Archive for March, 2009
Thanks to Matt for posting this great lawn mowing flyer and bid sheet on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. He wrote us “I just recently came up with a couple different forms I’m planning on using. These aren’t my primary flyers. The one is to stir up new business this year and the other [...]
March 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Estimate or Proposal Form, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material, door to door | No Comments
At first glance, you would think choosing a lawn care business logo would be easy. Just pick the one that for whatever reason, stands out to you. Maybe the color, maybe the boldness, maybe the way it looks on your truck. But as we will see in this discussion there is more to choosing a [...]
March 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Business Card, General Business, GopherHaul, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Logo, Marketing, Podcast, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material | No Comments
Spring is in the air and many lawn care businesses are looking to buy new lawn care equipment. But before you go out and buy it, check the Gopher Forum equipment review section. There you can review what equipment other lawn care business owners are using. What they recommend and what they won’t buy again. [...]
March 20th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business School, Podcast | No Comments
Starting a lawn care business and getting a bunch of commercial grade equipment can be quite expensive. One of my friends from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum wrote and told me how he got out of offering lawn care and now specializes in dog waste disposal. He wrote ” have shot down the lawn [...]
March 15th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pet Waste Removal, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Hopefully this will put some insight on the HOW TO BID HARDSCAPE JOBS. Starting with basic patio’s so you don’t lose your butt. A big job can cause a lot of heart ache and stress for a small company, not only mentally but become financially devastating. More small companies go broke by not bidding the [...]
March 14th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Hardscaping, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscape Project, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business | No Comments
We had a great conversation on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that I wanted to share with you. Feel free to jump on it and offer your views as well.
Luna joined up on the forum and wrote “Hello! Just joined here and was looking to get opinions on a couple of truck magnets I [...]
March 12th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business School, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Residential Customers, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material, Website, publicity stunt | No Comments
We are always having great lawn care business discussions in the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and to miss a day of the latest posts is to miss a chance at reading some real quality information. This discussion started off on the topic of dealing with customers. From that it morphed into a profit markup [...]
March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Business Plan, General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing | No Comments
GopherHaul Lawn Care Business School
http://www.gopherforum.com Welcome to the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business School.
This FREE course the “Class 1 - Lawn Care Business Operator’s Certificate” is designed to give the new lawn care business owner a knowledge base to draw from and build a successful lawn care business. To sign up and enroll, visit the Gopher [...]
March 10th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business School, Marketing, Podcast, Start up, lawn care equipment | No Comments
On the Gopher Lawn Car Business Forum, Andy wrote “I am curious what brand of sprayers you guys are using. I have decided to go liquid organic, there are a number of reasons, anything organic sells really well to the client area I am going after, Halifax has the toughest rules in Canada when it [...]
March 9th, 2009 | Posted in Back Pack Sprayer, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Have you been handing out flyers to try and promote your spring lawn care business services and not getting the response you thought you would be getting? There could be many reasons why this happens. Could it be your headline? Or maybe even your offer? Let’s look into this.
A Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum member [...]
March 8th, 2009 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door, home show | 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
How do you secure your lawn care equipment in your trailer when you are out and about driving around town and servicing your customers? Here are a great bunch of ideas on how to construct a top notch and cheap trailer rack system.
Andy wrote “Some time ago a member posted pictures of racks they had [...]
March 4th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Trailer, lawn care equipment | No Comments