Archive for the 'Property Management' Category
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
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
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
Having the proper commercial liability insurance is an important step in taking on commercial lawn care customers but there is more to it than that if you want to land these contracts and keep everyone happy. It is fairly simple to know what amount of liability insurance you will need, simply ask them. Follow their [...]
May 30th, 2012 | Posted in Business Failure, Commercial Customers, Customer Retention, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Insurance, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Problem customers, Property Management | 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
Is your lawn care business going in a direction you want it to go? Are you enjoying the day to day activities of it or does it cause you continuous stress? That is the question one lawn care business owner contemplated when he found he was being handed the family property management company. He shared [...]
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in General Business, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Mowing, Property Management | No Comments
A man’s got to know his limitations. So said Clint Eastwood in the movie Magnum Force. Sure there are plenty of lawn care jobs out there of all shapes and sizes, but when are you bidding beyond your capacity to perform the job or even bid it accurately? As we will see in this discussion [...]
December 17th, 2011 | Posted in Business Failure, Commercial Customers, Edging, General Business, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Property Management | 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
Ever wish you had an extra $1,000 or two in your account each and every month but are unsure how to do it? Here are some great ideas, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum on how to initially contact and work with property managers. Following some simple steps should make it fairly easy for [...]
July 24th, 2011 | Posted in Cold Calling, Commercial Customers, General Business, Growth, 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, Marketing, Property Management, Upsells | No Comments
Jumping from offering residential lawn care to commercial can seem to be a daunting task at first but nothing helps more than seeing and learning from the examples of others. Here is a great commercial lawn care bid example from a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
December 17th, 2010 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Edging, Fall Leaf Cleanups, General Business, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Parking Lot Cleanups, Property Management, leaf clean up | No Comments
It pays to keep your overhead as low as possible and keep your customers happy. Here is a great example of why from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A lawn care business owner was looking to bid on a new client. This client was a home owner’s association who had previously hired a large [...]
December 14th, 2010 | Posted in 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 Mowing, Marketing, Mulch Jobs, Operational Costs, Overhead Costs, Pricing, Property Management, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
Whether you are just looking to get into offering commercial lawn care or you are currently offering it and wanting to see what others are charging for their services, here is a great inside look at one condominium associations commercial lawn care contract. In this example discussed at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, a [...]
December 8th, 2009 | Posted in Apartment / Condo, Commercial Customers, Edging, General Business, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Property Management | No Comments
If you are looking to provide snow plowing services or property management services to home owners, here is a great sample letter you can send out in fall to line up potential customers. Tom wrote on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum “I provide property care taking and snow removal service during the non [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Fall, General Business, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Mowing, Property Management, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Snow plowing, Winter | No Comments
We have a great discussion going on in the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that I wanted to share with you.
I asked Brandon how he was able to get it set up so that property management companies send him faxes of the work they want done, daily. He was able to give us a great [...]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Commercial Customers, General Business, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Property Management, Residential Customers | No Comments