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How To Build a $100,000 a year Lawn and Garden Business in 30 days – for less than $300
or more simply known as,
The “Nought To A Hundred K in 30 Days” Blueprint.
I am working pretty hard on getting this Blueprint (Report) together, spending a fair bit of my spare time putting together all the ideas and knowledge I have gathered over the last 19 years [...]
How To Successfully Market Your Lawn & Garden Business in Good & Bad Times – the Top 7 List…
In these less than glamorous times we live in (with the roller coaster Global Economy), we should be forever mindful that Marketing our Business should be our Number 1 focus!
In my mind, there are 7 Key Elements You Need [...]
How To Find Out If Your Customers Like You…
Just how do You know whether Your Customers value Your Service? The answer is in the asking, that is, by surveying Your Customers! You will never know how well You are performing if You never ask!
You can forget about how profitable Your business is, if Your Customers [...]
How To Get More Sales…
Last week in “How To Improve The Sales Figures In Your Lawn Mowing Business” we spoke about the 3 generic ways that any business can improve its sales and turnover figures.
These are:
Increase the number of customers – ie getting more customers from an increased level of advertising and promotion
Increase the frequency of [...]
How To Improve The Sales Figures In Your Lawn Mowing Business…
In any business, the sales number can be increased by doing the following 3 things:
Increase the number of customers – ie. more customers
Increase the frequency of sales to existing customers – ie. customers buying more often
Increase the dollar value per sale – ie. putting your [...]
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?
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]