Archive for the 'Lawn Care Marketing' Category
There are plenty of lead generating services out there. Are they helpful though? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, we hear from some landscapers who have experimented with such sites and what they like or dislike about them. Included are some tips to really maximize your potential profits.
October 11th, 2019 | Posted in Internet, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
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 [...]
April 13th, 2019 | Posted in Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Signs, Marketing | No Comments
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 [...]
March 30th, 2019 | Posted in Direct Mail, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Postcards | No Comments
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.
February 24th, 2019 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
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 [...]
January 27th, 2019 | Posted in Door hanger, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
May 4th, 2018 | Posted in Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
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 [...]
July 7th, 2017 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Signs, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, door to door, t-shirt | No Comments
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, [...]
May 24th, 2017 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Mowing, Pricing, Start up, Trials and Tribulations | No Comments
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 [...]
February 10th, 2017 | Posted in Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Truck, Lawn Care Truck & Trailer Signs, Marketing, Trailer, lawn care equipment | No Comments
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 [...]
November 5th, 2016 | Posted in Door hanger, How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Signs, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Referrals, Residential Customers, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
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 [...]
October 30th, 2016 | Posted in Commercial Customers, Door hanger, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals, Residential Customers, Start up | 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
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 [...]
October 10th, 2016 | Posted in How to get, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Signs, Marketing, Newspaper Ads, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
September 30th, 2016 | Posted in How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Mowing, Pricing, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
June 24th, 2016 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
May 28th, 2016 | Posted in Lawn Care Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Website | No Comments
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 [...]
April 29th, 2016 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to Estimate Jobs, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Mowing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Mowing, Pricing, Residential Customers, Start up | 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 | No Comments
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
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 [...]
January 8th, 2016 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to get, Internet, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Lawn Care Website, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Website, Word Of Mouth | No Comments
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 [...]
December 18th, 2015 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers | No Comments
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 [...]
October 27th, 2015 | Posted in Business Plan, Growth, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Referrals, Search Engine Optimization, Website, Word Of Mouth, lawn care equipment | No Comments
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 [...]
October 22nd, 2015 | Posted in Door hanger, Growth, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Newsletter, Postcards, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
October 6th, 2015 | Posted in How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Marketing on Craigslist.com, Residential Customers | No Comments
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 [...]
September 24th, 2015 | Posted in Door hanger, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
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, [...]
August 28th, 2015 | Posted in Lawn Care Logo, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing | No Comments
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 [...]
July 29th, 2015 | Posted in Fall Leaf Cleanups, Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to Estimate - Services To Offer, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
July 20th, 2015 | Posted in Business Plan, Commercial Customers, Direct Mail, Door hanger, How to get, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Start up, door to door | No Comments
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 [...]
July 8th, 2015 | Posted in Free Lawn Care Flyer Template, How to get, How to sell, Lawn Care Business, Lawn Care Customers, Lawn Care Marketing, Marketing, Residential Customers, Snow plowing, door to door, leaf clean up | No Comments