Archive for May, 2008
Here is an idea to market your lawn care business on Memorial Day and the 4th of July.Order as many small flags as you need. Punch two holes in your business cards.
Then slide the flag through the holes.
Insert the flag pole into lawns.
One of our forum members tried this and said “I bought [...]
May 25th, 2008 | Posted in 4th of July, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Memorial Day, Parade | No Comments
Hi Everyone,
I am putting together my next book which is going to be an episode guide of my lawn care business show GopherHaul.
I want to include photos on the cover of my friends from myspace and my lawn care business forum. The goal is to inspire the readers to go out and start their own [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Lawn Care Business Book | No Comments
I am really excited about this. My new book “Stop Lowballing! A Lawn Care Business Owner’s Guide To Success” is now available on amazon.com.
Check it out!
May 20th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Book, Marketing | No Comments
Gopher-preneur book of the month, June ‘08
Brothers of Iron: Building the Weider Empire
by Joe Weider (Author), Ben Weider (Author)
I have been looking for this book for quite some time. I must have stopped looking for a while because when I went online to see if was out, it was! Lucky me and lucky [...]
May 19th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business Book | No Comments
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5e18QYzcY
Title: GopherHaul 26 - Lawn Care Marketing Business Forum Show
Show description:
Hello and welcome to GopherHaul 26 - Lawn Care Marketing Business Forum Show
GopherHaul breaks the 1,000,000 view mark! Thank you everyone for watching us!
New 1-on-1 private lawn care business consulting forum added.
I just added a new section to the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. This [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Videos, Marketing, Video | No Comments
What does $250,000 buy you when it comes to lawn care equipment? How about this set up? These pictures were sent to us by our friend Brandon. Check out his post here at the Gopher Lawn Care Forum.
May 9th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Truck, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Uncategorized, lawn care equipment | No Comments
A forum member made a post about bidding on a tree removal. I wanted to share this post from the Gopher Lawn Care Forum with you to help broaden your knowledge on creating an estimate for a tree removal.
Abryconlawn: “Hey everybody, I’ve been in the landscaping business for about five years now and just [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Tree Removal, Uncategorized | No Comments
Dell created this great door hanger to help you upsell the service of applying his lawn care product Doggy Oggy.
Doggy Oggy Door Hanger from Delle of http://www.doggyoggy.com
Thanks Dell!
Download larger image file here. Make sure you logged into the forum to download all files
May 5th, 2008 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Pet Waste Removal, Residential Customers | No Comments
Here is a sample letter posted on our Gopher Lawn Care Forum. Your lawn care business could send this out to property managers to help you gain commercial lawn care accounts.
(423) ###-xxxx
2-29-08
Baxxxx xxxx
Emerald Green Lawn Care
Miss Clarke,
Hello, please allow me to take a moment of your time. My name is Bxxxxx xxxx and I represent [...]
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material | No Comments
This was a great post made in the Gopher Lawn Care Forum that I didn’t want to get lost. In this post, our friend Alehandros posted a question.
He asked “I am planning to open up a landscaping company, and want to know the best time to attract customers.
Spring is ideal because that is when people [...]
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
I just read a great post by our new friend Eric on the Gopher Lawn Care Forum. We were talking about how to attract more lawn care customers via referrals from your current lawn care customer base.
Eric wrote: “My contracts were annual with a set monthly price. Every bill had a stamped self addressed envelope [...]
May 1st, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, lawn care equipment | No Comments