Hi all,
As the heading says I am new and in need of advice I will be starting my lawn mowing business in the near future but would like to have all of my bases covered. I have been in the yard care business before and am in no way new to mowing lawns but as for running a business of this sort is relatively new. I currently work full time selling diesel motors and I am a little tired of making other people money and would like to put my sales skills and people skills to work for my self.
So I am going to keep working in my current profession and mow lawns on the weekend until I have enough ongoing customers.
I have made a list of priorities while getting the business going.
No 1 Equipment purchase. Not a problem as I have been saving for a while to take on this adventure.
No 2 Join independent lawn mowing contractors.
No 3 Advertising. I hope from joining ILMCA I get some ideas from this. But I also live on a very busy street and I have had a sign made up that I can put out the front of my house with company name and contact details so I hope this brings some work. Also getting a heap of flyers and magnets made and running a add in the local paper. Please if there is anything else that can be done let me know it will be much appreciated.
No 4 do not give up keep at it and keep advertising.
No 5 hopefully start mowing some lawns and take pride in my work.
Please tell me what you think as I said I am not going to start my business until I know the exact direction I am going in and I have everything covered.
Sorry for the long post but I hope you guys can help me out