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This was a great talk on how to use a referral marketing campaign to attract new customers to your lawn care business. Chestin from lawncaremarketingmagic.com joined us and was talking about how to get your customers to sign up more of their friends to your lawn service. He talked about the do’s and [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to the GopherHaul Lawn Care Marketing & Business Podcast recorded 2/21/08.
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In this podcast we discuss:
How to price a lawn?
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How to make the jump from lawn care to landscaping and then what kind of profit potential will you see when you get [...]

I’d like to thank Justin for posting this Lawn Care Proposal Letter on the forum and sharing it with all of us. I hope you find it useful.
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Here is a lawn care customer credit card authorization letter from Mark as well. Thanks Mark!
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Thanks to Mark for this sample lawn care customer referral letter.
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Hello and welcome to GopherHaul 22 - Lawn Care Software Business Entrepreneur Show

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Hello everyone and welcome to the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Marketing Podcast. This episode was recorded on 2/14/08.
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We recorded this podcast with 6 members of our Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, through Skype. If you are interested in taking part in future podcasts with us, download Skype and [...]

Our friend Fernando used craiglist.com to promote his lawn care business. In his add he mentioned if you signed up for a year’s worth of lawn care he would give you a dinner for two at the Olive Garden! Quite an interesting marketing inducement.
If you would like to jump into the discussion on this marketing [...]

One of our friends, Becca, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum wrote to us:
“Ok, I’ll ask one more question then leave you guys alone. We have heard that a lot of companies in this area offer their customers a discount if they pay the entire season in full before the season starts. [...]

Thanks to Clifford from Sideline Property Management for asking the following question:
Question: At what point did you decide to take on your first employee? Was it determined by revenue, time constraint or did you set a specific profit amount that would determine time to add help?
Answer: Good question Clifford, the decision to take on [...]

Last night Brian, Richard and I had a great discussion on Brian’s new lawn care business site http://www.lawnandgardenwv.com. Brian’s really building up a great collection of lawn care and gardening shows, including our very own GopherHaul show. If you get a chance check out his site and listen in on how you can create your [...]

Here is a marketing idea. Create a spring neighborhood yard sale. Have you house be the main area it starts from and ask other neighbors if they are interested in taking part.
You will be hosting the event and it will give you a great opportunity to meet new potential customers in your area.
You could then [...]