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Commercial Lawn Maintenance Business Tips

 

Whether your planning on mowing a few yards on the side as a means to earn extra income, or your planning on becoming the next authority in your areas Green Industry, understanding the basics on how to get started is very important. Though not rocket science, there are several things that are important to consider and practice when just starting a commercial lawn care business.

EvergreenLawns.com understands what's it's like to be a lawn maintenance company just starting out in the green industry. Having gone from a single employee working out of a personal truck and pulling a trailer, to multiple crews and 6 figure sales in just 4 short years. When we started out we serviced only residential accounts but quickly learned that if you want to keep employees on the payroll year round we would need commercial accounts. By the end of year four we were 98% commercial with year round annual contracts.

Below are some tips and tricks we learned the hard way. Though not meant to be a lesson on how to run a lawn care business, it may offer some information that you might not have thought about prior to starting a small lawn care and landscaping company.

As this website is basically a hobby, please be patient as we add additional content to the website. If you come across a link that is not yet active, try again in a few days as we may have been able to get that page uploaded.

Please Note: The following information is relavent to lawn care and landscaping companies operating within the State of Texas only as license requirements, plant and grass types, equipment distributors, and fees differ from state to state. Being from Texas and operating a commercial lawn maintenance business within the State of Texas, this is the area of the country that we are the most familiar with. Although the lawn care tips and tricks provided on this website can be useful in other areas of the country as well.

 


 

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Lawn Care Tips For The State Of Texas
Abilene, Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Beaumont, Bridge City, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Groves, Houston, Kountze, Laredo, Lubbock, Lumberton, Mauriceville, Midland, Nederland, Odessa, Orange, Port Arthur, Port Neches, San Angelo, San Antonio, Temple, Tyler, Wichita Falls and surrounding areas of Texas.

 

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