The smell of grass cutting along with flowers beds are very intoxicating, but, this is not the only reason to start a lawn care business. There are lots of business opportunities in this service area, from ongoing work to selling lawn care products to bug or weed removal products.
Here are few Pros and Cons of doing lawn maintenance business.
First, we discuss the pros
Pros for Starting a Lawn Business
Lawn care business is stable, ongoing and offered consistent work (depends upon area). Mostly customers need your services on a weekly basis that shows a stable income.
Along with services, you can sell fertilizers, weed treatment or other equipment’s. Many people need special fertilizers or weed treatments after a month or two. So selling these goods along with lawn care maintenance services will generate a handy profit.
In the beginning, you can start from just one service of mowing lawns, after that, you can gradually upgrade to landscaping, SOD installation, gardening/tree trimming etc. You can be a one-man show or can hire a team.
If you want to scale, building a team is an easy job. Mostly you don’t need any formal education of employees, they can learn the whole process during the job. This will cut your cost of expensive training and recruiting cost.
If you don’t start your own business, you can easily get a franchise from reputed lawn maintenance business. Or you can buy an existing lawn care business that comes with types of equipment and customers.
Now we discuss Cons of Lawn Care Business
In many areas, the work of lawn care business is seasonal. If you are looking for a business model for the whole year, then you have to add some other services too like snow removal during winter.
The startup of this business is a bit expensive, depending upon your business model. You need lawn care equipment’s along with transportation.
If you search for lawn care business, you will find a number of people doing this business. That’s mean, you have to face tough competition. Before doing anything, speak to a couple of lawn care business managers to get the real picture of your area.
Earning Potential
This is the most important point to discuss, a research conduct by Entrepreneure.com on lawn care business model and according to them a new business can earn from 5k to 50k in a starting year, after a couple of years it can go from160k to quarter a million in a year.
Marketing Ideas
The first and basic step is a referral. You will get starting customers from word of mouth marketing. Ask your friends and family members to spread out your business.
Make a website, do some search engine marketing, local listings, local directories, and don’t forget to market your business on Social Media like Facebook, twitter etc.
I hope you will get a clear picture of the lawn care business model and wish you best of luck. For more visit this link https://www.yourgreenpal.com/beginner-lawn-care-book or ask questions in comments, I try my best to give you the answers.
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