Hello!! I am 18ys old and i am researching on how to start my owwn lawncare business in the Dallas/ Ft. Worth area. i do have some Money to start with, which can buy all of the equipment and do some advertising, but any tips about ANYTHING please tell me. i am very conserned about legal stuff too so if you know about that, tell me please!!
i do want to be able to cut at least 200 lawns a month(repeat customers, imnot saying i want to do 200 ppls lawns bi weekly/month, just a estimate figure.) and i do have some ideas about advertisement(Dallas Morning News, Flyers at local doughnut and coffee shops, tell all of my adult friends….) but any help please tell me. i am very interested in commercial lawnscaping too!! im just looking to start up and with hard work, be able to have enough $$ to be comfortable.
Please help me with this, any info positive or negative, please help me with anything you know.
Thank you everyone!!
Read up on agronomy as much as you can.
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Read up on agronomy as much as you can.
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You will have lots of competition, and finding clients may be difficult ( especially if they are satisfied with the gardeners they now have ). The place to start would be to see if there is enough work for you and/or employees to do, that is not being done by other companies………………….look in the phone book and you will see a vast amount of companies that supply this service already.
Not trying to burst your bubble – just trying to provide insight on having your own biz and the place to start from, before you invest any $$
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JV with existing customers … tell them you will cut their lawn for less or free if they will
refer you to their friends
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