For basic services like mowing and curbs, you probably don`t need much education. However, as you grow your business and add services, you may need specialized training. You can learn a lot of what you need to know on YouTube or in books you can borrow from your local library. Here`s the bottom line: what you`re charging is NOT what you want to do. What you charge covers your costs associated with running a business, as well as a portion of what you want to earn as an additional business. The first question is whether you want to start a low-cost residential lawn care business, where your start-up costs can be quite low, or do you want to start a commercial lawn care business? We researched start-up costs for both. Whether you`re cutting grass in Lebanon, Tennessee, or doing landscaping in Marietta, Georgia, the job is the easy part. Getting and winning customers is the hardest part. At first, I recommend handing out as many flyers as possible. You should be able to attract at least 1 new customer for every 1,000 flyers you distribute.

This is an inexpensive and effective way to grind it and attract new customers. Focus your flyers on density and spread them over a narrow geographical area. That way, you won`t be driving around the city when you start attracting customers. Once you start getting your first clients, I recommend treating them like gold, as referrals are your most valuable method of getting new deals. If you`re growing your business, I recommend investing in basic online marketing. Here is our tutorial on how to promote your business with flyers. For more information on how to start a successful lawn care service from scratch, check out GreenPal`s new ultimate guide. Based on 3 different sources (LawnLove, lawnmowing101, yourgreenpal), you can expect the following startup start-up costs: According to IBIS World, there are 615,000+ lawn care and landscaping companies in the United States alone. The industry ranges from college students with a push-pushing lawnmower picking up accounts in their neighborhood to large, sophisticated commercial enterprises with thousands of accounts and staff. The price of your lawn care service is an incredibly important aspect of your business. There are two approaches to pricing your lawn care service. You could do marketing yourself or hire a consultant.

Best of all, you could get help from a service like Lawn Love at no extra cost for advertising! Lawn Love automatically matches lawn professionals with clients in their area based on their skills and tasks to be performed. It works well, especially when companies start supplementing your marketing and finding you jobs that make money for more robust marketing or other things! Most of our professionals use Lawn Love, even if they have a successful business outside of the platform because it`s so easy and allows you to sit back and focus on the other parts of running a business. It gets more complicated when you start hiring, so be careful and be prepared to do the math to make sure you recoup the fixed burden you just figured out, as well as any costs associated with promoting employees (salaries, insurance, uniforms, education, etc.). One of the desirable aspects of a landscaping or horticultural business is that there is very little inventory to process. You don`t care about selling a product. They sell work and hours of work. You`ll need some supplies, but inventory management can be easily managed by manual counting, even on a large scale. It wasn`t until my business reached annual revenue of over $5,000,000 that we had to implement an inventory system consisting of basic spreadsheets. Pro tip: The easiest way to reach customers is to join LawnStarter. We connect new business owners with a large customer base where they live and work for free. If you`re just starting out, you probably want to be a sole proprietorship. Most small businesses are sole proprietorships, as this is the easiest and cheapest way to start a business.

High-quality lawn maintenance isn`t over until you`ve cleaned up. A commercial leaf blower removes grass clippings, leaves and other debris from the yard and solid landscapes.