6 Lawn Care Marketing Tools That Attracts Lots of Customers Just a quick diversion from our 101 Tips series! Today I want to talk about 6 really effective Marketing Tools that bring in customers by the truck load! These 6 marketing tools are: 1. flyers with good copy 2. vehicle signage 3. a well constructed and crafted website with good SEO (search engine optimisation) and with good ... [Continue Reading]
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 21 to 25
1st March, 2010 by ·
101 Tips To Improve Your Business - Tips 21 to 25 101 Tips continued: 21. Have controls and mechanisms in place so you can see what is happening at any time in the business - this refers to systems, so if you want to see how many quotes (and conversion rates etc) you are doing in a week then you can quickly find this information 22. Learn to delegate, but also teach your employees about ... [Continue Reading]
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 16 to 20
25th February, 2010 by ·
101 Tips To Improve Your Business - Tips 16 to 20 101 Tips continued: 16. The more people you you hire, the greater the potential headaches, yet the greater the potential gain. Balance your objectives - No Pain, No Gain is the cliche! However, if you put in place good systems you should be able to train up staff to be productive in your business without too many headaches. 17. Employ positive ... [Continue Reading]
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 11 to 15
21st February, 2010 by ·
101 Tips To Improve Your Business - Tips 11 to 15 101 Tips continued: Note: Just a reminder that this list of tips I found in a big cleanup in my office has been collecting dust for years. Some of these tips are sort of not related to us, nevertheless, we can get some mileage out of them...hence I will see how they can relate to us anyway! 11. Concentrate on your voice control & volume to ... [Continue Reading]
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 6 to 10
16th February, 2010 by ·
101 Tips To Improve Your Business - Tips 6 to 10 101 Tips continued: 6. If an order comes in by mail or over the fax or phone, don't process it, try and generate more business and upsell it - the message here is like at McDonalds where they take your order, and always they ask you "Would you like fries with that?". 7. Concentrate on your positioning and angles of campaigns and spend less time ... [Continue Reading]
How To Build a $100,000 a year Lawn and Garden Business in 30 Days – for less than $300
13th October, 2009 by ·
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 in the Lawn and Gardening ... [Continue Reading]
How To Successfully Market Your Lawn & Garden Business in Good & Bad Times – the Top 7 List
2nd October, 2009 by ·
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 to Successfully Market Your Business in Good Times & Bad. These 7 ... [Continue Reading]
How To Find Out If Your Customers Like You
28th September, 2009 by ·
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 are not happy! So the obvious thing to do is ask Your Customers how they rate the ... [Continue Reading]
How To Get More Sales
21st September, 2009 by ·
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 sales to existing customers - ie customers ... [Continue Reading]
How To Improve The Sales Figures In Your Lawn Mowing Business
14th September, 2009 by ·
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 price up When you are looking to improve your ... [Continue Reading]
