News and Press from Super Lawn Trucks
Powerful, Automatic Marketing for Lawn & Landscape Business Owners
Lawn and Landscape Business Owners: We had interesting feedback from our readers on the subject of running Facebook ads. In fact, Jeff R. quickly responded to the article we published on the subject and let us know that he invests a cool $100,000 each...
Should Landscapers Run Facebook Ads?
Lawn and landscape business owners: We received this marketing question a few days ago. It’s a common question…However, it’s the wrong question. Let me explain.Marketing has three purposes. The most effective marketing will accomplish all three. Build...
Broke-Landscapers vs Fat-Cat-Landscapers: Who Wins?
Spring season is here. Green grass is growing. Flowers are busting out and our customers are catching their annual infection of Spring Fever. That’s a good thing for our industry.But there’s another thing you can count on every single Spring. New...
3 Disturbing Trends for Lawn Business Owners
We just returned from 3 weeks of travel. This included 2 weeks of private consulting meetings and one THINK WEEK. I'd thought you would like to learn about the trends I have confirmed.FIRST...did you hear the news revealed on the Employment Situation...
Landscape Business Owners Response
Last week's essay on the subject of lowering landscape prices in 2023 attracted a number of comments from our readers. This one from Mark Dubois at Quality Landscape and Lawn Care grabbed my attention:"You had to bring up a bank collapse..."Yes...I sure...
Lower Landscaping Prices?
Dear Landscape Business Owner:Did you see the new report from the BLS released Friday morning (3-10-23): More Jobs - Jobs - Jobs - up 311,000 for the month of February 2023. The unemployment rate is now 3.6%, near a 54-year low.Wages...they keep going up...
2 Landscapers + 2 Price Increase Lessons for Spring
Dear Lawn or Landscape Business Owner, These two conversations were 180 degrees apart. We think there's a valuable lesson in each. Read these two short case studies and then hit reply and let us know what you think.Case Study #1 - Results from the 3% increase...In...
Should Landscapers Raise or Lower Prices in 2023?
We received a great question about pricing lawn and landscaping work in 2023. We thought it would be a good idea to share the question and our answer with our readers. Due to the sensitive nature surrounding pricing work, we chose to keep the company name...
Landscape Employee Pay Rates 2023 (new data just released…)
Dear Lawn or Landscape Business Owner:Did you see the latest employment situation report? In case you missed it, we will share the key points provided by our friends over at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Then we will share data we collected from landscape...
Isuzu Truck Owner Special Alert
Bad news - Good news. Here's the bad news... The call came in on Friday morning from Kingstown Landscaping. The damn crooks cut catalytic converters off of 8 trucks. That's a total of 16 catalytic converters. The cost estimate to replace them is almost $60,000 for...
Firing Landscape Employees?
Dear Lawn or landscape Business Owner:Have you fired any of your lawn or landscape employees lately? It's a serious question to consider.Why in the world would we be talking about firing employees? After all, isn't the hardest job in America finding, hiring, training...
Tax Reduction Strategies for Lawn and Landscape Contractors – Part 2
Lawn and landscape business owners are always interested in learning more about reducing their tax bills. When you know that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published tax code has over 17,000 pages of rules and regulations, plus countless pages of guidance from tax...