Lawn Care Business: How to Start a Lawn Care Business

This guide provides essential information on lawn care business. It coves startup costs. Legal, marketing, equipment. Other things are business overview, earning potential, growth.

It does not require any formal education and perfect for young people. You can be self-taught, learn from practical experience or books.

How to Start a Law Care Business

•         Write a business plan

•         Carry out a feasibility study

•         Register the business

•         Register for tax

•         Get insurance cover

•         Open an account

•         Obtain permit and license

•         Create a brand identity

•         Develop a marketing strategy

Who can Start the Business?

The person needs to have physical stamina and enjoy working outdoors. The business requires hard work, love for plants.

The person should have good interpersonal skills, knowledge of different plants, growing mediums. Most of the equipment are manually operated and requires some level of expertise.

•         You need physical stamina

•         enjoy working outdoors

•         requires hard work

•         Love for plants

•         Good interpersonal skills

•         Knowledge of different plants

•         Growing mediums

The Job Description

You need to define your scope of work and services. Common services include turf maintenance, lawn care, fertilization, edge removal.

Others are general sanitation, pest control, removal of debris and weed control. The operator needs to regularly check equipment, work at job sites. They fill reports, bill the clients and fulfill orders.

•         turf maintenance

•         lawn care

•         fertilization

•         Edge removal

•         General sanitation

•         Pest control

•         Removal of debris

•         weed control

Operational Costs and Equipment

The fix assets constitute most of your expenditure.  You need hand tools, trimmer, mower and shears, advertisement and gas.

Earnings

The job is labor intensive and usually carried out by casual low income workers. A two hour site job can cost from $15 to $25 per hour. Most lawn care are small business however there is stiff competition.

The expenses are transportation to site, labor and phone bills. Others are employee tax, insurance, gas, equipment maintenance and promotional. Promotions can cost $80 per month, insurance $150 per month, phone services $50 per month.

To increase income you can offer additional services like installing fountains, waterfalls, ponds, pavers or walkways. In cold climates you can offer snow removal services.

Legalities

There are legal considerations like obtaining a lawn service license and registering a business name. Engage an attorney to make a service contract or agreement. Register the business as a LLC, get insurance and tax identification number.

•         Lawn service license

•         registering a business name

•         prepare a service contract or agreement

•         Register the business as a LLC

•         Get insurance

•         Tax identification number

Staff and Marketing

Lawn care is a one man business however you need occasional assistance. For large jobs you need additional crew.

Use flyers, discounts and word to word to reach clients. Print a signboard, newspaper advertisement and social media. Look for corporate clients, schools, private residency, companies and government institutions.

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