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Avoid Discounted Prices
The Discounted Price Mistake
For many people entering into the lawn care and lawn mowing industry for the first time, some of our first measures of planning a new enterprise involves designing concepts for building the new business clientele as quickly as possible. After all, if we’ve quit our jobs to begin a new venture then we need this new business to replace our incomes in place of the job we’ve just rescinded.For most of us, we simply do not have the luxury of having enough money in savings to live from for a long period of time while we build our income and business to a sustainable level.
This process leads us to realising the importance of marketing for our new business, or ways to promote the venture and it’s services to gain the most amount of customers, and in turn - income, in the shortest period of time possible. This is the formula which needs to be followed in order to replace the income we once had from our jobs with the income from our new lawn mowing business.
Referral Lists
What Is A Referral List
A Referral List is a list of contractors or businesses who provide services that are complimentary to our own business and who operate in our area. The Referral List is made and printed from the Contractors computer to be given to clients who have a need of any of these services.Why Have Referral Lists
Having Referral Lists is a great way to take your business to a more professional level in providing services to our clients. When we think about it, how often are we asked by clients if we do a particular type of work, which could be tree pruning, vertimowing, weed spraying and so forth. If we answer ”no”, the inevitable next question is “do you know anybody who does?”. For the majority of contractors, our usual answer is negative.Top Tips For A Lawn Care Business In Winter
Safety
Ensure any ramps are rubber coated with a quality non-slip product. Work boots should be of a high quality with a non-slip soul, safety glasses which are manufactured for low level light conditions can also be purchased and used. Work should cease and cover taken during storms where thunder and lightning are present, if there is little possibility of the storm ceasing then work should stop for the day.Keeping Dry
The professional and modern Contractor should have a full set of wet weather gear to keep him dry while working in the rain. A work clothing shop will generally stock the high visibility gear which is highly important to use during times of lower light levels that are present in Winter.Work boots can have a water repelling product applied to them which helps keep them dry for longer periods of time. Work clothing shops will also stock these products.
What’s Inside A Contractors Vehicle
What’s Inside A Contractors Vehicle
For the new blokes entering the industry for the first time there’s always a lot of planning to do in so many areas before the first lawn can be cut and the first dollar earned. So let’s take a slightly less serious, but still important look into what we need inside our work vehicles in order to get about and get our daily work done.The List
Spare set of clothes. There’s nothing worse than spilling lunch, coffee or a drink over yourself and showing up to a client’s property to work, the same can be said for days when we get excessively filthy or sweaty. A clean set of clothes on hand solves the problem, as well as being a rescue on the days we get caught in the rain.Optimising A Lawn Mowing Business
Building A Business From Scratch
Building and optimising a lawn mowing round is not a process which can be completed in the short term, it’s a process and a system that must be adhered to and practised throughout the life of our business.As any new lawn mowing business begins, the owner immediately sets about creating a client base from which to offer services to and in turn to derive his income from. Depending on the person and the area, this can often be a very quick process with a full round built up in 3 - 6 - 9 months.
A Business Built With Inexperience
The problem with this new round is that it was built from inexperience, the quality of the jobs can be unknown, as well as factors such as the number of suburbs being serviced, payment reliability, consistency in pricing, and pricing which is adequate enough to provide for the real costs of running a business with a real wage at the end of the year. Due to the inexperience of all new contractors, this initial client base is often inadequate from which to run a successful business from.Recession Fears
Dealing With The Recession
As we’ve all been told for quite some time now, there is a recession on it’s way and it’s not going to be good for Australia. Finally after all these months of being told that our economy is going down hill, people are holding onto their money from fear of losing their jobs, companies are sacking staff and the predictions are becoming a self fulfilling reality.So what does this mean for those of us in the green industry, are our incomes at risk, will we lose customers, will our industry be taken over by the unemployed, and how should we plan for this downturn?
