Archive for the 'Estimate or Proposal Form' Category
Anyone can create a lawn care contract. All they need to do is put pen to paper and write whatever it is floating around in their head. Then when they ask you to sign it, no matter how goofy it is, you are agreeing to it. So think before you sign any contract. What may [...]
January 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing | No Comments
Are you just getting started offering snow plowing services this year but you are unsure of how to go about it? This situation was discussed on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when a new member wrote “I’m going to be plowing this winter for the first time with my own truck. I don’t know [...]
November 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Snow plowing | 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
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
Thanks to Matt for posting this great lawn mowing flyer and bid sheet on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. He wrote us “I just recently came up with a couple different forms I’m planning on using. These aren’t my primary flyers. The one is to stir up new business this year and the other [...]
March 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Estimate or Proposal Form, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material, door to door | No Comments
I added a feature to give you the power to email your lawn care customers their lawn care estimate. The great thing about this feature is how it benefits you, the lawn care business owner. You can potentially pull up to a new lawn care customer’s property and enter the specific information into your computer [...]
January 13th, 2009 | Posted in Estimate or Proposal Form, Estimation Software, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaper Software, Landscaping Business Software, Landscaping Estimate Software, Landscaping Software, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Software, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Estimating Software, Lawn Care Software, Mowing Software, Software | No Comments
When your lawn care business is submitting a bid for property maintenance, consider including this bid cover letter sample. It’s a great way to look professional and improve your chances at winning the lawn care bid.
Mr. Smith
123 Main St
Anytown, USA 90210
(800) 123-4567
RE: Weekly Lawn Maintenance
Dear Mr. Smith,
Thank you for inviting XXXX Lawn Care [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
Here is are a few great ideas on how to land commercial lawn care jobs. You can join this discussion at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
John: “I need some help here. The new lawn care season will be coming and I was wondering how lawn care business owners find out which lawn care contracts [...]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, door to door | No Comments
This great discussion about who should you present your commercial lawn care bid to was taken from the Gopher Lawn Care Forum here. Feel free to visit the forum to join in on the discussion.
Rob: “Tim, do you already have a bid ready when you are going out prospecting?
How do you know what services they [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
When you are looking to submit a bid for a commercial lawn care property maintenance contract, here are some words of advice from our friend, Tim, as to what to include in your commercial lawn care bid.
He said “A brochure is a nice added touch to the professionalism of your presentation of your company. I [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Marketing | No Comments
Randy made a new post on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and asked “Hello all, I was just wondering if anyone has a template of a proposal they could post. I have been given a wonderful opportunity to possibly get 12 yards from a local real estate developer and he had asked me to [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Estimate or Proposal Form, General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract | No Comments