Doing What You Love for a Living

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

There is a joy to lawn care that is hard for some people to appreciate. To be able to work out in nature and enjoy the breeze on your cheek, the sound of birds as you work and the fresh air is just about healthy a lifestyle as you can imagine. And to be able [...]

Competing for Lawn Care Customers

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

We live in a free market. That means that anyone who is going to be successful has to know how to win customers away from the competition. This is no place for compassion. Granted that if you win customers away from your competitor, they will lose business which will make it harder on them to [...]

Coming Up With the Perfect Name for Your Lawn Care Business.

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

The dream you have when you imagine starting your own business may be seeing that name on advertisements or on your business card for your new company.. So when you begin to get organized to finally start that lawn care business you have been dreaming about, the name you pick for the world to know [...]

Why Lawn Care Companies Fail

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Anyone who starts a new company does so full of optimism. The fact that a huge percentage of new businesses fail within the first few years does not slow down the number of people launching out. Thats a good thing because our economy was built on small business. So if you are just getting started [...]

The Tools of the Trade

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

The preparations to start your own lawn care business are not that different from starting any new business. While the work you do of making people′s lawns look great is different from many businesses, the rules of how to start a business apply to you too. And one big rule that you must obey before [...]

Becoming Profitable in Your Lawn Care Business

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

There are a lot of good reasons for starting your own lawn care company. You might do it for the freedom that being your own boss gives you. You might do it to focus 100% on doing work that you are very good at which is making people’s lawns and gardens look great. Or you [...]

Starting a Lawn Care Business for All the Right Reasons

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Starting a new business of any kind if hard work. That is just as true when it comes to a lawn care business as any other field of endeavor. Before you even start putting together a business plan or talking about the idea of owning and operating your own lawn care company, its good to [...]

Knowing the Ropes

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

To start a business in any field of expertise, the first step to success is to know what you are doing. While it may not seem that it takes tremendous experience to mow lawns, running a full service lawn business requires a knowledge of equipment, an ability to offer a variety of lawn and garden [...]

Its Not About the Lawn. Its About the Customer

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

If you asked someone outside of the business of lawn care what it takes to be a success, they would probably say that it takes an ability to do a great job taking care of lawns. And it is true that anybody who runs a lawn care business must be able to perform the functions [...]

Scoping Out the Competition on Craigslist

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

It is no secret that business owners are constantly in direct competition with other businesses offering similar products or services. Whether advertising and sale of these products or services takes place online or offline, those who are truly successful in the business, are aware of the need to continually study the competition. This article will [...]