Lawn Care Business Marketing Tips - GopherHaul Blog

Finding work in the Fall and Winter can be more challenging at times than picking up mowing accounts during the Spring. Many lawn care business owners seem to struggle finding customers to service and end up having a rough time when the mowing season slows down. But this doesn’t have to be the case. In [...]

Getting the momentum of a new business going can be very difficult. It can feel like you are trying to move mountains. Sometimes an entrepreneur can become overwhelmed with a sense of impending doom when things don’t happen fast enough. But how does one get things going and potentially get them going fast? It takes [...]

Have you thought about going door to door in your area to meet new potential clients and promote your Fall & Winter services to them? Is so, you might be wondering what the best way to go about this is. Are there certain things you should do or shouldn’t do in order to improve your [...]

When mowing season comes to an end, that doesn’t mean it’s time to relax. There is still plenty of work to be done for those who keep busy. One lawn care business owner on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum asked “well with mowing season is over, I want to drum up a lot more [...]

As we have seen from many discussions on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, you can’t sit back and wait for lawn care customers to find you. You need to actively go out and seek them. A newer lawn care business owner was warming to this concept when he wrote and asked “ok we have [...]

It’s one of the most frustrating things to have to deal with as an owner of a small lawn care business, when you spend money on marketing and nothing is working. It can make you feel like you are in a ship that is sinking and no matter what you do to bail the water [...]

Slow economies tend to drive people that once were employed into finding side work on their own. Sometimes this sidework is offering lawn care. When too many people are offering lawn care services, the price in the area tends to drop. So what do you do?
This is the situation a member of the Gopher Lawn [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

For every lawn care business start up that exists today, there is a theory on how best to distribute lawn care flyers door to door. Everyone seems to have their own way to do it. Everyone thinks their way is the best way. Some put flyers in the door without knocking. Some put flyers in [...]

Sometimes the difference between success and failure can be so slight we just don’t know when we are close to that line. Many times entrepreneurs can walk within inches of success but give up before crossing over. Recently one of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum members got on and posted on how he was [...]

Spring is here and many lawn care business owners are sending out their lawn care marketing material. I have seen quite a bit of flyers and direct mail offers that I wanted to share with you. Maybe some of these ideas will help you create offers and marketing material of your own. First up let [...]

A lot of areas around the country are dealing with high unemployment rates. When you are just getting your lawn care business started, you may find that this adds to the difficulty of getting your business off the ground. Luke got on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and shared with us his frustrations. He [...]

I added a new free lawn mower marketing flyer in the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. This one promotes mower safety. You can use this if you were to put on a seminar at a local school but it could also be used just as well as a stand alone marketing flyer to promote your [...]

Happy Easter to all of you. As business owners, we can take each holiday and use it to promote good will within our community and promote our lawn care business. All we need to do is add a touch of creativity and from where there was nothing, a new promotional idea can sprout. Such an [...]

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 [...]

Have you been handing out flyers to try and promote your spring lawn care business services and not getting the response you thought you would be getting? There could be many reasons why this happens. Could it be your headline? Or maybe even your offer? Let’s look into this.
A Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum member [...]

How far out of your way should you drive to service a lawn care customer? Is it smart to take on new customers outside of your immediate service area in hopes of expanding your lawn care business or is it going to hurt your lawn care business and drive up your expenses? Let’s take a [...]

Lawn care flyer marketing - should you include prices on your lawn care flyer or should you say free estimates and present the lawn care price in person? Let’s look into question.
We were having a discussion on lawn care business marketing at the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Forum and there were quite a few viewpoints [...]

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 [...]

I was having a great discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum with my friend Jeff and he was sharing with me some of his experiences trying to market his lawn care business. You can read more on this lawn care business discussion here on the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Forum.
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With the economy taking a down turn, there are going to be many new opportunities for entrepreneurs to get started with their own business. A lot of times people will think about starting their own business but if they have a full time job, the job will most likely take priority over starting a business. [...]

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 [...]