Archive for October, 2009
Here is a great example of how much a front yard landscape project was estimated. If you are a newer lawn care business, this will help you figure out how much others are charging for such projects. Before you read what the landscaper’s final bill was, try and come up with a price in your [...]
October 13th, 2009 | Posted in Edging, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Mulch Jobs | No Comments
Slow economies tend to drive people that once were employed into finding side work on their own. Sometimes this sidework is offering lawn care. When too many people are offering lawn care services, the price in the area tends to drop. So what do you do?
This is the situation a member of the Gopher Lawn [...]
October 13th, 2009 | Posted in Direct Mail, Door hanger, General Business, How to get, Internet, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
Here are some more Fall lawn care business postcard designs that were posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here. With all these designs, you got no reason to be stumped when you are thinking of what you should be sending out in the mail to get more lawn care customers.
Bob from Plan-It Graphics [...]
October 12th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Postcards, Residential Customers | No Comments
If your lawn care business is looking for postcard designs to send out for your Fall marketing you gotta check out this post on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. One of our members was going through a bunch of the lawn care business postcard designs he had submitted and wanted to know what we [...]
October 12th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Postcards, Residential Customers | No Comments
This is a very interesting topic. Lawn care business owners are always looking for ways to land commercial lawn care bids. But what’s the best way to do it? There are many ways to go about getting close with property managers to win bids but there is nothing like hearing the inside scoop straight from [...]
October 11th, 2009 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Podcast, Residential Customers | No Comments
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to flatten out a lawn? That’s a topic that came up in the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when one of our members asked “I have been looking for an accessory for my lawn tractor for leveling/flattening a lawn after tilling and rolling. I [...]
October 9th, 2009 | Posted in Box Blade, General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Tractor, lawn care equipment | No Comments
You might not think at the moment you need to carry a fire extinguisher with you when you are out mowing, but after you see how a $6,000 investment burnt up in flames, it might want you to change your mind. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us a story [...]
October 8th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Mower, lawn care equipment | No Comments
With many small lawn care businesses, the owners tend to feel there is more money when you get in and get out fast. However as we will see in this discussion, offering more services than simply lawn mowing can help you be on the job site longer. The longer you are on the job site, [...]
October 7th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, GopherHaul, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Referrals, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Are you keeping your lawn mower blades sharp? This is something you can do very simply that will keep your lawns looking great after they are mowed. But how do you go about sharpening your lawn mower blades and how often should they be sharpened? That is a question which was asked on the Gopher [...]
October 6th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Mower, lawn care equipment | No Comments