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Are lawn signs effective? Would it be worthwhile getting a couple printed, if you are on a tight budget, and displaying them while out mowing or do you need to use a lot of them to get any response at all? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one [...]

You have probably received junk mail in your mail box before from other landscapers in your area. Maybe you even thought about getting into the mass mailing game. But you probably wondered if it was worth it. In this discussion, from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from some landscapers who have been [...]

Everyone is looking for an angle. A strategy. A different message to stand out from competitors. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from one entrepreneur who tried offering a free mowing to drum up business and he got a very interesting perspective on the marketing experimentation.

The general golden rule in business and in life says you should do on to others as you would have done to you. Sometimes, business ethics are put to the side as the competitive drive increases. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, there are a lot of [...]

After many years, one landscaper was interested in creating a new logo and rebranding his business. But what elements should he consider? What should he include or exclude? That is what this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum is about. Read through this article and consider some of the tips before making your [...]

No matter what industry you are in, there will always be a percentage of business owners who feel the best way to grow their business is to advertise the cheapest rate. The lawn care industry is no different. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, there are alternatives [...]

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, [...]

Getting your landscape truck and trailer done up with some cool vinyl graphics can cost a bit of money and it tends to be lower on the list of things to do for new business owner. It’s not that most business owner don’t want the nice looking artwork to promote themselves, it’s that they don’t [...]

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 [...]

There are a few things most new lawn care business owners do when they get started that really negatively impact their bottom line. The first thing they do is they underestimate the amount of time they will need to complete a job and follow up by underestimating the amount of money they need to charge [...]

Starting a lawn care business as a teen can be challenging as we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. It can be difficult to properly estimate jobs as you don’t have much experience doing it and it can also be tough to be taken seriously by the client. With [...]

Getting a lawn care business website up initially is an important step. As soon as you take it, you need to follow some basic principles to rank as high as possible in search engine result rankings. There are also marketing methods you can utilize to attract viewer to your site from social networking sites like [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s not an easy thing to create a logo for your lawn care business. With a logo, you are trying to create a visual icon that encapsulates a mood, your companies technical skill level, how you will interact with a customer, and what they can expect from you. If you make the logo too detailed, [...]

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 [...]

What makes for a great lawn care business logo? Should you keep the design simple or should it be full color and complex? Are there certain design elements you should include and others you should avoid? Once you have a logo created, how best should you use it? That is what one entrepreneur was wondering [...]