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www.gopherforum.com Search engine optimization 101 for lawn care businesses. – GopherHaul Podcast You can put together a great looking site but people need to find it when they are searching for lawn service. How do you get your site to appear when a potential customer is looking for lawn care service? You need to know what they are looking for and you need to give them what they want. The keyword here, is keywords! What are your keywords? Well say for instance you lived in Denver, Co and offered lawn care. A potential customer is most likely going to be looking for Denver Lawn Care or Denver lawn maintenance. If you are unsure of what your keywords should be, ask your friends or family, what words they would search for to find a local lawn care business online and go with the words you hear most often in response. I would think you would want to keep the keyword count to a minimum, maybe 4 or so. Your ideal keyword count should be between 10% and 20% of the total word count of your site, so ask yourself, where are you ranking? To figure this out do the following. * Right click on your websites main page and then left click on select all. * Open up your word processor and then paste the text into a new document. * Use the word count feature of your word processor to show you the total word count of your webpage. * Then do a search and see how many times each of your keywords appear. * (total word count) divided by (keyword count) will give you the percentage. Try this out …

www.gopherforum.com – We all like to know what lawn care marketing works and what doesnt. By reading such stories on the topic, we hope to cut out those lawn care marketing ideas that are ineffective. What amazes me about all the stories we see on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, is how one theme seems to ring true time and time again. Lets take a look at some marketing ideas a lawn care business owner shared with us. He wrote As far as what has worked or hasnt in gaining new lawn care customers 1. Leaving flyers on cars at Home Depot – hasnt worked. 2. Leaving flyers at businesss on Sunday, when they are closed – no. 3. Direct contact with businesss when they are open – not so much. 4. Newspaper ads in the local paper alongside the other bazillion lawncare companys out there doing the same thing – nope ( and Im $40.00 poorer ). 5. E-mailing local Real Estate Agents with my company info – a waste of time. 6. Providing excellent service and going the extra mile for existing customers and getting referrals from them – JACKPOT ! ( its a slow process, but its effective ) Ifyou are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at www.gophersoftware.com. We have hundreds of free lawn care logo, flyer, door hanger and web templates you can download and use for your lawn care business. We also have free lawn care business contracts, estimate and proposal forms. Download our trial version of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software …

Hello and welcome to GopherHaul 22 – Lawn Care Software Business Entrepreneur Show In this episode we will be talking about GopherHaul breaks the 600000 view mark! Thank you everyone for watching us! For a more in depth reading of our show, make sure you download the latest GopherHaul episode guide in pdf format. You can download this and previous episode guides here. We have started to use the free program skype.com to conduct our conference call podcasts. If you would like to take part in future GopherHaul podcasts, please download their software and check our forum for the next tentative date and time to call in. Ad the screen name GopherHaul to your skype contact list. Inspirational Story: A new member of our forum, wrote us a story about how they got their lawn care business started. I hope Jared, story inspires you to get your lawn care business started as well. Join in on his post here www.gophergraphics.com Election Day Lawn Care Business Marketing Idea: One of our friends and fellow forum members, Fernando, wrote to us about this great lawn care business election marketing idea. With the presidential primaries going on now in many states and the elections going on this fall, Fernando made a post wondering how he could jump on this to create a marketing opportunity for himself and his business. What we all came up with on the forum was that he should get some lawn signs made that say Vote For Fernando. And then say somewhere on the sign that he is running for the …

Hello everyone and welcome to GopherHaul In each episode we discuss lawn care industry issues. We also Talk about different tips and tricks to improve your lawn care business This show’s goal is to get you excited about running your business and excited about life. If you haven’t started your own business yet, what are you waiting for? To paraphrase Warren Miller, If you don’t start your business this year, You’ll be at least one year older when you do. So get started today! In this episode we are going to be talking about: Lee, the winner of our help a veteran marketing campaign He also happens to run a bikini lawn care service We are going to see new ways to distribute flyers from your vehicle What’s the biggest trend emerging in the lawn care industry? Its going electric, we will learn more about that A new lawn care business owner wrote us to figure out why he hasn’t been able to get enough new customers We’ll find out why and these reasons will help your business too. We are also going to meet an entrepreneur who manufactures electric powered mowers plus much much more Now Let’s get to work! Do you like to read? Well as a business owner you should always be reading. It will help you and your business grow If you are a business owner you know that running a business can be a monster. This monster can take over your life and destroy everything. It can make you bankrupt. You can lose your family. You can even lose your mind at times. Which leads me to this episode book …

Hello everyone and welcome to GopherHaul In each episode we discuss lawn care industry issues. We also Talk about different tips and tricks to improve your lawn care business This show’s goal is to get you excited about running your business and excited about life. If you haven’t started your own business yet, what are you waiting for? To paraphrase Warren Miller, If you don’t start your business this year, You’ll be at least one year older when you do. So get started today! In this episode we are going to be talking about: Lee, the winner of our help a veteran marketing campaign He also happens to run a bikini lawn care service We are going to see new ways to distribute flyers from your vehicle What’s the biggest trend emerging in the lawn care industry? Its going electric, we will learn more about that A new lawn care business owner wrote us to figure out why he hasn’t been able to get enough new customers We’ll find out why and these reasons will help your business too. We are also going to meet an entrepreneur who manufactures electric powered mowers plus much much more Now Let’s get to work! Do you like to read? Well as a business owner you should always be reading. It will help you and your business grow If you are a business owner you know that running a business can be a monster. This monster can take over your life and destroy everything. It can make you bankrupt. You can lose your family. You can even lose your mind at times. Which leads me to this episode book …

