Archive for the 'Business Card' Category
Do you ever promote your lawn care business by going door to door and either knocking on doors to talk to the home owner or handing them a flyer? Well what if instead of knocking, you simply attached a business card to the front door? Would that be an effective form of marketing? Would it [...]
October 12th, 2018 | Posted in Business Card, Marketing, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
October 21st, 2016 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
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 [...]
March 3rd, 2016 | Posted in Business Card, Commercial Customers, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | 1 Comment
It’s difficult to be good at everything. Many times you may have a marketing idea or message you want to convey but you just can’t quite get out what you are envisioning in your head. On the flip side, sometimes you can get an idea and create the perfect message and design right away. In [...]
February 26th, 2016 | Posted in Business Card, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Review My Lawn Care Marketing Material | No Comments
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 [...]
January 27th, 2016 | Posted in Business Card, Customer Retention, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Problem customers, Website | No Comments
We tend to make this idea in our heads that starting a business is this huge deal. Like it is some mammoth effort. Then we go through the handful of steps to become a legitimate business and the next thing that happens is nothing. No phones start to miraculously ring because we opened up shop. [...]
January 28th, 2015 | Posted in Business Card, Door hanger, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door | No Comments
It sure would be nice to have an unlimited lawn care marketing budget so you could do any idea you wanted. But what should you do when your marketing budget is limited? To be more specific, what should you do if you only had $200 to promote your mowing business? That is what one entrepreneur [...]
August 26th, 2014 | Posted in Business Card, Commercial Customers, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, Door hanger, How to get, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
If you have estimated more than a few landscape jobs, you have been in a situation where you didn’t get a job because of price. When that happens, you may sometimes reflect on your estimate and wonder if your landscape bid was too high or if you simply got lowballed by a competitor. In this [...]
June 24th, 2014 | Posted in Business Card, Edging, Hedge Trimming, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to sell, Landscape Project, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mowing, Mulch Jobs, Pricing, Problem customers | No Comments
Promoting special offers in your lawn care marketing material can be a great way to fill up your mowing schedule. As your route gets filled, you can then bid your jobs higher to improve your profit margin and get rid of lower profitable jobs. Here is a great example of promoting special offers on business [...]
June 18th, 2014 | Posted in Business Card, Commercial Customers, Coupons, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
Wouldn’t it be nice if every time you were out with your truck and you parked somewhere, your truck could help you sell? Sure if you get some signs on it, people may write down your contact information. But what if you had a lawn care business card holder on your truck? Then to make [...]
March 13th, 2014 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
If you have ever considered sending out thank you cards to your customers at the beginning of the season but then passed on the idea, you may want to reconsider it after hearing what this one entrepreneur has to say about it. He shared with us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum a look [...]
February 1st, 2014 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Thank You Cards | No Comments
What will you be doing as spring nears to get back in touch with your lawn care customer base? Will you call them? Email them? Simply show up once the lawn starts to grow? Well you might want to consider sending out a spring lawn care customer letter and see if it can generate you [...]
January 29th, 2014 | Posted in Brochure, Business Card, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Business Sales Letter, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, home show | No Comments
Bidding on leaf cleanup jobs can be difficult for the new start up business owner. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we get some insight into the process. There are many questions you may have about performing such work such as how to actually remove the leaves, what to do with [...]
December 24th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Fall Leaf Cleanups, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Pricing, Referrals, Spring cleanups, Start up | No Comments
Here is a great way to reach out to your community, build great bonds, and attract new customers. Host a Festival of Trees! This is a great lawn care marketing idea shared on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
October 10th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Christmas, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, Free Giveaway Contest, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Press Release, Radio, Residential Customers, Seasonal Promotion Ideas, Television, Website, door to door | No Comments
Being observant to what other industries are doing to attract new customers can be a great way to get ideas to attract your own customers. Sometimes you can take an idea and use it exactly the same way you saw it used. Other times you can alter the idea a bit to better fit your [...]
