GopherHaul 16 Lawn Care Entrepreneur Business Show Hello everyone and welcome to Gopherhaul! If you haven’t started your business yet, what are you waiting for. If you don’t start your business this year, you’ll be at least 1 year older when you do so get started today! GopherHaul is a show for entrepreneurs and new business owners. In it we discuss business tips and tricks we have learned over the years and share with you some real world experiences on how to help your lawn care business or any other business grow. In this episode we will be talking about some new free downloads we have added to our lawn care business forum. One is a flyer and the other is a lawn care business bid proposal template. Next we will be talking about a new section we have added to the lawn care business forum called “Help me bid it.” This is going to allow you to post specifics of a lawn care job you want to bid on and get feedback from other lawn care business owners as to what you should charge. Then we talk about the concept of can you bid for too big of a job. Can such a job actually do more harm than good? Find out by watching the video. Next we talk about how you can use a down turn in the real estate market to actually gain new customers. We added a new flyer on this marketing concept as well and you are welcome to download it from our lawn care business forum. Lastly we discuss search engine optimization tips that will help you rank higher in searches. Why should you pay for internet …
GopherHaul 16 Lawn Care Entrepreneur Business Show
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DolphinBreath
August 5, 2010 at 9:43 pm
not a good summer for a lawn care business in the uk, that’s for sure. Roll on next summer!
TeamGopher
August 5, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Hi ianh321,
Thanks! I don’t mow, I work with Gopher Lawn Care Business Software. Have you logged onto our forum yet? It would be great to have you on there and share with us your insights about running a business in the U.K.
ianh321
August 5, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Good vids mate. I run a lawn care business in the UK and its good to see such enthusiasm. Is it just mowing you do? I do everything but mow ie. weed, feed aeration scarify, pest control etc.
treehound1978
August 5, 2010 at 11:53 pm
this man knows his stuff!
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 12:23 am
I look forwards to seeing what you next create!
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 12:59 am
HAHAHA Justin, that trailer on Arnold’s Commando is awesome! It’s funny cause it really seems to date the movie, which I love.
Good for you.
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 1:21 am
I am looking forwards to seeing more of your videos as well!
Keep up the great work!
gwvnet
August 6, 2010 at 2:11 am
This is pretty cool–creative and great info!!!
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 2:44 am
Hi murffy87,
The concept is that the home seller offers 1 year’s worth of lawn care service to the potential buy.
The home seller pays you.
Ultimately the goal is, offering such a perk, is cheaper for the home seller than to drop the house price as an inducement.
murffy87
August 6, 2010 at 2:47 am
i dont get it though. who pays for the lawn service then? the real esate agent? can someone please explain.
thank you in advance
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 3:12 am
I checked out your site and your video. What’s been your view so far on using youtube as a marketing tool? Has it been helpful or not? Have you thought of ways to promote your video?
It’s kind of funny in a way, your video is supposed to be the thing that is promoting you but then once you put it up, you need to promote your promotion video!
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 3:38 am
Oh you will love switching to another movie making software package. The windows movie maker is sooo limited. Once you get anything else you will feel so much more freer to be more creative.
The green screen allows you to put up an image behind you. So for instance if you videotape yourself with a solid green material behind you, in the software you can insert a background image or video and it can make it more colorful.
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 3:43 am
Hi,
I use Vegas but this is still basic software as compared to what’s out there. There is a lot more amazing software that can do even more.
What are you using now to do your videos?
Oh and by the way, what do you think of the use of the green screen? Does it make the video look better or worse?
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 3:43 am
Thank you very much.
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 4:02 am
Some lawn care business owners fell you should go for big jobs while others feel they should take smaller steps.
Thank you for sharing your view.
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 4:59 am
Let us all know how it turns out.
TeamGopher
August 6, 2010 at 5:07 am
I appreciate it, thank you!
CesearTurf
August 6, 2010 at 5:44 am
I am going to try the flyer for home sellers and see how it works for me.
I’ll let you know what happens. Good job with the video and thanks for the flyer idea.
jahoojoe
August 6, 2010 at 5:46 am
Great video. packed with info and contents as usual. Keep up the good work.
HowToMakeAMillion
August 6, 2010 at 5:47 am
Excellent Video! Well Done!
TurfTigerLawnCare
August 6, 2010 at 6:41 am
If you got a shot at going for a big account you should do it. Otherwise you will be driving by later seeing another scaper doing the job and you will wish it was you.
OneHappyStoner420
August 6, 2010 at 7:23 am
lawn care tecknishion wow these r mad grass heads