GopherHaul Lawn Care Marketing Business

http://www.gopherforum.com - If you think your current physical conditioning is keeping you from performing lawn care services, you may be interested in hearing how all the activities running a lawn care business requires can really get you into great shape. This is from a discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. From lowering blood pressure to losing weight, there are many great success stories from the different lawn care business owners who shared with us their health status and stories. Can you imagine starting off with a blood pressure of 240 over 120 at the beginning of the year and by summer getting your blood pressure down to 122 over 68? That's what one lawn care business owner did. Or how about going from 260lbs to 229lbs, all on account of getting out daily and mowing lawns. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com. If you'd like to read more lawn care business books check out http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Low/e/B00495MN4S/

http://www.gopherforum.com - You might think in order to win larger mowing accounts than you are used to, it would take some kind of skill only larger companies possess. That couldn't be any further from the truth. As we will see from this discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, sometimes that secret skill is simply being prepared and showing up! One lawn care business owner wrote "I got a call yesterday for an estimate. The customer told me I was the 4th landscaper he called. One landscaper said the job was too big for him. One didn't even show up and the other two didn't have insurance. The customer wanted to meet me after 6:00 pm on Saturday. I arrived at the estimate site right around 5:00pm and had all my measurements completed before he got home. After the customer initially called, he followed up with an email stating, in detail, exactly what he wanted done, so I was ready for the quote. This is my biggest job yet. But I didn't tell the customer that. The job consists of a new lawn installation that comes to about 23,800 sq ft, an annual mowing contract once the lawn has grown, plus a few added upsells I was able to include. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.lawnchat.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - Have you ever heard of the term overhead costs? If so, could you name three of your overhead costs? When was the last time you created an income statement to check on your profitability? Do you create one after each job you bid on? Some business owners do that often and have a great understanding of their financial circumstances. If you are kind of stuck on this topic, here is a great discussion on it from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. One lawn care business owner wrote "In accounting the term overhead refers to all the non-labor expenses that are required to operate your business. These expenses can be either fixed or variable. Overhead generally refers to the ongoing expenses of your business administration which aren't attributed to any specific business activity, but are necessary for the business to function. For examples overhead costs would include utilities, rent, insurance, and depreciation etc. So even if you decided not to do anything tomorrow and take the day off, you would still have costs for that day and that is the overhead to keep everything going. We generally can't do anything to change our overhead costs from one day to the next. Labor costs are variable as are sales costs as it depends on workload and what the sales are bringing in. At what point should a business owner consider labor costs when trying to determine the financial health of their business? Any day of the week actually. You should be able to run an income statement at any time to check the pulse of your business. In our first year of operation, I checked up on every job we did to measure the profitability. Now a bunch of years later, I have a very good handle on what we need to charge. I must admit I did lose money on three landscape jobs this year which became apparent to me after running an income statement during those jobs but all in all I feel I made it up and I am very pleased with my after tax income. What is important to me is why did we lose money on those jobs and then change the problem or whatever the issue was right away. I know we made money in the bigger picture but undercharging on a few jobs is something that needs to be corrected. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.lawnchat.com

