Archive for the 'door to door' Category

Free lawn mower safety flyer.

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 [...]

Easter promotion ideas for your lawn care business.

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 [...]

Free lawn mowing flyer and bid sheet.

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 [...]

Lawn care business flyer response rates.

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 [...]

Lawn Care Customer Routes - How far should you drive?

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 Flyers - should you include prices?

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 [...]

Snow plow marketing idea.

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 [...]

Spend time with your kids lawn care door hanger.

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.
Lawn Care Door Hanger

Marketing your lawn care business outward from the center.

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. [...]

How to get started offering holiday decoration and lighting services.

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 [...]

Don’t try to compete with $15 bucks a cut, stand out and command a premium.

Are you finding yourself trying to compete with fly by night lawn care businesses that advertise they will cut a lawn for $15? Don’t try to compete with them. Any customer who hires such a lawn care business will quickly find out how unreliable they are. You don’t want these cheap customers anyway because they [...]

How to get lawn care & yard work on foreclosed homes.

With the economy slowing, more and more homes are being foreclosed upon. As they sit there uninhabited, someone has to maintain them or they will fall into disrepair. Mowing foreclosed homes is easy work. There is no homeowner to complain about the job and it gives you a chance to make first contact with the [...]

Marketing lessons we can learn from a realtor turned lawn care business owner.

If there is one group of local business people I find are constantly hammering me with direct mail marketing material, it’s realtors. They really seem to have their act together when it comes to promoting their name and face out to the local community. So lucky me and lucky us when a new Gopher Lawn [...]

Co-market with a Garden Center to gain more lawn care business.

When you are looking to gain new landscaping or lawn care customers, consider reaching out to your local garden centers. Purchase your supplies from them and see if you can get a business card display at their registers. Then ask the staff who sell lawn and garden supplies to refer your lawn care business for [...]

$10 off lawn care customer coupon marketing idea.

What if, instead of lawn care business cards, you had coupons printed up that were the size of dollar bills. You could hold them in your wallet and when you handed them to people, they could keep it in their wallet as well.
You could hand these out to current customers to give to their friends [...]

Fall home and yard cleanup dumpster flyer added.

I just added a flyer you can use to promote your lawn care business fall home and yard clean up. The flyer’s title says Fall Clean Up Week. Then in the text below, it says you are a neighbor who owns your own lawn care business and you have rented a dumpster for one week [...]

Spring & Fall home and yard clean up service idea for your lawn care business.

Anyone who has a house and a yard tends to collect a lot of junk they wish they could just get rid of each year. Sometimes though it’s such a pain in the butt to get rid of the stuff, that it just collects.
It’s a pain to haul it to the curb. Or the town [...]

How to get 30% more lawn care customers?

I had a great conversation with Jeff, a lawn care business owner, at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. You can join in on the conversation as well by clicking that link. He shared with us his insight on how he has been able to grow and what he uses to push himself to get [...]

Halloween lawn care business marketing idea.

Halloween lawn care business - pumpkin mug marketing.
Here is an idea for your lawn care business fall clean up marketing. Why not order something like a box of these mugs and tape a doorhanger to them and place them on the front steps of homes in your area? Or maybe insert a flyer into the [...]

Looking for a unique lawn care or tree service business card?

Are you looking for a unique lawn care business or tree service business card idea? What if you got your business card printed like this one? Have it folded in the center and have the back section include a perforated tree that can pop up when it’s folded. I bet this certainly would grab someone’s [...]

Fall leaf clean up lawn sign ideas.

How cool would it be if you could get a whole bunch of these fall leaf clean up lawn signs? Have them cut into the proper shape and then insert them through out the neighborhoods you service.

It would be a really neat and visual way to offer your fall leaf lawn clean up services.

Here is [...]

Outdoor Halloween decorations and lawn care marketing idea.

I think Halloween is a great time to be doing outdoor decorations. One of the things you could do this season is really decorate your own property and front door. Then stick a Halloween decoration yard sign in your front lawn along with many other yards in your area. It would be really quick and [...]

Run for president and gain media attention on yourself and your business.

In the past we talked a little about this idea.
If you put up lawn signs along the road and they are for your lawn care business, they will get pulled. But what if you were running for president? Your lawn signs would stay up and the local media would want to know all about what [...]

Fall and winter lawn care marketing idea with Poinsettias, mums and a farmer’s market.

When Fall arrives, here is a great lawn care marketing idea. It’s a two part marketing idea. First you order a large amount of Poinsettias or mums to hand out to your customers. Then with the flowers you have left, why not consider setting up a farmer’s market style display in your area. Maybe at [...]

New free lawn care business door hanger template.

Here is a new free lawn care business door hanger template. It asks the homeowner to think of 5 things they would like to change about their lawn or landscape. Then it asks the homeowner to call you to discuss how to make those things a reality.
Feel free to download this door hanger or others [...]

Newspaper bag lawn care business leaf cleanup marketing idea.

Newspapers are being received by homeowners every day of the week. So why not consider this lawn care marketing idea. Get a bunch of newspaper bags printed with different seasonal messages. For the fall you could get ‘Leaf Cleaup Call Us.’
Then get the local newspaper delivery person to use your bags in the delivery. [...]

Vernon gets a lawn care business makeover. New logo and lawn care door hangers.

Vernon had posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that he was in need of a logo and some marketing material for his lawn care business. Bob from plan-itgraphics.com put together some great lawn care marketing material that I wanted to show you.
New lawn care logo.

Lawn care door hangers #1.

Lawn Care Door Hanger #2.

Landscaping [...]

Lawn Care Flyer & Seed Envelope marketing idea.

Rob posted a unique lawn care marketing idea. He took one of the free lawn care flyer templates from the Gopher Forum and attached a small envelope he created to hold some lawn seeds.
Rob: “You’ll love this one. I took the “Sorry about the noise” lawn care flyer, edited it for myself, put a spot [...]

Create a check list to win over commercial lawn care jobs.

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 [...]

Have you seen me free lawn care business flyer.

As I was going through my neighborhood the other day, I saw a sign posted on a telephone pole for a lost animal. People who were walking by stopped to read the flyer!
Then I thought to myself, wouldn’t this be a great way to attract new potential lawn care customers?
Here is a lawn care flyer [...]