How to Grow Your Landscaping Business

How to grow your landscaping business?  Well that is the question that comes up at some point during your business growth curve.  At first you may do great with word of mouth advertising but at some point it seems to stall.

This is especially true with your commercial accounts.  So you have two main concerns when you start thinking of growth.

1. How do I find time to market my business?
2. And how do I reach these potential commercial accounts.....without spending an arm and a leg?

Well the first question depends on how much time you will actually need.  Well that may sound dumb but think about it.  But if you are going to sit down with the Yellow Pages and then make phone calls......well that is going to take a lot of your time.

In addition.....you are only going to get a few positive responses out of a lot of calls.  So at some point you are going to think that you are wasting your time.

But let's say you were to set up a robo call campaign.  That may only take a few minutes of your day, if you have the tools to do that.  And of course.....many people do not like sales calls....or even listen to the call.

Don't get me wrong.....it does work.  But you have to understand that the conversion rate or the rate of people who actually call you back.....may be real low as compared to how many calls that you make.

So how to grow your landscaping business seems to be more complicated doesn't it?

Well there is another way!

Let's say that you type up a letter on your computer.....to your prospective commercial accounts.  It may even be a previously used flyer.

Then by using a SALES LEAD EXTRACTOR , you could download hundreds of leads that are highly targeted to your potential clients.  And then with just a couple of clicks of your mouse you could print out address labels.  Well there you go.........within just a couple of minutes you could have all the ingredients to create a direct mail campaign.

Now the actual stuffing of the envelopes and attaching the stamps could be a family affair.  Your wife and kids could help you out and it really doesn't take that long anyway.

But the secret of a good campaign is having the sales leads to begin with.

Now it may sound expensive at first but it is dirt cheap when you think of how much.....just one new commercial account is worth to you.  And yes it is true that just a few letters will actually become a new account......but it is easy to send out a lot of letters.

Here is what I do.  I create a letter and then revise it and revise it.  It needs to really convey the best benefits of your business....so you stand out.  They call that your Unique Selling Proposition or UPS.

What is it about your business that makes you better than perhaps their current landscaper?  Is it your employees pride and attention to detail?  Is it your availability to your accounts needs?  Is it your many years of experience?

What ever that USP is.....you need to convey that in the letter.  The letter is the key to your mailing campaign.

Then using the SALES LEAD EXTRACTOR  you extract your leads by town, state and type of business such as banks or restaurants.  Or office complexes or malls......what ever your targeted prospective account is.

Then after you do an extraction......just print out the address labels.  

Now to make the campaign a little more painless.....I use self adhesive envelopes.  With that you just peel off a strip of paper and close the envelope....no licking and no messy sponges.

So now....how to grow your landscaping business starts to be a piece of cake.  

And because your business is seasonal.....you can do ongoing campaigns at different times of the year.  For example....during the late summer or early fall you can do a campaign for snow removal accounts.  And then late winter you can start a new campaign for your landscaping accounts.  So maybe you could use a few more banks.....or maybe you have been thinking that some food markets could use some landscaping services.

But the point is.....by having your own SALES LEAD EXTRACTOR you can put together a campaign in a matter of a few minutes.  Juts print out a bunch of letters.......do a search with your sales lead software and print out the address labels.....and you are done.

Then maybe put the kids to work stuffing envelopes.....and pay them.  To teach them the proper work ethic that you want to instill in them.

So how to grow your landscaping business is now just a very easy effort that just takes a few minutes.....and with your own SALES LEAD EXTRACTOR.......you can do it any time you want!!!

Sales Leads

Sales Leads are the life blood of any business and of course.......all of us who own a business think about it quite a bit.  But typically, most companies will buy their sales leads from firms that specialize in the acquisition of the sales leads.

In many cases this may be the best route for a company with specific needs.  But what about companies that require sales leads that are fairly easy to acquire?  Well for those companies a sales lead extractor may be the best thing in the world for them.

They could then get sales leads anytime they need them....with just a few clicks of a mouse.  In addition, the cost of having their own sales leads when ever they want, produces savings in man hours as well as the savings from purchasing the sales leads from an outside vendor.....which of course has to make a profit on your purchase.

In my business I need sales leads from various fields or industries and typically I will do direct mail campaigns.  And the software that I use has been awesome for that purpose.  Now I can appreciate people who buy the software for telephone broadcasting campaigns....and it can be truly efficient and create a large cost savings, when using that function.

But for me, I bought it for mailing address sales leads.  Now I have been using it now for almost two years and I enjoy the software more and more every time I use it.  It is so convenient and just knowing that I DO NOT have to buy the leads......well it's a great feeling.

Now there are larger companies who need specific sales leads and they have to use a third party vendor for that fulfillment......and that is pretty obvious.  But I feel bad for the smaller businesses that do not even know what they could accomplish with the use of a sales leads extractor.

Just think of how a landscaping company could expand their clientele with one or two direct mail campaigns. What they would earn in extra accounts would make the cost of extraction software seem dwarfed, in comparison to the extra earnings.  And I just used landscaping as an example......but with that example it doesn't make any sense whatsoever for them to buy sales leads.  It just doesn't make sense.

And to add to the savings that would be appreciated from purchasing their own software.....well they could use it again and again.....to expand their business in manageable steps.

Well if you have never looked into a sales leads extractor, I would invite you to look at My Favorite Sales Lead Extracting Software .  Like I said I have used it for almost two years now and I love it.  And yes you will see that the developer sells it through affiliates.....but most people just want the software and don't participate as an affiliate.  And that's how I bought it.

