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Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, PATRICK CASH. He is an expert on lawn care service businesses, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Using Door Hangers to Promote Your Lawn Care Service Business
By Patrick Cash

We have tried just about every way you can imagine to sell our lawn care services. One of the best, and not too expensive, was to use door hangers.
Not just any old door hangers but full color, nice looking door hangers with a place to leave a price quote for our services.

Even if a competing lawn care business does use door hangers they are most likely blah and not too interesting.

After I thought about this for a while, I decided to make some advertising materials based on the idea of “more free time” for our customers.

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Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, CHESTIN SALISBURY. He is a lawn care marketing expert, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Lawn Care Business Secrets – 5 Ways To ‘Winterize’ Your Lawn Care Business
By Chestin Salisbury

As the peak growing season is winding down in most parts of the country, the majority of lawn care companies are in the process of trimming back their operations as well. In areas where winter snow and ice will put a damper on lawn care services in the coming months, this doesn’t mean you have to hibernate and wait until next spring to continue growing your business.

While most lawn care and landscaping companies dislike this time of year because of everything that comes with the falling leaves (letting workers go, cutting back expenses, and most notably reduced income), it doesn’t have to be such a downer.

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Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, PATRICK CASH. He is an expert on lawn care businesses, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Marketing Your Lawn Care Business
By Patrick Cash

Lawn Care Marketing

Marketing your lawn care business is one of the most crucial components for success besides having the right equipment or the job. For some lawn care service owners, marketing is their least favorite part of the business. They’d rather be out working than drumming up business. But your lawn care business is dead without a good marketing system in place.

Let your marketing slack and you are sure to feel the burn soon after. Lawn care marketing doesn’t have to be a chore if you lay out some good habits and stick to your plan.

First, you need to get a good lawn care business name and logo.

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There are millions of acres of lawns in just the USA, and all of them have to be mowed! Starting a lawn care business sounds like a no-brainer doesn’t it? Or does it?

Consider the downside to starting a lawn care business:

• 90% of all new businesses fail within the first year… that’s 9 out of 10 businesses!
• It’s seasonal
• You’re outside during the hottest time of the year
• It’s dirty, physically hard work
• Oh yeah… you sweat a lot! 

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So, you want to start a lawn care business? Keep in mind that nearly 70% of American homeowners use a lawn care service.

Then there are the business parks, malls, apartment complexes, and hospitals that also use these services. Should you be discouraged?

No, not at all! A huge number of these services just do a quick mowing, blow the debris into the street, and take off. And they get paid for it!

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