Lawn Care Business Marketing Tips - GopherHaul Blog

Here are some Spring lawn care marketing ideas in both flyer and postcard format. I think they are all very creative and should hopefuly inspire you when you are working on your lawn care marketing material.
They all play up the selling point of taking your weekends off. You can read more on this at the [...]

If you have been looking for some ideas to create your own lawn care quote card, check out what this Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum member put together and was using to promote his Spring lawn care services.
He wrote “My lawn care marketing plan this year is to visit a few neighborhoods and just write [...]

When you are looking to scale up your equipment and expand the services your lawn care business offers, instead of simply buying the next larger sized ZTR mower, why not consider a tractor? A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum did and it has opened the doors to many new services that make [...]

Are you getting your Spring lawn care marketing campaign together yet? A lot of lawn care business owners are. Here is a lawn care postcard that a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum got printed up. He will be sending out these cards soon.
He wrote “I ordered these lawn care postcards about 10 [...]

A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us a postcard he had designed for his lawn care marketing campaign. In the postcard he was promoting an annual contract fee that would include all sorts of services a lawn care customer would get throughout the year if they signed up with him.
When [...]

The winter months can be difficult for the newer lawn care business to get through but one member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum found an additional service he could offer that will help him pave the way to pick up more lawn care customers in the Spring. He is now offering janitorial services.
He [...]

Finding which lawn care marketing strategy works seems to be a topic of never ending fascination. Everyone seems to be looking for that magic key. Is it flyers? Is it door hangers? If not those two, what else could it be? That is a topic raised at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when one [...]

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 [...]

Here are some more Fall lawn care business postcard designs that were posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here. With all these designs, you got no reason to be stumped when you are thinking of what you should be sending out in the mail to get more lawn care customers.
Bob from Plan-It Graphics [...]

If your lawn care business is looking for postcard designs to send out for your Fall marketing you gotta check out this post on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. One of our members was going through a bunch of the lawn care business postcard designs he had submitted and wanted to know what we [...]

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 [...]

Here are a bunch of great lawn care business postcard templates you can download and use for your landscaping or lawn care business.
You can download the full files of these and more designs at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here.
Download the RAR here.
Download the lawn care postcard template *.png here.
Download the lawn care business [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever sent out quite a bit of lawn care marketing material and gotten lack luster results or no results at all? It happens. What is really difficult about this is if you are just starting out and you spend a lot of money on marketing and then get nothing in return, you might [...]

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 [...]

Justin was nice enough to show us his new spring lawn care business post card designs. These should be going out soon. He had them done at Plan-it Graphics and they really look top notch. I hope they inspire you to get your lawn care post cards designed soon and get them out so you [...]

If you have been on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum lately you have seen more and more lawn care business flyers being posted. Take a look at this one made by fellow forum member Sean.
He wrote to us and said ” I will be printing 10,000 of them and will be putting [...]

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 [...]

Reaching out to your lawn care customers and letting them know they are appreciated is very important. This is all too often overlooked because the average lawn care business owner is just simply overwhelmed with the day to day activities of running his business. As a small business owner, you have many great opportunities to [...]

Recently we have been talking about how new lawn care customers should be sent a letter and some type of gift to help improve customer retention and minimize buyers remorse. This should be sent within the first month of service to minimize buyer remorse and improve customer retention. An inexpensive gift idea is a collection [...]

When you are trying to get your lawn care business to grow, think of these 5 simple steps you can easily follow. Join this discussion at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
Charles wrote “I currently have a lawn mowing only operation, and it’s worked out very well for me. My travel time is very low [...]

A post was recently made on winterizing irrigation systems and I thought maybe I should put together a simple postcard you could use to promote your irrigation winterization services.
I hope this helps. Download the fullsize postcard in the free postcard template section.
If you are trying to figure out how much to charge for such a [...]

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 [...]

Download the full size file in the free lawn care postcard section here.
Lawn Care Postcard
Here is the latest Crazy Hillary Lawn Care Postcard. Does lawn care make you crazy? We will bring back your sanity.
Call us and save 10% off your next lawn care service if you tell us this postcard made you laugh.
This is [...]

Here is a Free Green Grass Lawn Care Postcard you can download and use. I will show you the preview here and add the larger sized image in the free lawn care postcard section here.
I hope you are able to use it.

One of the top questions asked on the Gopher Forum is how to get new customers. Well I wanted to answer this question as best as possible and I put together two new books. If you are looking to gain more lawn care customers this Summer and who isn’t, check out my brand new books [...]

This is such a great discussion on the ins and outs of using mailing lists, I just had to include this discussion. Keith: “Chestin, In a previous thread, you spoke a bit about lists.
I am genuinely interested in this subject. Properly marketing a list is an art, I know.
I want to tap your knowledge on [...]

Bob from plan-itgraphics.com shared with us his insight in how best to utilize postcards in your lawn care business marketing. He not only runs a marketing business for lawn care business owners, he also runs a lawn care business, so he has learned from years of experience.

Bob: “The other day I had a customer [...]