Lawn Care Business Marketing Tips - GopherHaul Blog

Is this your first season and are you out looking to get mowing jobs? The first few jobs you bid on are usually the toughest to get because you don’t have the infrastructure in place to properly estimate how much a property should be charged. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, [...]

How many times has this happened to you? You get a phone call from a potential lawn care customer who wants you to bid on their property. You show up to bid and then never hear anything back from them. Or if you do hear back from them, you find out your price was too [...]

We all dream that some lawn care marketing message we send out is going to be the golden ticket to more mowing accounts. More often than not, it seems not to happen. But ever once in a while, it does. Then what do you do when you are flooded with 150 new mowing accounts? That’s [...]

If you have never dealt with higher end lawn care customers, they are different than your average mowing customers. They demand more from you but they can pay a lot more and make it worth your while. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from some entrepreneurs about how they [...]

It can be so frustrating early on with your business when you are ready to work and work hard, but your phones aren’t ringing. What can you do to make the phones ring? How can you attract new business? That is what one entrepreneur wanted to know on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when [...]

Each geographic area has a uniqueness to it. Whether it be a certain type of property, customer, or marketing method that works best in that area. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, one entrepreneur wonders the best way to get mowing customers in a southern state. Which kinds of customers he [...]

If you think the only way to get more mowing customers is to spend a lot of money on your marketing or spend a lot of time getting the word out about your business, you are in for a surprise. An entrepreneur, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, shared with us his low cost [...]

This presidential election has brought out a lot of interest from the public. More people are paying attention to the debates than ever before. This led one entrepreneur to wonder if the patriotic surge going on around the elections could be used to help sell more lawn care services. In this discussion from the Gopher [...]

It can be a very unsettling feeling to find yourself mid mowing season without a full mowing schedule. In a blink of an eye, fall will be here and then winter. If you don’t maximize your mowing time when the grass is still growing, you could find yourself in a bad spot during the slower [...]

Most every town has a nicer area and a rougher area. Nice lawns tend to be owned by people who care about what their property looks like and are willing to pay for lawn service. But what about those lawns in run down areas? Are they worth taking on? That is what one entrepreneur wanted [...]

We ll try to save time in all the processes we do throughout the day. How can we schedule our mowing routes to make distances shorter between customers. What equipment can we get to speed our mowing times. What lawn care software can we use to improve our billing speeds. Then when it comes to [...]

If you ask 5 different lawn care business owners their view on how many lawn care flyers you should pass out, prepare to get a bunch of varied responses. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we look into if using flyers is a viable marketing method. For some it is not. [...]

When you look professional, you are perceived by others as being professional. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, looking professional is an important step a new entrepreneur needs to take in order to grow. Then the next step is to project confidence that the customer can trust [...]

There is a lot of prep work and planning that goes into getting a lawn care business started. It can take quite a bit of time and money to be ready for your first mowing customer. Then all of a sudden, with the proper mixture of preparedness, know how, and equipment, you land your first [...]

Creating a website for a new start up lawn care business is still one of those daunting tasks that many a new entrepreneur will put off. What is the downside though to not getting a website up and running? That is the topic of the discussion we had on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. [...]

When it comes to finding new mowing customers, your marketing strategies should be altered to help you focus your advertising dollars on the exact group of people you want to hire you. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one entrepreneur who came up with a great way to [...]

Have you experienced the power of third party website reviews of your business? Have they been good experiences or bad? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we learn about the importance of online reputation management. With a simple technique, you can harness mowing customers to leave you great reviews and also [...]

When it comes to lawn care marketing, everyone has an opinion on what works best. Some marketing may work well in one area while other methods work better in others. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, one entrepreneur questions which marketing methods would work best for him and if he should [...]

Picking up a few tips and tricks from one landscape company here and there can have a great impact on the growth of your company over time. Sometimes little adjustments in the way you operate can be the missing ingredient to finding bigger success. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum we [...]

Here is a great discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that talks about business growth. Some entrepreneurs look for hyper growth, where each year their company grows by leaps and bounds. But as we will see from some veterans of the industry, slower growth can give you time to build a longer lasting [...]

If you find yourself later in the fall/winter season, where you didn’t have as many mowing customers as you wanted this year and really want to get a jump on next year, what kinds of marketing should you be doing now? That is what one entrepreneur wanted to know when he asked the Gopher Lawn [...]

Craigslist has one great benefit for the new start up mowing businesses, it’s free. So with no barrier of entry, the amount of people using it to promote all sorts of things can sky-rocket, depending on your area. So with that said, is it worthwhile for you to post an ad on there? Is there [...]

Have you done any marketing lately for your lawn care business? Have you found a unique hook to make your message stand out? This entrepreneur shared with us, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, one method he was using to make his door hangers different from the rest. I hope this discussion and graphic [...]

There is this myth n the minds of the newbie landscaper that if they come into an area and charge the cheapest price, they will be able to scoop up enough clients that the volume of clients will make up for the cheap price. The reality of it all is that doesn’t work. As we [...]

Have you ever wished you had a friend in the lawn care industry that would share with you how their fall lawn care marketing plan worked? How many pieces of marketing material they handed out and what kind of jobs resulted from it? Well luckily you have the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum as that [...]

Your first year of business tends to be so full of new experiences and surprises that you don’t have much time for planning. Every step you take forwards is difficult because you don’t have the benefit of years of experience behind you. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from [...]

Here is some great insight shared with us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about the lawn care marketing strategies and responses an entrepreneur found. If there is one lesson to be learned from it, you never know what kind of response you will get until you try, and try, and try again. The [...]

Whether you are trying to market your lawn care services, snow removal services, or what ever else, there are a few tips we will learn from this discussion in the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that will help you. We will also get a chance to look at and review one entrepreneurs post card design [...]

Marketing is always an experimental process. Altering different variables and testing those marketing elements is the only way for sure to know what is working and what isn’t. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one entrepreneur who promoted free leaf cleanups and how he made out at the [...]

A new business owner is going to have a lot of questions about getting themselves up and running. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we cover 5 of the top questions asked about getting started. From what grade of equipment should be purchased to if you should be performing small tasks [...]