LawnSite: This Week’s Hot Threads

Here are some popular landscaping and lawn care topics posted on the LawnSite forums this past week. Click on the links below and join fellow landscape professionals for the discussion!

BUSINESS OPERATIONS

• A LawnSite member from Wisconsin has a mowing client who keeps asking to pay him in cash, rather than by check or online as he prefers. Do you accept cash? Why or why not? How do you collect? Share your thoughts…

STARTING A LAWN CARE BUSINESS

• A landscape professional who is new to the industry wants to know when’s the right time to hire a full time helper? Share your thoughts…
• A LawnSite member from Tacoma, WA is planning on starting up a lawn care business full time after leaving the Army, and would like some input on the best area to locate. Share your thoughts…

BIDDING, ESTIMATING AND PRICING

• A landscape professional from Saint Louis recently raised his minimum price from $35 to $45 for mowing customers. The goal was to be able to cut back on staffing trucks due to price sensitive customers dropping their service. Things didn’t work out as expected. Have you raised your prices this year? If so, what was the outcome? Share your thoughts…

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