October 3rd, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals | No Comments
What marketing methods work best? Figuring this out can take a lot of time and energy. A short cut to finding success quicker than spending a lot of time experimenting is to read what works for others and then implement those suggestions. Here we have a great collection of methods, from the Gopher Lawn Care [...]
September 13th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Door hanger, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Uniform, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, Upsells, Word Of Mouth, lawn care equipment | No Comments
In most communities there are various social groups that raise money throughout the year for local projects. Some of these groups charge a monthly fee to be involved with. Those fees may be within the budget of some entrepreneurs, but what if they are out of your reach and you still would like to get [...]
July 12th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Word Of Mouth, home show | No Comments
Keeping things fun and fresh is very important if you want to enjoy a long and happy career in your chosen profession. Running a small businesses always has the potential of grinding you down if you let it. One little problem can lead to another and another unless they are addressed early on and dealt [...]
July 5th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Business Failure, Door hanger, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Growth, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Trials and Tribulations | No Comments
Are you looking to attract more high end lawn care customers? Have you had a tough time figuring out how to do it? Here is a great discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that looks into this process. You should be able to gain at least a few new sales techniques from these [...]
July 3rd, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Excavating, Growth, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, How to sell, Landscaping Business, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Mini excavation, Pricing, Referrals, Upsells, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
We have all seen signs that say no soliciting before but have you ever stopped and thought about what such a sign means to you? Especially when you are out distributing your lawn care door hangers, going door to door with them. Can you simply ignore such a sign if you see one on a [...]
June 7th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | 1 Comment
If you spend a little time being creative, you can come up with a lot of lawn care marketing ideas that really stand out. After you create a list of ideas, go through them with a friend and see which ones sound like they could work well and which ones would just be a waste [...]
June 6th, 2013 | Posted in Billboard, Business Card, Door hanger, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Postcards, Referrals, Word Of Mouth, t-shirt | 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
Trying to come up with the right lawn care marketing message, the right manner to communicate that marketing message, and the right time to send it out can be difficult. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we see one door hanger design a landscaper created to promote his message and how [...]
May 14th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Door hanger, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door | No Comments
The first year of starting your lawn care business can be very frustrating, with the biggest frustration likely being the difficulty of adding new customers. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, it is so very important to talk to people. The more people you talk to, the [...]
May 6th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, Start up, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Which lawn care marketing method would you feel generates more callers, business cards or postcards? After reading this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, you may be surprised to find that postcards tend to win out. But these are not just any general postcard designs. No no. These successful companies are getting up [...]
May 1st, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Postcards, Residential Customers, lawn care equipment | No Comments
There are a lot of business etiquette lessons we just may not know about until we are exposed to them. Here is a great example of that from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Many a new landscape business owner got their start by working for another mowing company. When you are working for someone [...]
March 13th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Employees, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, Start up | No Comments
As a new business owner, you may be limited on the resources you have, so you need to spend your time and money wisely if you want to grow. But what should you be spending your time and money on? That is what one entrepreneur was interested in knowing on the Gopher Lawn Care Business [...]
March 11th, 2013 | Posted in Back Pack Leaf Blower, Business Card, Business Credit, Chain Saw, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, Debt, Door hanger, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Lawn Signs, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Newsletter, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door, lawn care equipment | No Comments
If you lack money to spend on your lawn care marketing efforts, don’t worry you are not alone. You also have a lot of methods you can utilize that don’t require money, but will require a little of your time. Here is a great discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum on how you [...]
March 7th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Community Projects To Promote Your Business, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Referrals, Residential Customers, Start up, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
There are many lawn care marketing methods you can use to promote your business but none seem to give you as much bang for your buck as networking. Talking to people, letting them know what you are doing with yourself and handing out business cards is very important. In fact you can become very successful [...]
February 4th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
Getting your first customer can become a monumental task. There are many reasons why it is so difficult. You are new to business, you lack the confidence to sell, and you just haven’t had the experience to know who to make your sales presentation too! As we will see from this discussion on the Gopher [...]
January 18th, 2013 | Posted in Business Card, Cold Calling, Commercial Customers, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Snow plowing, Start up, door to door | No Comments