PRICES ANYONE HAVE IDEAS

[louslawns]

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well today i put out flyers i will take the advice of putting them up in businesess with the name and number but right now i have no work i need some ideas i have the mulching hell i even went door to door asking if people wanted a one time cut today i need some work and some more advice thanks alot g-man i appreciate it and i will take it to heart.

[KWayne]

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G-Man, Lou

This past year my partner and I started up a part time lawn/landscape business and we decided that advertising through newspaper, yellow pages, door hangers, direct mail & Val Pak coupons is how we would do it. Well it didn't work out all that great for us last year, only picked up a couple of weekly accounts, but we're gonna do it again, except I might talk to Steve about designing a website. However, I'm almost ready to take my Pesticide test and I'm set to go to Irrigation school in Jan, so I'm hoping that with more services to offer, our response rate will be better. Of course part of the problem could be is that we will not work as cheap as the neighborhood kid, because while I enjoy it I don't consider it a hobby but a business I hope to grow, so I'm hoping with more credentials and knowledge it will help.

I don't say all that Lou to necessarily be negative, but I'm experiencing some of the same frustration you are, and after being laid off from my full time job 9 months ago (dang Worldcom) I need to hit this as hard as I possibly can.

I guess one way I could look at it is that if we got just a few accounts a year (and kept the previous ones) and compound that over several years it would turn into a fairly lucrative investment in my future. Maybe I just need more patience.

[louslawns]

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yep your are so right i havent had one call yet but it is getting a little cooler and maybe that is why im going to put an ad in the paper

[Keth]

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Lou,
By far the best response rate I ever got was quite a simple one. I printed a flyer with the tear-off phone numbers at the bottom. I then put them up on any bulletin board I could find. Libraries, Liquor Stores etc. The most effective ones, after asking people how they heard about me, were the ones I put up on the boards at ATM machines. All our local banks have bulletin boards near the ATM machines. People waiting in line will read these like you wouldn't believe.
Do the flyers with the tear off numbers. Works for me. Best of luck.

I am a part timer and don't need any more contracts at this time so I had to go and take em down cause the phone kept ringing!

Keth

[Ken2]

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I never thought about the tear off deal....sounds like a good idea....

listen, i am also starting out and hope to up and running part time this spring...if anyone wants to chat, email me and ill give ya my number or you can give me yours and maybe we can swap some good ideas..my email is Greenpro@hotmail.com

best of luck to everyone......

ken
GreenPro