to steer away from “paper” contracts with residential [...]
July 5th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Debt Collection, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | 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
How often are you performing a service on a customer’s property when you see a problem that you feel you could fix? Do you mention this problem to the customer? If not, why not? Offering basic weekly mowing services is a great way to open the lines of communication with a customer that can lead [...]
July 1st, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Pressure Washing, Residential Customers | No Comments
When you are just getting your lawn care business started, missing a potential new lawn care customer’s phone call is a big deal. It’s a big deal when you have been in business for a while too, but it seems especially important when you are just getting started which leads me to this great question [...]
June 18th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
A very popular question many new lawn care business owners ask is how can they land commercial accounts. A business owner on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum was kind enough to share some of his insights with us. He wrote “I start my lawn care business 2 months ago with 5 customers. As [...]
June 16th, 2009 | Posted in Business Card, Commercial Customers, Door hanger, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Referrals, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
How important is it to have signs and marketing material on your landscaping truck and trailer? This is a very good question that was asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A member wrote “things are really taking off here this Spring and it has has been crazy in a good way. My question [...]
May 17th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Lawn Care Uniform, Marketing, Residential Customers, Trailer, lawn care equipment | No Comments
When you run a lawn care business over time you tend to develop a structure for processing new callers into becoming lawn care customers. You create different steps to follow in order to improve productivity. This system you create can then be passed on to new employees with the result of having them easily duplicate [...]
May 4th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Customer Retention, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customer Survey, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
Here in this economic slump we see daily posts on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about the difficulties lawn care business owners are having, trying to find new lawn care customers. One of our members had an opposing marketing view that is held by many. He is finding a lot of success now. Let’s [...]
April 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Business Card, Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Referrals, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Lawn care business owners should always be looking for ways to sell more to their current customer base. One of the ideas on how to sell more is by offering seasonal flower beds. Should you consider offering this service? Is it profitable? Would it be worth your while? Or should you subcontract this out and [...]
April 16th, 2009 | Posted in Color Change Plantings, Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
We are starting to see more and more lawn care business marketing material being displayed on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Check out this Spring Lawn Care Business Brochures DJ just got back from the printer. They are really nice looking.
DJ was asked how he would distribute these brochures and he said “these brochures [...]
February 19th, 2009 | Posted in Brochure, Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers | 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
If you miss reading the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Forum for a single day, you could miss out on a lot. This idea is sure to make you a favorite amongst your customers and neighbors. To promote your snow plowing services why not use this marketing idea.
Tony wrote us and said “Here is an example [...]
January 15th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Snow plowing, Winter, door to door | No Comments
I am lucky enough to interact with many new lawn care business owners who are just getting started. Most of the time they seem to ask two questions. How do I get commercial accounts and how do I figure out how much to charge to mow a lawn. Let’s look at this example.
January 8th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Operational Costs, Residential Customers, Start up | No Comments
Before you spend a dime on any landscaping or lawn care marketing make sure you play with the figures before you enact your plan. Use this new Lawn Care Marketing Return On Investment calculator to see how much money your marketing campaign will bring you, before you go through with it. You never know, you [...]
December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Operational Costs, Podcast, Residential Customers, Video | No Comments
Once you are contacted by a potential client and meet with them to bid on their property, you aren’t done yet. Remember to always follow up. This applies to both commercial and residential lawn care customers.
Kim asked “I was just wondering after someone calls you for a lawn care estimate and you go out meet [...]
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Customers, Podcast, Residential Customers | No Comments
The winter months can be a tough time for a lawn care business. More and more lawn care businesses are getting into offering outdoor holiday lighting and decoration services to help them get through the slow times. Those who have experimented with it seem to be pretty happy with the results but how do you [...]
November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Christmas, Commercial Customers, Door hanger, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Outdoor decoration, Postcards, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Winter, door to door | No Comments
When you are trying to get a new potential lawn care client to sign up with an annual lawn care contract, sometimes you may want to offer some kind of inducement to get them to jump on it. That is exactly what was being discussed in a post at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. [...]
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments