Are you in the planning stages of starting a lawn care or landscaping business or operate one and want to know what tips, tricks and secrets others in the industry know? This episode guide is for you. The 26 episodes of our lawn care business show GopherHaul have been viewed over 1,000,000 times. All we have learned over the years has been put into this book to share with you. Topics discuss include: How to raise start up capital. Seasonal marketing ideas. What to do when your largest client leaves? What's better to use, postcards or brochures? How to build your customer base with referrals? Gain one customer then lose one customer. How to stop it? How to pre-qualify customers when they call? How to bid jobs. What should you include in a commercial lawn care bid? What newspaper ads work best? How to buy a lawn care business. Tips on buying used lawn care equipment. And much more.. Also download our FREE 30 day trial of Gopher Lawn Care Software http: //www.gophersoftware.com
If you haven't started your lawn care business yet, what are you waiting for? If you don't start your lawn care business this year, you'll be at least one year older when you do, so get started today! The vast majority of new lawn care businesses fail. Most of the time they fail because they don't know the tips, tricks, and secrets veteran business owners have learned through years of trial and error. The sooner you learn these secrets, the better your chances are of finding long term success. Download our Free 30 day trial of Gopher Lawn Care Business Billing & Scheduling Software at www.gophersoftware.com
Learn how to make more money with your lawn care or landscaping business. Making money with your lawn care or landscaping business can be a challenge even in the best of times but it gets even tougher when you are up against heavy competition. This book will help teach you what successful lawn care & landscaping business owners are doing to not only survive but to make more money than their competitors. It covers how to make more money on bidding. How to read your customer's body language to know when you are charging too much or not enough. Learn the steps you should be taking to win more bids and things you should never do when trying to win a lawn care bid. You will also learn how to deal with picky customers, those that live out of state, those that like to cancel service without giving you enough warning, and help you figure out how much your customers are actually worth. Learn how to make more money with your lawn care crew by knowing the ideal crew size from others who have experimented with many different setups. Learn the best way to purchase equipment, which equipment to purchase and how to use it in order to make your business more profitable. Read how other lawn care & landscaping business owners defend themselves against the secret ways competitors try to keep you from growing. Pickup new sales techniques your competitors would never share with you and learn new lawn care marketing tips to grow and improve the profitability of your customer base. And lastly, learn what to watch out for when it comes to bad contracts, avoiding problems with the IRS, and how your credit rating can hold you back from growth. See where others have tripped up so you can avoid the pitfalls that lay ahead and find out what really works and what doesn't. All of these topics are covered and more with real world examples, from The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum & The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show. To learn more about how to run your lawn care and landscaping business visit the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http: //www.gopherforum.com and download a Free 30 day trial of Gopher Lawn Care Business Billing & Scheduling Software at http: //www.gophersoftware.com
Unfiltered, unedited, and a little rough. A collection of landscaping & lawn care business lessons I've learned along the way. I see so many new lawn care businesses get started only to fail a short time later because the entrepreneurs didn't educate themselves enough about their field. Here is a collection of lessons I learned that will give your lawn care or landscaping business a better chance at success. As an added bonus, I have included some very helpful lawn care business marketing letter templates to super charge your business. By Steve Low Host of The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
Hello and welcome to my book on how to get commercial lawn care and snow plow customers. I put this book together because I know it can be so very difficult for newer lawn care, landscaping, or snow plow business owners to find out how to gain commercial customers. Do you just go in and knock on doors? Do you send them letters? How should they be approached? All too often when people try things, they experiment once and if it doesn't give them the results they are looking for, they give up and think they just lacked some magical quality others who are successful must have that they don't. Well there are no magical qualities, there are just certain tips and tricks we have seen that work over the years being discussed on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and these are the tips I want to share with you. I also included some letter templates you can use to send to customers to get on their bidding list, to use as a cover letter for your bid, and to thank them at the end of the season. If you are unsure on how to price out commercial jobs, I even included some examples what others have bid on for various commercial jobs. Gaining new lawn care or snow plowing customers shouldn't be this hidden secret skill. It should be made readily available to you so that you can grow your lawn care business as big as you want, based on your desire and not based on luck or chance. As you read through this book, you will see variations of certain lawn care marketing methods pop up again and again. When you see that, it's because those methods being discussed work. The variations you see are little tweaks that lawn care business owners utilize to stand out from others. You can use them too, or take the basic skills you learn here and create your own tweaks to make them uniquely yours. When you are finished reading this book, I hope you feel like you have a successful family member in the lawn care business that has shared with you a lifetime of what he has learned. It has taken many years to compile all these insights and business lessons and there is no doubt in my mind, your lawn care and snow plowing business will grow because of it. I want to thank all my friends on the Gopher Lawn Care Business forum who have talked with me over the years on these many topics. It is because of those people that came in, asked questions and shared answers, that we all are able to benefit today. If you would like to read more about how to improve your lawn care or landscaping business, check out my many books on the topic. Visit my Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http: //www.gopherforum.com and watch my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Videos and Podcasts across the internet and on my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business & Marketing Blog at http: //www.lawnchat.com. Don't forget to try out our Gopher Lawn Care Business Software too at http: //www.gophersoftware.com And remember.. 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 a year older when you do. So get started today!