Title: GopherHaul 27 – Lawn Care Software Business Forum Show Show description: Hello and welcome to GopherHaul 27 – Lawn Care Software Business Forum Show Intro. First off I’d like to say hi to everyone after this summer’s hiatus from producing the GopherHaul Show. There has…

www.gopherforum.com Everyone who runs a business has customers. Sometimes those customers are a delight to work with while other times they can be nightmares. Everyone seems to do alright handling the happy customers but it can be a serious challenge to handle a difficult customer. Depending on the choices you make, such situations can be turned around or they can go from bad to worse. A lawn care business owner shared with us a situation he finds himself in every once in a while with difficult customers. He also tells us, on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, the best way he has found to resolve the it. Ifyou are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http We have hundreds of free lawn care logo, flyer, door hanger and web templates you can download and use for your lawn care business. We also have free lawn care business contracts, estimate and proposal forms. Download our trial version of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software. Gopher will help your lawn care business schedule and invoice more customers in less time, allowing you more time to grow or enjoy your life. Check out my lawn care business blog at www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http and visit www.gophergraphics.com

www.gopherforum.com How often have you had questions about business insurance but just didnt get around to asking your insurance agent. Its possible you are just starting out and dont have lawn care business insurance yet. As we have found through our investigation on this topic, no one knows better what your insurance needs are than your local insurance agent. Each companys needs are as unique as the services they provide. Each state will also have different insurance requirements of you. Since these questions come up quite often, we decided to compile a list of the most common insurance questions asked by lawn care business owners and found a friendly insurance agent to give us answers. 1. Q How does an LCO determine which liability policy should be purchased? What percentage of LCOs have the following coverage? $500000.00, $1000000.00 or $2000000.00 Answer: Most all carry $2000000 the difference in premium is minimal between 1 & 2 million worth of coverage. 2. Q: What is a reasonable rate for a $500000.00 / $1000000 / $2000000 liability insurance policy? Answer: Rates are based either on number of employees or sales. For an operation with 4 employees an approximate premium would be $2500. 3. Q: How much more on average is a $10 million or $20 million dollar liability policy, what percentage of LCOs have this coverage? Answer: Most lawn care companies dont carry these high limits. 4. Q: What is the average LCO deductible for liability and theft? Answer: I recommend …

gopherhaul 16 Lawn Care Entrepreneur Business Show Hello everyone and welcome to Gopherhaul! If you haven’t started your business yet, what are you waiting for. If you don’t start your business this year, you’ll be at least 1 year older when you do so get started today! gopherhaul is a show for entrepreneurs and new business owners. In it we discuss business tips and tricks we have learned over the years and share with you some real world experiences on how to help your lawn care business or any other business grow. In this episode we will be talking about some new free downloads we have added to our lawn care business forum. One is a flyer and the other is a lawn care business bid proposal template. Next we will be talking about a new section we have added to the lawn care business forum called “Help me bid it.” This is going to allow you to post specifics of a lawn care job you want to bid on and get feedback from other lawn care business owners as to what you should charge. Then we talk about the concept of can you bid for too big of a job. Can such a job actually do more harm than good? Find out by watching the video. Next we talk about how you can use a down turn in the real estate market to actually gain new customers. We added a new flyer on this marketing concept as well and you are welcome to download it from our lawn care business forum. Lastly we discuss search engine optimization tips that will help you rank higher in searches. Why should you pay for internet …

Title: gopherhaul 25 – Lawn Care Marketing Business Show Show description: Hello and welcome to gopherhaul 25 – Lawn Care Marketing Business Show In this episode we will be talking about gopherhaul breaks the 900000 view mark! Thank you everyone for watching us! Lawn Care Business Question: “I need help selling my accounts.” Greenmind wrote us “I am selling my accounts this week to a local landscaper. He wants to pay me in 3 payments. Over a 3 month period or 90 days as people stay with the new company. Also he does not want to pay the initial payment until all customers are contacted. Is he buying my business or my customers? Also is the 90 day period normal or am I being to generous, I have talked with several people and they seem to think that he is taking some risk by buying my accounts and thats part of the business and some suggest that I charge more for letting him pay over 90 days. What do you guys think? Any help with someone with experience in this area would be very helpful. I don’t want to get taking on this transaction. I worked very hard to get and keep these customers.” A bunch of the Gopher Lawn Care Forum members responded in this post www.gophergraphics.com Lawn Care Business Podcast Discussion: I had a great podcast interview with Author Ken Lavoie. Of lawnguru.net 1. We talked about the pitfalls of buying too much new too soon, Ken calls this ‘Iron Addiction.’ 2. How ego effects business decisions and how to control it. 3. Then we talked about what …