I needed it for my business.  It wasn't until about a year later that I decided to market it as well as use it.  But that's me....and certainly not a requirement!

Well......until the next post.....I wish you the very best in your business endeavors!

Increase Sales Leads and Your Site Income

Increase Sales Leads and Your Site Income by using a few different methods of income generation....on your website or blog.  Some online home business owners only market a specific product or service and they miss out on other forms of income from their site.

Be a Blogger.Biz just released a new page on their blog called BLOGGER INCOME and they discuss Pay Per Click Ad's and some affiliate type programs.  And the page also addresses different types of affiliate programs, some of which are product specific and some that are non product specific.

One affiliate program that is discussed offers a tremendous amount of training and educational material to their affiliates for FREE.  This is a great opportunity to not only learn more about making your site more efficient, you can promote those educational items as a free bonus and end up building an affiliate team.  This can lead to more unexpected profits that you never even knew that you could make.

By giving visitors FREE educational materials, it is likely that they will eventually also become an affiliate.  If or I should say....when that happens, they become your sales lead for life for that product line.

In other words.....they become part of an automated income stream for you.  Now if you had the opportunity to make somewhere between $75.00 and $250.00 from a purchase that one of your affiliates makes......some time in the future.....wouldn't that be worth your while to build a team?

Well what if you had 100 affiliates on your team?  What if you had 1,000 affiliates?  What if you had 5,000 affiliates in your team?

You see by giving visitors free gifts, like eBooks and Courses, they are very grateful and they become loyal to you.  And then if they join your affiliate team and you email them once in a while, to give them a tip on building their sales leads or advice for building a better website or blog.....they become more confident.  And some day they may just buy a website....and you earn $75.00.

But here is the thing.  Some people build free blogs or even websites and then they just never make it.  And that's because they don't have the training.  But if you train someone and they learn the difference between a free blog site vs. a paid for website that can get them more traffic....they learn value.  And they end up building a great and effective website.

But once it is going great....what happens next?  Well they want to build another web site.  And if they have had great success with the product that you introduced them to....they will most likely buy another one.

So if you made $75.00 from one site....and then your affiliate turns around and buys another site, well you made another $75.00.

And you also earn money on renewals.  So when the affiliate renews their two sites....you get paid again.

See you can Increase Sales Leads and Your Site Income by giving gifts away for FREE.  AND get AUTOMATED INCOME!!!!!

So check out Be a Blogger.biz and their new page BLOGGER INCOME and see how you can be an affiliate and get started right away!!  It's FREE and all the eBooks, Courses, videos and links to promote yourself are all FREE.

Huh.....A FREE Biz....how about that in this economy right?

Lots of Sales Leads for Your Biz

Lots of Sales Leads for Your Biz are a must....an absolute must!  It can also be called the life's blood of your business.

Now depending on what type of a business you operate, well that would dictate on how you would go about getting an increase of sales leads coming in.  For us, having the software that can reach out and capture lots of sales leads from the internet is extremely helpful.  And that is especially true for our direct mail campaigns.

Seriously......just clicking a mouse a few times, selecting the directory that you wish to use for this particular list.........and then you can just print out the address labels and you are all set.  Well for us, that is one of the best ways to get lots of sales leads.

But the best method for us is to get our online efforts running at peak efficiency.  That's right....getting lots of sales leads from our blogs or websites.....leads that come to us.

Here is the problem.  Many businesses have websites that look great, have all sorts of bells and whistles, but after so many months or years, the sites just don't perform well.  And the folks who design the websites for these companies are just more interested in how the site looks, rather than how it performs.

Well in order to get lots of sales leads, you need lots of traffic.  So the site has got to bring in the traffic.

Check this out.  Go to Alexa and download their traffic tool bar.  This will give you a score for your website and it's a little backwards.  You see the lower the number is better than a higher number.  For example, after you download the tool, open up Google.  See the score for the domain name Google?

Yep they are number 1.  Now check out Facebook.....and they are number 2.  So now you know why every company that you know of wants to be liked on Facebook.  First of all.....there are a lot of potential sales....well that's what you think anyway.  But it also helps your website when you have links coming in from a powerful site with a good traffic score.

So getting a site to refer a link or incoming traffic to your low ranking site helps you get a better score.  And if you get a better score, people find you easier.

Now something that you can do to supercharge your site, is to get a daily blog referring traffic to your site.  But even better....is to get a daily blog from a powerful site referring traffic to your site.

And that is something that we found recently that is helping businesses get lots of sales leads coming to them. And at the same time, the business website gets a better ranking in the process.

Well if you need lots of sales leads that you can control, you know from a software application, well we recommend Our Favorite Sales Lead Software .

But if you need help with the traffic coming into your site, you should consider an additional blog.....from a powerful site that links to your site.  And for that, well we suggest Get a Bigger Gun !  A better blog and more powerful incoming links to your site!

We wish you the best in getting lots of sales leads to your business!

Need a Bigger Gun

We just posted a blog post on one of our other blogs about....We Need a Bigger Gun!

You see if you have a business that requires B2B Leads, well our favorite lead software can handle that with ease.....for outgoing sales efforts.

BUT what about incoming sales leads into your website or blog.  Are they coming in with dribs and drabs.....or are you getting incoming sales leads with Magnum Force?

Well perhaps you would benefit from reading this new blog post and find out how to get more traffic.....into your current sites.....or getting help from an additional site.  And experience traffic that comes from having a bigger gun!

So visit the post right here at We Need a Bigger Gun !

And have a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!