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There are more midsize pickup trucks available on the market now than ever before. Along with all these different sized pickup trucks, there are various grades of snow plows you can purchase to use on them. That is the discussion had on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum which brought up many good points to consider before jumping at purchasing such a truck. Say you have a bunch of weekly or even bi-weekly mowing customers and you want to get them to agree to an annual mowing contract. How do you go about pricing it? How do you charge them? Do you just add the annual mowing total up and divide by 12 months and bill them that price per month?

Should you give any extras to get the customer to sign up with you? Temperatures will change throughout the year. Sometimes you will get a lot of rain and sometimes you will have drought conditions. If there is one thing you can guarantee, the weather will not always be consistent. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Form, you need to be adaptable and offer services you can sell throughout the year.

Have you found that the only mowing customers you service are those that want bi-weekly mowing? Do you find it really cuts down on your profits? Maybe utilize a few of these strategies will help you improve your profits. There are a lot of manufactures who make mowers, trimmers, and fertilizers.

Does it make any sense at all to promote these brands on your website? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one entrepreneur who was looking into promoting a specific organic fertilizer brand and wondered if that would help his sales.

In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one landscaper who has been in the business 8 years and has finally figured out how much he needs to make each day to break even.

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From that figure, we learn how it makes it easier for him to know how much he has to charge for each lawn he mows. Try some of his examples with your own financial figures and see how much you should be charging per landscape customer. Then compare that to what you are currently charging them.

If you have gotten to the stage where your landscaping business is making more money than your expenses and you are able to start putting money away, have you thought about investing it? Sure you can take what ever money you have left over and buy more landscaping equipment, but is that going to give you the return on investment that stocks could offer? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from multiple landscapers who have taken their business profits and made even more money from investing in the stock market.

Some new lawn care business owners really seem to hit the ground running as we see in this discussion from a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. In it, he shares with us some of the marketing tips he has used to attract a total of mowing clients in his first year. Experimenting with some of his ideas might help you reach your goals. Does a mowing customer ever counter your price and expect you to do your work for less than you can afford to do it?

Do they tease you with the offering of more work in the future if only you give them a discount on a job today? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one entrepreneur who ran into this situation and get advice from others on how best to handle it. After many years, one landscaper was interested in creating a new logo and rebranding his business. But what elements should he consider?

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What should he include or exclude? Read through this article and consider some of the tips before making your new lawn care logo. Does your lawn care business have a checklist of things to do to your mowing equipment at the end of each day? Keeping processes structured and consistent will help you improve your operation.

Maintaining your equipment will minimize down time and help you increase profits. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from some entrepreneurs about what is on their daily checklist. Compare theirs to yours and see if you are missing anything. Have you ever gotten a call where a homeowner wanted you to bid on mowing a large acreage property? If you have only mowed smaller properties up to that point, you might not know where to begin your pricing. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one entrepreneur who blindly bid on a 4 acre mowing job and ended up lucking out with his price.

But if this happens to you, understand how long the job will take you before you bid or you might lose money every time you show up to mow. Have you experimented with various methods only to get no response? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one entrepreneur who came up with a novel way to land new mowing contracts, will it work for him?

Would it work for you? What should you do when this happens?

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In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one landscaper who had this experience and wanted help on the best way to deal with the situation. It happens more times than you might think. A landscaper gets his business started and comes up with a name that he feels will be unique. Then he puts a bunch of years into the business, building up his brand and one day, he decides he wants to incorporate.

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When he does a search for that name, he finds the name has already been taken and is currently being used by another landscaper in another part of the state! What do you do then? Read on to see some of the options you would have and what the pitfalls are of certain decisions. What is the quick and easy way to bid a lawn when you are in the landscaping business?

Is there a simple rule that can be applied? As we will see in this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , there is more to it than just measuring a property and spitting out a bid price. Have you ever come upon a property that looked challenging to mow?

Did you wonder why it was overgrown? In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we hear from one entrepreneur who was second guessing himself after he put in a bid for a difficult property. Read how he handled it and what advice others gave him on dealing with such properties. It may help your future bids. How much is the job worth? Should you buy larger mowing equipment for the job? He got a bunch of responses to consider that might help you when you come upon bidding larger properties as well. In this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum , we asked the members what kinds of customization have you done to your landscape trailer to improve your daily work flow.

Various tips examples were presented and additional tips were shared. Maybe one of these improvements will get you to consider how you can customize your set up to improve efficiency. There are many variables involved in starting up a business. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Unfiltered, unedited, and a little rough. 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 landscap Unfiltered, unedited, and a little rough. 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. Paperback , pages.

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