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Have you ever sat back and wondered what it is that is keeping your lawn care business from growing? Do you find it difficult to talk with new people? Do you have a difficult time trying to sell yourself and your services? If you do, you are not alone. I had a discussion on the [...]
March 14th, 2010 | Posted in Bonus Pay, General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Mowing, Podcast, Upsells, training | No Comments
Running your lawn care business as a one man show has it’s advantages and disadvantages. When it’s only you performing the work and dealing with the customers, you know you are getting the job done and treating the customers the way you want them to be treated. But what about when you grow. When you [...]
November 9th, 2009 | Posted in Customer Retention, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Your First Employee, training | No Comments
I can never get enough of good start up business advice. When ever the opportunity arises, I like to ask successful business owners to share some insight as to how they were able to cross that very difficult mine field from start up business to successful operation. The best answers are never quick two or [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Business Failure, Debt, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Marketing, Overhead Costs, Trailer, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment, training | No Comments
Do you think you have a great business model? Is your model a lot better than others. Do you feel you need more money and resources in order to grow? If so maybe you have considered franchising your lawn care business. But before you go out and start trying to sign people up, you better [...]
October 21st, 2009 | Posted in Debt, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Employees, Start up, training | No Comments
Being that a lot of start up lawn care businesses read the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, I asked the members what equipment would you suggest purchasing now that you have had some time to see what works well and what doesn’t. What I found was quite interesting and I hope it gets you thinking. [...]
October 20th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Mower, Tractor, lawn care equipment, training | No Comments
The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business School is now online.
If you look above along the brown bar header on the Gopher Forum, you will see a new section added to the forum. Our FREE online lawn care business school.
This FREE course the “Class 1 - Lawn Care Business Operator’s Certificate” is designed to give the new [...]
March 6th, 2009 | Posted in 1 Man Lawn Crew, Bonus Pay, Business Failure, Business Plan, Business loan, Debt, Debt Collection, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Insurance, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Start up, Your First Employee, lawn care equipment, training | No Comments
What are you training your lawn care employees to do? You can join in on this discussion at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here.
When you hire employees for your lawn care business, they are on the front lines and the impressions they make with the public and your customer base is going to do [...]
October 8th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Customer Retention, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Mowing, Residential Customers, training | No Comments
Do you ever wonder how much training your employees should be given? For instance , do they need to be trained on how to change belts? Or is that just something that would be too much for most of them?”
Tim: “All employee’s should be trained on every minor mechanical repair detail you can do in [...]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Mower Repair, lawn care equipment, training | No Comments