Archive for the 'Fertilization' Category
Do you spray weed killers at times without having a pesticide application license? Sure some do it and some get away with it. But some get caught. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one landscaper who ran into big problems from what started off as a small situation.
September 14th, 2018 | Posted in Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Trials and Tribulations | No Comments
There are a lot of manufactures who make mowers, trimmers, and fertilizers. Does it make any sense at all to promote these brands on your website? Will these company’s brand name and good will positively effect your bottom line? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one entrepreneur who [...]
June 8th, 2018 | Posted in Fertilization, Liquid Organic Lawn Spraying, Marketing | No Comments
There is a science to pricing lawn fertilization spraying. If you are just winging your estimates, you could be losing out on a lot of profit per day. In this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one veteran entrepreneur who has found that spraying more larger lawns at a lower [...]
September 23rd, 2017 | Posted in Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Pricing | 1 Comment
In the early start up phase of your business, you may not be thinking about how to purchase landscape materials wholesale, but after getting just a handful of customers, you might see yourself needing more supplies at a better price than you can get at a local big box store. In this discussion from the [...]
March 10th, 2016 | Posted in Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, Mulch Jobs, Operational Costs | No Comments
There is this desire early in your business path to try and offer as many services as you can to experiment with and see what catches. The down side to this is different services require different skill sets and different equipment. Try taking on some jobs that you don’t know how to perform with the [...]
November 11th, 2015 | Posted in Aerator, Dethatching, Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Start up, dethatcher, lawn care equipment | No Comments
Once in a while, lawn care jobs bigger than you can handle will appear. When they do, you need to think about what it would take to service such properties. Do you have the man power to perform the work? Do you have the mowing equipment? If not, do you have the money to be [...]
October 6th, 2014 | Posted in Apartment / Condo, Commercial Customers, Fertilization, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Property Management | No Comments
Licenses are created to regulate industries, to train and educated people to operate under the current legal guidelines, and to raise revenue for the state. Regulating too much can lead to over-regulation. When that happens, people either decide not to t comply with the laws or they just avoid getting into industries that they feel [...]
September 22nd, 2014 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Fertilization, Insurance, Irrigation, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers | No Comments
Taking that step from simply offering lawn mowing to offering larger landscaping projects can bring in more money but they might also test your abilities and knowledge base. Here is a great discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about what you need to do if you are hired to install sod on a [...]
July 2nd, 2014 | Posted in Aeration, Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Sod, Sod Cutter | 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
Do you include a stop charge in your lawn mowing estimates or do you estimate the amount of time the job will take and create a bid based on that number? If you find you have a hard time coming up with a bid price, this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum will [...]
May 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Start up | No Comments
Each day you are operating your business, you will find there are learning lessons to absorb. Some lessons are small, while others can be larger. Here is a great discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about how it’s so important to follow up on bids you place. Also how it is very important [...]
May 1st, 2013 | Posted in Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Problem customers, Property Management | No Comments
There are a lot of different things that can go wrong with your equipment during the work day. Getting a flat tire is one of them that can be real frustrating and time consuming to deal with. There are alternatives to the standard tubeless tire but are those alternatives worthwhile? That is what one landscaper [...]
February 19th, 2013 | Posted in Fertilization, Liquid Organic Lawn Spraying, Mower, Trailer, lawn care equipment | 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
Do you have lawn care employees that are out mowing lawns during the day? If so, do you have any way of tracking what they are doing or where they are going? If not, you may be in for a rude awakening. This discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum was an eye opener [...]
August 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Business Failure, Fertilization, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Care Uniform, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Problem customers, Trials and Tribulations | 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
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
It can be quite a daunting task to put together your first commercial lawn care property management bid. Finding the right wording and comparing how your bid looks with others can difficult to do because your local competitors are probably not going to want to share this information with you. Well thanks to a member [...]
December 1st, 2011 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, Fertilization, General Business, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mowing, Parking Lot Cleanups, Pricing, Property Management | No Comments
Are you having a hard time figuring out what you need to do to get your lawn care business started? Have you found yourself running into dead ends when creating your business plan? Well you are not alone. Planning out how to get your lawn care business started can be really difficult. For some entrepreneurs [...]
September 27th, 2011 | Posted in Business Plan, Fertilization, Franchise, General Business, Growth, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Start up | No Comments