Archive for the 'Residential Customers' Category
With many small lawn care businesses, the owners tend to feel there is more money when you get in and get out fast. However as we will see in this discussion, offering more services than simply lawn mowing can help you be on the job site longer. The longer you are on the job site, [...]
October 7th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Referrals, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Has your lawn care business handed out flyers to market your lawn mowing services? What kind of results did you receive? Were you happy with the results? One lawn care business owner talked about his frustration with handing out flyers, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and we got a chance to look into [...]
September 16th, 2009 | Posted in Direct Mail, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Referrals, Residential Customers, door to door | 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
Have you ever found yourself out driving from job to job when you see a property that could really use one of your services? As you drive by it you think to yourself hmm if I could only get them as a customer. But what is the best way to promote yourself to potential lawn [...]
September 10th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Postcards, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
One of our Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum members put together this great letter to send out to his lawn care customers. When I asked him about the letter he said “A letter from me might just remind them that their lawn service is friendly & shares apart of itself, with them.
I also promote a [...]
September 7th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers | No Comments
Has your lawn care business experimented with designing landscapes on your computer and then using the design as a sales tool? That’s what one of our forum members did and he landed a retaining wall job by doing it. Let’s take a look into his experience. Maybe this will help you with your future landscape [...]
September 6th, 2009 | Posted in 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, Residential Customers, Retaining Walls | No Comments
Are you afraid of hearing the word no? Is it keeping your lawn care business from growing? This fear afflicts more of us than we would probably care to admit. A new lawn care business owner shared with us his insights as to how fearing the word ‘no’ had stifled his growth for some time.
He [...]
September 1st, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, 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
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
A question I get asked often on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum is, what other services can I offer to make more money? I usually have a bunch of ideas to share with them but here is a great idea I hadn’t even considered. One of our members wrote “Yesterday I was out giving [...]
August 5th, 2009 | Posted in Driveway Sealing, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Residential 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
Have you noticed more lawn care business owners in your area starting up? Do you find they tend to try and compete solely on price? Is it difficult for you to make a profit on lawn care when others are offering to cut lawns for $15? If so, here is some great insight from the [...]
July 2nd, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Prepay, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up, Website | 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
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
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 new lawn care business owner on the Gopher Lawn Care Business forum is trying to get his business off the ground. He is stationed at a military base and ran into a few problems which he was looking for help on. He wrote “Well I had this feeling I would run into issues and [...]
June 16th, 2009 | Posted in Business Card, 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, Referrals, Residential Customers, Start up, Word Of Mouth, lawn care equipment | No Comments
I thought this was a very creative lawn care business flyer. One of the members of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us his creation that he uses on telephone poles and at local stores to promote his lawn care business. As you can seen, the flyer pulls you in to read it [...]
June 16th, 2009 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material | No Comments
Nothing helps us learn how to be successful than to hear stories from those who have found success and then ask them how they did it. A new lawn care business owner shared with us his story on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum on how he went from 3 to 20 lawn care customers [...]
June 12th, 2009 | Posted in Business Card, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Mowing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Podcast, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Richard posted some great lawn stripe pictures on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and along with the pictures he shared with us many of his secrets on how he gets his lawns to look so great.
Here are some of the questions he was asked. How long does it take to get the lawn to [...]
June 4th, 2009 | Posted in 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, Mowing, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
I get a chance to see many lawn care business marketing designs and I try to share with you as many as I possibly can. I think they will help you in the creation of your own lawn care marketing material. One of our friends made a post on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum [...]
June 4th, 2009 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers | 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
With the advent of google maps and other similar services, your lawn care business might feel more inclined now to pull up an overhead map of a new customers home to review their yard. Once you calculate the dimensions of the property, you may even feel compelled to give the new lawn care customer a [...]
May 13th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Mowing, Podcast, Residential Customers | No Comments
When you are thinking about marketing your lawn care business, why not consider using postcards? That’s what one of our forum members did and he has been getting great results. He wrote “Hey, I just wanted to share with you my new oversized postcards. I am very happy with them and have been getting great [...]
May 12th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Postcards, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
Here is the latest free lawn care business flyer added to our collection. You can download and edit this flyer template with the free word processing program OpenOffice. Edit and alter it to fit your lawn care business needs and start handing them out. To download this lawn mowing flyer or any of our others, [...]
May 10th, 2009 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
If you think by offering to do a landscape project for cheap will make the customer more appreciative, think again. One of our Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum members offered a customer a really good price on two jobs and he found himself running into problems. Here is what he said.
“I’m about to lose my [...]
May 8th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Operational Costs, Residential Customers | No Comments
“Back in the days when you were starting your lawn care business, did you encounter the ‘Why would I hire you if you’re so new?’ dilemma?
I’d like to have some way of spinning that question into a positive if and when that should arise.”
That’s the question asked to us by Scott, a new lawn care [...]
May 7th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Podcast, Residential Customers, Start up | No Comments
Here is a new FREE lawn mowing flyer template entitled ‘Dug yourself into a hole.?’ The goal of this flyer is to make the reader think of all the lawn care and landscape projects they started and never got finished. Or the all the landscape projects they wanted to do but never got a chance [...]
May 6th, 2009 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | 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