GopherHaul Lawn Care Marketing Business show

GopherHaul Lawn Care Marketing Business

Summary: http://www.gopherforum.com - Discussions on lawn care business marketing and being an entrepreneur. Download Gopher Lawn Care Business Software at http://www.getgopher.com, watch the GopherHaul show on youtube. Read my lawn care business blog at http://www.lawnchat.com This Podcast was created using www.talkshoe.com

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 Commercial lawn care contract bid example. GopherHaul 61 Lawn Care Software | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:44

http://www.gopherforum.com - Whether you are just looking to get into offering commercial lawn care or you are currently offering it and wanting to see what others are charging for their lawn care services, here is a great inside look at one condominium associations commercial lawn care contract. In this example discussed at the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, a condo association agreed to a $72,000 a year lawn care contract. This condo association consists of 82 condos. The lawn care contractor is to be paid in ten installments, with a $7,220 invoice sent monthly from March through December. View the lawn care contract, list of services and overhead view of the condo complex at the Gopher Forum or my blog at http://www.lawnchat.com. 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

 Lawn care business growth of 200%, a blessing or a curse? - GopherHaul 60 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 08:10

http://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 â??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. 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

 How a few calls landed some big jobs. GopherHaul 59 Lawn Care Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:46

http://www.gopherforum.com - A great way to get jobs is to keep your eyes open when you are out driving around town. If you see a site that seems like it could use your services, donâ??t wait for the land owner to come to you, go to them. That is exactly what this lawn care business owner did and as soon as he decided to be proactive, he found a lot more work. He shared his story with us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. He wrote â??I have a huge cemetery right next to my house. It is also right next to a school. Well in the winter months, I noticed that the sidewalks were not taken care of at all and the kids were walking in the street to avoid the sidewalk. The sidewalk is long too, about 1 mile if you add it up the total length. Since I offer snow removal services in the winter, I thought this would be a great bid to land so I politely called them to ask if my company could take care of the sidewalk for them. They initially told me they were not responsible for the sidewalks and therefore did not need for me to remove the snow. I thought they were mistaken and decided investigate this further. I then called the city to see who is responsible for these sidewalks and they told me the cemetery was! 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

 Being a good landscaper is not enough - GopherHaul 58 Lawn Care Forum Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:08

http://www.gopherforum.com - Itâ??s 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 Itâ??s one thing to manage a business for someone but itâ??s 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. 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

 Worst lawn care customer - GopherHaul 57 Lawn Care Marketing Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:54

http://www.gopherforum.com Everyone who runs a business has customers. Sometimes those customers are a delight to work with while other times they can be nightmares. Everyone seems to do alright handling the happy customers but it can be a serious challenge to handle a difficult customer. Depending on the choices you make, such situations can be turned around or they can go from bad to worse. A lawn care business owner shared with us a situation he finds himself in every once in a while with difficult customers. He also tells us, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, the best way he has found to resolve the 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

 The biggest mistakes made by lawn care contractors GopherHaul 56 Lawn Care | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:06

http://www.gopherforum.com - 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 insight. You see he is a printer and helps many lawn care business owners get their marketing material, designed, printed and shipped. He has seen a lot of what works and what doesnâ??t. So I asked him a bunch of business questions. 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

 sell more with lawn care packages. GopherHaul 55 Lawn Care Customer Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:36

http://www.gopherforum.com - We all like to know what lawn care marketing works and what doesnâ??t. By reading such stories on the topic, we hope to cut out those lawn care marketing ideas that are ineffective. What amazes me about all the stories we see on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, is how one theme seems to ring true time and time again. Letâ??s take a look at some marketing ideas a lawn care business owner shared with us. He wrote â??As far as what has worked or hasnâ??t in gaining new lawn care customers: 1. Leaving flyers on cars at Home Depot - hasnâ??t worked. 2. Leaving flyers at businessâ??s on Sunday, when they are closed - no. 3. Direct contact with businessâ??s when they are open - not so much. 4. Newspaper ads in the local paper alongside the other bazillion lawncare companys out there doing the same thing - nope ( and Iâ??m $40.00 poorer ). 5. E-mailing local Real Estate Agents with my company info - a waste of time. 6. Providing excellent service and going the extra mile for existing customers and getting referrals from them - JACKPOT ! ( itâ??s a slow process, but itâ??s effective )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

