Archive for March, 2010

What is the best way to advertise for lawn care?

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Miss America asked:


Is door to door appropriate? Or flyers? My husband needs an extra job on the side, and we can’t spend much $ in advertising. He does excellant work.

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How much does lawn care cost?

Friday, March 5th, 2010
PokerPilot asked:


I am interested in Truegreen lawncare, but their website doesn’t have prices
I live in Illinois, and have 6,500 Sq ft of lawn.

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What is the best way to get customers for a Lawn Care Startup?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
need help please respond asked:


I want to startup a lawn care company, how can i get clients?

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Hiring a Home Lawn Care Service

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Jonas Salk asked:


Not all people have the luxury of the time to be able to care for their lawn by themselves. Because of this, they find the necessity of hiring lawn care service professionals to help them with keeping their lawns in tip top shape.

When hiring a Minneapolis or Minnesota lawn care service, you have to remember the adage that “you get what you pay for.” There are many lawn care services out there that are known to do pretty good jobs, such as the Chem Lawn and Scotts Lawn Care. You can never go wrong with these lawn care services, unburdening you with one less thing to worry about.

However, while you should definitely not spare an expense for your lawn, this does not necessarily mean that you should always go for the expensive ones. Have mercy on your pockets every once in a while. Maybe you can find a lawn care service that does the same great job for a lesser price. Just take a look at the tools that they use for your lawn, as well as the fertilizers that they have. Do a little research and see if the Minnesota or Minneapolis lawn care service that you are eyeing has the right tools for your lawn.

For you to be able to locate cheap but high quality Minneapolis or Minnesota lawn care companies, you can ask your friends, neighbors, and family members for recommendations. Needless to say, lawn care companies that offer the best services will be promoted around your neighborhood.

You should also ask for price quotes from the Minnesota or Minneapolis lawn care companies that have caught your fancy. There are companies that only initially charge for basic lawn care services, and give you additional charges for other services, such as lawn fertilizing and landscaping. Take a look at the services they are offering and see if there is something that they can do for your lawn.

If there are services that your chosen Minneapolis or Minnesota lawn care company do not offer, then perhaps you can ask them to teach you how to do it. You can take care of your lawn during your free time, hence saving you money.



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Registering a lawn care business in the great state of New Jersey?

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
oijeeb asked:


I am looking to register a lawn care company I started as a business so I can do things by the books etc. Well first, I am not sure what type of business I have a LLC,LLP,proprietorship…. Basically what I am looking to do is register this business so I can pay taxes on the income recieve and how would you set the taxes up as in once a week,month,year or quarterly?

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Creating a Lawn Care Marketing Plan

Monday, March 1st, 2010
Bob Smith asked:


Lawn care marketing is getting tougher and tougher these days. In today’s economic times running a successful, small business can be exceedingly difficult. Especially, if it requires your customers to have to spend a portion of their discretionary income in order to pay for your services. Everyone is cutting back on paying for products and services that are not essential for day to day living. If you run a small business, such as a lawn care maintenance service your business could be in danger. Developing a lawn care marketing plan can help you save your business from going under. A marketing plan can help you keep the clients your have while adding new customers. Your plan will help your business succeed in any economy.

Developing a lawn care marketing plan is not as difficult as it sounds. You have probably been doing some form or marketing already. All your marketing plan needs to do is place your marketing efforts in a strategic plan. The first step is to develop a plan that includes both external and internal marketing items. External projects are items that are targeted toward new prospective clients. Internal projects are targeted toward your current client base. Internal project’s main goal is to improve your relationship with your clients, and to encourage customer loyalty.

The second step in developing your lawn care marketing plan is to devise a detailed calendar of events. A good marketing plan will include monthly, bi-weekly and weekly marketing efforts. This should include all marketing efforts; such as, mailings, networking, Chamber of Commerce meetings, print ads and fliers. Before you add any event your marketing plan, you will need to thoroughly research the activity. You will want to weigh the benefits against the cost to verify that it will benefit your business.

Step three is the most important part of any and all marketing plans is to track your results. You will want to make sure you have a system in place that will enable you to track all incoming responses. You will want to set up your tracking system to track responses by project or activity. This way you will be able to make immediate changes to your lawn care marketing plan. If any of your marketing efforts, are not producing a positive return on investment you will want to eliminate them from your lawn care marketing plan

The final step in your plan is to follow through on all incoming responses. Even if you can have the best plan in the world, but if customers are not happy with your customer service you might as well shut your doors before they even open.



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