How to stand firm on your lawn care prices - GopherHaul 73 Lawn Care Business Book Show. http://www.gopherforum.com - Hello everyone, this is Steve here 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 one year older when you do, so get started today. Today we have a great topic to talk about. We're going to be talking about how to stand firm on your lawn care prices. Before we dive into that, I want to point out a few tools to help your business grow. I have just released my latest book and ebook entitled Lawn Care Business Bidding Tips, Upsells, And Disasters To Avoid. It's available online at book stores like amazon. https://www.createspace.com/4026703 This book and ebook is full of information on the entire lawn care business bidding process, including many examples. It also talks about upsells you can consider offering and how to avoid common mistakes lawn care business owners make that can turn a job into a disaster. It is a huge book at 596 pages, so with this book, you will have plenty of reading for a while! Also if you have an Android phone, visit the android store and search for the GopherHaul Lawn Care Estimators. There are six different ones that cover different types of jobs you may be bidding on. Such as lawn mowing, snow plowing, pressure washing and mulch jobs. Take the guesstimate out of your estimate with these lawn care business calculators. Now back to our topic. There will always be a certain group of lawn care customers out there who think your estimate price is the price they can start bargaining with you at. At times you may want a job more so than others and because of that, you may be willing to be a little more flexible on the price. However there are going to be other times when you are pretty busy and don't need to get every job you bid on. Here is an example of how to hold firm on your prices from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. It may help you in dealing with customers who want to haggle. One lawn care business owner wrote "I wanted to try and promote a new service just to see what kind of response I would get so I ran an ad last Friday for post hole digging and amazingly enough, I got a pile of inquiries from it. With a little research on my part I found I have very little competition for post hole digging. There is a local fence company that offers it and rental stores have the equipment to do it. But after checking online, through the phone books, I found the one company that digs post holes is three times my rate. The way I look at it, if I am grossing $90 an hour plus and making, in my case about 50% profit before depreciation and taxes, then I am fine with the price I am charging. Now I know we all have clients that try to beat us up a little on pricing, sometimes it's a game, I guess today I don't want to play. Three prospects wrote back to my reply saying they needed a better price. This really got me mad, so I went out for a walk to cool down before I wrote them back with the following..... "Thank you for your reply to my estimate. I am already the cheapest in the city for this service, in fact I believe there is only one company in the city that offers it. The equipment we use to perform this job is over $28,000, so in short, no I can not and will not offer a better price. You can try a rental unit (hand held or tow) a mini excavator like ours can be rented for $450.00 a day plus $150.00 transportation from various rental companies in the area I if you'd like. Before you attempt this, I should warn you that I have done some research and am shocked at the number of personal injuries and back issues that happen by people using the rental units. It would seem mainly due to a lack of experience." With that email. I wanted to get my point across without being too strong. From that, I received two email replies both with about the same wording. They wrote: "I understand, and would like to hire you. Let's schedule a day and time when you are available next , thanks xxxxxx or call me at xxx-xxxx" So I think there are times when we really have to stand our ground and not roll on pricing. I may be in a little different situation than most in that if I don't get new jobs it's not the end of the world, we have lots to do. I was just looking for something different to do with the excavators I have. When customers get themselves in a mess, quite often they try to make their problem ours. Watch for this as they will sneak this in. It is not our problem and if you allow a client to make it your problem, you are headed for disaster.So until the next time we meet always remember to dream it, build it, Gopher it!

http://www.gopherforum.com - Hello everyone, this is Steve here 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 one year older when you do, so get started today. Today we have a great topic to talk about. We're going to be talking about how lawn care marketing can help you replace bad customers. Before we dive into that, I want to point out a few tools to help your business grow. I have just released my latest book and ebook entitled How To Get Commercial Lawn Care And Snow Plow Customers. It's available online at book stores like amazon. This book and ebook will walk you through the process of getting and dealing with commercial customers. It can be very difficult to make the jump from residential customers to commercial ones if you don't know the process. But this book will help make it easy for you to take that jump. Also if you have an Android phone, visit the android store and search for the GopherHaul Lawn Care Estimators. There are six different ones that cover different types of jobs you may be bidding on. Such as lawn mowing, snow plowing, pressure washing and mulch jobs. Take the guesstimate out of your estimate with these lawn care business calculators. Now back to our topic. One of the many benefits of always doing some sort of lawn care marketing is you gain new customers. Now that is a good thing, but there is an even better benefit than that. You can get to the point where you donâ??t have to take every customer that calls. Instead you can be picky and find the ones that work best for you. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, having the power to choose who you service can make all the difference in world. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - Here is a discussion of some tweaks you could make to your lawn care marketing plan and to your lawn care website and lawn care flyers to improve the response rate you are getting from them. Simply techniques, when applied right can really make a difference. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

Learn how to improve your marketing and find out why your lawn care marketing may not work. When you go door to door with hundreds of lawn care door hangers or mail out thousands of lawn care flyers, the last thing you can imagine happening is nothing. But that seems to happen all too often. In this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Marketing Forum, we look into why your lawn care marketing may not be working and what to do about it. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

