Learning how to bid lawn care and landscaping jobs, when you are just getting your business started, is a huge task. Most of the times, those in the know aren't going to share with you all the lessons they've learned and the tips they have picked up over the years. But I will. I operate one of the largest lawn care business forums on the internet, The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. On that site I have interviewed thousands upon thousands of lawn care business owners over the past decade. Throughout this process, I have learned a lot. All that I have learned, I want to share with you. The...

Stop Lowballing - A Lawn Care Operator's guide to stop lowballing and finding success. Some of the topics discussed in the book: - How to start up your lawn care business. - Finding your niche and finding profits. - Lawn Care Equipment. - Pricing & Estimating Lawn Care Jobs. - Dealing With Customers. - Dealing With Employees. - Lawn Care Marketing Secrets. - Lawn Care Business Tips. - Getting Commercial Accounts without commercial references. - Pitfalls of Commercial Accounts. And more. Interested in furthering your studies of the lawn care industry? Make sure you check out the Gopher Lawn...

New lawn care business owners were polled and 33% of them said the toughest part about running their business was finding customers. This book shows you how to get new lawn care customers. Don't start from scratch and try to re-create the wheel. Learn what works and what doesn't. Volume #1 discusses: Getting started, choosing a business name, harnessing employees to sell, community marketing ideas, free rentals to offer, hosting events to get exposure, volunteer projects to build goodwill, how to get residential and commercial customers (including sample letters). Bikini lawn care, getting in...

PROBLEM: Scheduling & billing repetitive lawn care or landscaping jobs is tedious and time consuming. SOLUTION: Gopher Billing & Scheduling Software allows you to Quickly and Easily schedule jobs and create invoices. Gopher Landscape Billing and Scheduling Software simplifies the task of scheduling your lawn care jobs and billing your customers. Simply set up your jobs at the beginning of the season and let Gopher handle the rest. With Gopher, you can print out a list of scheduled jobs for each day and then automatically print invoices after those jobs have been completed. This book will...

Written by the host of the GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and Forum. When you are a teenager you have a lot of rebellious energy. Why not take that energy, harness it to be productive, and make money This book will show you how to succeed in starting your own landscaping & lawn care business. I cover the basics of how to register your business to advanced topics like incentives to get employees to sell more. Based on my highly successful Stop Lowballing lawn care business book, the topics within have been expanded to give more insight to a reader with no previous entrepreneur experience....

When I first got my business started, I didn't really know anyone who was an entrepreneur. I had no one I could bounce ideas off of or compare my crazy stories with. For all I knew at the time, I was the only one who ran into problems with my business. Later when I got the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum started, I began to realize that everyone who runs their own business, has issues they have to deal with. Whether they are business, personal, family, mental, financial, medical, or whatever. This book takes a look at the issues business owners from The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum have...

Over the years I have talked with thousands of lawn care and landscaping entrepreneurs out there trying to make their dream come true. Some have succeeded, some have not, but all have lessons they learned on their path that I have kept meticulous notes on. I pass this knowledge on to you in order to improve your business knowledge and skill set. So many new business owners pause at the moment when a decision is required of them. Or they fail to plan how to handle future growth. In haste, a poor decision can be made due to a lack of experience. Such indecisive or poor decisions can prove...