 2 simple lawn care business success tips - GopherHaul 54 Lawn Care Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:11

http://www.gopherforum.com - How do I get new lawn care customers? How can I find more success in the lawn care industry? These are two of the big questions we often see on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. What amazes me is that all too often, business owners are looking for some secret to doing this when in reality it comes down to doing the basics and doing them well. Here are two examples of what it takes to be successful in the lawn care industry. One lawn care business owner wrote â??Everyone on here is asking how to grow their business all the time. We see a lot of the same questions over & over & thatâ??s fine. You want to know my response? I just want to say read this http://lawnchat.com/?p=1557. 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

 Should you tell lawn care customers your hourly rate. GopherHaul 53 Lawn Ca | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:36

http://www.gopherforum.com - When you are bidding jobs for lawn care or landscaping projects, should you let your customer know how much you are charging them per hour or should this be something you keep to yourself and simply bid on the job as a whole? That is a question that was brought up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum when a lawn care business owner asked â??has anyone in the landscape construction field doing residential work, bid a job by telling the customer the cost of materials and then told them your rate per hour to prevent yourself from underbidding? It just seems like an easier way to bid to me.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

 How to get wealthy lawn care customers - GopherHaul 52 Lawn Care Marketing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:48

http://www.gopherforum.com - This lawn care business podcast discusses a great way to really improve your lawn care business profit margins by catering to wealthier neighborhoods. Although there will always be some wealthy clients that will nickle and dime you to death, the majority of them want top notch lawn care service and are willing to pay for it. But how do you get these high end lawn care customers? Whatâ??s the best way to initially make contact with them? That was the question posted on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum by a lawn care business owner when he wrote â??My question is, what is your strategy for getting very wealthy customers with massive lawns? Do you offer free minor services just to get the job to maintain the lawn? It seems, these are the kind of people that would take too kindly to you walking up to their front door to drop off a brochure. So what else could I do?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

 Dealing with problem lawn care customers - GopherHaul 51 Lawn Care Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:17

http://www.gopherforum.com - Dealing with difficult lawn care customers. How to interact with them to help your lawn care business grow. 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

 How to upsell snow removal services - GopherHaul 50 Snow Plow Business Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:05

http://www.gopherforum.com - Depending on how you present your snow plowing bid can have a direct result on if you get hired or not and what kinds of services your customer will sign up for. I asked a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum about his methods for estimating snow removal services and how he gets so many upsells. He told me of the importance of breaking down each service in your bid to show the cost of each. Then I followed up with more questions. 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

 How to win home owner association lawn jobs - GopherHaul 49 lawn care busin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:21

http://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 â??we are sponsoring a neighborhood association newsletter that reaches 86 homes. Currently, we take care of two customers in this sub-division. 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

 Tips for winning commercial snow plowing accounts - GopherHaul 48 Lawn Care | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:37

http://www.gopherforum.com - Have you had difficulties landing commercial snow plowing accounts? It can be difficult to break through a companies layer of insulation before you get to the person in charge of making such decisions. Persistance seems to be a big part of the key to success. Letâ??s look into this discussion that took place on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. A new member wrote â??landing a large commercial account is not the easiest thing to do but once you have them you can keep them for a very long time provided you are doing a professional job. And the amount of money you can generate for your company is great. 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

 How to win commercial lawn care jobs - GopherHaul 47 Lawn Care Business Tip | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 08:05

http://www.gopherforum.com - This is a very interesting topic. Lawn care business owners are always looking for ways to land commercial lawn care bids. But whatâ??s the best way to do it? There are many ways to go about getting close with property managers to win bids but there is nothing like hearing the inside scoop straight from a property manager himself. That is what we were lucky enough to hear in this discussion. A lawn care business owner had asked on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum this, â??my question is how to get commercial properties? Everyone tells me I have to go to them, they wonâ??t come to me. Before we get into this I would like to tell you about my business. I started my lawn care business four or five years ago with about four accounts my first season and second season I got up to about ten. Thatâ??s all I had for the next two seasons. So for this season I advertised with signs and that got me up to about twenty five accounts give or take. I now moved up from a 21 in push mower to a 36 in commercial walk behind. What my question is, is that I would like to expand into commercial businesses in my area because all Iâ??ve been doing is residential yards. Iâ??m wondering when to start looking for these commercial properties for next season and how to land them?â?? Great question and here is some insight shared with us from a property manager. He responded â??Hello, I am a property manager of 2 million sq ft. I was reading this and thought I would throw in a few thoughts. 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

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