www.StartALawnCareBusiness.com The hot summer months are mostly behind us now and you might be thinking that the lawn care business will be coming to a standstill for the rest of the year. Nothing could be further from the truth because September, October, and November are leaf raking months. This is a hugely profitable time of the year. It is possible to make more money during these months than during the grass cutting season since there is such a huge demand for leaf raking services. If you can do your leaf raking jobs properly and efficiently and if you can price them correctly then you can make a tremendous amount of money. I urge you to get ramped up. If you haven’t started your lawn care business yet, get started right away and advertise your leaf raking services. If money is an object, don’t be deterred. We have helped people get started with just a rake and a pair of gloves. No matter how small you start, you need to start off on the right foot. The estimating software comes with our business package and there is also free email support. So, if you have any questions we are always happy to help. The website is StartALawnCareBusiness.com We offer a professionally produced Lawn Care Landscaping business package which shows you how to start a lawn care business. Included in the guides is information on how to do leaf raking jobs properly and how to price those jobs profitably. Once again, the website is: www.StartALawnCareBusiness.com
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Best Lawn Care Equipment To Purchase And How To Decide What’s Best For Your Company
www.LawnCareMillionaire.com – Jonathan Pototschnik tells what equipment his company uses and how to pick the very best equipment for your company. Plus the most important decision when buying lawn care equipment. httpGet control, get organized, grow faster and make a lot more money — the right lawn care software is critical to your success — you need one system capable of running your entire lawn care company that grows with your business — handles scheduling, contact management, invoicing, route sheets, work orders, marketing, QuickBooks integration, routing, handhelds, job costing, employees, vendors, time cards and so much more.
Being a good landscaper is not enough. – GopherHaul 58 Lawn Care Forum Show
www.gopherforum.com – Its fascinating the lessons learned by new lawn care business owners who leave their full time jobs to go off on their own and start their own business. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us some of the issues he ran into when he got started. He wrote Its one thing to manage a business for someone but its definitely another to own a business. I thought that because I was a great landscaper people would just call. I thought wrong. I now have an interactive website and advertise locally in the community papers. I am trying to make the community aware of the services that I offer. I think many employees of lawn care businesses tend to not realize how difficult it is to find work. They are normally told where the job is and what they need to do when they get there but rarely are the involved with the sales process. That tends to be where the magic happens. A lawn care business owner who is a good salesman, can find much success in the industry where a quiet more introverted business owner may struggle a lot more to get attention. When I asked this lawn care business owner to share more of the lessons he learned as he started his own business and how it differed from working for another lawn care company he responded I learned that in order to grow I need to have systems in place that allow any person with reasonable landscape experience to deliver the same results every time the customer was visited. By this I mean an employee …
Lawn Care & Landscaping : How to Spread Grass Seed
Spreading grass seed can be done using a fertilizing wand set on the lowest setting to sprinkle a very thin, even layer across an entire lawn. Be sure to pick out the right grass seed for the region with advice from a professional landscaper in this free video on lawn maintenance. Expert: Dan LeSieur Contact: www.dklesieur.com Bio: Dan LeSieur performs both residential and commercial work, specializing in landscaping, painting, home repairs, remodeling and corporate re-imaging. Filmmaker: Lisa Fenderson
How to win home owner association lawn jobs – GopherHaul 49 lawn care business training show.
www.gopherforum.com – Trying to crack open customers that live within certain homeowner associations can be tough to do. Especially if the HOA is a gated community. One lawn care business owner figured out a way to get their foot in the door with a interesting marketing tip. They shared with us their lawn care marketing secret on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, where you can download the newsletter and they wrote we are sponsoring a neighborhood association newsletter that reaches 86 homes. Currently, we take care of two customers in this sub-division. Ifyou are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http We have hundreds of free lawn care logo, flyer, door hanger and web templates you can download and use for your lawn care business. We also have free lawn care business contracts, estimate and proposal forms. Download our trial version of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software. Gopher will help your lawn care business schedule and invoice more customers in less time, allowing you more time to grow or enjoy your life. Check out my lawn care business blog at www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http
Lawn Care : How to Prevent Lawn Overseeding
The easiest way to prevent overseeding of a lawn is by using a spreader in the proper fashion. Learn about using a spreader to keep from overseeding a lawn with help from a professional landscaper in this free video on lawn care. Expert: Dan LeSieur Contact: www.dklesieur.com Bio: Dan LeSieur performs both residential and commercial work, specializing in landscaping, painting, home repairs, remodeling and corporate re-imaging. Filmmaker: Lisa Fenderson
Using Postcards and Doorhangers for Your Lawn Care Business.avi
www.lawncare-business.com There are lots of ways to market your lawn care business. some are working great! Some are becoming outdated (sorry yellow page companies). Two of my favorite ways to get new lawn care customers is by using full color door hangers and postcards. In case you don’t know, you can’t put postcards in mailboxes. It’s illegal. What you can do is put out door hangers. You can buy very high quality, glossy, full color door hangers for almost next to nothing when you buy them in volume. The best way I’ve found is to have a few different door hangers…One for mowing, one for low voltage lighting, one to tell about our fertilization services, etc. I can pay high school kids or local college students to put out the door hangers for me in neighborhoods I want to market to. When I spend my marketing dollars this way, I know if it is effective. I can measure my results. Along these same lines are postcards. I love both postcards and door hangers. With postcards I can buy a small mailing list of a neighborhood or all of the houses withing a certain radius of any given address. Both seem to work equally as well for our lawn care business. If you look at what a customer if worth to you over the course of a year. Marketing with really nice full color marketing materials like these is really a bargain! I hope this give you some ideas and gets you thinking about marketing with postcards and door hangers for your lawn care or landscaping business.
Fall lawn care tips from the U of M
University of Minnesota professor Bob Mugaas gives tips on how to repair your green grass woes with fall lawn tips that will bring your lawn back to a luscious green in the spring.
Lawn Care : How to Edge a Lawn
When edging a lawn with a stick edger, keep the blade in the grass and away from concrete, and be sure to wear safety glasses and ear muffs or ear plugs. Find out how to stay safe when edging a lawn with the eye and ear protection discussed in thisfree video on lawn care from a landscaping professional. Expert: Bill Elzey Contact: www.showplacelawns.com Bio: Bill Elzey is the owner and manager of Showplace Lawns in Austin, Texas. Filmmaker: Todd Green
Lawn care business growth of 200% – GopherHaul 60 Lawn Care Forum Show
www.gopherforum.com – What would you do if you received a phone call from a local landscaping company and they offered to give you all their lawn care customers? Would you find this to be a curse or a blessing? At first glance it may seem like a fantastic opportunity to jump on, however there are many issues to consider. This is a situation a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum was facing when he wrote us about it. How much growth is helpful and how much is too much? He wrote “I just got a call from another landscaping company in town who has been doing yard care as well as landscaping. He wanted to know if I would be interested in taking on his yard care clients as he has decided to concentrate on landscaping only. He is willing to turn them over to me, however I am not in the position of being able to handle them all. It would increase my client base by 200%, which would require hiring guys. The extra work would be awesome, but here are my issues. Ifyou are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http We have hundreds of free lawn care logo, flyer, door hanger and web templates you can download and use for your lawn care business. We also have free lawn care business contracts, estimate and proposal forms. Download our trial version of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software. Gopher will help your lawn care business schedule and invoice more customers in less time, allowing you more time to grow or enjoy …
