Gardening Business Plan – getting sales

Gardening Business Plan- how to get sales the easy way: mmm, I should correct myself there, it is not easy getting sales but it is made easier if you have a little bit of theory and have some practical know-how.

The 3 main sales and marketing objectives of any business are to:

1. Increase the number of its customers
2. Increase the $ value of sales, or more importantly increase the profit per sale, and finally
3. Increase the frequency of sales per client

When you are planning your gardening business (especially your sales forecasts and marketing) you need to understand that sales can only come from 3 ways.

These 3 ways of making more sales are:

1. Getting new customers - think about your sales funnel and all the new leads that you want to attract into your funnel. The Sales Funnel analogy is really important as it creates a picture in our mind of where all our prospects are hanging out and how we can attract them to our funnel. Getting new customers (and obviously, leads) requires a knowledge of what are the right marketing efforts needed to attract new leads / prospects and then to acquire new customers. Marketing your business is a whole new area to look at.
2. Increasing the dollar amount of sales to your customers, that is, a combination of increasing your prices and driving down your costs – therefore, improving your profits or bottom line
3. Selling more to your existing customer base, or make more sales to existing customers - that is, “Would you like fries with that?” should help you understand this point of up-selling. The aim here is to extract as much as you can from existing customers. It’s a fact that you can sell a whole lot easier to an existing customer than to a new prospect.

So, to find out more about your Gardening Business, go across to the Free Report in the box on the Right Hand side of your computer screen, and subscribe for The “How To Build Your Own Successful Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days” Blueprint – it’s FREE!!!!

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How to Start Your own Gardening Business

Think how good it would be if you had the answers to all of those big questions like:

1. What are the entry costs for getting into the business?
2. What equipment do you buy?
3. What are the different motor vehicle set-up options available (inc trailer option)?
4. How to Employ Others to Work in Your Business?
5. What are the best financing options for buying a motor vehicle and equipment?
6. Do you buy a new or second hand motor vehicle?
7. General know how re lawnmowing and gardening like how do you mow a lawn, how do you edge a lawn and how often do you mow and service your customer’s lawns?
8. With regard to quoting are you scared of under-quoting or over-quoting – how do you manage quoting on jobs?
9. Will the business be viable? This is a commonly asked question! Do you have any idea of Income versus Cost?
10. Regarding the physical demands of the job, are you up to it?
11. Is there enough work around?
12. What happens to rubbish & clippings removal?
13. Where do you start with marketing and sales? Should you go with leaflets, Yellow Pages, websites, etc?
14. How To Run A Successful Business with extra sets of hands? Direct Employees versus SubContractors – which way do you go?
15. How to use Persuasive Selling Techniques To Win New Customers and Close The Sale? This is a really simple technique utilized by the big companies around the world!

If you have a look at the questions above and replaced the words “lawn mowing” and “gardening” with “painting” or “cleaning” then any of those questions would apply to any trade. All in all, wouldn’t it be great if you had all the answers to “How To Be A Successful Contractor“ – well you are in luck because I am writing a book on this very topic.

“How To Be A Successful Contractor“ – this book will answer all the questions contractors have for running their own business (whether it is gardening, painting or roof repairs). This book will provide answers for tradesmen of all types! It is about 45% completed and will not be ready for publication for 6-12 months, but I will be answering these questions and more along the way.

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Starting a Lawn Mowing and Gardening Business – What are you risking?

What Are The Risks To You?

www.YourLawnAndGarden.com is here to provide you with a low-to-almost-no risk way of getting into and succeeding in the Lawn Mowing, Gardening and Landscaping industry at a fraction of the cost of buying a traditional Lawn Mowing franchise.

If you are interested in running a successful business with minimal start up costs and ongoing fees, then help is here for you!

For a fraction of the up front fees and other monthly charges that you could pay for a Bearded One’s Lawn Mowing franchise, we can help you establish and run your own successful Lawn Mowing and Gardening business in a short space of time.

Just ask yourself, “why risk your money for something like a franchise?” – especially when it may not be your “cup of tea”.

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Starting A Lawn and Garden Business – Just Do It!

If you have ever read any books on, or gone to any seminars on ”Business Planning” you will get the same old advice, that is, write up a business plan, do your SWOT analysis, analyse the competitors in your market place, etc, etc, etc.

But all this is doing is just holding you back from what you should be doing, and that is, you should Just Do It!

“Do what?” you ask.

…Just write up small Flyer (A5 will do!) and get it out there! Just drop 500 flyers around your local area to get started!

You see, there is no point in doing a business plan and all that stuff, if what you have to offer is not what the customers want.

So, if you want to risk as little as you have to, then knock up a small flyer, put a few hundred out in your area, and see what sort of response you get. If the phone rings, you have a business. After this, the only thing you need to worry about is how effective your advertising flyer is, and you can work on that later!

