Archive for April, 2008

Podcast Thursday 4/10 - 8pm est with author Ken LaVoie

I got a great podcast lined up this Thursday 4/10 at 8pm est with author Ken LaVoie. Check out his site at http://www.lawnguru.net.
He wrote the book “How to start a lawn care business a whole new way.”
Some of the topics I want to cover with him:
Talking about his experiences of getting started and what happened [...]

How to price lawn care mulch jobs

Our Gopher lawn care forum discusses quite a few different issues and one of them is how to estimate lawn care jobs. In a recent post, Gerald asked
“Hey guys new to the business and have a few calls from people wanting a price on installing mulch. Not familiar with pricing mulch jobs any help is [...]

Rick’s lawn care business trimmer line spool holder.

I am always amazed at the ingenuity I see on the Gopher Lawn Care Forum. Today was no exception. One of our forum members, artist and designer Rick, had created this fantastic trimmer line spool holder so he can respool his trimmer line from his trailer.
Rick said “It’s not a looker but it works and [...]

Sample lawn care estimate forms

Spring is here and many new lawn care business owners are going to be out and about providing estimates to new potential customers. Pat posted a question in our lawn care forum here and asked if we had any sample lawn care proposal or estimate forms he could download and use on job sites.

Here is [...]

Creative Lawn Care Business Bumper Sticker

I love seeing creative lawn care business marketing concepts. Well Tony, from amw-graphics.com never lets us down. He just posted a bunch of great new lawn care business sign concepts he has recently completed in this post here ( Lawn Care Forum ).
Out of all the ones he shared with us, this lawn care bumper [...]