Lawn Care Business Marketing Tips - GopherHaul Blog

As you run your lawn care business you will find the vast majority of them to be happy with the service you offer and content enough to leave you to do your work. However there always will be a small percentage of them who will play games with you from the moment you meet. How [...]

Starting a landscaping business can be a real pain in the butt. If you are starting from scratch, it can seem like forever until you get a decent amount of customers. So maybe you have considered buying an existing landscaping business. What could go wrong though? What things do you need to keep an eye [...]

What do you do when you can’t find the exact lawn care flyer template you want to represent your lawn care business? You make your own up from scratch of course! That is what a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum did when he shared with us a little about his new lawn [...]

A great way to get jobs is to keep your eyes open when you are out driving around town. If you see a site that seems like it could use your services, don’t wait for the land owner to come to you, go to them. That is exactly what this lawn care business owner did [...]

Everyone hates pushy people. And pushy sales people are even more hated. So what is a lawn care business owner to do when they want to promote their business but not come across as being pushy? That is a great topic that came up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, when a business owner [...]

There are an infinite number of ways to get your lawn care marketing message out to potential lawn care customers and the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum is chock full of them. When you are considering implementing a new marketing idea you have to make sure the message you are getting your message out to [...]

Marketing should always be about promoting what you have and what others don’t. It should accentuate your positives and eliminate your negatives. We talk about this concept often on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and here is a great real world example of it being implemented.
A lawn care business owner wrote “In my area [...]

Are you trying to make your lawn care marketing stand out from your competitors? I am sure you are. A great way to come up with new marketing ideas is to pay attention to current events. One lawn care business owner on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us his new idea of [...]

A great question came up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. It was on the topic of when should you offer lawn care customers, a discount. Should they be offered a discount if they pay in cash? Or what about a discount to seal the deal if they are on the fence?Do discounts help [...]

Every lawn care business owner is always looking for more services to offer as upsells. There is plenty of money to be made out there and customers are willing to pay you if you are able to suggest to them a service they could use. How about this idea a member of the Gopher Lawn [...]

Entrepreneurs are people and people sometimes just get burned. The get bored. They don’t find the results they were hoping to find or they simply want to try something new. There are many why business owners give up on their businesses. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, one business owner shares [...]

It seems some lawn care businesses can find traction at a certain point and take off while others continue to flounder. Why is this? A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us how his business finally started to take off and what he did to help.

Have you looked around and seen other lawn care businesses that use those vanity numbers like 1-800-lawn-mowing? Most all of them have signed up with a company that has secured a few memorable 1-800 numbers and for a fee will forwards calls that come from a certain zip code, to your phone. You may think [...]

How does bagging grass clippings or leaving them on the lawn effect the lawn’s health? Do most lawn care customers want their grass clippings bagged or do they not care? These are some of the issues you have to take into consideration when you are running a lawn care business and are trying to determine [...]

If you have been in the lawn care business for 20 years, you must be doing something right. That is how long a new member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum had been in the business for. I had an opportunity to talk with him and learn some of his secrets that have kept [...]

When you are looking to buy a new lawn mower and thinking about getting something besides a walk behind, you have a bunch of options you can choose from. Some mowers allow you to stand on a platform while others let you sit down. Which one is better for you? You may think sitting down [...]

Many lawn care business owners look to offer additional services to supplement their lawn service income. One of the many services they choose to offer is pressure or power washing. If you choose to offer such a service you may be wondering where to get the water. That is what one member of the Gopher [...]

There are many small steps you can take to improve your lawn care business website. Here are just a few that were discussed on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
One lawn care business owner talked about what he did to improve his website and increase the amount of people who visited it. He wrote “I [...]

Coming up with a game plan and marketing strategy for your lawn care business can be tough. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us his frustrations when trying to figure out a way to get his foot in the door with potential customers that live near him yet are serviced [...]

It’s fascinating the lessons learned by new lawn care business owners who leave their full time jobs to go off on their own and start their own business. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us some of the issues he ran into when he got started. He wrote “It’s one [...]

When you are trying to come up with a spring lawn care marketing letter, a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum made some great points on topics you should cover. He suggested in your you should

send letters to last year clients, with letterhead
mention organic fertilization
go for exciting, energetic wording
ask for referrals, recommendations, [...]

Looking like a lawn care business versus looking like someone towing a trailer of lawn equipment can make a big difference when it comes to success. If you are operating a lawn care business and sitting there scratching your head, trying to figure out why you aren’t as busy as you want to be, consider [...]

Going from being an employee to starting your own lawn care business can appear to be a daunting challenge. As an employee you don’t so much have to find the work as you have to do the work. Many of the day to day business issues are dealt with by the business owner. As an [...]

It usually takes about one lawn care season to get you to a point where you begin to understand your overhead and operational costs. At the end of your first season, you may look at your bank account and realize with all your efforts, you have very little money to show from it. If you [...]

There are many situations you will run into as a lawn care business owner where you may wonder if you should be charging extra for certain services. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum had an interesting question along these lines when he asked “if you are providing lawn care for a [...]

Most every new lawn care business owner is going to mess up on a few things. The way they handle mistakes can make the difference between being able to stay in business for the long haul or losing your customers too soon. One new lawn care business owner got on the Gopher Lawn Care Business [...]

If only we could look into a crystal ball and see our future. Did what we dream of come true or did that dream turn into a nightmare. When you are getting your lawn care business started, you wouldn’t think your original plans and goals may lead you straight off a cliff, but you would [...]

Have you ever looked around you and seen some people tend to excel at almost anything they do while others seem to fail? When you look at the businesses or projects you have been involved with, have you found more success or more failure and wondered why that happens? Are you lucky? Are you jinxed? [...]

Are you just getting your lawn care business started and looking for ways to get some lawn care equipment to get you started? If you want to find some great stuff that is cheap and nearby, consider doing what this lawn care business owner did. He shared a great tip on how to do this [...]

When you are trying to come up with your 0wn lawn care marketing material to promote your services in the spring, it can be pretty tough if you don’t have any examples to use as inspiration. Thankfully, a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us some of the flyers he created. [...]