Over the years I have talked with thousands of lawn care and landscaping entrepreneurs out there trying to make their dream come true. Some have succeeded, some have not, but all have lessons they learned on their path that I have kept meticulous notes on.I pass this knowledge on to you in order to improve your business knowledge and skill set. So many new business owners pause at the moment when a decision is required of them. Or they fail to plan how to handle future growth. In haste, a poor decision can be made due to a lack of experience. Such indecisive or poor decisions can prove costly.After reading this book, you should have a solid, well rounded perspective on a broad range of topics your lawn care business will be facing in the future. Knowing how others have previously handled situations can give you a definitive advantage over competitors. Knowing what works and what doesn't will keep your business moving solidly forwards.As you move ahead, I hope you find great joy and excitement with your business. You can make it happen. Topics covered include: Getting started. How to deal with customers. Business tips. Improving your bidding & sales. Pricing. Services to offer. Operations. Employees. Marketing strategies. Website tips. Equipment issues. Things to watch out for. Keeping your life in balance with your business. If you would like to read more about how to improve your lawn care or landscaping business, check out my many books on the topic. Visit my Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and watch my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Videos and Podcasts across the internet and on my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business & Marketing Blog at http://www.lawnchat.com. Don't forget to try out our Gopher Lawn Care Business Software too at http://www.gophersoftware.com By Steve Low Host of The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
If you enjoy the outdoors, love nature, or enjoy the smell of fresh cut grass, then a lawn care or landscaping business is your chance to rake in plenty of green. Your business can range from lawn maintenance to applying chemicals, trimming and shaping trees to designing landscapes for residential or commercial jobs. Everything you need to start a successful lawn care or landscaping business is in your hands. Start turning green grass into cold cash today!
When I first got my business started, I didn't really know anyone who was an entrepreneur. I had no one I could bounce ideas off of or compare my crazy stories with. For all I knew at the time, I was the only one who ran into problems with my business. Later when I got the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum started, I began to realize that everyone who runs their own business, has issues they have to deal with. Whether they are business, personal, family, mental, financial, medical, or whatever. This book takes a look at the issues business owners from The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum have dealt with. It shines a light on topics not often talked about. As you read this book, you will learn about issues you can outright avoid, issues you can try your best to avoid, and issues that will just sneak up on you. Once they happen, you will learn the best ways to minimize their damage so you can move forwards quicker. Ultimately you will learn crazy things happen to all entrepreneurs. If you find yourself dealing with some heavy issues, you are not alone. I wish there was a book like this to read when I was getting started, so I didn't feel so alone and lost, worrying if I had what it takes to make it. Wasting my time worrying was time I could have spent being more productive. So my message to you is, don't sweat the small stuff. Crazy things will happen. Read this book, learn what to watch out for, and be more productive. Some of the topics discussed in the book include: - Customer problems. Watch out for these customer warning signs. - Equipment issues. - Theft! Learn how others got their equipment stolen! Could you ever imagine it happening at a red light? - Money. - Estimating jobs and underbidding them. - Personal problems. Your wife wants a vacation! - Contracts and lawsuits. - Labor problems. How to find good help. - Disasters. What to do when you break a customer's window. - On the job injuries. You won't believe how many business owners get carpal tunnel syndrome. - Life lessons. - Finding balance. - Success! If you would like to read more about how to improve your lawn care or landscaping business, check out my many books on the topic. Visit my Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http: //www.gopherforum.com and watch my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Videos and Podcasts across the internet and on my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business & Marketing Blog at http: //www.lawnchat.com. Don't forget to try out our Gopher Lawn Care Business Software too at http: //www.gophersoftware.com By Steve Low Host of The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
Written by the host of the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and Forum.When you are a teenager you have a lot of rebellious energy. Why not take that energy, harness it to be productive, and make money! This book will show you how to succeed in starting your own landscaping & lawn care business. I cover the basics of how to register your business to advanced topics like incentives to get employees to sell more.Based on my highly successful Stop Lowballing lawn care business book, the topics within have been expanded to give more insight to a reader with no previous entrepreneur experience. I share with you interviews from successful teenage lawn care business owners who discuss issues they have dealt with and overcome to find success.Interested in furthering your lawn care business? Download hundreds of FREE lawn care flyer, door hanger, business contract, logo and website templates. Free 30 day trial of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software visit http://www.gophersoftware.com
Learning how to bid lawn care and landscaping jobs, when you are just getting your business started, is a huge task. Most of the times, those in the know aren't going to share with you all the lessons they've learned and the tips they have picked up over the years. But I will. I operate one of the largest lawn care business forums on the internet, The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. On that site I have interviewed thousands upon thousands of lawn care business owners over the past decade. Throughout this process, I have learned a lot. All that I have learned, I want to share with you. The goal of this book is to give you, the lawn care business owner, a working knowledge of the entire bidding process for most of the jobs you are going to be called upon to bid. To give you a better idea on how to go about bidding jobs, services you can upsell, how to upsell, and how to perform those jobs. This book is somewhat large at close to 600 pages but I really wanted to include a lot of information. Read it at your own pace and later you can use it for years to come as a reference manual. Keep going back to this book over time, to get more ideas on how to improve your business. After your reading, I feel confident you and your business are going to be in a better place. If you would like to read more about how to improve your lawn care or landscaping business, check out my many books on the topic. Visit my Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http: //www.gopherforum.com and watch my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Videos and Podcasts across the internet and on my GopherHaul Lawn Care Business & Marketing Blog at http: //www.lawnchat.com. Don't forget to try out our Gopher Lawn Care Business Software too at http: //www.gophersoftware.com By Steve Low Host of The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
