Lawn Care Business Marketing Tips - GopherHaul Blog

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 [...]

Getting a lawn mower, line trimmer, and a truck is the easy part when it comes to starting up a new lawn care business. Finding mowing customers is the tough part that will take you a little time. If you find yourself frustrated in your attempts to increase your customer roster consider some of these [...]

When building a lawn care website, there are many elements you can include. With all these choices, you may feel like a kid in a candy store trying to grab as many items as you can. You really need to think each element out before you install them. Some might be ok, some might be [...]

I am happy to announce the release of my newest lawn care business book. The Pro Lawn Care Business Playbook. You can order it here in both paperback and kindle version.
So many new lawn care business owners pause at the moment when a decision is required of them. Or they fail to plan how [...]

There are plenty of free lawn care logos and web templates to use if you are getting started and don’t have the time to custom create one from scratch. Are these templates alright to use? What if someone else is using the same template somewhere else? Does it matter? Would it be better to not [...]

There are many points business owners will promote about themselves and their business. Should you promote that you are a new start up company though? Is there a benefit to it? If you shouldn’t, why not? That is the question brought up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and the responses to it made [...]

It is tough to get lawn care customers when you are in your first year of operation. There are some steps you can take to speed up the process. A big step is finding a core group of customers that can create a buzz about your services and spread word of mouth advertising for you. [...]

If you are looking for more ways to attract new lawn care customers, you need to ask yourself how effective is your current website? Or do you even have one? When you create a site for your business, it’s worth noting that if you put some effort into it’s creation, you too may find that [...]

Even though the end of the year tends to bring a slow down in the amount of work you may be performing on lawns, it doesn’t mean you should sit back and chill out until next year. This is a great time to create some new holiday lawn care marketing material to send out and [...]

Finding lawn care customers can be a lot easier than you would expect and cost a lot less too when you are harnessing the right lawn care marketing methods for your business. The problem is, when you are starting out, you just don’t know which ones to choose from. So in this discussion from the [...]

Lawn care marketing can seem like this unknown black box to the uninformed or new lawn care business owner. This mystical box is one that you pour your hard earned money into in hopes that new customers come out of it. Many times new lawn care business owners try marketing once or twice and find [...]

It’s amazing how we all tend to look for the complex path to get us where we want to be when an easy path is standing there right in front of us. Sometimes is just so obvious that we don’t pay it any mind. That is what happened to this lawn care business owner when [...]

There are many ways to market your lawn care business. Some require your time while others require your money. Some are high tech while others are low tech and their methods date back to the dawn of mankind. Which is best for you depends a lot on your circumstances. Here is a great discussion, from [...]

I just got two of my lawn care business books available online as e-books which you can read on your portable devices and with the kindle book reader.
Check them out. They are full of great lawn care marketing tips.
How To Get Customers For Your Landscaping And Lawn Care Business All Year Long. Vol 1.

Paperback version.
eBook [...]

There are plenty of opportunities around your town to promote yourself. One lawn care business owner was interested in hearing some feedback about taking part in a local business fair, held at his bank. Do any of the banks in your area do this? If so, find out how you can take part in it. [...]

The first year you start your lawn care business can be pretty rough. You spend quite a bit of money on equipment and marketing in the hopes of maybe breaking even that year. But once you get into your second year, you really want to start to hunker down and make some profits. You want [...]

To continue on with our discussion on direct mail marketing from the post on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum a member wrote about her attempts to help push her lawn care business past the 8,000 customer number.
She wrote “The 300K mailings we send out per year is not 100% targeted. I would say [...]

There is a constant flow of new lawn care businesses that get started up every year as there is a constant flow of lawn care businesses that fail. Finding a niche and standing out is very important if you are going to find success. I think we all learn best when presented with examples of [...]

With each passing day more and more potential lawn care customers are looking to internet search engines for lawn care companies as those phone books are becoming a thing of the past. Knowing this will show you the importance of having a website but that is only the first step. You are also going to [...]

Are you looking to create your own lawn care website? Or maybe thinking about adding some information to it but you are not sure what? Consider these ideas from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
The difference between success and failure can be very slight. So can the difference between good and great. That is why [...]

Finding which lawn care marketing strategy works seems to be a topic of never ending fascination. Everyone seems to be looking for that magic key. Is it flyers? Is it door hangers? If not those two, what else could it be? That is a topic raised at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when one [...]

When mowing season comes to an end, that doesn’t mean it’s time to relax. There is still plenty of work to be done for those who keep busy. One lawn care business owner on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum asked “well with mowing season is over, I want to drum up a lot more [...]

You never know when your next big idea is going to be right around the corner. Take this idea for instance. One of the members of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum had been at a lawn care customer’s home performing some power washing when a light bulb went on in his head and a [...]

Have you noticed more lawn care business owners in your area starting up? Do you find they tend to try and compete solely on price? Is it difficult for you to make a profit on lawn care when others are offering to cut lawns for $15? If so, here is some great insight from the [...]

Are you looking for a free way to market your lawn care business? A new lawn care business owner wrote to us and shared his frustration about finding customers. He said “I’m 17 and I mow and landscape with a friend of mine. We are a pretty good team and we do good work but [...]

Did you know you can appear on google’s search engine even if you don’t have a website? And if you have a lawn care website, here is a tip that you really need to take advantage of. The best part about all of this, is that it’s FREE. It’s amazing what you can learn when [...]

I just added some new animate banner ad templates for tree removal and stump grinding. Here is what the tree removal banner ad looks like when it is completed. You can make your own animated tree or lawn care business banner ads by visiting the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum here.
Tree removal animated banner ad.

I added some new lawn care business animated banners to our online designer. Now you will be able to offer more seasonal graphics to your lawn care business website or online advertisements.
Here is the Seasons Greetings animated lawn care banner.

$200,000 in one month? Is your lawn care or landscaping business able to do that? Well if you’re not there yet, read this article and find out how to do it.
If you are looking to grow your lawn care and landscaping business you need to think big. Let’s take a look into how one of [...]

Have you ever wanted to make your own animated banner ad to promote your lawn care or snow plowing services and found it difficult if not impossible to do so? Well here is a simple online service that allows you to enter your lawn care business contact information and creates an animated banner quickly, [...]