Archive for July, 2009
We talk a lot about co-marketing on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and here is a great example of what one business owner did to promote themselves. They hooked up with a local pizzeria.
He wrote to tell us a little about what he did. “Here is something you can do as well. I have [...]
July 30th, 2009 | Posted in Cross Promotion / Synergy, General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
I just love the creative marketing ideas that get posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. There are so many ideas posted, you will never run out of ways to promote yourself. Let’s talk about the latest great idea. One of our members shared with us a story on how he uses napkin dispensers [...]
July 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Business Card, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast | No Comments
New lawn care business owners quite often think about if they should or shouldn’t be using lawn care contracts with their residential clients. What works best? This was a question that was posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A business owner wrote “My thought is to steer away from “paper” contracts with residential [...]
July 5th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Debt Collection, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Residential Customers | No Comments
You never know when your next big idea is going to be right around the corner. Take this idea for instance. One of the members of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum had been at a lawn care customer’s home performing some power washing when a light bulb went on in his head and a [...]
July 4th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Pressure Washing, Residential Customers | No Comments
Have you noticed more lawn care business owners in your area starting up? Do you find they tend to try and compete solely on price? Is it difficult for you to make a profit on lawn care when others are offering to cut lawns for $15? If so, here is some great insight from the [...]
July 2nd, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Prepay, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up, Website | No Comments
How often are you performing a service on a customer’s property when you see a problem that you feel you could fix? Do you mention this problem to the customer? If not, why not? Offering basic weekly mowing services is a great way to open the lines of communication with a customer that can lead [...]
July 1st, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Pressure Washing, Residential Customers | No Comments