How To Start A Profitable Lawn Care Business (The Practice Guide) Eric Camehl

The Basics Of The Lawn Care Business

As you know, lawn maintenance is a seasonal business, with downtime during the winter in about two-thirds of the country. Depending on your area and climate, the prime growing months run from about April to early October. You’ll need to market your services aggressively in the spring so you’ll have enough clients to carry you through the summer.

Then, in the fall, you should be winterizing lawns, raking leaves and collecting past-due accounts. Still have energy left to spare? Then during the winter, you can offer services like snow plowing. If you decide to take a well-deserved break instead, you’ll have to make sure in advance that you have budgeted wisely throughout the year and have sufficient funds to carry you through those income-free months.

The typical startup lawn care business services 20 to 30 residential clients a week and offers up to three types of services: mowing, fertilizing and chemical application. For the purpose of the lawn care part of this book, we’ll focus on moving and fertilizing, since chemical applications (herbicides, pesticides and fungicides) are a whole industry unto themselves. It’s also a closely regulated industry that requires practitioners to earn certifications that permit them to handle these hazardous compounds.

 What You Need To Start Your Own Mowing Company

The first and one of the most important things about starting up your very own service is, of course the will and full desire to do so. You should take this venture as an exciting game rather than a hard task. If you are not heartily into it, perhaps you should just go back home.

The second thing you will need is craft your very own business plan for this certain type of endeavor. This would cover giving a good name for your lawn business, making a list of your starting expenses, jotting down a vision and mission statement, as well as coming up with a business plan for long short-terms goal that you would like to achieve. After that, build up a number of points which will serve as your main keys towards success for the business. Lastly, you should lay out the necessary steps that must be taken by you in order to meet up with your long and short-term goals.

Running a lawn care business requires forethought. You should begin by researching the going rates for lawn care in your area to determine whether you’ll be able to offer similar rates while still making a profit. As you’re scheduling appointments, it’s smart to plan to mow lawns in nearby streets and neighborhood on the same day. Write a solid business plans that includes your ideas for what the business does, a marketing plan and a path for growth.