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The 11 rules of engagement when going door to door.

Have you thought about going door to door in your area to meet new potential clients and promote your Fall & Winter services to them? Is so, you might be wondering what the best way to go about this is. Are there certain things you should do or shouldn't do ...

Should I give Christmas gifts to my lawn care customers?

Giving your lawn care customers a Christmas gift may be a great way to show your appreciation of them and retain them for the next year's mowing season. But is it really always a good idea? Also what about the type of gift you give? Should you send a holiday ...

How to manage when you can only be in one place at a time.

Running your lawn care business as a one man show has it's advantages and disadvantages. When it's only you performing the work and dealing with the customers, you know you are getting the job done and treating the customers the way you want them to be treated. But what about ...

Lawn marketing ideas that didn’t work and some that did.

Every once in a while I like to ask on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, what lawn care marketing ideas have you experimented with? What hasn't worked and what has. It seems one of the things I have learned from asking this is every time I ask it, I ...

Make you jobs smoother by involving the lawn care client.

To some lawn care business owners, the client has two jobs. One is to accept the bid and the other is to approve the finished project and make payment. Between those two points they may not want to hear anything from the client at all. But as we have seen ...

A printer shares his business and marketing insights.

Do you ever wish you could ask what your competitors are doing with their marketing? What about business questions to help you find out what makes some businesses successful while others fail? A new member on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us some of his fascinating business ...

How to win home owner association lawn jobs.

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 ...

How to make $230 an hour removing moss.

Have you ever taken a look at your customer's home and seen moss on their siding or on their deck? Did you ever stop to talk to the customer and ask them if they would like it removed? There is money to be made in offering such services. A member ...

Should you include a discount in your lawn care marketing?

To discount or not to discount, that is the question. I have seen plenty of arguments going one side to the other on the importance of discounting a teaser service when you are marketing your lawn care business. On the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum I asked, how important do ...

Cheap ways to drum up Fall lawn care business.

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 ...

Should I buy a used mower on craigslist?

Getting your lawn care business started can mean scrambling around trying to find a bunch of basic equipment and spending a lot of cash. Some entrepreneurs are able to do this while others need to work within a very tight budget. If this is your situation, have you considered buying ...

How to approach lawn care customers.

As we have seen from many discussions on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, you can't sit back and wait for lawn care customers to find you. You need to actively go out and seek them. A newer lawn care business owner was warming to this concept when he wrote ...

Turn your truck and trailer into a force multiplier.

In the military they use terms like force multipliers. This term means with a given number of soldiers using certain equipment, they are able to project a larger amount of force than if they didn't have it. The same term can be applied to the lawn care business. In this ...

Mow a neighbor’s lawn and get a new account?

Have you ever been out mowing your customer's property and looked over at the neighbors to see the lawn could use a cut too? Did you ever decide to cut their lawn? Well a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum told us a little story about what he ...

Is it really worth the hard work? How much can you make?

Are you considering starting your own lawn care business but aren't sure if it's worth all the hard work? That is what one new entrepreneur was interested in knowing on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when he asked "I am wondering how many accounts can you solo guys average ...

Should I combine my lawn care company with another?

You have probably heard the word synergy before. It means the value of the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. This holds true in many uses except potentially for this one. A lawn care business owner asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum if he should ...

Estimating and invoicing snow plow customers.

Do you have trouble coming up with a way to estimate and invoice your snow plow customers? If you do, you're not alone. Plenty of new businesses get stuck on this but thankfully I got to talk with a snow plow business owner who shared some great advice on how ...

Help! My lawn care marketing isn’t working!

It's one of the most frustrating things to have to deal with as an owner of a small lawn care business, when you spend money on marketing and nothing is working. It can make you feel like you are in a ship that is sinking and no matter what you ...

Six do’s and don’t for the start up lawn care business.

I can never get enough of good start up business advice. When ever the opportunity arises, I like to ask successful business owners to share some insight as to how they were able to cross that very difficult mine field from start up business to successful operation. The best answers ...

Cheaper price on lawn care in hopes of future work?

Have you ever been on a site to give a lawn care estimate and sensed there was plenty more work to come your way if you were able to land this account and develop a working relationship with the property owner? Did you take this into account when you gave ...

Is the Chamber of Commerce irrelevant?

We often talk on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about the importance of social networking. How getting to know other business owners in your area can help your business grow. However what I have noticed is very few lawn care business owners I have talked to are members of ...

Do you look for business advice and instead get shot down?

As if starting a lawn care business wasn't tough enough, the last thing you want to hear is negativity when you go out looking for business advice and yet it always seems to be there waiting for you. A new lawn care business owner shared with us his story on ...

The first rule of running a lawn care business.

Many of us over time create a list of rules we try and live by. We create rules for our day to day lives like don't smoke and always wear your seat belt in a car. We also create rules for our businesses. But there are times, for whatever reason, ...

Lawn care marketing idea for the Fall.

If you are trying to promote your Fall yard leaf clean up and gutter clean out services but find going door to door takes too much time. Putting flyers in mailboxes is also a problem because it's illegal and the Post Master can fine you. Well what about this? What ...

Free lawn mowing for single moms?

We talk a lot on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about how when you do something good for the community, you can get a lot of attention. Especially when you let the media know what you are doing. In a recent article on CNN it talked about a lawn ...

Franchising your lawn care business? You better think.

Do you think you have a great business model? Is your model a lot better than others. Do you feel you need more money and resources in order to grow? If so maybe you have considered franchising your lawn care business. But before you go out and start trying to ...

Looking unsafe can get your lawn care company fired.

You may not think at first glance a lawn care customer pays much attention to the safety precautions you either take or ignore when working on their property, but they do. People keep track of when you take trimmer guards off or mower guards. They know what can happen when ...

John Deere X749 tractor vs. a ZTR mower.

Being that a lot of start up lawn care businesses read the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, I asked the members what equipment would you suggest purchasing now that you have had some time to see what works well and what doesn't. What I found was quite interesting and I ...

Lawn care business planning, how much can you do?

If you ever thought about starting your own lawn care business or pondered the idea of expanding your current business into new areas you'd be wise to do some research on the topic you are interested in. Which brings me to a discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum ...

Step by step, how to winterize irrigation systems.

As we have seen in the Gopher Lawn Care Busines Forum, there is quite a bit of money to be made when you offer your clients irrigation system winterization services. But it seems a lot of lawn care business owner just don't offer it because they don't know how to ...