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How To Start Your Own Lawn and Garden Care Business – from scratch

How Do You Start a Lawn and Garden Care Business from scratch? First let’s take a look at a few things that you need to consider.

Starting you own lawn and garden business presents a lot of challenges for you. However, it is not as hard as you think.

Initially, you need to consider the following:

• A Dream & The Desire: You must have a Dream and the Desire to succeed in the world of business.
• A Plan Of Action: With this desire, you need to put in place a plan of action in the form of a business plan. Smart operators can create a plan of action that is reduced to a One Pager Business Plan.
• Business Details: You need to nut out a few details of your new business venture - including what you are going to call your business. Instead of Joe Smith Lawnmowing, you are better calling yourself Greenfields Lawn Care for example. The advantage with this sort of business name is you can sell the business with a Business Name (and associated good will).
• Other Business Details: When you get down to the nitty gritty you will need to look at Marketing, Quoting Procedures, Branding, Cash Flow, and so on.

All these details are covered in The ”How To Build Your Own Successful Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days” Blueprint – just hop over to the box on the Right Hand side of your computer screen and register for the Free Report / Blueprint. Do it now – it’s Free!

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How to Start A Lawn Mowing Business – with almost Zero Risk to You

Time and time again, I get asked by people what is the downside to getting into the Lawn and Garden Industry. The answer is there is no downside.

I will tell you now: the risk is minimal. I will show you why!

Basically, all the gear you need for a real simple Lawn Mowing business is the following:

1. A motor vehicle sedan with trailer, or just a motor vehicle utility (or as the Americans say, a pick up) – you can get by with your family motor vehicle
2. A basic push lawn mower with catcher (and mulch attachment, if possible) – you don’t need to invest in a self propelled lawn mower as these are about 2 to 3 times the cost of an ordinary push mower
3. A whipper-snipper / brushcutter for trimming grass along edges and fences etc – (this is the same as a weed eater)
4. A vacuum blower machine
5. A few wool bags or large hessian bags for grass clippings, otherwise ask customers if you can dispose of green waste in their green bins
6. Some basic garden tools including spade, rake, secateurs, clippers, pruners and bush saws

So all the above gear is stuff you need for your own home anyway, and apart from this if you had to sell all the equipment you would get most of your money back. Based on this, there is minimal risk to you starting your own lawn mowing business.

The only risk is you may not earn as much as you could in your old job working for the boss. However, if you want to find out more about how to earn an instant, solid, attractive and sustainable income then go over to the Free Report box on the right hand side and register for The “How To Build Your Own Successful Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days” Blueprint and I will show you the pathway to a successful lifestyle.

Setting Up A Lawn Mowing Business

Setting Up A Lawn Mowing Business is not difficult, but we could all do with a bit of help to get started.

Just briefly, you need an action plan to quickly get you in the groove.

The 5 main Action points are:

1. Keep your business plan brief, that is, 1 page will do
2. Don’t stress if you don’t have a Business Name, just ask your customers to write cheques out to your name, until you do come up with a good business name. By the way, your business name should include words that help describe solutions to your customers’ problems.
3. Business stationery! Don’t start spending m0ney on stationery until you have your business name sorted. If you have to get anything done straight away, then print up some flyers to get started. After that, business cards.
4. Now to the really good stuff – getting customers on the cheap! What you want is a very low cost (and efficient) marketing campaign going…print up some flyers from your computer at home, email everyone you know telling them you have set up shop, hand out business cards to homes around existing jobs etc
5. Your business image and branding…much later when you have some dollars rolling in! Branding is just a flash word to describe the look and feel of your business to prospects and customers.

This is just a start to getting started!

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Starting A Lawn Mowing Business – How To Build Your Own Successful Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days

If you are contemplating a change of career or you just want to earn additional income, then you have come to the right place!

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This resource is especially helpful for people like:

1. Police men, Fire men and other shift workers  who want to earn extra income
2. Semi retired people
3. Retirees
4. University and TAFE students, and school students
5. Those that want a career change, or maybe those that just want to wind down with a sea change
6. Whoever

How To Build Your Own Successful Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days

The name of my Blueprint is “How To Build Your Own Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days”.

What is so special about this?

For starters, where else can you find out “How To” get into the Lawn and Gardening industry and start earning a serious income immediately.

What You need to understand is the Lawn and Garden business is different to most other businesses. Most other businesses, when started from scratch, usually take 3 to 12 months before you reach break-even. And, in many of these cases, the business owner may not even be drawing a wage.

The unique thing about my Blueprint is I show you “How To” build a rock solid income immediately, and not 3 to 12 months down the track.

So, hop on over to the Free Report box on the Right Hand Side of your computer screen, and subscribe to The “How To Build Your Own Successful Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days” Blueprint – it’s Free!

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