Archive for August, 2009

How To Write A One Pager Business Plan, and Achieve Your Goals Every Day

How To Write A One Pager Business Plan, and achieve your goals every day!
Most people I know in the Garden and Landscape Industry (or Green Industry, as it is known in North America) don’t have a Business Plan.
This is really sad as so much more could be accomplished by business owners if they had a business plan [...]

How To Get The Right Image or Brand For Your Lawn Mowing and Gardening Business?

How To Get The Right Image or Brand For Your Lawn Mowing and Gardening Business?
I guess the first question we need to ask ourselves is how important is Branding to us, and indeed, what is Branding?
Broadly, a brand can be identified by the name(s), descriptive term(s), sign(s), symbol(s) or design(s), or a combination of these things that help to identify (and [...]

How To Market Your Business In Tough Economic Times – or anytime for that matter

How To Market Your Business In Tough Economic Times, or anytime for that matter!
I guess everybody who runs their own Lawn Mowing and Gardening Business would love to know what’s the Magic Bullet for “nailing their customers right between the eyes”.
In the words of Siimon Reynolds (the Aussie advertising and marketing guru), “what any small business [...]

How To Run Your Office Smoothly – Handling Your Daily Mail and Paying Your Bills (on time)

Running the Office side of things can be a real challenge for some of us contractors.
I know when I started my life as a Lawn Mowing and Gardening Contractor, the paper-work (office) routines were pretty disorganised. I guess I had not really worked for many companies - so my experience with Office routines was limited. Consequently, my early [...]

How To Be An Overnight Success…that is How To Run A Successful Lawn Mowing and Gardening Business instantly

If you are like a lot of people, myself included, you most probably wonder how well-known successful business owners got to being overnight success stories.
Well firstly, I remember a business owner telling me he was an overnight success (in his business of Strata Management) – however, the success came about over 20 years. The point here is although success may [...]