Archive for September, 2008
If you are starting to place bids now for snow plowing driveways and parking lots in your area, you are not alone.
Ron wrote us: “Hi i am getting into commercial accounts and I am not really sure how much to charge for plowing. I was wondering if i could get some ideas about charging for [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Snow plowing, Winter | No Comments
Here is a lawn care flyer template you can play around with. One image shows you what you could do with text and the other is without text so you can make your own. You can download the free lawn care flyer template at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here.
September 4th, 2008 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
When you are a new business and are looking for funding, sometimes you might consider getting an SBA loan. That question was asked in the Gopher Lawn Care Forum.
Jerry: “How hard it is to get a Small Business Association Loan for $10,000 for some new equipment?”
Joel: “How hard it is depends on your own situation. [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Business loan, General Business, Lawn Care Business | No Comments
This discussion is an off shoot from a post we had helping a new lawn care business owner get their business plan and marketing plan created in our Head Start Program. If you’d like to read more on it, visit the Gopher Lawn Care Forum here.
Joel LaRusic, author of the book Start and run a [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
Have you considered marketing your lawn care business at a restaurant or co-marketing with a restaurant? There are many ways to do it and I wanted to share some of them that have been posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
Justin put an ad in a local restaurants place mats and had this to [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Cross Promotion / Synergy, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
Tucker wrote me “I’m currently really close to starting up a single man op residential lawn care company and have been looking at the flier templates available here on the site. Considering the time of year (FOOTBALL!) and where I live (Sunny SoCal), I was wondering if you had anything in your vault that would [...]
September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fall, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, door to door | No Comments