Category: Running your business (best practice)

  • Dealing With Lawn Care Leads Find The Best Customers

    Dealing With Lawn Care Leads Find The Best Customers

    Dealing With Lawn Care Leads Find The Best Customers Time is money, so you want to root out the bad calls.  You are getting calls coming in, and you are dealing with them the best you can. You have paid a lot of money to get the phone ringing, so why not take the time…

  • Can You Run a Lawn Care Business Without a Trailer?

    Can You Run a Lawn Care Business Without a Trailer?

    Can You Run a Lawn Care Business Without a Trailer? These days, you see a lot of vehicles on the road pulling trailers packed with lawn care equipment. Pulling a trailer all day is hard work, and you must worry about parking or getting in and out of driveways. I have spent years towing a…

  • Dealing with Dogs on Lawns  Lawn Care Business Tips

    Dealing with Dogs on Lawns Lawn Care Business Tips

    Dealing with Dogs on Lawns Keeping safe around dogs on the job. If you own a lawn mowing business, chances are you’ve had to deal with dogs at some point. After all, many homeowners have dogs, and you need to manage dogs while you’re working safely.  This blog post will share our top tips for safely…

  • Spot a Bad Lawn Care Customer: 11 Red Flags

    Spot a Bad Lawn Care Customer: 11 Red Flags

    How to spot a bad Lawn Care Customer Early: 11 Red Flags Spot bad customers before they waste your time.  If you’ve been in the lawn mowing business for any length of time, you know that not all customers are created equal. Some are great to work with and others, well, not so much. In…

  • Lawn Care Agreements with Customers: Do You Need One?

    Lawn Care Agreements with Customers: Do You Need One?

    Lawn Care Agreements with Customers: Do You Need One? A Brief Explanation of Lawn Care Agreements When taking on a customer, for lawn care it is important to establish some kind of agreement. This can be done through a written or verbal understanding to ensure clarity and avoid any complications. In this article, we aim…

  • How to keep your lawn care customers happy even on bad days

    How to keep your lawn care customers happy even on bad days

    How to keep your lawn care customers happy, even on bad days. Owning your own lawn care business means that you need to focus on the satisfaction of your customers regardless of the kind of day you are having yourself. I know this can be tough when things are going wrong and you end up…

  • Mowing Grass in the Rain 13 Easy Tips

    Mowing Grass in the Rain 13 Easy Tips

    Mowing Grass in the Rain 13 Easy Tips Why mow lawns in the rain? With a shop, if you have to shut the doors for a day, it will affect your income but not your workload. You will not have literally twice the amount of customers the next day. With a lawn care business, you…

  • How to Effectively Handle Difficult Lawn Care Customers.

    How to Effectively Handle Difficult Lawn Care Customers.

    Dealing with Difficult Lawn Care Customers. We all get them in our lawn care business, Sometimes we feel we deserve it, but most of the time, we dont.  The worst thing is when a complaint comes completely out of the blue, and you feel like you have been blindsided. If this hasn’t happened to you…

  • Lawn Care Customer Slippage: Retain Your Valuable Customers.

    Lawn Care Customer Slippage: Retain Your Valuable Customers.

    Lawn Care Customer Slippage: Retain Your Valuable Customers. What is lawn care customer slippage anyway? Customer Slippage is my term for customers you lose over time when you operate your landscape or lawn care business. Some customers stick around, and some leave. This is about finding out way these customers slip away and then doing…