Most people tend to have a fear of public speaking and trying to sell to new people is right behind it. So if you have a fear of public speaking and donâ??t feel comfortable selling, what is the best way for you to utilize door to door marketing in your lawn care business? That is the question asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and quite a few responses came from it which surely will help you improve your lawn care marketing techniques. One lawn care business owner wrote â??how many of you guys market door to door as in ringing the doorbell and talking to people one on one, not just leave a flyer and leave? How effective is this method of marketing as opposed to just leaving a flyer? If you donâ??t go door to door, why not? Are you afraid of disturbing them? That is my biggest reason for not doing it. Any insight?â?? If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - A big mistake new lawn care business owners make early on is not knowing what their hourly operating costs are. You need to know this figure to accurately bid jobs and make a profit on each and every job. To calculate this figure, you need to add up all your operating costs for the year and divide that by the total amount of man hours you work during that year. As we will see in this discussion from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, there are many ways you can go off track when calculating these costs, so letâ??s look at an example to clear up the common errors. Visit my lawn care business blog to continue reading http://lawnchat.com/?p=2408. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - Hello everyone, this is Steve here 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 one year older when you do, so get started today. Today we have a great topic to talk about. We're going to be talking about lawn care marketing tips. Ok so before we dive into that, I want to point out a few tools to help your business grow. I have just released my latest updated ebook entitled How To Get Customers For Your Landscaping And Lawn Care Business All Year Long. Vol. 1. It's available online at book stores like amazon and apple's itunes store. This ebook is chock full of lawn care marketing tips I learned throughout the years that will most certainly help you grow. It's also available in a paperback version. We can learn a lot from a professional marketeer. They see a lot of marketing concepts all day long and experiment with more marketing in a week than most of us will experiment with in our career. So when they have something to say, I like to pay attention to them. Here a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum shared with us his views on what it takes to succeed and what to avoid so as not to fail with your marketing and running your business.

http://www.gopherforum.com - Learn when to start your spring lawn care business marketing. One lawn care business owner wrote â??I live in New York state and we just got over a lot of snow storms this winter. The snow is probably about 2 feet high on the grass right now as I write this. My question is, when is the best time to advertise my spring clean ups and regular weekly lawn maintenance? Keep in mind there is still 2 feet of snow on the ground. So does it matter when I do it?â?? If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - The right way to price mowing or a yard cleanup seems to be the most popular question asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Many new lawn care business owners simply don't understand how to correctly do this. The process of proper bidding concepts can be very difficult to wrap your mind around. To help shed more light on this topic, a lawn care business owner shared with us how he comes up with the prices he charges. As you will see here, there is a method to it and it is scientific. If you find yourself on a job site guessing what you should charge, you need to rethink your bidding procedures. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - There are many situations you will run into as a lawn care business owner where you may wonder if you should be charging extra for certain services. A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum had an interesting question along these lines when he asked â??if you are providing lawn care for a customer and a storm occurs that causes sticks and leaves to fall on the lawn, you obviously canâ??t cut the lawn with out moving the debris first. How do you go about charging extra for yard clean up? Or do you even charge them? I guess I am stuck on at what point do you start charging extra for picking up and blowing leaves.â?? If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - As soon as early September, leaves start to fall from the trees. When this happens, customers start getting itchy to have these leaves removed. As a lawn care business owner, your job should be to find ways to minimize the time spent picking up these leaves in order for you to spend the least time on each property while maximizing your profit. But what leaf removal methods are the fastest? That is what one lawn care business owner questioned on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when he wrote â??What is the best and most efficient way to pick up leaves? Some of the yards that we maintain have heavy leaf fall. Any ideas on the best way to clean up the yard?â?? If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com

http://www.gopherforum.com - 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 one year older when you do so get started today. Today we have a great topic to talk about. Lawn care marketing ideas you can use in the fall to promote your leaf clean up services. I have a couple of low cost tips that will really give you a chance to stand out from your competitors. Before I get into that, I just wanted to say, if you are interested in learning more about running your lawn care or landscaping business, you have to get on my Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at www.gopherforum.com and also read my lawn care business marketing blog at www.lawnchat.com. Both sites are chock full of free information on how to successfully run your business. While you are at it, you can continue your research with my lawn care business books available on my sites and at amazon. Check out The GopherHaul Guide on How to get customers for your lawn care business. The big lawn care marketing book. The GopherHaul Extreme lawn care business tips book and The Landscaping & Lawn Care Business Plan Startup Guide. All of these books will help your business grow. Now let's look at a couple of great lawn care marketing ideas that came up on the Gopher Forum for Fall. If you are out in your area raking up leaves and you want to promote the service further to neighbors in the area, why not try this. Get some pumpkin leaf bags and on the blank side of the bag, use a stencil to spray in your lawn care business phone number and maybe the words leaf cleanup. Use one of these bags per job. When you leave them out on the curb, they will really attract attention. Fill a couple of these up and leave them at the corner of heavily traveled intersections as well. You could even take this idea one step further and put up an inflatable halloween display on your property and maybe at the home of your family or friends in town as well to help promote your services further. Use a stencil on the inflatable display and spray paint on it Leaf Clean up and your contact info. Or you could use some vinyl lettering as well. This display would help you attract customer day and night. Keep these ideas in mind the next time you have some time on your hands and are looking to attract more customers. So until the next time we meet, always remember to dream it, build it, gopher it. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. 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 http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and visit http://www.gophergraphics.com