Archive for the 'bed edging' Category
If you ever get a phone call from a customer asking you to trim some of their landscaping, it is important to do a little research on the type of plant before you just go ahead and break out your hedge trimmers. Sometimes there is a better way to handle things than by simply hacking [...]
December 9th, 2014 | Posted in Hedge Trimmers, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, bed edging, lawn care equipment | No Comments
When you are used to bidding lawn mowing jobs, you can find yourself caught off guard when a customer asks you for a bid to perform another service. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one contractor who way underbid his mulch bed weeding job and ultimately spend double [...]
December 3rd, 2014 | Posted in Brush Clearing, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Upsells, bed edging | No Comments
Spring and fall cleanups are great add on services you can offer your lawn mowing customer. For those customer you have who are on annual property contracts, they are great services to include and increase your profit. But what services should you include in these cleanups and how should customers be billed for them? That [...]
July 11th, 2014 | Posted in Aeration, Aerator, Edging, Fall Leaf Cleanups, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Invoicing, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Spring cleanups, Start up, Upsells, bed edging | No Comments
If you are new to bidding lawn care for commercial properties, here is a look, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, at how a few different landscapers came up with their price. Quite possibly you could compare a current job you are looking to bid on with the job discussed here and get a [...]
June 26th, 2014 | Posted in Commercial Customers, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Contract, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing, bed edging | No Comments
Are you currently mowing residential properties and looking to scale up to commercial? Or maybe you are servicing commercial customers and would like to see how another entrepreneur breaks down and bids a property. Here is a great hotel lawn care bid example from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Hopefully this helps give you [...]
January 23rd, 2014 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, bed edging | No Comments
You might think in order to win larger mowing accounts than you are used to, it would take some kind of skill only larger companies possess. That couldn’t be any further from the truth. As we will see from this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, sometimes that secret skill is simply being [...]
October 8th, 2013 | Posted in GopherHaul, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, How to sell, Insurance, Landscape Project, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Lawn Renovation, Liquid Organic Lawn Spraying, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Podcast, Pricing, Upsells, bed edging | No Comments
It’s amazing how we can make concepts so complicated at times. How to find customers? Why does this become such a huge and unobtainable goal? Sometimes it’s as simple as going out and getting them. As we will see from this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, a simple goal to find a [...]
August 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Tree Removal, Upsells, Wood Chipping, bed edging, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Providing weekly lawn mowing is a great way to generate solid income, but as we will see in this discussion, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, it’s the upsells that really make the profits. Which upsells you offer depend on a lot of factors, such as which equipment you have to perform the work, [...]
June 27th, 2013 | Posted in Edging, Excavating, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Mini excavation, Mowing, Pricing, Upsells, Wood Chipping, bed edging, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Knowledge is power and as we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, the more you know, the better you can sell. In this example, one entrepreneur was able to take a basic leaf cleanup on one yard, and turn it into a 3 yard job worth $469 all completed [...]
June 4th, 2013 | Posted in Aeration, Business Card, Dethatching, Edging, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Liquid Organic Lawn Spraying, Marketing, Referrals, Upsells, bed edging | No Comments
When you are trying to sell a customer on a landscape project, how do you create the imagery? Do you walk around the property with a customer and talk about how you might add this plant here or put a mulch bed in over there? Do you hand draw out a design on paper? Or [...]
March 26th, 2013 | Posted in Brush Clearing, Gardening, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscape Project, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Upsells, bed edging | No Comments
Depending how many competitors you have in your area, making serious money in the lawn care business can be tough if you simply try to go out there and stand out on price. Sometimes a better way to go about things is to offer additional services that your competitors don’t. Such upsell services can really [...]
August 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Back Pack Sprayer, Brush Clearing, Chipper, Compact Utility Tractor, Edging, Excavating, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Fertilization, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Landscape Project, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Line Trimmer, Liquid Organic Lawn Spraying, Marketing, Mini excavation, Mower, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pet Waste Removal, Pressure Washer, Pressure Washing, Sod, Spring cleanups, Tractor, Tree Removal, Upsells, Wood Chipping, Word Of Mouth, bed edger, bed edging, lawn care equipment, leaf clean up | No Comments
Certain personality types really seem to do better with selling lawn care services than others, but this doesn’t mean a shy person can’t find success. In fact, they absolutely can if they work on their ability to interact and communicate with others. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business [...]
August 17th, 2012 | Posted in Commercial Customers, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mowing, Residential Customers, Upsells, Word Of Mouth, bed edging | No Comments
In the beginning, trying to pull everything you need to do together to get your lawn care business launched can feel overwhelming. Which services should you offer, which should you pass on? Which services are best to start with and which are better to add on later? All these questions can make you feel a [...]
July 25th, 2012 | Posted in Aeration, Edging, Fertilization, Gardening, Gutter Cleaning, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Irrigation, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Sod, Start up, bed edging, leaf clean up | No Comments
Are you scaling your lawn care business up from mowing residential customers to servicing commercial properties? If so, you might find it helpful to check out this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and see how these lawn care business owners estimated the amount of time it would take to mow and how [...]
June 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Property Management, bed edging | No Comments
Do you ever find yourself wishing you landed more lawn care or landscaping accounts? Do you find after putting a lot of energy into your landscaping bid that you get negative feedback from the potential lawn care customer? If you do, you are not alone. Putting together a well oiled landscape sales presentation machine takes [...]
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Brush Clearing, Commercial Customers, Edging, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscape Project, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Renovation, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Residential Customers, Sod, bed edging | No Comments
Have you had the chance yet to submit a lawn care bid for a local apartment complex? If you haven’t because the job seems like it is overwhelming, why not take a moment and break down the job into simple parts. Compare the smaller parts to the lawn care work you are currently providing for [...]
February 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Apartment / Condo, Commercial Customers, Edging, Fall Leaf Cleanups, Fertilization, General Business, Growth, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Property Management, Pruning, Spring cleanups, Sprinkler Head, Tree Removal, bed edging, leaf clean up | No Comments
Think before you act. That is one lesson you should pull from this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Here a lawn care business owner is given the opportunity to perform lawn care services for a large warehouse. The downside to the job is that the customer won’t sign any contracts. As you [...]
July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, bed edging | No Comments
Here is a great story, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, on how a simple ad for lawn care, placed in a classified section of a local newspaper, led to thousands of dollars in work. The job initially involved a one acre yard cleanup but kept leading to more and more work. It goes [...]
May 19th, 2011 | Posted in Door hanger, Edging, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mowing, Newspaper Ads, Pricing, Referrals, Residential Customers, bed edging | No Comments
This was a very novel approach to estimating a commercial lawn care job. I don’t often see this happen but I guess it goes to show you, it never hurts to ask. This is especially true when you are talking to a new client that is switching lawn care service providers. If you take the [...]
March 18th, 2010 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing, bed edging | No Comments
Are you just starting your lawn care business and wondering what bed edging is and how you should bid such a job? Well we had a great discussion on this topic at the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Forum and I think you can really benefit from it.
Mike wrote to us about this bed edging job [...]
January 17th, 2009 | Posted in General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, bed edger, bed edging | 2 Comments