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Lawn Care Contracts for 2010

Jan 29

Posted by admin in contracts, lawn care business, lawn care start up

2010 is already one month old. Are you getting contracts for your lawn care business?

Mid to late winter is one of the most target rich environments for lawn care contracts. City governments are bidding grass cutting contracts, apartment complexes are taking competitive bids, and banks & office buildings are thinking about sprucing up their landscaping for spring. If you are not aggressively pursuing these contracts, you may be missing BIG profits and lots of money for your business.

We believe lawn care business owners should strive for a balance of commercial and residential customers. While you can successfully operate a business with 100% residential customers, commercial contracts are needed to bring in additional money and add stability over the course of a year. You need both kinds of customers.

If you are not successfully bidding lawn care contracts this year, you need to purchase the START A LAWN CARE BUSINESS guidebook and video training series by www.StartALawnCareBusiness.com

This guidebook package has a huge chapter telling you how to find, estimate, and successfully bid lawn care contracts. If your business is new or if you just want to make more money in 2010, get this guidebook. It may be the best purchase you have ever made for your lawn care business.

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Bigger lawn care equipment = less money?

May 19

Posted by admin in lawn care business, prices

Today’s blog post comes from a question we had from a recent purchaser of our Lawn Care Business program.  The writer asks:

I purchased all new equipment this season.  My bigger commercial lawn mower allows me to cut my customer’s grass in less than 1/2 the time it took me last year.  A couple of my mowing customers think I should charge less money since their lawns take less time to cut.  Should I charge less money or the same amount?

Your lawn care customers are playing games with you in hopes you will lower your price to save them money.  This is one danger of pricing your work by the hour. 

You bought your new lawn equipment to become more efficient in your lawn care business.  Better equipment means more square feet cut per minute.  New equipment costs more money and those costs have to be passed along to your customers.  Luckily for your customers, you are also passing along times savings and a more professionally cut lawn.  Ideally, additional cost of your new lawn mower should  be balanced by your time savings.  Therefore, the cost of mowing their lawn will not change as long as it was priced fairly to begin with.

You buy new lawn care equipment so you can make more money.  You make more money by being able to cut more lawns per day with your new equipment.

Remember, the lawn care business package contains a large pricing guidebook that tells you how much money to charge for the lawn care services you offer.  The package is available from our home page.

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Life of a Lawn Care Newbie.

May 7

Posted by admin in lawn care business, lawn care start up

by: LawnCareBusiness.net

Life of a Lawn Care Newbie

You only started your landscaping business two months ago.  You are advertising aggressively with flyers and newspaper classifieds.  You already have a full roster of lawn care clients but you don’t seem to be making enough money to justify all the hours you are working.

What’s wrong with this picture?

If you are anything like many of the new lawn care companies we give business consulting advice to, you are suffering from the common mistakes many business owners make.

In the early days of your business you are excited and full of energy.  You give estimates to every potential lead that comes your way; grass cutting, shrub trimming, landscape planting, all types of yard work.  No job is too big and no job is too small for your new business.  Since you are new you think you need to lowball your estimates to get customers.  Afterall, if the other guy can do a job for $45 surely you can do if for $40…or $35…or even $30 .  You think it’s okay to underbid and overpromise.

Sure enough, all your prospects accept your lowball prices and suddenly you have more clients than you know what to do with.  That’s what you wanted, right?  And the money is rolling in…kinda.

Word of your great work and your low prices gets around to neighbors of your customers.  They want estimates too.  One neighbor wants grass seed planted and his lawn aerated.  Another wants fertilizer treatment and the grass cut.  Still another neighbor wants her leaves raked and hauled away.

With all these new lawn care customers you attempt to raise your prices.  You give higher estimates to your new lawn care customers:  “That will be $45 Mrs. Smith.”   You can guess what her answer is:  “But you only charge my neighbor $30 for the same work.”  Ugh, word is out…you’re a lowballer.

 

Check back tomorrow for part 2 of Life of a Lawn Care Newbie

 

If you don’t want to fall into the traps of Lawn Care Newbies, purchase the Lawn Care Business program available from our friends at:

Start A Lawn Care Business

The business program is less than $40 and it is FILLED with useful information and business tools to help you start your own successful lawn care business.

Remember to check back tomorrow for part 2 of Life of a Lawn Care Newbie.

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