What do you do if someone requests a discount on lawn mowing? We all hate this moment, especially if you have just finished quoting on the lawn. You may even feel it was rude of them to ask, but you still have to deal with it. Many people have asked me for a discount over…
Easy Ways to Make More Money by Mowing Lawns Faster. Just because you work hard doesn’t mean you are making good money. If you systematically approach your jobs, you can reduce the time spent on a job, which equals more profit. I am NOT talking about cutting corners here. I am talking about slowly turning…
Lawn mowing leads: Are you leaving money on the table when you get incoming leads You obviously mow lawns, but what else do you do? How about gardens, trees, hedges, rubbish removal or lawn treatments? These are all jobs that people expect lawn-mowing businesses to do. We get a couple of calls every month for…
Why buying lawn mowing equipment locally is good. Price isn’t everything. Sometimes when I look around online, I will see a piece of equipment I want at a great price. I will look at a mower and think I could save $150. Then, if I want the mower, I will head to my local lawnmowing…
Lawn mowing quotes 7 red flags I was talking to a lawn mowing contractor and he told me that his quotes were going nowhere. He was getting out and doing lots of quotes and the customers were looking for a regular cut and dropping off after one or two mows. After I had worked out…
Lawn mowing standards – Are they slipping? I often drive past a job and wonder what the lawn guy was thinking. The edges are poorly done and there are random chunks of grass on the lawn. It looks horrible and is well below what good lawn mowing standards would produce. I often walk my dog…
There are two parts involved in mowing a lawn. The first part is getting the job done in a tidy and timely manner. The second part is getting paid on time. You cannot leave that sort of thing to the whims of the customer. You need to be hard and fast with your rules about…
How do you deal with winter lawns? As they say on Game of Thrones, “Winter is coming.” Fortunately for us, it doesn’t mean that the “White Walkers” are on the way, but Jack Frost will make an appearance soon. Then you will start getting customers asking you if you could cut their lawn a bit…
Offering weed spraying as a service. If you are mowing lawns, it is only a matter of time before a customer asks you to do some weed spraying. If it is a simple spray of weeds on a path or driveway, it is a pretty simple job. We normally have a look and quote at…
If not you could be going broke in a hurry “You are way too expensive” That’s what I got told when I quoted on a lawn the other day. It was a medium-sized lawn and I quoted forty dollars for a regular cut. The homeowner then went on to tell me that her old contractor…
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